UNIT 2.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
A. READING
TRUNG VUONG HIGH SCHOOL
Teacher : Lê Thị Hồng Quế
September, 2021
WARM -UP
Make sentences with the cues, using to infinitives or bare infinitives
Shopping/do
Housework/finish
see/climb the tree
make/ do homework
let/ walk the dog
NEW WORDS
1. (a) floppy cotton hat :
Nón vải mềm
2. (a) pop star idol :
Thần tượng ngôi sao nhạc pop
3. (to) glance at:
Liếc nhìn
4. (a) sneaky look :
Vẻ lén lút
5. (a) wad of dollar notes :
Một xấp tiền giấy
6. (to) make a fuss :
Làm ầm ĩ
7. embarrassing (adj.):
Ngượng ngùng, lúng túng
→ embarrassed (adj.)
WHILE YOU READ
Read the story and do the tasks that follow.

MY MOST EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE
My most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago. when I was a grade 9 student. In those days, my biggest dream was a red hat - a floppy cotton hat like the one my pop star idol wore in her video clip. I thought I would look great in it.
My father knew this, so on my birthday he gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself. I was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop at once. I got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about my age. The boy glanced at me and turned away. There was a sneaky look on his face, but I didn`t think much about it. I was busy imagining how I would look in the hat.
After a while, I turned round and noticed that the boy’s schoolbag was open. Inside it, I saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones my father had given me. I quickly looked into my own bag - the notes had gone! I was sure that the boy was a thief. He had stolen my money.
I didn’t want to make a fuss, so I decided just to take my money back from the schoolboy’s bag, without saying a word about it. So I carefully put my hand into the boy’s bag, took the notes and put them in my own bag.
With the money I bought the pretty hat of my dreams. When I got home, I showed it to my father.
“How did you pay for it?” he asked.
“With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course. Dad,” I replied.
“Oh? What`s that then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of dollar notes on the table.
Can you imagine how I felt then?
making a fuss sneaky embarrassing
glance idols
1. The girl was so shy that she didn’t look at him in the face. She just ____________at him and looked away.
2. She complains noisily about anything she doesn’t like. She is the type of person who is always ____________________.
3. She was in a very ______________ situation. She felt so stupid and didn’t know what to say.
4. Teenagers nowadays often have their own __________who they really love and imitate in different ways.
5. I don’t like the look of that man. There is something _______ about him.
glanced
making a fuss
embarrassing
idols
sneaky
Activity 1: GAP - FILL
1. What did the girl wish to have when she was in grade 9 ?
2. Why did her father give her some money on her birthday?
3. What did she see in the boy’s bag ?
4. Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without saying anything about it ?
5. What did she do with the money ?
Activity 2 : QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1.What did she wish to have when she was in grade 9?
ANS
TIME
30
My most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago. when I was a grade 9 student. In those days, my biggest dream was a red hat - a floppy cotton hat like the one my pop star idol wore in her video clip. I thought I would look great in it.
Line 2 ,3 SGK/23
2.Why did her father give her some money on her birthday?
ANS
TIME
30
My father knew this, so on my birthday, he gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself.
Line 5 ,6 SGK/23
3.What did she see in the boy’s bag?
ANS
TIME
30
After a while, I turned round and noticed that the boy’s schoolbag was open. Inside it, I saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones my father had given me.
Line 10,11,12 SGK/23
4.Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without saying anything about it ?
ANS
TIME
30
I quickly looked into my own bag - the notes had gone! 1 was sure that the boy was a thief. He had stolen my money. I didn’t want to make a fuss, so I decided just to take my money back from the schoolboy’s bag, without saying a word about it.
Line 14 ,15 SGK
5.What did she do with the money ?
ANS
TIME
30
With the money, I bought the pretty hat of my dreams. When I got home, I showed it to my father.
Line 18 ,19 SGK/23
Activity 2:
1. What did the girl wish to have when she was in grade 9?
She wanted to have a red hat – a floppy cotton hat like the one her pop idol wore in her video clip.
2. Why did her father give her some money on her birthday?
 So that she could buy the hat she dreamed of.
3. What did she see in the boy’s bag?
 She saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones her father had given her.
4. Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without saying anything about it?
5. What did she do with the money?
 Because she was sure that the boy was the thief and had stolen her money.
 She bought the pretty hat of her dreams.
Task 3 :Discuss the question: What do you think the girl had to do after she discovered that the money she had taken from the boy`s bag was not hers?


If you were in her position, what would you do ?
-  She might feel embarrassed because that was not her money.


-  Perhaps the girl might want to tell her father the truth and ask him for help.




-  Perhaps she could come to the police station, tell the police the truth and ask them for help.





- Maybe the girl could get on the same bus the next day and look for the boy to return him the money.





HOME WORK
-copy all the lesson into your notebooks.
- Learn all the rules by heart.
- Prepare Unit 2. SPEAKING
Thanks for your attention!