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Tieng Anh 11:
Unit 9:
The post office
A: Reading
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Before you read
What can you do at the post office???
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Before you read
1. Mail and Parcel Service:
2. Express Mail service:
3. Express money transfer:
4. Phone calls and Faxes:
5. Press Distribution:
6. Flower Telegram Service:
7. Phone cards & internet cards:
8. Postal savings:
Chuyển thư và bưu phẩm
Chuyển phát nhanh
Chuyển tiền
Phát hành báo chí
Điện hoa
Điện thoại và fax
Thẻ điện thoại, internet
Tiết kiệm bưu điện
Postal services
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Before you read: Vocabulary
1. surface /`sə:fis/
surface mail

2. parcel /`pɑ:s(ə)l/ (n)
3. express /iks`pres/ (a)
4. recipient /ri`sipiənt/ (n)
5. secure /si`kjuə/ (a)
: a way of sending letters, parcels, etc. by road, sea or train and not by aircraft
: package
: very fast
: a person who receives
: safe
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Before you read: Vocabulary
8. transfer /træns`fə/ (v)
transfer /`trænsfə/ (n)
9. facsimile /fæk`simili/ (n)

10. subscribe /səb`skraib/ (v)

subscribe to Hoa hoc tro magazine
: to move something from one place to another
: an exact copy, especially of a document
: To order a service/ a product regularly
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While you read
Task 1: Read the text and underline the
following words:
Spacious

2. Courteous

3. Speedy

4. Original
> < cramped
> < rude
> < slow
> < changed
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While you read
Technology:
Front office:
Staff:
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Advanced
Spacious, pleasant
Well – trained, thoughtful, courteous to customers
Task 2: Answer the questions:
what / equipped with?
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While you read
what services /offered?
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Mail and parcel services
Express money transfer
Phone calls and faxes
Press distribution
Task 2: Answer the questions:
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Three different ways of sending a letter?
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Air mail
Surface mail
EMS mail
Task 2: Answer the questions:
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Messenger Call
service?
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To notify the recipient the time and place to receive the call.
Task 2: Answer the questions:
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How //newspapers and magazines // delivered to your house ?
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Go to the post office and subscribe to your favorite newspapers and magazines.
Task 2: Answer the questions:
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Task 3
In pairs.
Find evidence in the text to support the statements.
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Open daily
7 a.m - 9 p.m
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Task 3
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While you read
Task 3
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Competitive rate !!!
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Task 3
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The shortest
possible time!!!
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Task 3
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Less than 24 hours !!!
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After you read?
How many postal services are mentioned in the text? What are they?
2. Which service do you think the most
important? Why?
3. What postal service(s) do you use most?
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Think of
a postal service
which should be
in the future.
Homework:
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THANK YOU
VERY MUCH