Unit 4

LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

AT AN ENGLISH LESSON

OPTION 1

WARM-UP

Answer the questions:
- Do you care about healthy living?
- What do you often do to keep fit?

THINK!

- What did your parents / grandparents do to keep
fit?
- What do you know about your grandparents'
lifestyle (their clothes / cooking / eating habits, …)?

WARM-UP

MEMORY
LANE

OPTION 2

- Close your eyes and imagine
you are walking down a memory
lane.
- What memories do you see?
- Are they happy or sad?
- What do you smell?
- What do you hear?
- Share your memories with the
class.

PRESENTATION

complex (n)
/ˈkɒmpleks/

khu phức hợp,
quần thể

involving a lot of
different but related
parts

PRESENTATION

religious (adj)
/rɪˈlɪdʒəs/
thuộc tôn giáo

relating to, or involved with
religion, or living and
worshiping according to the
beliefs of a particular
religion.
Ex: He's deeply religious
and goes to church twice a
week.

PRESENTATION

monument (n)
/ˈmɒnjumənt/
tượng đài

a structure or building that
is built to honour a special
person or event.

PRESENTATION

magnificent (adj)
/mæɡˈnɪf.ɪ.sənt/
tráng lệ

very good, beautiful, or
deserving to be admired.

PRESENTATION

preseve (v)
/prɪˈzɜːv/
bảo tồn

to keep something as
it is.

PRESENTATION

heritage (n)
 /ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ/
di sản

features belonging to the culture of a
particular society, such as traditions,
languages, or buildings, that were
created in the past and still have
historical importance.

Ex: The historic building is as
much part of our heritage as the
paintings.

PRESENTATION

occupy (v)
/ˈɒkjupaɪ/
chiếm giữ

take control

PRESENTATION

occupied (adj)
/ˈɒkjupaɪd/
có người ở

being
used
someone
or
someone in it.

by
with

PRESENTATION

ancient (adj)
/ˈeɪnʃənt/
cổ đại, lâu đời

of or from a long time
ago, having lasted for a
very long time.

PRESENTATION

generation (n)
/ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn/
thế hệ

all the people of about
the same age within a
society

PRESENTATION

found (v)
/faʊnd/
thành lập

to bring something into
existence.
Ex: Boston was founded in
1630 by Puritan colonists from
England.

PRESENTATION
New words

1. complex (n)
2. religious (adj)
3. monument (n)
4. magnificent (adj)
5. preserve (v)
6. heritage (n)

Pronunciation

Meaning

/ˈkɒmpleks/

khu phức hợp, quần
thể

/rɪˈlɪdʒəs/

(thuộc) tôn giáo

/ˈmɒnjumənt/
/mæɡˈnɪf.ɪ.sənt/
/prɪˈzɜːv/

tượng đài
tráng lệ
bảo tồn

 /ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ/

di sản

PRESENTATION
New words

Pronunciation

Meaning

7. occupy (v)

/ˈɒkjupaɪ/

chiếm giữ

8. occupied (adj)

/ˈɒkjupaɪd/

có người ở

/ˈeɪnʃənt/

cổ đại, lâu đời.

/ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn/

thế hệ

/faʊnd/

thành lập

9. ancient (adj)
10. generation (n)
11. found (v)

PRACTICE
- Look at the title of the conversation. Then look at the picture

What do you think they are
discussing?
What do you see in the picture(s)?
What do you know about it / them?

PRACTICE

1 Listen and read.
Teacher: Now let's look at what you've done on your projects. Group
one first, please.
Mi: OK. ThiTeacher:s is Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It's a temple
complex, the largest religious monument in the world.
Teacher: Fantastic! When did people build it?
Mi: They built it in the 12th century. It's a World Heritage Site.
Millions of visitors go there every year
Teacher: Thank you. I wish I could go there one day too. And now
group two, please.

PRACTICE

1 Listen and read.

Nam: Our project is about Dinh Bang Communal House in Bac Ninh
Province - a national historic site. People were building it for 36 years, and
it's about 300 years old!
Teacher: Great! It's quite magnificent! Now group three, please.
Lan: Well, this is Windsor Castle in England. It was built about a thousand
years ago. It's been the home for about 40 English kings and queens.
Teacher: Yeah. It's the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world.
Mi & Nam: Amazing! So we need to preserve our heritage for future
generations.
Teacher: Right. Thanks to preservation efforts, we know a lot about our
history and life in the past.

