UNIT 6- COMPETITIONS
Grade 11
reading
A.READING
Warm up
Can you guess what we call the activity in the clip?



Pre- reading: give the name to the pictures
Work in pairs to answer the questions:
- Do you like taking part in competitions like this? Why? Why not?
- Do you hope to win a competition?
- Winning the most important thing in a competition? Why? Why not?


While reading
New words
- To stimulate (v) [`stimjuleit]:
- To sponsor (v) [`spɔnsə]:
- To complete (v) [kəm`pli:t]:
- Judge (n) [`dʒʌdʒ]:
- Performance (n) [pə`fɔ:məns]:
- Smoothly (adv) [`smu:đli]:
- To recite (v) (a poem) [ri`sait]:

Kích thích
Tài trợ
Hoàn thành
Giám khảo
Sự trình bày
Mượt mà
Ngâm thơ
Task 1: Match the words of phrases on the left with their definitions on the right
Representative
Annual
Stimulate
In all
Spirit
Smoothly

Enthusiasm and energy
Without problems or difficulties
Altogether or as a total
A person chosen or appointed on behalf of another person or a group
Encourage or make something more active
Happening or done once every year

Task 2: Answer the questions
Who took part in the annual final English competition last Saturday?
What was the aim of the competition?
Who sponsored the competition?
What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?
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 speaker’s school took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday.
2. What was the aim of the competition?
 Its aim is to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students.
3. Who sponsored the competition?
 The Students’ Parents Society sponsored the competition.
Answers:
4. What did each group of students have to do during the contest?
 They had to compete five activities in all. On competition of each activity, they had to answer the questions in the worksheets within 2 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. A maximum score for each activity was 15. At the end of the competition they would announce the total score of each group. The group has 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 Learners’ Dictionary.

Task 3: Read paragraph 3 again and complete the sentences
1. In activity 5, Hung was unable _______________________.
2. Having achieved the highest score, Group B _______________________________.
3. Group C lost the game because they just got ___________.
4. Nga encouraged her group by saying: ________________ ______________________________________________ _______________________________.
became the winner of the competition.
to recite/ complete the poem.

60 points
“For me most
important thing was our participation in the competition
and the enjoyment we had from it.”
After you read
Listen to the tape and work in groups of 4 to translate the poem into Vietnamese.
HOMEWORK

1, Redo task 2 and task 3 in your notebook.
2, Read and translate the poem in “post reading” part (page 68) in the textbook into Vietnamese.