SGK Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 2: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

'	' PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
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A. READING
Before you read
Work in pairs. Look at the pictures below and guess what is happening in each of them.
While you read
Read the story and then do the tasks that follow.
MY MOST EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE
My most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago, when I was a grade 9 student. In those days, my biggest dream was a red hat - a floppy cotton hat like the one my pop star idol wore in her video clip. I thought I would look great in it.
My father knew this, so on my birthday he gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself. I was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop at once. I got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about my age. The boy glanced at me and turned away. There was a sneaky look on his face, but I didn’t think much about it. I was busy imagining how I would look in the hat. After a while, I turned round and noticed that the boy’s schoolbag was open. Inside it, I saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones my father had given me. I quickly looked into my own bag - the notes had gone! I was sure that the boy was a thief. He had stolen my money. I didn’t want to make a fuss, so I decided just to take my money back from the schoolboy’s bag, without saying a word about it. So I carefully put my hand into the boy’s bag, took the notes and put them in my own bag.
With the money I bought the pretty hat of my dreams. When I got home, I showed it to my father.
“How did you pay for it?” he asked.
“With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course, Dad,” I replied.
“Oh? What’s that then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of dollar notes on the table.
Can you imagine how I felt then?
KẫT Task 1. The words/phrases in the box all appear in the passage. Use them to fill the blanks in the sentences.
making a fuss sneaky glanced embarrassing idols
The girl was so shy that she didn’t look at him in the face. She just 	at him and looked away.
She complains noisily about anything she doesn’t like. She is the
type of person who is always	.
■3. She was in a very	situation. She felt so stupid and didn’t
know what to say.
4. Teenagers nowadays often have their own	who they really
love and imitate in different ways.
5.1 don’t like the look of that man. There is something	about
him.
US3 Task 2. Work in pairs. Put the pictures of the events (on page 22) in the order they happened in the story.
Picture ...	, 2. Picture ...	3. Picture ...
4. Picture ...	5. Picture ...	6. Picture ...
EST Task 3. Answer the questions.
What did the girl wish to have when she was in grade 9?
Why did her father give her some money on her birthday?
What did she see in the boy’s bag?
Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without saying anything about it?
What did she do with the money?
After you read
Work in groups. Discuss the question: What do you think the girl had to do after she discovered that the money she had taken from the boy’s bag was not hers?
B. SPEAKING
dr Task 1. Work in pairs. Match the things you might have done or experienced in box A with how the experience might have affected you in box B.
Example: 1 - d
A
B
1. speaking English to a
a. makes you love your country more
native English speaker
b. teaches you a lesson and makes you
2. being seriously ill
study harder
3. travelling to other parts
c. makes you appreciate your health
of the country
more
4. failing an exam
d. makes you more interested in
5. talking to a famous
learning English
pop star
e. changes your attitude to pop stars
dr Task Work in pairs. A student is talking to her friend about one of her past experiences and how it affected her. The lines in their conversation are jumbled. Put them in the correct order, then practise the dialogue.
□ a) I was walking along Trang Tien Street when an English girl came up to me and asked me the way to Hoan Kiem Lake. I told her, then we started talking about the lake.
b) Have you ever spoken English to a native speaker?
c) How did the experience affect you?
El d) Yes. I talked to an English girl last summer.
e) What did you talk about?
f) Well, it made me more interested in learning English.
g) Everything about the lake: its name, the great turtles in it, etc.
h) How did you meet her?
mir Task 3. Work in pairs. Underline the structures used to talk about past experiences in the dialogue in Task 2, then use the structures and the ideas in Task 1 to make similar dialogues.
Useful structures:
Have you ever ...?
How did it happen?
When did it happen?
How did the experience affect you?
c. LISTENING
Before you listen
Work in groups. Look at the picture and say what is happening in it.
• Listen and repeat.
memorable	scream	gas stove	escape
terrified	replaced	unforgettable	protected
While you listen
CdsC Task 1. Christina is being interviewed about the most unforgettable experience in her life. Listen to the interview, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
T F
KẫT Task 2. Listen to the second part of the dialogue and fill in the gaps in . the summary of Christina’s story below.
Although I lost many things in the fire, the experience helped me to grow up. Before the fire, I was selfish. I always complained to my
mother about how (1)	my room was or how few clothes I
had. Then the fire came and destroyed (2)	we owned. But
slowly I began to realise that I didn’t really need those things. I just
needed my (3)	. After all, you can get new clothes any
time, but a family can never be (4)	. The fire (5)	
many things from me, but it gave me something, too. It taught me to (6)	my family more than things.
After you listen
Christina says that family is more important than things. Do you agree or disagree with her? Why? Exchange your ideas with a partner.
D. WRITING
Writing a personal letter about a past experience
Write a letter to your pen friend telling him/her about one of your most memorable past experiences. Your letter should include the following main points:
when it happened
where it happened
hbw it happened
who was involved
how the experience affected you
E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
Pronunciation: / m / - / n / - / p /
Grammar:
Present simple indicating past time
Tense revision: the past simple, past progressive and past perfect
Pronunciation
• Listen and repeat.
/ m /
/n/
/ D /
may
nose
wrong
make
nine
running
summer
money
bringing
home
seven
sing
small
snow
morning
• Practise reading aloud these sentences.
Good morning. I want an apartment in central London.
We have an inexpensive apartment in Northend Avenue.
remember meeting him on a nice summer afternoon.
Mr. King is singing next door.
He’s holding a string in his fingers.
He loves spending his holidays in his small summer house.
Grammar
Exercise 1. Use the correct present tense forms of the verbs in brackets in the story below. The first one has been done for you as an example.
The story is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood who (0. live) lives with her mother. Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother
(1. invite)	her to her cottage, so one fine day she (2. set)
	off to visit her. The little girl (3. get)	ready,
(4. wave)	goodbye to her mother and (5. promise)
	to be careful. On her arm she (6. carry)	
a basket which (7. contain)	a cake her mother (8. bake)
	 specially. It (9. be) 	 a lovely spring
morning, the sun (10. shine)	and the birds (11. sing)
	, feeling happy that the winter (12. be)	over.
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the past simple or past progressive.
Examples:
Do you like this picture? My uncle	it. (paint)
Do you like this picture? My uncle painted it.
Nkc	lunch when we	the news, (have, hear)
We were having lunch when we heard the news.
He	his arm when he	football, (break, play)
Julia	her first novel when she	19 years old. (write, be)
on the computer when the fire	out. (work, break)
When it	to rain, they	through the forest, (start, walk)
He	us about his marriage when we	
. afternoon tea. (tell, have)
Sorry, I	to you. I	about something else, (not listen,
think)
I	you last night, but you	. What	you
	? (phone, not answer, do)
Mary	her glasses at the time, so she	what
kind of car the man	. (not wear, not notice, drive)
Exercise 3. Write the sentences, putting the verbs in each sentence into the past simple or the past perfect.
Example:
When the police (arrive), the car (go).
- When the police arrived, the car had gone.
They (eat) everything by the time I (arrive) at the party.
When I (find) my purse, someone .(take) the money out of it.
By. the time I (get) into town, the shops (close). .
When they (get) to the station, the train (leave).
By the time you (get) her letter, she (arrive) in Paris.
The police (pay) no attention to Clare’s complaint because she (phone) them so many times before.
(go) to the post office to ask about my package, but they (say) that it (not arrive) yet.
8. When I (look) at the new dress for half an hour, I (ask) how much it (cost).