UNIT 1

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF...

LISTENING
TEACHER :HỒ THỊ ÁNH LOAN
1
 Game: JUMBLED WORDS.

CCLOY  CYCLO
VRIRED  DRIVER
TALSL OFOD  FOOD STALL
NSSEGERPA  PASSENGER
PRE-LISTENING
 N E W
CYCLO
WORDS
PASSENGER DROP
COLLEGE PEDAL
PURCHASE DO SHOPPING
RIDE OFF PARK
FELLOW FOOD STALL
PASSENGER (n) /ˈpæsɪndʒə(r)/
a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train,
plane or ship and who is not driving it or working
on it
COLLEGE (n) /ˈkɒlɪdʒ/
a place where students go to study or to receive
training after they have left school
PURCHASE (v.) /ˈpɜːtʃəs/
to buy something
DROP (v.) /drɒp/
to stop so that somebody can get out of a car, etc.;
to deliver or leave something in a particular place,
especially on the way to somewhere else
PEDAL (v.)/ˈpedl/
to ride a bicycle somewhere

PEDAL (n.)
 PARK (v.) /pɑːk/
to leave a vehicle that you are driving in a particular
place for a period of time
FOOD STALL /fuːd stɔːl/
 a table or small shop with an open front that people
sell food from, especially at a market
HAVE/TAKE/GET A REST
to have a period of relaxing, sleeping or doing
nothing after a period of activity
FELLOW (n) /ˈfeləʊ/
[usually plural] a person that you work with or that
is like you; a thing that is similar to the one
mentioned
SHOPPING (n)
the activity of going to shops and buying things or
ordering them online
- to do the shopping - to go shopping
 3 5 4
Listen
and
number
the
pictures
in the 6 1 2
correct
order
Task 2 : Listen again and decide whether the
statements are True or False T F
1. Mr. Lam lives in District 1. NM

2. Mr. Lam usually gets up early .

3. After Mr. Lam gets up, he rides his cyclo NM
from District 5 to District 1.
4. Mr. Lam’s first passengers are two pupils.
5. Mr. Lam has lunch at home with his family.
6. After lunch Mr. Lam immediately goes
back to work.
LISTEN AND FILL IN THE
BLANK WITH THE MISSING
WORD
 1) Hello everyone, my name is Lam.
 driver in Ho Chi
2) I’m a cyclo ________
Minh
 working
3) I usually have a busy _______
day.
 five thirty in the
4) I get up at ___________
morning.
 six
5) I start work at ___.
 passenger is usually
6) My first ___________
an old man.
 take him from District 5 to
7) I _____
District 1.
 8) After I drop him at a café near
Ho Chi Minh Teacher’s Training
________.
college
 pedal to Thai Binh Market.
9) I ______
 10) My next passenger is a lady who
does her shopping
_______ there every two
days.
 purchases
11) I help her put all her _________
into the cyclo and then take her to
her shop in Tran Hung Dao Street.
 12) At about ten thirty I ________
ride off
toward Nguyen Thi Minh Khai School.
 13) There I park my cyclo, chat with
some of my fellow
_____ and wait for my
_____ passengers.
third
 14) They are two _____
school pupils, a girl
and a boy.
 15) I take them home.
 16) At twelve I have lunch at a ________
food stall
near Ben Thanh Market.
 17) After lunch, I park my cyclo under
rest and then
the tree, take a short _____
continue my afternoon’s work.
 Work in groups

Retell
Mr. Lam’s story
to the class
 DISCUSSION

Which do you prefer,

Have
When
Is it interesting
you
wasever
it? travelled
to
going by bicycle or bytravel
by cyclo?
cyclo? Give reason(s)?