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Welcome to our English class!
English 11
Designed by Vu Thi Huong
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Unit 11: Sources of energy
Lesson 4: Writing
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Task 1:The chart shows the energy consumption in Highland in 2000. As can be seen, the total energy consumption was (1) ………… million tons. Petroleum made up the largest amount of this figure (57 million tons). This was followed by the consumption of (2) ……………. (40 million tons). Nuclear & Hydroelectricity made up the (3) ………….. amount of energy consumption (20 million tons).
Discovering the chart
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coal
smallest
Task 2: The chart presents the energy consumption in Highland in 2005. As can be seen, (1) ……………….. ……… ........... was 170 million tons. Nuclear hydroelectricity (2) …………. the largest amount of this figure (75 million tons). This(3) ……………… …..by the consumption of petroleum (50 million tons). Coal (4)……………. a slightly smaller proportion with 45 million tons
the total energy consumption
made up
was followed
contributed
It shows the energy consumption in
Highland in 2000 & 2005
What does the chart show?
What does the green color present?
It presents the consumption of coal
What does the red describe?
It describes the consumption of
Nuclear & Hydroelectricity
What about the purple?
It presents the consumption
of petroleum
How much was the total energy
consumption?
It was 100 million tons
Which consumption made up the
largest amount of this figure?
Petroleum
Which consumption ranked second?
Coal
How did Nuclear & Petroleum
Hydroelectricity make up?
Smallest
New words
Consume (v) / consumption of Tiªu thô/ Sù tiªu thô
Make up Tiªu thô
This is/was followed by §øng sau/ theo sau/ TiÕp theo
Rank first/second….
Contribute …§ãng gãp / Tiªu thô

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Task 3: Describe the chart, using the information from task 1 and 2
The chart shows the energy consumption in Highland in 2000 and 2005.
As can be seen, there was an upward trend in the consumption of coal and nuclear and hydroelectricity. There was a sharp decrease in the use of petroleum in 2005 . The amount of coal used increased by 10 million tons compared with 2000 and the consumption of nuclear & hydroelectricity went up dramatically by 18 million tons. However, the amount of petroleum consumed in 2005 fell by 10 million tons
In general , there was a difference in the amount as well as trend of consuming different sources of energy between the two years.

Opening: Topic sentence
Body: Supporting ideas (compare the information in task 1 & 2 ,the difference of energy consumption between the two year 2000 and 2005)
Closing: concluding sentence
Useful language: As can be seen,
Upward trend (a) khuynh h­íng ®i lªn
in use of
Compared with So s¸nh víi
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HOMEWORK
Write the description again at home and prepare new lesson
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