U3 Listening Culture

U3 Listening and Culture

By TRAN [e-mail]

Poll

How was you Tet Holiday?

Open Ended

What did you do on Tet Holiday?

Open Ended

What did you eat?

Open Ended

Where did you go?

Motivate 3

Past Tenses review

Order the words to make

sentences.​

e.g: She/apples/doesn't/like.

=> She doesn't like apples.​

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Listening: Shark Attack

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CULTURE:

FAMOUS WRITER AND BOOKS

The famous novel series about a young wizard named Harry Potter and his friends, Hermione and Ron.

Harry Potter

Author of Harry Potter. An English writer.

J. K. Rowling

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A Vietnamese author, famous for a lot of works.​

Nguyễn Nhật Ánh​

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The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a spider named Charlotte.

​Author: E.B White

Charlotte's Web

Author of Charlotte's Web

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E. B WHITE

One day, on a small farm in Maine, a man sat in a barn watching a large gray spider spin a web. The man was E.B. White. E.B.—or Andy, as he was called—thought spiders were spectacular creatures. He thought that one day he might like to write a children’s book about a spider.

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​Andy’s farm was located in

❍ Maine.

❍Westchester County.

❍ New York City. ❍ New Jersey.

But writing was hard work for Andy. He had written many articles and essays and poems. He had also written one children’s book, Stuart Little. But Andy could never just rush to turn an idea into an article or book. He told his editor that he needed to let his ideas “ripen.”

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When Andy said he wanted his ideas to “ripen” before he wrote a book, he meant

❍ I. he wanted them to slowly grow and improve.

❍ J. he wanted them to happen quickly.

❍ K. he wanted to write them down on fruit-scented paper.

❍ L. he wanted to discuss them with his wife

So for years, Andy continued to think about writing a children’s book about a spider. Once while he was cleaning his barn, he found a spider’s egg sac. Andy wanted to see the eggs hatch. But he was scheduled to leave for a trip to New York City. So he found a small box and carefully placed the egg sac inside. When he got to his hotel, he put the box on the dresser. One morning he woke up, and there were hundreds of baby spiders scurrying across the dresser!

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According to the story, Andy brought the spider’s eggs to New York City because

❍ M. he didn’t want spiders living in his farm.

❍ N. he was hungry.

❍ O. he didn’t like to travel alone.

❍ P. he wanted to watch the eggs hatch

One day, on a small farm in Maine, a man sat in a barn watching a large gray spider spin a web. The man was E.B. White. E.B.—or Andy, as he was called—thought spiders were spectacular creatures. He thought that one day he might like to write a children’s book about a spider.

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Which is not a detail from the first paragraph?

❍ Q. E.B. White sat in a barn.

❍ R. Andy watched a large spider spin a web. ❍ S. He wanted to write about a spider.

❍ T. Andy wrote Stuart Little.

Years later, Andy finally began writing Charlotte’s Web, the story of a spider named Charlotte and a pig named Wilbur. Andy created most of the book sitting by himself in the tiny boathouse of his farm.

Andy always said Charlotte’s Web was more than just a children’s story about animals. It was a timeless story about true friendship.​

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Andy wrote most of Charlotte’s Web in

❍ E. an office.

❍ F. the tiny boathouse in his farm.

❍ G. Spain.

❍ H. New York City.

Poll

The main idea of this article is

• E.B. White loved spiders.

• how E.B. White wrote Charlotte’s Web.

• E.B. White liked living on a farm.

• why E.B. White was called Andy.