Unit 9 grade 6: Cities Of The World – Skills 1
1. Reading
1.1. Task 1 Unit 9 grade 6
Look at the postcards. (Look at the postcard.)
Love from Sweden (Love from Sweden)
1. What is the picture on the postcard of? (What is the picture on the postcard?)
2. What do you think is written on this postcard? (What do you think is written on the postcard?)
3. What is the purpose of writing and sending postcards while you are on holiday?
(What’s the purpose of writing and sending postcards when you’re traveling?)
Guide to answer
1. The photo is of Stockholm city, Sweden. (Picture is from Stockholm, Sweden.)
2. The sender writes about his/ her stay in the city.
(Sender writes about his/her stay in this city.)
3. We send postcards to tell our family and/ or friends that we are having a good time, but we still miss them and want to send some photos of the place where we are so that they can see how beautiful it is.
We send postcards to tell family and or friends that we are having a good time, but we still miss them and would like to send some pictures of where we are so they can see see the beauty of those places.)
1.2. Task 2 Unit 9 grade 6
Read the postcard and answer the questions. (Read the postcard and answer the questions.)
Translated:
(1) September 6
(2) Dear Sir and Madam,
(3) Stockholm is great!
(4) The weather was perfect. Sunny weather! The hotel and the food were great. (5) We had “fika” in a cafe in the Old Quarter. The Royal Palace (as pictured) is so beautiful that it cannot be described! Swedish art and design is so cool. Phuc likes it!
(6) Mom and Dad rented bicycles. Tomorrow we will cycle around to explore the city.
(7) Wish you were here!
(8) Dearest,
Happy Mai
1. What city is Mai in? (Which city is Mai in?)
2. Who is with her? (Who went with her?)
3. What has the weather been like? (How’s the weather?)
4. Where is Mai staying? (Where is Mai?)
5. What has she done so far? (What has she done so far?)
6. What do you think ‘fika’ means? (What do you think “fika” means?)
7. What will she do tomorrow? (What will she do tomorrow?)
8. How is Mai feeling? How do you know? (How does Mai feel? How do you know that?)
Guide to answer
1. Mai is in Stockholm City. (Mai is in the city of Stockholm.)
2. She is there with her family (Mum, Dad, and her brother Phuc).
(She goes with her family (Mother, father, and younger brother Phuc).)
3. The weather has been perfect. It’s sunny. (The weather was perfect. It was sunny.)
4. She’s staying in the hotel. (She is at the hotel.)
5. She has visited the Royal Palace and ‘fika’ in a café in the Old Town.
(She visited the Royal Palace and chatted in a cafe in the Old Town.)
6. ‘Fika’ (a Swedish word) means a leisure break when one drinks tea/ coffee and perhaps has some biscuits with friends and family.
(‘Fika’ (Swedish word) means leisure in free time with a cup of tea/coffee and perhaps some cookies with friends and family.)
7. She will cycle to discover the city. (She will cycle to explore the city.)
8. She is feeling happy. She used the words such as “fantastic”, “perfect”, “amzing”, “too beautiful” for words.
(She feels happy. She uses words like “wonderful”, “perfect”, “amazing”, “so beautiful”. )
1.3. Task 3 Unit 9 grade 6
Read the text again and match the headings with the numbers. (Read the passage again and match the headings with the numbers 🙂
Guide to answer
(1) – i (Day)
(2 C (Preamble)
(3) – h (A general feeling about the place.)
(4) – b (Weather/hotel food.)
(5) – d (What you did or saw)
(6) – g (What do you do next.)
(7) – f (A very common sentence used near the end.)
(8) – e (End of letter.)
(9) – a (The address of the recipient of the postcard.)
2. Speaking
2.1. Task 4 Unit 9 grade 6
Choose a city. Imagine you have just arrived in that city and want to tell your friends about it. Make notes below. (Choose a city. Imagine you have just arrived in that city and want to tell your friends about it. Refer to the note below.)
- When did you arrive?
- Who are you with?
- Where are you staying?
- What have you done?
- What are you doing tomorrow?
- How are you feeling?
Translated:
- When did you come?
- Who do you live with?
- Where are you?
- What did you do?
- What will you do tomorrow?
- How do you feel?
Guide to answer
- I arrived in Tokyo 2 hours ago. (I arrived in Tokyo 2 days ago.)
- I went there with Mai, my best friend. (I went with Mai, my best friend.)
- I am staying in a small hotel in the center of the city. (I’m staying at a small hotel in the city center.)
- I have visited some famous temples here and tried the matcha. (I visited a few famous temples and tried matcha.)
- Tomorrow I am going to my friend’s house in Kyoto. (Tomorrow I will go to my friend’s house in Kyoto.)
- I feel excited to discover the city. (I’m so excited to explore the city.
2.2. Task 5 Unit 9 grade 6
In pairs, use your notes to tell your partner about your city. Then, listen and write down notes about your partner’s city in the space below. (Working in pairs, use her notes to tell you about her city. Then listen and make notes about her friend’s city in the space below.)
3. Practice Task 1
Read the passage below and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE?
This is a picture of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The country is located in Asia continent. Why is Seoul famous? It is the historical center of the country. Seoul has many temples and four major palaces. And Gyeongbokgung is one of the most famous one. Seoul is also a modern city with the population of more than 10 million people. Seoul has big markets for visitors to shop in. Restaurants offer traditional Korean dishes such as kimchi, rice and noodle. It’s a lot of fun to visit Seoul.
Question 1: Seoul is the capital of North Korea.
Question 2: South Korea is located in Asia continent.
Question 3: Seoul don’t have any temples.
Question 4: Seoul has the population of over 10 million.
Question 5: Visiting Seoul, you can eat kimchi.
4. Practice Task 2
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Sydney _________ (6) one of the world’s greatest cities. It is the cultural and financial heart of Australia. It is ___________ (7) for Sydney Opera House. It is located on Bennelong Point ___________ (8) Sydney Harbor. The opera house was completed in 1973 after 16 years of construction. A Danish architect named Jørn Utzon ____________ (9) the landmark. It was a very __________ (10) to create the building. The top of the opera house looks like sails from a boat or large shells.
Question 6: A. am B. is C. are D. be
Question 7: A. well-known B. good-known C. well-known D. good-know
Question 8: A. on B. at C. in D. of
Question 9: A. design B. designing C. designed D. designs
Question 10: A. expensive B. wonderful C. talkative D. intelligent
5. Conclusion
At the end of the lesson, the children need to practice reading a postcard about Mai’s outing and do related exercises, practice talking about a city they just visited and memorizing the vocabulary in the lesson. :
- postcard (n): postcard
- on holiday: on vacation
- rent (v): rent
- cycle (v): ride a bicycle
- discover (v): discover
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