UNIT 9:
THE POST OFFICE

LISTENING
A. Pre-Listening:
Pictures
Question-Answer:
1/ Is your family on the phone? What is your phone number?
2/ Does any member of your family have a cellphone? What make is it?
3/ What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of a cellphones?
(talk to everyone at almost anytime anywhere, never miss any important information…, be annoyed at calling when sleeping or having a meeting…)

New words & difficult words
Commune (n)/ `kɔmju:n /
Communal growth / `kɔmjunl grəuθ /
Digit subscriber/ `didʒit səb`skraibə/
Rural network/ `ru:rəl `netwə:k /
Capacity (n) / kə`pæsəti/
upgrade (v) / ʌp`greid /

While-Listening:

Introduce the listening. Let Ss have a look at Task1 & Task2.
Ss listen to the tape: 1 or 2 times Do Task1, Listen again Do Task 2
Conduct the correction.

Task1:
1/ According to the passage, Vietnam ranks
______ for growth in the number of
telephone subscribers?
A. 6th B.2nd C. 30th D. 8th
2/ Vietnam is among the ________ countries in
the world that have more than two million
telephones.
A. 6 B. 140 C. 13 D. 30
3/ In 1996, Vietnam began upgrading its ______
networks.
A. mobile phone C. fixed telephone
B. subscriber D. post office

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4/ According to the passage, at present, ______
percent of communes across Vietnam have
telephone services.
A. 90 B. 80 C. 14 D. 93
5/Which aspect of development in VN’s
telecommunication is not mentioned in the
listening passage?
A. The increase in the number of telephone
B. The growth in the capacity of the mobile
phone system

C. The change of the international telephone
system

D. The reduction in monthly telephone fee.
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Task 2: Questions:
1/ According to the passage, which country
has the highest growth in the number of
telephone subscribers?
2/ How many telephones were there in Vietnam
in the early 1990s?
3/ How were the fixed telephone numbers
changed in 1996?


4/ When did the change of mobile telephone
numbers take place?
5/ According to the passage, how many
communal post offices are there in Vietnam?

(China)
(140,000)

(from 6 to 7 digits in HN &
HCMC as well as 5 to 6 digits
in other provinces)

( in 2001)

(6,014)

Post-Listening:
Group Work. Summarise the main ideas of the listening passage with some points:
- Vietnam’s rapid growth in telephone
numbers
- The addition of digits to existing telephone
numbers to meet the increasing demands.
- The reduction in monthly telephone fees
- The expansion of the telephone networks to
Vietnam’s rural areas.
* Give Ss some cues relating to the listening passage. (for lower students)