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TO OUR ENGLISH CLASS
Unit 6:
COMPETITIONS
Lesson 1:
READING
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Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”
Sao Mai Television Singing Contest
Marathon
Olympic Games
BEFORE YOU READ
Answer the following questions
1.Do you like taking part in competitions like this? Why/ Why not?

2. Do you hope to win a competition?

3.Is winning the most important thing in a competition? Why /Why not?
Unit 6: COMPETITIONS
1. compete (v) /kəm`pi:t/ ( to compete against / with somebody in / for something):
 competition (n) / ,kɔmpi`ti∫n/
Ex: beauty competition/ poetry competition
2/ representative (n) / ,repri`zentətiv/
3/ stimulate (v) /`stimjuleit/
4/ spirit (n)
5/ sponsor (v) /`spɔnsə/
(n)
Ex: Our next English competition will be sponsored by the Students’ Parents Society.
New Words:
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6/ judge (n) /`dʒʌdʒ/
7/ announce (v) / ə`nauns/
8/ award (v) / ə`wɔ:d/
9/ smoothly (adv)
10/ recite (v) / ri`sait/
11/ apologise (v) /ə`pɔlədʒaiz/
apologise to sb for doing sth (v)
12/ On behalf of (exp)
New Words:
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1. compete (v)  competition (n)
2/ representative (n) / ,repri`zentətiv/
3/ stimulate (v) /`stimjuleit/
4/ spirit (n)
5/ sponsor (v),(n)/`spɔnsə/
6/ judge (n) /`dʒʌdʒ/
7/ announce (v) / ə`nauns/
8/ award (v) / ə`wɔ:d/
9/ smoothly (adv)
10/ recite (v) / ri`sait/
11/ apologise (v) /ə`pɔlədʒaiz/
12/ On behalf of (exp)
New Words:
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Check-up: Match the words or phrases on
the left with their definitions on the right.
Unit 6: COMPETITIONS
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1/ Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?
A. Teachers
B. All the students in the school.
C. All the teachers in the school.
D. Representatives of 3 classes.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
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2. What was the aim of the competition?
A. to earn a lot of money.
B. to stimulate the spirit of learning English
among students.
C. to improve the students’ English speaking skill
D. to review the lessons.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
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3. Who sponsored the competition ?
A. Representatives.
B. Winners.
C. Students’ parents.
D. Teachers.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
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4. What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
A. They must complete four activities in all.
B. They had to answer the questions on the worksheets within 2 minutes.
C. They must take part in the annual final English competition.
D. They have to work in groups of three.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
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5.What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition ?
A. They had to help all the groups answer the questions.
B. They had to observe and score the students performance .
C. They had to work in groups of three.
D. They had to explain the competition’s rules.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
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6. What would be awarded to the winner?
A. A chess set.
B. A new set of rules to learn.
C. A set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.
D. A set of CDs for studying English.
Task 2: Answer the questions.
Unit 6: COMPETITIONS
1.Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?
The representative of three classes of the (speaker’s) school took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday.
2. What was the aim of the competition?
Its aim was to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students.
3. Who sponsored the competition?
The students’ Parents Society sponsored the competition .
4. What does each group of students have to do during the contest?
 They had to complete five activities in all . On completion of each activity , they had to answer the questions in the worksheets within two minutes.
5. What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?
They had to observe and score the students’ performance. A maximum score for each activity was 15. At the end of the competition they would announce the total score of each group. The group that got highest score would be the winner.
6. What would be awarded to the winner?
The winner would be awarded a set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Task 2: Answer the questions.
TASK 3: Read the passage 3 again and complete the sentences.
In activity 5, Hung was unable

2. Having achieved the highest scores, Group B

3. Group C lost the game because they just got

4. Nga encouraged her group by saying
to recite/
complete the poem.
became the winner of the competition.
60 points.
“For me the most important thing was our participation
in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it.”
Unit 6: COMPETITIONS
Work in groups: Make a small talk about one of the following competitions on TV you like watching best.
Suggested ideas:
- Name of competition
- Who ?
- When?
- Where?
- Why? ( relax/ get knowledge/ improve your social knowledge)



 Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”
 Sao Mai Television Singing Contest
 Olympic Games
 London Marathon
HOMEWORK
Learn by heart vocabularies.
Do exercises again in your notebooks.
? Prepare the next lesson- B-Speaking.
Thanks for your attention!
Goodbye!
The London Marathon (branded Virgin London Marathon for s
ponsorship reasons) is a long-distance running event, one of the world`s largest,
held in London, United Kingdom. The event was first run on
29 March 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since.
Since 2010, the race has been sponsored by Virgin Money, as the
Virgin London Marathon. The 32ndLondon Marathon took place on 22 April 2012,
and the 33rd is planned for 21 April 2013.