UNIT 6: COMPETITION
Part A: READING
Competition
unit 6:
Competition
Part A: Reading
BEFORE READING: Look at the photos. Match each of them with the words in the box below.
1. Sao Mai Television Singing 2. Contest Olympic Games 3. Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia” 4. London Marathon
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Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”
Sao Mai Television Singing
Contest Olympic Games
Marathon
Work with a partner: Answer the following questions
Do you like taking part in competitions like these? Why? Why not?
- Yes, because I can try my efforts and I can learn a lot from it.
2. Do you hope to win a competition? If so, which competition would you like to win?
- Yes. I’d like to win the competition “Road to Mount Olympia”
3. Is winning the most important thing in a competition? Why? Why not?
- Yes, because I can get the scholarship to learn abroad.
Read the passage
and then do the
tasks that follow.
While Reading:
Task 1: Match the words or phrases on the left with their definitions on the right
Represen-tatives
Annual
Stimulate
In all
Spirit
smoothly
Without problems or difficulties
Enthusiasm and energy
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
Expected answers:
1.d 2.f 3.e 4.c 5.b 6.a
Task 2: Answer the questions.
Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?
The representative 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 was to stimulate the spirit of learning English among students.
3. Who sponsored the competition?
- The students’ Parents Society sponsored the competition .

4. What does each group of students have to do during the contest?
- They had to complete five activities in all . On competition of each activity , they had to answer the questions in the worksheets with in two 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 was15. At the end of the competition ………
6. What would be awarded to the winner?
- The winner would be awarded a set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

TASK 3: Read the passage 3 again and complete the sentences.
In activity 5, Hung was unable

2. Having achieved the highest scores, Group B

3. Group C lost the game because they just got

4. Nga encouraged her group by saying
to recite/
complete the poem.
became the winner of the competition.
60 points.
“For me the most important thing was our participation
in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it.”
Homework :

Ask Ss to translate the poem that Hung recited at the competition at the annual final English competition and prepare for the next lesson : Unit 6 - Speaking
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