Unit 9: Cities of the world
Lesson 5: Skills 1
I. Watching the video
Watch the video and answer the questions:
What’s the video about?
How many parts are there in a postcard? What are they?
1.What is the picture on the postcard of?
It’s about Stockholm.
2. What do you think is written on this postcard ?
Our stay in the city.
3. What is the purpose of writing and sending postcards while you are on holiday?
To tell our family or friends that we are having a good time.
II. Reading
1. Vocabulary
palace
Swedish
II. Reading
1. Vocabulary
rent
II. Reading
1. Vocabulary
fika
II. Reading
1. Vocabulary
palace (n): cung điện
Swedish (n): người Thụy Điển
rent (v): thuê
fika ( a Swedish word): đi uống cà phê
II. Reading
1. Vocabulary
Match the words with their meanings
Read the text and answer the questions :
What’s city is Mai in?
Who is with her?
What has the weather been like?
Where is Mai staying?
What has she done so far?
What do you think “fika” means?
What will she do tomorrow?
How is Mai feeling? How do you know?
Typhoons
5
3
8
4
9
10
1
2
6
7
Mai is in Stockholm.
What city is Mai in?
Who is with her?
She is there with her family (Mum, Dad, and her brother Phuc).
What has the weather been like?
The weather has been perfect. It is sunny.
How is Mai feeling? How do you know?
Mai is feeling happy. She used the words such as “fantastic”, “perfect”, “amazing”, “too beautiful for words”.
Where is Mai staying?
Mai is staying in a hotel
What will she do tomorrow?
She will cycle to discover the city.
What has she done so far?
She has visited the Royal Palace and had ‘fika’ in a café in the Old Town.
What do you think “fika” means?
It means a leisure break when one drinks tea/coffee
Read the text again and match the headings with the numbers
Address of the person/people who get the postcard
Weather/hotel/food
Opening
What you have seen or done
Closing
A very popular sentences used for postcards, near the closing
What you will do next?
An overall feeling about the place
Date
i. Date
c. Opening
h. An overall feeling about the place
b. Weather/hotel/food
d. What you have seen or done
g. What you will do next
f. A very popular sentences used for postcards, near the closing
e. Closing
a. Address of the person/people who get the postcard
Choose a city. Imagine you have just arrived in that city and want to tell your friends about it. Make notes below
III. Speaking
When did you arrive?
Last summer
Who are you with?
My friends
Where are you staying?
homestay
What have you done?
eat seafood, go swimming…
What are you doing tomorrow?
Take photos, go shopping…
How are you feeling?
happy, excited
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