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Lesson 1 – Getting started

- legend (n):
/ˈledʒ.ənd/

TRUYỀN THUYẾT

folk tale (n)
/ˈfəʊk teɪl/
Truyện dân gian

- fable (n):

/ˈfeɪbl/

truyện ngụ ngôn

origin (n)
/ˈɒrɪdʒɪn/

nguồn gốc

- give birth
to:

Sinh ra

- legend (n)

- folk tale (n)

- fable (n)
- origin (n)

/
Truyền thuyết
ˈledʒ.ənd/
/ˈfəʊk teɪl/
/ˈfeɪbl/
/ˈɒrɪdʒɪn/

Truyện dân gian
Truyện ngụ ngôn

Nguồn gốc

Duong: I phoned you around 9 p.m. last night, but no

reply.
Nick: Oh, I was doing some Internet research on Vietnamese
legends for my project.
Duong: Have you found one you like yet?
Nick: Not really. Can you suggest anything?
Duong: We have lots of legends, folk tales, and fables. A
popular one is the legend of Lac Long Quan and Au Co.
Nick: Oh yeah? What's it about?
Duong: Well, it's aboutthe origins of the Vietnamese people.
Nick: Who are the main characters?
Duong: Lac Long Quan - the dragon king of the ocean, Au
Co - a fairy, and their sons.
Nick: And what's the story?
Duong: Let me see... Lac Long Quan married Au Co. She
gave birth to a bag of one hundred eggs, which produced
one hundred baby boys.
Nick: One hundred baby boys? That's a lot.
Duong: And some years later, Lac Long Quan missed the
sea so he took fifty of their sons to the sea, and Au Co took
the others to the mountains. Those boys were the ancestors
of the Vietnamese.
Nick: What an interesting legend it is! I think I've found the
subject of my project!

4. Who was
Lac Long
Quan?
Exa/ 59. Read the conversation
again
and
A.A fairy.
choose the
correct answerB.Au Co's father.
1. What was Duong doing at 9 p.m. last night?
A. He was coming to Nick's house.
B. He was phoning Nick.
C. He was talking to Nick.

2. What was Nick doing at 9 p.m. last night?
A. He was watching a TV show.
B. He was talking about his project.
C. He was searching for information on the Web.

3. What legend did Duong recommend to Nick?
A. A legend about how Viet Nam began.
B. A legend about Vietnamese people being original.
C. A legend that isn't well-known.

C. The dragon king of the ocean.

5. Where did Au Co take half of
the sons?
A.To the mountains.
B.To the sea.
C.To Lac Long Quan's land.

Exb/ 59. Match the words to their meanings

a.the people the story

1.
title
2.
genre
3. main
character
4. plot
1.

2.

is about
b.the content of the
story

3.

c.the name of the story

4.d. the type of story it is

Ex c/ 60. Find the information in the
coversation to complete the table.
Lac Long Quan and Au Co

Title
Genre

Legend

Main
characte
rs

Plot

Lac Long Quan, Au Co and their sons
-

Lac Long Quan married Au Co.
Au Co gave birth to 100 baby boys.
Lac Long Quan missed the sea.
Lac Long Quan took 50 of their sons to the sea.
Au Co took the others to the mountains.

What + a / an + adjective + N (singular
countable)!
1. Beautiful/
girl

What a beautiful girl !

What + adjective + N (uncountable/ plural countable)!
2. strong/
boys

What strong boys!

9

8

10
1

7
6

2
5

4

3

Make an exclamatory sentence:

Handsome/ man

What a handsome man !

Make an exclamatory sentence:

interesting/ game

What an interesting game !

Make an exclamatory sentence:

Good/ news

What a good news !

Make an exclamatory sentence:

Lovely/ dogs

What lovely dogs !

Make an exclamatory sentence:

Brave/ women

What brave women !

LUCKY NUMBER !

What does “title” mean?
a. the people the story is about
b. the content of the story
c. the name of the story
d. the type of story it is

What does “genre” mean?
a. the people the story is about
b. the content of the story
c. the name of the story
d. the type of story it is

What does “main characters” mean?
a. the people the story is about
b. the content of the story
c. the name of the story
d. the type of story it is

What does “plot” mean?
a. the people the story is about
b. the content of the story
c. the name of the story
d. the type of story it is

2. Match the word with their definitions.
Then listen, check and repeat.
A. legend

B. folk tale

C. fable  

D. fairy tale

1. traditional, imaginary short story that
typically using animal characters

teaches a moral lesson;

2. an imaginary story typically involving magic or fairies, usually for
children
3. a very old, traditional story from a particular place that was originally
passed on to people in a spoken form

4. an ancient story about brave people or magical events that are probably
not true

3. GAME: GUESS THE STORY
A. Think of legend, folk tale, fable or fairy tale you
know. Complete the table below.
Title
Genre
Main characters
Plot

 

3. GAME: GUESS THE STORY
A. Think of legend, folk tale, fable or fairy tale you
know. Complete the table below.
Title

 Cinderella

Genre

 Fairy tale

Main
characters

 Cinderella, her stepsisters, her stepmother and
a prince.

Plot

 Cinderella, a kind and beautiful girl who
finally gets married to a prince.

b. Work in pairs. Interview each other and try to guess the title
of the story.
Example:
A: What kind of story is it?
B: It's a fairy tale.
A: Who are the main characters?
B: Cinderella, her stepsisters, her stepmother, and a prince.
A: What's it about?
B: It's about Cinderella, a kind and beautiful girl who finally gets married
to a prince.
A: Is it Cinderella?
B: Yes!

Homework
• Learn the new words by heart.
• Practice the dialogue again.
• Prepare for Unit 6: A closer look 1