Welcome to our English lesson
Unit 6: Competitions
Lesson 1: Reading
Vocabulary:
Sponsor (v): Support money for….
Observe (v): Watch
Judge (n): Person chosen to observe and decide a contest
Announce (v) : Make publicly known
Recite (v): Repeat aloud
Award (n): prize
Award (v) Give prize to
Poem (n)


After you read: read and translate the poem 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 is the morning sun
Shining on me when I run
And I also like the rain
Pattering on my windowpane.
Task 1:Matching
1. Representative

2. Annual

3. Stimulate

4. In all

5. Spirit

6. Smoothly
Without problems or difficulties.
b. Enthusiasm and energy
c. Altogether or as a total
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.
Task 2
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?
Answers:

Who took part in the annual final English competition last Saturday?
-> The representatives of three classes of the writer’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 did 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 on 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. At the end of the competition they would announce the total score .The group with 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.

Task 3: Complete the sentences
In activity 5, Hung was unable…………..

2. Having achieved the highest score, Group B………………….
3. Group C lost the games because they just got……………..
4. Nga encouraged her group by saying…………
to recite/ complete the poem...

became the winner….
60 points…..
“For me the most important thing was our participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it”.…
After you read: read and translate the poem 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 is the morning sun
Shining on me when I run
And I also like the rain
Pattering on my windowpane.
summarize
1. type of competition
2. when and where it happened
3. who organized/ participated in it
4.who sponsored the competition
5. the total score of each group
6. who won the competition

Homework
Write a paragraph about one of your memorable competitions.

Thankyou for your attention!
Goodbye and see you again!