Unit 3. People's background

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Unit 2: People’s backgrounds
A: READING
Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Huu Canh
Ton That Tung
Nguyen Trai
Chu Van An
Balack Obama
John Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway
Yuri Gagarin
Walt Disney
List as many famous people in Vietnam and around the world as possible.
In Vietnam
Around the world
What do you know about them?
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – Warm up
a. Wrote the Old Man and The Sea
c. Discovered Da Lat
e. Was the first black president of South Africa
d. Was the founding father of Sai Gon
f. Was the first man in space
g. Developed the vaccine for preventing rabies
h. Wrote David Copperfield
i. Was a pioneer in liver surgery in Vietnam
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Walt Disney
7. Louis Pasteur
4. Nguyen Huu Canh
5. Nelson Mandela
6. Yuri Gagarin
3. Alexandre Yersin
8. Charles Dickens
9. Ton That Tung
b. Was the creator of Mickey Mouse
Who is who?
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – Pre-reading
Pasteurization(n)
Apartheid(n)
antiapartheid
antiapartheid activist
3. Nonracial (adj)
4. Sentence (v)
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – While reading
Vocabulary
[pæst∫ərə`zei∫n]
[ə`pɑ:thait]

Louis Pasteur
Nelson Mandela
Ton that Tung
. Inventing the process of pasteurization
. Being a world-famous chemist
. Developing a vaccine for rabies.
. Being a pioneer in liver surgery in Vietnam
. Creating a new technique for operating on the liver
. Forming the Youth League of ANC to fight against apartheid.
. Addressing the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and central Africa
. Sharing the Nobel peace prize
. Becoming the first black president of South Africa.
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – Task 1
Completing the table:
(3)________
(1)______
(2)______
(4)____
(5)____
What did Louis Pasteur do to save people’s lives?
Dr. Ton That Tung brought about a great change in liver operation. What is this change?
How long was Nelson Mandela imprisoned?
Why was he awarded the Nobel Peace prize with F. W. de Klerk?
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – Task 2
Answering the questions
1. He developed the vaccine for several diseases including rabies.
2. Ton that Tung’s method enables a liver operation to be completed in 4 to 8 minutes instead of 3 to 6 hours as before.
3. He was imprisoned for 26 years.
4. … because he struggled to end apartheid and brought a peaceful transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa.

Group-work:
Discuss the distribution of a hero/ heroin or a famous person in Vietnam

Unit 2: People’s background– Reading – Post reading



Learn by heart the new words.
Do "reading" part in sts` book.
Homework
Unit 2: People’s background– Reading