Unit 5

Welcome to CLASS 12A
Unit 5. Higher Education
Lesson 1: Reading
HA NOI UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY IN HO CHI MINH CITY
HA NOI UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
1. Warm up
Answer the questions
1.What are you going to do after you finish upper secondary school?
2. Which university would you like to attend?
3. Where will you live if you choose a university far from your home town?
2. Pre-reading
Look at the pictures in your books :
How do you say in English?
Hue university
Hanoi university of Architecture
Hanoi university of Natural Science

2. While-reading
Vocabulary
- Apply (v)
- campus (n)
- challenge (v)
- blame (v)
- daunting (a)
-Scary (a)
- mate (n)
challenge(v) : test somebody’s ability and
skills, especially in an interesting way .
( thách thức )
blame ( v ) / bleim/ : to think or to say that
someone is responsible for something bad.
( khiển trách )
daunting (a) : something that is daunting
makes you feel slightly afraid or worried
about dealing with it.
( làm nản lòng, làm lo lắng, khó khăn )

Match the words in A with their definitions in B
Answers: 1.d ;2.e ;3.b ;4c; 5.a
a. Task 1
Complete the following sentences, using the right form of the words .
1. The new library was built in the centre of the……...
2.They……….the rise in oil price for the big increase in inflation.
3.That’s the…………story I’ve heard.
4. Intelligent boys do something if it really… ……….them
5.The new car goes at an……………..speed.
campus
blamed
scariest
challenges
amazing
b. Task 2
Find out who:
There are the feelings that Sarah, Ellen, and Brenden had in their first year at university.
Amazing, daunting, exciting, challenging, lonely, scary, free.

challenging,
Free, exciting,
lonely,

Daunting, scary,
amazing

b. Task 2
Find out who:
Sarah:
– ( A, E) - attended the party on the first weekend at the college.
- was very excited about going to college.
Ellen:
- ( B, C ) - didn’t get on well with the roommate.
- was not used to meeting different people everyday at college.
Brenden:
- ( D, F ) - like having a chance to be creative.
- enjoyed the first year at college.

Task 3 : answer the following questions
1. what did Sarah do on the first week?
She went out with her new friend, walking around campus.
2. why did Sarah feel so lonely at the party?
Because at the party everyone was busy playing some games and no one seemed to notice her?
3.what problem did Allen have with her roommate?
Her roommate left the window open when it was cold outside. She went to bed early. She blamed Ellen for making her sick

Task 3 : answer the following questions
4. what did Brenden think about her first year at college?
She thought the first year at college was the best and the most challenging of her life.
5. what does the social calendar of the college provide him?
It provides him of opportunities to meet non –engineering students as well as other engineers and many of them have become his best friends
3.Post- reading
Discuss the question: ”Is the university study important to you? Why? Why not?”
Suggested ideas:
university study is important because:
-it helps to get well-paid jobs
- it helps to broaden knowledge.
it helps you to work better
It’s easy for you to get promotion
There is often a big difference in salary between the directors and workers.
university study is not important because:
-more skilled workers are needed than engineers in the present situation of our country.
- young couple can help their family out with money at home when they go to work.
- they can attend in-service schools to further their education.
Home work
Write a short paragraph about the important of university.


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