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Unit 1 Human's Abilities
Unit 1 Human's Abilities
Unit 1 Human's Abilities
HUMAN’S
S ABILITIES
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OVERVIEW
1 WARM UP
2 GRAMMAR 3
VOCABULARY
8 WRITING 4
PRONUNCIATION
KEY
7 6 5 READING
SPEAKING LISTENING
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OBJECTIVES AFTER THIS UNIT, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
• Develop listening
listening, reading and speaking skills via practical exercises relating
to this topic.
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WARM UP A. CHECK ON THE PICTURE THAT SHOW WHAT
YOU COULD DO WHEN YOU WERE 5 YEARS OLD
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B. FOLLOWING ARE SOME PROVERBS ABOUT HUMAN ABILITIES.
COULD YOU ADD SOME MORE PROVERBS IN THE LIST?
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GRAMMAR I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION ABOUT MODAL VERBS
• Modals are small verbs like can, must, and might, which give certain meanings to
main verbs.
• There are twelve modal verbs:
Can, could, shall, should, must, ought to, may, might, will, would, need (to), dare.
Form Example
+
S + modal + main verb We should stay.
Positive sentence
-
S + modal + not+ main verb We shouldn’t stay.
Negative sentence
?
Modal + S + main verb? Should we stay?
Questions
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
1. Can
Form Use
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
1. Can
Notes
NOTES:
• When we talk about ability in the future, we cannot use the verb Can; we
must use will be able to instead. However, when we are making decisions that
refer to future ability/ possibility, the word Can may be used.
Example: We can
can’tt deliver your computer this afternoon,
afternoon but we can deliver
it tomorrow.
• We use Can in a negative question when we want to show that we are
surprised or upset by something.
Example: Can’t you do anything without my help?
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
2. Could
Form Use
Example:
p She could walk when she was nine months old.
(-) S+ could +not+ V To ask for permission in the present and future.
Couldn’t Example:
p Could I borrow yyour p
phone for a second?
(?) Could + S+ V?
To make a polite request
Yes,, S+ could.
Example: Could you carry these boxes for me, please?
No, S+ couldn’t
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS (Tiếp theo)
Notes
To talk about past ability on a specific occasion,
occasion we use was/were able to.
to
Could is not used for specific situations. In contrast, couldn’t can be
used in both general and specific situations.
Example: Matt was able to repair my computer yesterday. I tried but I
couldn’t do it.
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
3. Be able to
F
Form U
Use
Notes
With verbs of sense, we use could and not be able to.
Example: He could hear the wind whistling through the trees.
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
4. Must/ Mustn’t
Form Use
• Necessity
Notes
We do not usually use must in the question form. The form mustn’t is rare in
American English.
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
5. Must/musn’t/ have to/don’t have to
Notes
We do not usually use must in the question form. The form mustn’t is rare in
American English.
English
MUST HAVE TO
Must usually expresses personal obligation. We use have to to talk about external
We use must when we express how we feel. obligation and not our personal feelings.
Example: I must go to the dentist’s soon. Example: I have to work late tonight
(Because my boss has told me to)
Example:
a p e You
ou must
ust not
ot d
drive
e a motorcycle
oto cyc e Example:
a p e You
ou do
don’tt have
a e to co
come
e with
t us
us.
without a helmet (It’s not allowed). (You can decide)
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
Form Use
Yes,
Y S + should
h ld Example: Should I ask my boss for more money?
No, S + shouldn’t
B Ought to
B.
• Ought to has the same meaning as Should. We use it to give advice
Example: You ought to join a gym if you want to lose weight.
• We do not use ought to in the question form. The negative form ought not to is rare
in American English.
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II. COMMON MODAL VERBS IN ENGLIS
6. Should/ ought to, may/might/need to
D N
D. Need
d
Form Use
(+) S+ need + V
(?) Need + S + V? Example: You need close the door before going out.
Yes, S + need
No, S + needn’t
C. May/Might
We use may and might to say that something is a possibility in the present or future.
Example: He may have the flu. Listen to that cough!
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VOCABULARY A. SENSES
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A. SENSES
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B. HUMAN’S ABILITIES
1. How multi-skilled are you?
How easy can you do these things? Rate your abilities using the numbers below.
below
Add up the numbers, and then look for interpretation of your score. Do you agree
with the results?
