Competitions

A petty girl group
How do your feeling?
How ever you competition with somebody?

Do you guess this competition in this pictures ?
Ring gold bell contest
COMPETITIONS
Before you read:
Look at the photos. Match each of them with the words in the box below.

Quiz: ?Road to Mount Olympia?
London Marathon
Work with partner. Answer the questions.

1/ Do you like taking part in competition like these ? Why/ Why not ?
2/ Do you hope to win a competition ? If so, which competition do you like to win ?
3/ Is winning the most important thing in a competition ? Why/ Why not ?
VOCABULARYS:
1/ Representative (n): ngừời đại diện,đại biểu
represent (v): đại diện cho, thay mặt cho
2/ Annual (adj): xả ra hằng năm, thường niên,trong một năm
annually (adv): hàng năm, mỗi năm
3/ Stimulate (v): khuyến khích
stimulation (n): sự khuyến khích, sự kích thích
 stimulating (adj): thú vị, hào hứng
stimulus (n): tác nhân khuyến khích
4/ Spirit (n): tinh thần
5/ Sponsor (v): đỡ đầu, bảo trợ, tài trợ
Sponsor (n): nhà tài trợ
6/ Worksheet (n): giấy kiểm tra, đề
7/ Smooth (adj) : bằng phẳng,lặng, trôi chảy
 Smooth (v): làm nhẵn, làm phẳng
Smoothly (adv): một cách êm ả, một cách trôi chảy

Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow.Last Saturday the representatives of three classes of my school took part in the annual final English Competition organized by our English teachers. Its aim was to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students. The competition was sponsored by the Students’ Parents Society .Mrs. Lien, our English teacher, explained the competition’s rules to the students“…To participate in the contest, you have to work in groups of three. Each group must complete five activities in all. On complete of each activity, you will have to answer the questions on the worksheets within two minutes. The judges will observe and score your performance. The maximum score for each activity is 15 points. At the end of the competition, the judges will announce the total score of each group. The group that gets the highest score will be the winner. The winner will be awarded a set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Now, let’s start our competitionHung, Thu and Nga were the members of Group A. They quickly read the questions and tried to find our the answer. At first, things went smoothly. They almost completed the five activities. But in Activity 5, Hung had difficulty reciting the poem. He could not remember the last sentence. Time was up, and the judges announced the results. Te winner was Group B, which got 70 points; Hung’ s group got 65; and Group C got 60. Thu felt a bit disappointed. Hung apologised for not being able to complete the poem. But Nga made it better by saying “ For me the most important thing was our participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it”.
Task 1Match the words or phrases on the left with their definitions on the right
1. representative
2. annual
3. stimulate
4. In all
5. spirit
a. without problems or difficulties
b. enthusiasm and energy
c. altogether or as a total
d. a person chosen or appointed on behalf of another person or a group
f. happening or done once every year
6. smoothly
e. encourage or make something more active
Task 2Answer the questions
1. Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday ?
The representatives of three classes of the school took part in the competition
2. What was aim of the competition ?
3. Who sponsored the competition?
4. What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
5. What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?
6. What would be awarded to the winner?
The aim was to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students
Each group had to complete five activities in all. On competition of each activity, they had to answer the questions in the worksheets within two minutes
The Students’ Parents Society sponsored the competition
The judges had to observe and score student’ performance. And at the end of the competition the would announce the total score of each group. The group that got the highest score would be the winner
The winner would be awarded a set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
Task 3 Read paragraph 3 again and complete the sentences
1. In Activity 5, Hung was unable
3. Group C lost the game because they just got
2. Having achieved the highest score, Group B
4. Nga encouraged her group by saying
participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it”.
to complete the poem
became he winner of the competition
60 points
“ For me the most important thing was our