Look at these pictures and guess the name of the contest.

 Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”
 Sao Mai television singing contest
 Who want to be a millionaire ?
Olympic marathon
 Miss Universe
Ring the golden bell
World Cup
Unit 6: Competitions
A. Reading
Answer the following question.
Do you like taking part in competitions like these? Why/Why not?
Do you hope to win a competition? If so, which competition do you like to win?
Is winning the most important thing in a competition? Why/Why not?
While you read
Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow
Pre-teaching vocabulary

= competition (n):
contest (n)
sự tranh tài,cuộc thi đấu
stimulate
= encourage (v)
Khuyến khích, động viên
Representative (n):
người đại diện
Ex: Pham Huong is the _____________of Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2015
representative
Smoothly (adv):
trôi chảy,
Recite (v)
Ngâm thơ
Annual (adj)
hằng năm
Spirit (n)
Tinh thần
Judge (n)
Giám khảo
(v): Đánh giá, nhận xét
1.Vocabulary
= competition (n):
representative (n):
Recite (v):
stimulate
sự tranh tài,
cuộc thi đấu
người đại diện
khuyến khích
ngâm thơ
= encourage (v):
contest (n)
smoothly (adv):
trôi chảy,
judge (n):
giám khảo
(v):
đánh giá, nhận xét
Match the words or phrases on the left with their definitions on the right
1. representative
2. annual
3. stimulate
4. contest
5. recite
6. smoothly
a. without problems or difficulties
b. to repeat ( a piece of poetry) before an audience
c. a struggle for victory
d. a person chosen or appointed on behalf of another person or a group
e. encourage or make something more active
f. happening or done once every year
1. Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?
2. What was the aim of the competition?
3. Who sponsored the competition?
4. What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
5. What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?
6. What would be awarded to the winner?
1. Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?
→ The representatives of three classes of the school took part in the competition.
2. What was the aim of the competition?
→ The aim was to stimulate the spirit of learning English among student
3. Who sponsored the competition?
→ The Student’s Parents Society sponsored the competition
4. What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
→ Each group had to complete five activities in all. On competition of each activity, they had to answer the question in the worksheets within two minutes.
5. What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?
The judges had to observe and score student’s performance. And at the end of the competition they would announce the total score of each group. The group that got the 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
1. In Activity 5, Hung was unable ___________________
to complete the poem
2. Having achieved the highest score, Group B
_______________________________________
became the winner of the competition
3.Group C has lost the game because they just got _______
60 points
4. Nga encouraged her group by saying ________
“ For me the most important thing was our participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it
This is the poem Hung recited at the final English competition. Read and translate it into Vietnamese
Do you like the sky at night
When the stars are shining bright?
Do you like it in the day
When the clouds all go away?

What I like in the morning sun
Shining on me when I run
And I also like the rain 
Pattering on my windowpane
Home work:
- Learn by heart the new words.

- Prepare the next lesson: Unit 6 Speaking