Can you …?
replace
l a camera battery
b tt heat
h t up milk
ilk in
i a microwave
i oven
Score Interpretation
40 – 52 Although you’re good at doing some things, maybe you could learn to do some
more things that you find difficult.
45 – 64 It’s important that you learn to do some things yourself. Until then, don’t live alone.
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C. CHARACTERISTICS
1. Character adjectives
The adjectives in the box below are all in the crossword
crossword. Read the clues and complete
the crossword with them.
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C. CHARACTERISTICS
1. Character adjectives
Across
1. They shouldn’t get married at eighteen. They are far too _______ to take such an important decision.
5. Clive is having another exhibition of his paintings. He’s also giving a concert next week. He is a very _______ person.
7. Tina is so _______. If I have a problem, she always listens and tries to help me.
8. At the office party, she stood in a corner and didn’t speak to anyone. She’s very quiet and _______.
9 We
9. We’re
re given her lots of good advice but she won
won’tt listen.
listen She
She’ss very _______.
11. Jackie is so _______. One minute she’s laughing and the next she’s sulking.
12. He’s a _______ man. He was arguing with Tom last night and he ended up pushing him against the wall and shaking him.
Down
2. My uncle cycles around town in a big red hat and long red boots. Everyone stares at him because he looks so _______.
3. She enjoys hot air ballooning and parachute jumping. She’s very _______.
4. He wasn’t nervous about starting his new job. In fact he was very _______ and felt sure that he would do it well and enjoy it.
6. Michael already owns three restaurants but he intends to own a chain of them by the time he’s thirty-five. He’s very _______.
7. Her parents are quite _______. She’s seventeen but she has to be home by ten o’clock, even at weekends.
10. He’s always asking me questions about my family and job. He’s very _______.
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C. CHARACTERISTICS
2. Positive characteristics
a. Work
W k in
i pairs.
i Check
Ch k these
th words
d in
i your dictionary
di ti if necessary.
b. Which of things above should the people in the box be? Why?
an actor
t a colleague
ll
a manager a teacher
a political leader a scientist
a songwriter a top sportsperson
a parent a grandparent
c. Match the roles in exercise b with following qualities.
• Be a good leader Be a good team player
• Have strong principles Have a good sense of humour
• Stay calm in a crisis Have a lot of self-confidence
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• Have a positive attitude
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D. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
1. Decide whether the following things are discoveries or inventions and
complete the chart below using the information in the box.
box
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Invention Discovery By who/when?
The telephone
Radium
Penicillin
Television
The Internet
DNA
The atom
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D. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
2. Write sentences using information above.
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E. VERBS AND NOUNS THAT GO TOGETHER
1. Around each verb, one noun does not go with it? Which one?
2. Work
2 W k with
ith your partner.
t Choose
Ch a noun from
f eachh group, and
d write
it a
sentence using the verb. Read your sentences to the class.
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PRONUNCIATON A. STRESS AND THE / ә / SOUND
You can use your dictionary to find the stress (strong syllable) in new words.
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B. WORD STRESS
1. Listen and write the words in the correct column according to the
word stress
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C. GAME – STRESS MAZE
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READING
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Fauja Singh, age 94, holds a world record, too. He ran a marathon in just 5 hours and 40
minutes. That makes him the fastest marathon runner ever in his age group.
Singh started running only 11 years ago after he moved from India to England to live with
his son. Since then he has run five marathons in London, one in Toronto, and one in New
York. Recently, he was part of the world’s oldest marathon team in Edinburgh.
Singh’s training schedule includes a daily 10-mile walk and run. “I run at least 10 or 12
miles on the weekend, and walk 10 miles every day,” he says. He also has a weekly training
session with his coach. In addition,, he doesn’t smoke or drink because he believes it is bad
for his health.
I seems that Singh gets faster as he gets older. When he was 89 years old, he completed
his first marathon in 6 hours and 54 minutes. The next year, he got the same time, which
set a world record for 90-year-olds. A year later, he ran even faster, taking 9 minutes off his
record time. The following year, he ran the London marathon in 6 hours and 2 minutes. His
best time came in the Toronto marathon,, where he set a new world record of 5 hours and
40 minutes at the age of 92. That’s quite a record for someone his age or any age.
