Unit 7. The mass media

Electronic syllabus
Teacher
Unit 5
Date of teaching
: Nguyen Tuan Anh
: Listening
: October 18th 2008
Vocabulary pre-teach
VDU
refuse(v)
helpful(adj)
shy(adj)
excuse(n)
memory(n)
(video display unit)
/ri`fju:z/
/`helpful/
/ʃai/
/iks`kju:z/
/`meməri/
suggest(v)
/sə`dʤest/
isten to the an old company director talking about his
experience of learning how to use a computer. Decide
whether the statemens are true (T) or false (F).
Task 1
1. The man was worried when his son bought
a computer.
2. The man became worried when his secretary
ask him to buy a computer.
3. The man decided to take some computing lessons.
4. His son didn’t understand about the computer.
5. The man understood the lessons very well.
6. The man continued to learn how to use a computer
after a few lessons.
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He was very helful. He(1)…………………..me to sit down in front of the computer screen. I did not know what it was called. When I ask him what it was, he said that it was a VDU. I (2)…………..didn’t know what VDU was but I was too shy to ask him any more. From that moment my memory(3) ………………...…to learn because he told me a lot of things that I really didn’t understand at all. After a few lessons I began to feel tired. I made an (4)……..………………, saying that I had a headache. I suggested we should leave the lesson for another day. Since then I haven’t said (5) …………………… about the computer to my son and my secretary.
invited
still
refused
excuse
anything
Listen to the radio news stories and fill in the missing words:
Task 2
1. Was the man worried when his son bought a computer?
2. How did he feel when his secretary asked him for a
computer?
3. Who was his teacher?
4. Why did the man suggest leaving the lesson for
another day?
Questions:
Well, I wasn’t worried when my son bought a computer. After a lot of children have parents who don’t understand computers. But when my secretary asked me for a computer in the office, I became really worried. So I decided to take some lessons in computing and my son became my teacher. He was very helful. He invited me to sit down in front of the computer screen. I did not know what it was called. When I ask him what it was, he said that it was a VDU. I still didn’t know what VDU was but I was too shy to ask him any more. From that moment my memory refused to learn because he told me a lot of things that I really didn’t understand at all. After a few lessons I began to feel tired. I made an excused, saying that I had a headache. I suggested we should leave the lesson for another day. Since then I haven’t said anything about the computer to my son and my secretary.
Homework:

Redo all tasks.
- Write a paragraph in 100 words about the things
you love doing with computer.