A conversation to begin
A: Your welcome card is beautifully organised.
B: Thank you. I wanted the directions to be easy to follow.
A: The large labels really help.
B: I’m glad they are useful.
A: Your welcome card is beautifully organised.
B: Thank you. I wanted the directions to be easy to follow.
A: The large labels really help.
B: I’m glad they are useful.
A gerund is an -ing form used as a noun. As subject: Learning another language takes time (singular verb). As object: We enjoy meeting visitors. After a preposition: She is interested in joining. Avoid a bare verb where a gerund is required. A gerund can take an object: Organising a welcome event needs teamwork.
Topic preview: A youth-programme participant needs clear communication, reliability and curiosity. For example, a host should explain a route and check understanding rather than talk quickly. I would practise giving directions to the library, then ask a partner to explain the route back to me. That checks whether my explanation actually works. Experience working in a group is useful, but willingness to learn matters too. When a visitor gives an unfamiliar answer, I should ask respectfully rather than assume that the person represents a whole country. In my opinion, respectful listening should be valued as highly as confident speaking. I can prepare by finishing my assigned task on time and learning how to ask for clarification. What other skill would help a quieter participant contribute? We should make room for written ideas as well as spoken discussion.
Follow-up: Must every host be an experienced public speaker?
Response: No. Reliability, preparation and attentive listening are useful skills that a participant can develop.
ASEAN
Hiệp hội các quốc gia Đông Nam Á
exchange
giao lưu
cultural
văn hoá
participant
người tham gia
proposal
đề xuất
cooperate
hợp tác
Follow the opening exchange, identify speaker intentions and connect the unit topic with useful language.
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Match each topic expression with its meaning in this unit.
Chạm một ý bên trái rồi chạm ý tương ứng bên phải để ghép cặp.
___ new people helps me understand different views.
We enjoy ___ visitors around.
She is interested in ___ the exchange.
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Conversation for the following model-analysis tasks
A: Your welcome card is beautifully organised.
B: Thank you. I wanted the directions to be easy to follow.
A: The large labels really help.
B: I’m glad they are useful.
State the purpose and audience of this short everyday conversation on “ASEAN and Viet Nam”. Support your answer with one detail.
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Explain how the opening introduces the topic. Identify the actual opening sentence.
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Select two useful details from the model and explain why including them is better than saying only that the topic is important.
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Write a three-sentence summary using only information in the model. Keep any condition or limit that is essential to its meaning.
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Có thể chụp nhiều trang. Ảnh được lưu cùng bài làm và giáo viên sẽ chấm trên ảnh.