Unit 3. People's background

By: Le Viet Phu
Saturday, September 09, 2017
- Can you name any Olympic champions?
- What would you like to know about these people?
I. BEFORE YOU LISTEN:
MICHAEL PHELPS:
An American competitive retired swimmer - the greatest Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals.
USAIN BOLT: A Jamaican sprinter - the greatest sprinter of all time with a total of 25 gold medals (till 2017).
KATIE LEDECKY: An American competitive swimmer. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and 14-time world champion, the most in history for a female swimmer.
SIMONE BILES: an American artistic gymnast. Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around, vault and floor gold medalist, with the total of 16 gold medals in her career.
MO FARAH: A British distance runner, the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, he is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m, and is the second athlete in modern Olympic Games history, with the total of 19 gold medals in his career.
HOANG XUAN VINH: claimed his nation`s first ever gold medal in the men`s 10 m air pistol on the opening day of the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, and then followed it up with a silver in the 50 m pistol four days later, emerging himself as the most decorated Vietnamese athlete in history.
NELLIE KIM: a retired Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise.
Unit 3
PEOPLE`S
BACKGROUND
LISTENING
New lesson
- Olympic champion (n)
nhà vô địch Thế Vận Hội
- sports teacher (n)
sports instructor
- love story (n)
truyện tình cảm
- romantic (adj)
lãng mạn
- diploma (n)
chứng chỉ, văn bằng
* Vocabulary:
- teacher’s diploma (n)
chứng chỉ sư phạm
- Olympic champion (n)
nhà vô địch Thế Vận Hội
- sports teacher (n)
sports instructor
- love story (n)
truyện tình cảm
- romantic (adj)
lãng mạn
- diploma (n)
chứng chỉ, văn bằng
* Checking vocabulary:
- teacher’s diploma (n)
chứng chỉ sư phạm
II. WHILE YOU LISTEN:
Task 1: Listen to conversation between Bob and Sally and decide whether the statements are true or false:
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doesn’t have much free time.
sport teacher.
Sally got a _________________ at local schools.
She ______in Manchester with her _______.
She likes _________ sports – basketball and ___________ for example.
She likes to read ____________ – romantic books.
She wants to get her _________________.
general education
lives
family
different
swimming
love stories
teacher’s diploma
TASK 2: Listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks:
B: Congratulations! You are now the Olympic Champion.
S: Thanks. Yes, I’m very happy.
B: Our readers want to know all about you.
S: That’s nice! Well, ask me your questions.
B: First of all, tell me something about yourself.
S: Well, I was born in 1980. I got a general education at local schools and when I was 15, I joined the Star Sports Club near my home.
B: Where is your home?
S: In Manchester.
B: Bob
S: Sally
Audio script
B: I see. And do you live alone?
S: No, I live with my family, my parents and two brothers.
B: What do you like to do in your free time?
S: Well, I don’t have much free time, but I like different sports - basketball and swimming, for example - and just sitting at home and reading.
B: What sorts of books do you like?
S: Oh, love stories - romantic books.
B: And what do you want to be in the future?
S: I want to be a sports teacher. I’m a student at college. I want to get my teacher’s diploma.
B: I see. Now tell me…
III. AFTER YOU LISTEN:
1. When was Sally born?
2. Where does she live? Does she live alone?
3. What sports does she like?
4. What kind of books does she like?
5. What does she want to be in the future?
Work in groups. Ask and answer about Sally
* Some suggested questions:
Model conversation:
You : Hello, Sally. Can I ask you some questions?
Sally : OK. No problem. What do you want to know ?
You : Do you mind telling me about your family?
Sally : Of course not. My parents have three children - my two brothers and me. My brothers both go to work, one is an engineer and the other is a high school teacher.
You : When did you start your sports practice?
Sally : When I was 15.
You : What other sports do you like playing?
Sally : I like swimming and baseball.
You : Whal do you do in your free time?
Sally : I just sit at home and reading.
You : What kind of books do you like reading?
Sally : Love stories -I love romatic books.
You : Sally, can you tell me what you want to be in the future?
Sally : I want to be a sports teacher. Now, I’m a college student and I want to get my teacher’s diploma.
You : Thanks a lot for all the answers.
Sally : My pleasure.
Report the talk to the class:
Sally is an Olympic champion. She was born in 1980. She got a general education at local schools and when she was 15, she joined the Star Sports Club near her home in Manchester - England. She lives with her parents and two brothers. She doesn’t have much free time. But whenever she does, she plays basketball and goes swimming, or just stays home reading books. She likes reading love stories and romantic books. Now she is a student at college, and she wants to get her teacher’s diploma to be a sports instructor.
Model talk about Sally:
Write a short paragraph about Sally or an Olympic champion you admire.
Prepare the next lesson: Writing .
HOMEWORK
GOOD BYE!
Thank you for your attention!
See you again.
II. WHILE YOU LISTEN:
1. Sally was born in 1981.
2. Sally joined the Star Sports Club when she was 16.
3. There are five people in her family.
4. She has much free time.
5. She wants to be a writer.
Task 1: Listen to conversation between Bob and Sally and decide whether the statements are true or false:
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1980.
15.
doesn’t have much free time.
sport teacher.
Le Quy Don is a Vietnamese genius. He was bom in Phu Hieu village, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province. He was very brilliant. When he was a little boy, he could write poems, essays and read the “Kinh Thi”. And when he was 18, he came top in the “Huong” exam. And he went on coming top 10 in the “Hoi” exam in 1752. He went to China as an embassador. He wrote many books about various subjects, such as astronomy, history, geography, law, philosophy, etc. Le Quy Don is really a genius in the Vietnamese scholars.
Task 3: Work in groups. Talk about the person you have known through the interview.