Do you know the order of the letters in the alphabet?
Supposing that we have 26 numbers, from 1 to 26 and number 1 is equivalent to letter A, 2 to letter B, 3 to letter C....26 to letter Z.
Example: A word with numbers: 2.5.5: Bee.
Finding what word is: 8.15.12.9.4.1.23
Key: HOLIDAY
Some questions:
Where do you often spend your holiday?
Who do you usually go on holiday with?
How do you like your holiday?
B: LISTENING
Listening to someone talking about his holiday
Look at pictures 1 and picture 2 and answer the questions:
Who are they?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
Picture 1:
They are students.
They are in the countryside.
They are going for a picnic.
Picture 2:
They are visistors.
They are in town.
They are going sightseeing.
campgrounds (n): b·i c¾m tr¹i
trash (n): r¸c r­ëi
waterfalls (n): th¸c n­íc
depressed (v): ch¸n n¶n
wilderness (n): miÒn hoang d·
giant trees (n.p): c©y khæng lå
dirt bike (n): xe m«t« ®Þa h×nh
solitude (n): sù c« lËp
TASK 1: Three students are talking about how they would like tomspend their holiday. Listen and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)
Anna doesn’t like summer weather.
Anna usually spends two weeks in a national park every summer.
Terry has never been to the mountains or the desert in summer.
Terry is attracted to the beauty of nature.
Mary likes the solitude of the wilderness.
Mary enjoys the comfortable life in the cities.






T
T
T F
T
F
F
T
TASK 2: Answer the questions
What activities do Anna and her friends enjoy doing most in the national park?
Where can they sleep?
According to Terry, why aren’t they natural places as beautiful as they used to be?
What does Terry think is also very important to the world?
Where does Mary spend most of her summer holiday?
Why doesn’t Mary like camping?
TASK 2: Answer the questions

What activities do Anna and her friends enjoy doing most in the national park?

Riding their dirt bike in the desert, taking showers in the waterfalls and swimming in lakes and rivers.
2. Where can they sleep?

In sleeping bags or tents.
3. According to Terry, why aren’t they natural places as beautiful as they used to be?

Because more and more people are coming to these places and leave trash in the forests and take rocks and plants with them.
TASK 2: Answer the questions

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4. What does Terry think is also very important to the world?

He thinks nature is also important in the word.
5. Where does Mary spend most of her summer holiday?

In cities.
6.Why doesn’t Mary like camping?

Because she can’t put up an umbrella tent in the wind or make a fire in the rain or carry a heavy backpack.
CONSOLIDATION
Listening about a camping holiday.
Doing After-listening.
Preparing Part D: Writing, Unit 14.