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By Mrs Thuy

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Unit 6:

LIFESTYLES
Lesson 5: Skills 1

1. Work in groups. Look at the picture, and discuss
what you know about Alaska.
- Location?
- Climate?
- Native people?
- Language?
- Cuisine?
- Culture?

READING

2. Match the highlighted words in the text with their meanings.

2. Match the highlighted words in the text with their meanings.
1. maintain

a. particular ways of doing
something

2. styles

b. people who drive dogsleds

3. experience

c. to do or feel something

4. mushers

d. to keep, make something
continue

VOCABULARY
New words
1. maintain (v)
2. experience (v)
3. style (n)
4. musher (n)

Pronunciation

Meaning

/meɪnˈteɪn/

duy trì, gìn giữ

/ɪkˈspɪəriəns/

trải nghiệm
phong cách

/staɪl/
/ˈmʌʃə/

người điều khiển
xe trượt tuyết chó
kéo

3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Alaska?
→ It is about 730,000 / 730 thousand.
2. Who have special styles of carving or weaving?
3. Where can we find the culture of the native
peoples in Alaska?
4. How long is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
5. Is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an international
competition?

3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Alaska?
→ It is about 730,000 / 730 thousand.
2. Who have special styles of carving or weaving?
→ Various native groups have their own special
styles of carving or weaving
3. Where can we find the culture of the native
peoples in Alaska?
4. How long is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
5. Is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an international
competition?

3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Alaska?
→ It is about 730,000 / 730 thousand.
2. Who have special styles of carving or weaving?
→ Various native groups have their own special
styles of carving or weaving
3. Where can we find the culture of the native
peoples in Alaska?
→ We can find it in their villages.
4. How long is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
5. Is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an international
competition?

3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Alaska?
→ It is about 730,000 / 730 thousand.
2. Who have special styles of carving or weaving?
→ Various native groups have their own special
styles of carving or weaving
3. Where can we find the culture of the native
peoples in Alaska?
→ We can find it in their villages.
4. How long is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
→ It is 1,510 km (long).
5. Is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an international
competition?

3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Alaska?
→ It is about 730,000 / 730 thousand.
2. Who have special styles of carving or weaving?
→ Various native groups have their own special
styles of carving or weaving
3. Where can we find the culture of the native
peoples in Alaska?
→ We can find it in their villages.
4. How long is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
→ It is 1,510 km (long).
5. Is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an international
competition?
→ Yes, it is.

SPEAKING

4. Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and use the cues to talk about
what people in some places do to maintain their traditional lifestyle.

5. Work in pairs. Ask and answer about how people in your area
maintain their traditional lifestyle. You can use the ideas in 4 and
the reading text in 1.
Example:
I live in Bat Trang, which is a pottery village
not far from Ha Noi centre. To maintain the
traditional lifestyle, local people will make
pottery and paint on the ceramic statues.
Then they will sell those pottery products to
tourists.

Wrap-up
What have we learnt in this lesson?
 Read about Alaska
 Talk about how people in their area maintain
traditional lifestyles

Homework
- Learn by heart vocabulary
- Do exercises in workbook
- Prepare for the next lesson

THANK YOU!