English 10 Unit 7 Listening

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Ask and answer the following questions
1. How often do you listen to the radio?
2. How many hours per week do you listen to it?
3. What programme do you like listening to and why?
I. Vocabulary:
2. heavy rain [`hevi rein]
trận mưa to
1. cloudy (adj) [`klaudi]
nhiều mây, u ám
4. to cause (v) [kɔ:z]
gây ra
5. flood (n) [flʌd]
lũ, lụt
6. to rise (v) [raiz] (rose - risen)
dâng lên
3. strong wind [strɔη wind]
gió mạnh, gió to
Mount Whitney
7. to climb (v) [klaim]
leo trèo
8. view (v) [vju:]
(n)
quan sát
tầm nhìn, quang cảnh
strong wind
to rise
view
cloudy
to climb
flood
to cause
heavy rain
II. Listen to these words
and then put them in the correct order.
cloudy
to cause
strong wind
heavy rain
flood
to rise
view
climb
1
7
2
3
4
8
5
6
Task 1: Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the right column under News story 1 and News story 2
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healthy
strong
young
cloudy
highest
wonderful
Task 2: Listen to the radio news stories again and fill in the missing words
Heavy rain causes floods all over the country
Heavy rain during the night (1)…………… .. ….... all over the country today. Many people (2)…………………………because rivers (3)……………Some roads in the north-west are under (4)…………….....of water. The rain (5) ………………..at the moment, but it’s still (6)…………and there’s a (7) ………….... Because of the bad weather, people can’t go out to work
has caused floods
have left their homes
have risen
two meters
has stopped
cloudy
strong wind
90-year-old American woman climbs Mount Whitney
twenty-third
4,418
California
wonderful
young and healthy
A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the ……………… time. At ………….. metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in ………………. The woman says the view from the top is ………….., so she tries to climb it often. She also says that the mountain has kept her …………….………...In spite of her old age, the woman tries to climb the mountain very often
Task 3: Listen again, and answer the following questions
1. What has happened during the night?
Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country.
2. Why have people left their homes?
Because rivers have risen.
3. How many times has the old woman climbed Mount
Whitney?
She has climbed Mount Whitney twenty three times.
4. Why does she climb it so often?
Because it has kept her young and healthy.
C. Post- listening:
Close your book. Recall the two news stories and answer the following questions about the news stories. Use the answers to those questions to tell your classmates about them. Chose one of the news stories only.
News story 1
1. What has happened during the night?
2. Why have many people left their homes?
3. How deep are some roads under the water?
4. Has the rain stopped at the moment?
5. Is there a strong wind?
6. Why can’t people go out to work?
News story 2
1. How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?
2. How high is Mount Whitney?
3.Is it the highest in California?
4. What does she say about the view from the top?
5. Why does she climb it so often?
6.Does she stop climbing mountain because of her old age?
D. Homework :
- Rewrite the content of the 2 radio news
stories.
- Prepare the next lesson: Unit 7: Writing
Good-bye!