Unit 5. Higher education

EDUCATION AND TRAINING GO VAP
PEOPLE-FOUNDED HIGH SCHOOL HERMANN GMERNEIR


Teacher in charge : Nguy?n Tho?i T�n


Matching these Vietnamese names of some universities with their English names:


Answer the following questions:
What are you going to do after you finish high school?
Which university would you like to apply for?
Where will you live if you choose a university far from your home-town?
How do you feel when you first start a new university?
HA NOI UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY IN HO CHI MINH CITY
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
campus (n)=the buildings of a university or college and the land around them:
(khuôn viên trường ĐH; Ký Túc Xá)
mate (s ) = friend (s )
challenge (v) = test somebody’s ability and
skills, especially in an interesting way .
( thách thức )
blame ( v ) = 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 )
Find the words in the passage that mean:
1- the buildings of a university or college and the land around them. ……………….
2- say that somebody / something is responsible for something bad. …………….
3- frightening. ……………..
4- test somebody’s ability and skill especially in an interesting way. ………….…….
5- connected with education. ……………….……
6- making somebody feel nervous and less confident about doing something. ……………….

blame
campus
scary
challenge
academically
daunting
Listen to the cassette player carefully.
Then read the passage individually and do Task 1.
* Task 1 : Complete the following sentences, using the right forms of the words on the left.
campus (n )
scary (a)
challenge (v)
blame (v)
amazing (a)
1. The new library was built in the centre of
the _________.
2. They _________ the rise in oil prices for the big increase in inflation.
3.That’s the _______ story I’ve ever heard.
4. Intelligent boys like to do something if it really __________ them.
5. The new car goes at an _________ speed.
campus
blamed
scariest
challenges
amazing
a. attended a party on the first weekend at college.
b. didn’t get on very well with the roommate.
c. was not used to meeting different people every day at college.
d. liked having a chance to be creative.
e. was very excited about going to college.
f. enjoyed the first year at college.


Sarah :

Ellen :

Brenden:
Task 2: Find out who:
a – e
b – c
d – f
Task 3
1- She went out with her new friends, walking around campus.
2- Because no one seemed to notice her existence.
3- She didn’t get on very well with her roommate.
4- It was probably the best and most challenging year of his life.
5- It provides him with plenty of opportunities to meet non- engineering students as well as other engineers and many of them have become his best mates.
Listen to the cassette player again.
These are the feelings that Sarah, Ellen and Brenden have in their first year at university?
Guess what kind of feelings each has by putting the adjectives under each column.
amazing/ daunting /exciting /
challenging / lonely /scary / free
amazing/ daunting /exciting /
challenging / lonely /scary / free
exciting
lonely
free
amazing
daunting
scary
challenging
Read the text again and find out what each person likes or doesn’t like about their first year at college?
HOMEWORK
Read the passage carefully again and learn the new words by heart.
The next lesson : Speaking