PRACTICE
Questions:
- What are they talking about?
They are talking about historic buildings / our history / the
past / life in the past …
- Tell me some words in the text that they think are related
to the unit's topic.
Cambodia, complex, monuments, build, communal, …

PRACTICE

2 Read the conversation again and answer the questions
1. How old is Angkor Wat?

About 900 years old/ Nearly a thousand years old.
2. What is Dinh Bang Communal House like?
It's magnificent.
3. Where is Windsor Castle?
In England.
4. What helps us know about our history and life in the past?
preservation

PRACTICE
3 Complete each sentence with a word or a phrase from the box
occupied magnificent thanks to
heritage
well preserved
1. The best way to preserve our cultural ___________
heritage is to
share it with others.
2. Vietnamese people take great pride in their culture which
preserved thousands of years.
has been well
________________for
3. The foreign tourists gave a magnificent
_____________performance of
the Vietnamese folk songs and dances

PRACTICE
3 Complete each sentence with a word or a phrase from the box
occupied magnificent thanks to
heritage
well preserved

Thanks to your kind contribution, we were
4. ___________
able to save the ancient monument.
5. Many beautiful old castles are no longer
occupied
____________.

PRACTICE

4 Look at the pictures and complete the sentences.

Thecommunal
______
1. This is a standard 2.
has
a
serving of fish
__________
and chipshouse
significant meaning
with a slice of lemon.
in
the
Bahnar
community.

3. In the square,
there is amonument
________
dedicated to the
people killed in the
war.

PRACTICE

4 Look at the pictures and complete the sentences.

4. They have decided to
castle which
rebuild the _______
was damaged in the disaster

5. In Nam Dinh City, there is a
complex of threetemples
_______where
people worship the Tran Dynasty's
Kings and royal family members.

LESSON
1: GETTING STARTED
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
Option 1: Think!
Option 2: Memory Lane

WARM-UP

PRESENTATION

Vocabulary
Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Read the conversation again and answer the
questions.
Task 3: Complete each sentence with a word or a phrase
from the box.
Task 4: Look at the pictures and complete the sentences.

PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

Task 5: Game: Remembering past events.

PRODUCTION

5 GAME: Remembering past events
Work in two groups. Give short answers to the
following questions. The group with more correct
answers wins.

PRODUCTION
1.5Who decided to move our capital from Hoa Lu to Dai La
(Thang Long) in 1010?

King Ly Thai To (Ly Cong Uan).
2. When did Columbus discover the Americas?

In 1492
3. When was the United States founded?

In 1776.

PRODUCTION
4.5When did Nguyen Ai Quoc first go abroad?

In 1911.
5. What happened in world history in 1914?

World War I started/ broke out.
6. Who was the last king of Viet Nam?

King Bao Dai (1913 – 1997)

LESSON
1: GETTING STARTED
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
Option 1: Think!
Option 2: Memory Lane

WARM-UP

PRESENTATION

Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Read the conversation again and answer the
questions.
Task 3: Complete each sentence with a word or a phrase
from the box.
Task 4: Look at the pictures and complete the sentences.

PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary

Task 5: Game: Remembering past events.
Wrap-up
Homework

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up
What have we learnt in this lesson?
 Use the words related to the topic remembering the past.
 Gain vocabulary to talk about some historical places.

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
- Do exercises in the workbook.

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
- Prepare for the Project of the unit
- Open book p.49, look at the picture and say what the
topic of the project is
- Work in groups to design a poster.
- You will show and present in Lesson 7 – Looking back and
Project.

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
Step 1: Collecting
information (asking
Step 3: Practising
your grandparents
explaining their posters
Step 2: Organising
and / or old people,
and answering
searching the Internet, ideas and visuals, and questions about the
designing the posters
reading books /
content
magazines,
brainstorming ideas,
etc.)

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
Step 1: Collecting
information (asking
Step 3: Practising
your grandparents
explaining their posters
Step 2: Organising
and / or old people,
and answering
searching the Internet, ideas and visuals, and questions about the
designing the posters
reading books /
content
magazines,
brainstorming ideas,
etc.)

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
Step 1: Collecting
information (asking
Step 3: Practising
your grandparents
explaining their posters
Step 2: Organising
and / or old people,
and answering
searching the Internet, ideas and visuals, and questions about the
designing the posters
reading books /
content
magazines,
brainstorming ideas,
etc.)

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