Unit 6 - reading

WARMER
There is one picture covered by nine boxes. Guess what place of interest it is by opening up the boxes to reveal the picture behind.
You will get 1 point for each correct box.
You can guess the picture behind at any time. If you are right, you can get 10 points. If not, you will be out of the game.

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 DAI NAM VAN HIEN TOURIST SITE
Pre-reading
Lan has visited some places recently. See where she has been to. Try to find out the places as quickly as possible. You only have 30 seconds for each video clip below.
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DALAT CITY
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HALONG BAY
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THIEN MU PAGODA
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PHONG NHA CAVE
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HUONG PAGODA
While-reading
Lan’s class is going to visit some caves near Huong Pagoda. She sends Minh to tell him about her trip.
a letter
Dear Minh,
I’m writing to tell you a piece of news. The first term is coming to an end soon and my school is going to have some days off. On this occasion, my class is visiting some caves near Hanoi as we have recently studied rock formations. Besides, many of us have never been inside a cave, so I suppose the trip will be very interesting.
At first, we wanted to travel to Thay Pagoda because it is only over 20 kilometres away, and we could go on a day excursion.
However, only today have we learnt that the caves near Thay Pagoda are closed until after Tet. So we are visiting the ones near Huong Pagoda instead. A night campfire on a two-day trip will be a great event in our school days! To make the trip cheap, we are bringing our own food and sharing buses with some other classes. It is much warmer now. I believe we’re going to enjoy good weather with lots of sunshine.The only problem I seem to have is getting my parents’ permission. They may not want to let me stay the night away from home. I’ll try to persuade them. That’s all for now. Give my love to your parents’ and sister. Yours,
Lan
Dear Minh,
I’m writing to tell you a piece of news. The first term is coming to an end soon and my school is going to have some days off. On this occasion, my class is visiting some caves near Hanoi as we have recently studied rock formations. Besides, many of us have never been inside a cave, so I suppose the trip will be very interesting.
At first, we wanted to travel to Thay Pagoda because it is only over 20 kilometres away, and we could go on a day excursion.
However, only today have we learnt that the caves near Thay Pagoda are closed until after Tet. So we are visiting the ones near Huong Pagoda instead.

A night campfire on a two-day trip will be a great event in our school days! To make the trip cheap, we are bringing our own food and sharing buses with some other classes. It is much warmer now. I believe we’re going to enjoy good weather with lots of sunshine. The only problem I seem to have is getting my parents’ permission. They may not want to let me stay the night away from home. I’ll try to persuade them. That’s all for now. Give my love to your parents and sister. Yours,
Lan
Look at the letter again and find the word/phrase which means:
Task 1: Choose the best answer A,B,C or D :
Task 2: answer the questions below.
Task 3: Read the passage again and find one proper word to fill in each blank.
Post-reading
Suppose you have a chance to take an excursion. Where would you go and why?
Work in pairs to discuss about the place you would go and state the reason.
Ex : If I had a chance to go, I would go to Hanoi because I want to visit Uncle Ho’s Mausoleum.