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Reading 2: ALBERT EINSTEIN: THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS SCIENTIST
A Curious Child
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. As a child, he was very shy
and quiet. He did not talk at all until age three. According to one story,
young Albert suddenly spoke at the dinner table one night. He said, “The
soup is too hot.” His parents asked, “Why haven’t you ever said a word
until now?” Albert replied “ Because up to now everything was all right.”
Albert may have been quiet, but he was always thoughtful and very
curious. His limitless curiosity showed up in the questions he asked. For
example, at age five he asked, “Why does a compass needle always point
in the same direction?” When he was fourteen he asked, ‘What would the
world look like if I rode on a beam of light?” He never lost his curiosity.
As an adult he said, “The important thing is to not questioning.”
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Revolutionizing Science
In 1905, Einstein wrote four important papers. The ideas he wrote about
revolutionized the ways people thought about space and time. In 1915, he
published his theory of relativity. His famous equation, E = mc2, explains
the relationship between energy and time. It became one of the most
important laws of physics. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.
Life in the United States
Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1933 and became a United
States citizen in 1940. Einstein joined the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Princeton, New Jersey. He lived a quiet life. He enjoyed classical music and
played the violin. One day, after Einstein played with a group of musicians,
one of them said, “ He’d be a good musician if only he could count!” This
was a funny thing to say about Einstein, because his life’s work involved
very complicated math.
Einstein kept his sense of humor throughout his life. A magazine called
Scientific America once had a competition for the best short explanation of
the theory of relativity. Einstein said, “I’m the only one of my friends who
is not entering. I don’t believe I could do it.”
Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey. He had
changed the world. In 1999, Time magazine named him the “Person of the
Century.”
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LISTENING A. AN ADVENTURER
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B. SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE
1. Work in small groups. How many of the people in the photos do you
recognize? Why do you think people admire them?
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B. SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE
Nelson Mandela
Father
3. Listen again and note down why they admire each person.
Nelson Mandela
Father
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B. SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE
4. Listen again and fill the missing words in the blanks.
Speaker 1:
The person I admire most in the world is Nelson Mandela. He was the _________1 of South
Africa during the 1990s, but before that he spent more than _________2 years, I think, in prison.
He was put in prison because of his political beliefs. He wanted to get _________3 for black
people in South Africa, and the government put him in prison because of his political views … um
… he was a _________4 before he went to prison and he represented himself at his trial. Some
of the things he said during his trial were amazing. They’re still famous_________5, I think.
The reason that I admire him is that in spite of the fact that he spent such a long time in prison
he never changed his _________6. It would’ve been quite easy for him to perhaps stop
campaigning for the rights of black people, but he never did that. Right until the end of his time
in prison, he was still_________7. When I went to South Africa, I met somebody who was in
prison with him and it was amazing to hear about how they were. They found it so easy to
forgive the government and the people who’d put them in prison, they weren’t _________8 or
angry about it.
I think he’s really influenced the way people think about how they can make _________9, political
changes, by standing by what they believe in and stating their _________10 very clearly.
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B. SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE (Tiếp theo)
Speaker 2:
Okay, the person I admire is my father actually … and um … he was a _________11 for thirty-
three years and he was very successful in his job. And after thirty-three years of working quite
pp y, he was suddenlyy made _________12 . And at the age
happily, g of fifty-two
y it was actuallyy very,
y,
very difficult for him to get another job. So he started thinking about what he could do, and he
remembered that he’d actually been very good at um… teaching me _________13 when I was
younger, and I’d had a lot of problems with maths and he’d got me through my exams. So what
he did was he went back to university, and he _________14 as a maths teacher. And now I have
to say that whenever I go back to my town to visit my dad, I _________15 into a lot of people in
our road who he teaches and they say he’s one of the best teachers that they’ve ever had, so
that’s great!
The reason I admire him so much is because, you know faced with that kind of situation it would
be veryy easyy to be depressed
p and feel sorryy for yyourself, and myy dad showed jjust how strong
g he
was and how _________16 and creative he can be and that makes me very proud.
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SPEAKING TALK ABOUT SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE
You are going to give a short talk about a person you particularly admire (either
personal or a famous person).
person)
1. Decide quickly who you will talk about. You will need to know some
basic facts about the person’s life.
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2. Spend a few minutes making notes about what you want to say. Ask your
teacher for any words or phrases you need.
Useful Language
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WRITING
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From: ...................
To: .........................
Subject: ...........................
Dear.................,
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Best wishes,
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