Unit 6 Listening Competitions

Make an interview with your partners about a famous runner in Vietnam?. Vu Thi Huong3[r]

Questions:

1 Do you like running? 2 How fast can you run?

Game:

Watch the video clips and match them with names of the following ATHLETICS

B. Men 1500m race

C.100m race

Questions:

1 Which of the three running races is the longest?

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Unit 6: Competitions

D Listening

I Before you listen:

Activity 1. Read the sentences and predict whether they are True (T) or False (F)

1 Boston City is in England.

2 Marathon is a long running race of about 40 kilometers.

3 Only men can take part in a marathon.

Activity VOCABULARY

race (n) [reis]

athletic (adj) [æθ'letik]

association (n) [ə,sousi'ei∫n] formally (adv))

clock (v,n) [klɔk]

McDermott

Kuscsik

Task 1: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)

1 The Boston Marathon is held every years in the USA

2 It began in 1987

3 John McDermott clocked hours 10 minutes and 10 seconds

4 Women were officially allowed to participate in the races in 1957

5 In 1984, 34 countries took part in the marathon 6 According to the race’s rules, runners have to go

through 13 towns during the race It ends in the centre of Boston

F T F T F T

Task Answer the questions

1 Where did John McDermott come from?

2 When did Kuscsik become the first official female champion?

3 How many women started and finished the race in 1972?

Task Answer the questions

1 Where did John McDermott come from?

2 When did Kuscsik become the first official female champion?

3 How many women started and finished the race in 1972?

Task 2 Answer the questions

1 Where did John McDermott come from?

2 When did Kuscsik become the first official female champion?

3 How many women started and finished the race in 1972?

4 How many runners joined the Boston Marathon in 1984?

 He came from New York.

 She became the first official female champion in 1972

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Unit 6: Competitions

D Writing

- Name some of famous runners (sportsmen or sportswomen) in Vietnam

- What fields does he (she) take part in?

Activity Make an interview with your partners about a famous runner in Vietnam.

Activity 2. Make an interview with your partners about a famous runner in Vietnam.

Vu Thi Huong

won a gold medal at ASIAN Indoor Games and

many other medals

Imagine you are a journalist and you interview her for Tuoi Trẻ

Suggested questions

1 Can you introduce something about yourself?

2 When did you begin your first race?

3 How many medals have you won until now?

4 Who is your sports idol?

5 In which year, have you been selected the Best Athlete ?

She/ begin her first race/ SEA GAMES 23.

4 Her sports idol/ Vũ Văn Huyện.

1 She / born/ 7/10/1986 / THÁI NGUYÊN

Suggested infomation

3 She/ win / gold medals/ silver medals.

5 She/ be elected/ best athlete/ 2009.

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A General English Quiz

C athletics meeting

D beauty contest

A marathon is a/an ….

1

B singing contest

A 26 miles or 42 kilometers

C 26 miles or 42 meters

A marathon is a long running distance of about …… .

2

B 26 miles or 40 kilometers

A Germany

C England

D Paris

Boston is in … .

3

B The United States

A Men

C American people

4Who can take part in marathon?

B Women

A judges

C champions

D players

The persons who win the

competition are the… .

5

B athletes

A clock

C fridge

A……is an instrument which

tell you the time.

6

B computer

A American

C Greece

D Boston

Marathon originally comes from

a legend of … .

7

B England

A 490 BC

C 1897

The first race of Marathon

was run in…….

8

B 490 AD

Homework: Write a short paragraph