Unit

1

Life stories we
admire
Lesson 1: Getting started
A diary of Dang Thuy Tram

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Vocabulary
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Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Circle the correct answer.
Task 3: Find words and a phrase.
Task 4: Complete the sentences.

Roleplay
• Wrap-up
• Homework

WARM-UP

VIDEO 1

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Work in two teams.
There are 7 pictures of 7 famous people.
Only one student from each group sees a picture.
Use your own words to describe the person.
Others guess the famous person's name.
If the answer is correct  one point for your team.
If the answer is incorrect  the chance to answer is
transferred to the other team.
The team having more points is the winner of the
game.

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Barack Obama

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Steve Jobs

VIDEO 2

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General
Vo Nguyen Giap

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Thomas Edison

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Michael Jackson

VIDEO 3

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Pelé

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Dang Thuy Tram

WARM-UP

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PRESENTATION

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PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary
Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Circle the correct answer.
Task 3: Find words and a phrase.
Task 4: Complete the sentences.

Roleplay
• Wrap-up
• Homework

VIDEO 4

PRESENTATION

Account (n)
/əˈkaʊnt/
A description of things that have
happened

Câu chuyện

VIDEO 5

Death (n)
/deθ/
The end of somebody's life

Cái chết

Devote to
/dɪˈvəʊt tə/
Giving time, attention, etc. to
something

Cống hiến cho

Resistance war
/rɪˈzɪstəns wɔː(r)/
A fight against an outside
force that is trying to control
a country or group of people.

Cuộc kháng chiến

Youth (n)
/juːθ/
A period of time when a
person is young

Tuổi trẻ

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Meaning

Vietnamese

/əˈkaʊnt/

A description of things that
have happened

Câu chuyện

2. Death (n)

/deθ/

The end of somebody's life

Cái chết

3. Devote to

/dɪˈvəʊt tə/

Giving time, attention, etc. to
something

Cống hiến cho

/rɪˈzɪstəns wɔː(r)/

A fight against an outside
force that is trying to control a
country or group of people.

Cuộc kháng
chiến

1. Account (n)

4. Resistance war

5. Youth (n)

/juːθ/

A period of time when a
person is young

Tuổi trẻ

WARM-UP

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PRESENTATION

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PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary
Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Circle the correct answer.
Task 3: Find words and a phrase.
Task 4: Complete the sentences.

Roleplay
• Wrap-up
• Homework

PRACTICE

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Listen and read

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Listen and read
Mark: Hi, Nam. Your book must be very interesting.
What are you reading?
Nam: I'm reading a really good book in English
called Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of
Dang Thuy Tram.
Mark: Dang Thuy Tram? Who is she?
Nam: She was born in Hue in 1942. She studied
medicine in Ha Noi, and volunteered to join the
army at the age of 24, working as a surgeon during
the resistance war against the US.

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Listen and read
Mark: That's when she started her diary, isn't it?
Nam: Yes. She wrote her diary while she was
working in a field hospital in Quang Ngai Province.
The diary contains personal accounts of her
experiences during the war and shows her love for
her family and country.
Mark: Wow! It sounds interesting. Is she still alive?
Nam: Unfortunately, she was killed by the enemy
while she was doing her duty in the jungle in Quang
Ngai Province. She was only 27 then.

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Listen and read
Mark: Oh, that's really sad. But how did people find
her diary?
Nam: An American soldier found it and saved it
from being burnt. Then more than 30 years after
Tram's death, a copy was returned to her mother.
The diary was published in Viet Nam in 2005. It has
also been translated into several other languages.
Mark: That's amazing!

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Listen and read
Nam: Now she is considered a national hero for
devoting her youth and whole life to saving other
people's lives in the war.
Mark: Can you lend me the book when you finish
reading it? I'd like to read it myself.
Nam: Sure!

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Read the conversation again and circle the correct
answer to complete each of the sentences.

1. Dang Thuy Tram was born in Ha Noi / Hue.
2. Tram wrote about / operated on injured
soldiers during the war.
3. She died when she was very young / old.
4. An American soldier kept her diary for 27
years / more than three decades before
returning a copy to her family.

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Find words and a phrase in Task 1 with the
following meanings.
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Account (n)
Death (n)
Devote to
Resistance war
Youth (n)

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Giving time, attention, etc. to something
A period of time when a person is young
The end of somebody's life
A description of things that have happened

e A fight against an outside force that is

trying to control a country or group of
people.

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Complete the sentences based on the conversation.

Dang Thuy Tram was a young surgeon. She (1)
wrote her diary while she (2) ___________
was working in a
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field hospital during the war. One day, she (3)
was killed while she (4) ________________
was doing her dutyin the
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jungle. She was only 27 then. An American soldier
kept her diary for many years before
(5) ______
returning a copy to her family.

Read an excerpt from: Last Night I Dreamed of
Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
5 June 1969
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The night grows late, but no one closes his eyes. Thuan sits
quietly by my side, not saying a word. When we are about to
leave, he says, "I know about you, sister, but I worry so much."
And I cannot complete my reply: "I leave you the backpack.
There is a diary in it..."
I want to say that if I don't come back, he should keep the diary
and send it to my family. But the words stick in my throat.

WARM-UP

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PRESENTATION

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PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary
Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Circle the correct answer.
Task 3: Find words and a phrase.
Task 4: Complete the sentences.

Roleplay
• Wrap-up
• Homework

PRODUCTION

Roleplay
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Divide students into pairs.
In each pair, one student will be Tram,
the other will be Thuan.
In
pairs,
imagine
how
the
conversation between Tram and
Thuan would have continued if Tram
had replied to Thuan.
Each pair writes down their own
script.
Invite some pairs to act out the scene.

Let's act

WARM-UP

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PRESENTATION

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PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Vocabulary
Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Circle the correct answer.
Task 3: Find words and a phrase.
Task 4: Complete the sentences.

Roleplay
• Wrap-up
• Homework

CONSOLIDATION

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Wrap up

What have you learnt today?
• Some lexical items about a famous person's life
• Reading for specific information
• Past simple and Past continuous

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Homework

• Do exercises in the workbook.
• Prepare for the project in Lesson 8.

Thanks!