slide bài giảng e11 UNIT 3 GETTING STARTED

Welcome to our class


GAME: Guessing
- One student goes to the front.
- Teacher shows 5 pictures of five students in
class one by one for the student to describe
their characteristics.
- Other students listen and guess who they
are.


Answer the questions
1. Do you like these students?
2. Why do you like them?
3. What characteristics do they have in common?
 Being independent.


Unit 3. BECOMING
INDEPENDENT
Lesson 1. GETTING STARTED

An independent person


Task 1. Listen and read.


Task 2. Read the conversation again. Match the words with
their definitions.

1. reliable

a. feeling certain about your own ability
to do things and be successful.

2. self-reliant

b. able to make decisions quickly.

3. decisive
4. determined

c. strongly motivated to do something
and not allowing anyone or any
difficulties to stop you.
d. that can be trusted to do something
well; that you can rely on

e. capable of doing or deciding things
by yourself, rather than depending
5. well-informed
on other people for help

6. confident

f. having a lot of knowledge about
current topics or a particular subject

Vocabul
ary

1. Reliable /rɪˈlaɪə.bl  ̩/ (adj): Đáng tin cậy
2. Determined /dɪˈtɜː.mɪnd/ (adj): Quyết tâm
3. Self-reliant /ˌself.rɪˈlaɪ.ənt/ (adj): Tự lực
4. Well-informed /ˌwel.ɪnˈfɔːmd/ (adj): Hiểu
biết
5. Confident /ˈkɒn.fɪ.d ə nt/ (adj): Tự tin
6. Decisive /dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/ (adj): Quyết đoán


Task 3. Answer the questions about the conversation.
1. Why does Lan like Minh?
2. Why does Lan think Minh is a very responsible
student?
3. What is an example showing that Minh is very
determined?
4. Why does Lan think that Minh is self - reliant?
5. What are the characteristics of an independent
person according to Lan and Mai?


GAME
Choose one characteristic you want to have. You have
to give the correct answer to each question to have the
points for your team. With each correct answer, you
will receive 10 points.

Well - informed


1. Why does Lan like Minh?
 Because Minh doesn't rely on other people for
help and isn't influenced by other people's opinions.


2. Why does Lan think Minh is a very
responsible student?
 Because he always completes his tasks on time, and
never needs to be reminded about assignments and other
schoolwork.


3. What is an example showing that Minh is
very determined?
 He tried hard and spent the whole night on a hard
Maths problem when most students in the class had
given up.


4. Why does Lan think that Minh is self - reliant?
 He always tries to find solutions to his problems
and seldom needs help from others.


5. What are the characteristics of an
independent person according to Lan and Mai?
 Responsible, reliable, self-reliant, determined,

well-informed and confident.


6. Which of Minh's characteristics do you have?
Which do you like most?


Task 4. Find the sentences with to-infinitives after
adjectives or nouns in the conversation and write
them in the space below.
Suggestion:
Noun
Adjective

+ To - infinitive

Eg. But he still has time to read,…


Task 4. Find the sentences with to-infinitives after
adjectives or nouns in the conversation and write
them in the space below.
Answer key
1. It's good to have a friend you can rely on.
2. Even our Maths teacher was very surprised
surprised to
to read
read
his answer.
3. His parents must be really pleased

pleased to have such a
son.
time to read
4. But he still has time to read,...
interesting to talk
5. It's interesting to talk to him.
ability to
6. I really admire his make
ability to make decisions so quickly.
lucky to have


Complete the following mind map of an independent
person’s characteristics.

AN INDEPENDENT
PERSON


* Complete the following mind map of an independent
person’s characteristics.

confident

reliable
responsible

well-informed
self-reliant

AN INDEPENDENT
PERSON

determined
decisive


HOMEWORK
- Learn new words by heart
- Practice the conversation in
“Listen and read” again.
- Prepare: Language (page 32)