UNIT 8: My day

Topic 5 Calendar and time (lịch và thời gian)

Topic 6 School (trường học)

Topic 7 Daily routine (thói quan hàng ngày)

I.  Calendar

1.  Ask a partner for the date. (hỏi một người bạn về ngày)

• Example:
• Hanna: What date is today? (hôm nay là ngày bao nhiêu)
• Harry: Today is Thursday, 20th, January, 2011.
• Watch out!

   Pronounce it like this (phát âm như sau): The twentieth of January 2011.

2.  Ask 5 people for their birthday. (hỏi 5 người bạn sinh nhật của họ)

Cindy: When is your birthday? (sinh nhật bạn là khi nào)

Thomas: My birthday is on 21nd August. (sinh nhật mình vào 21 tháng 8)

Cindy: When were you born? (bạn sinh năm nào)

Thomas: I was born in 1997.  (mình sinh năm 1997)

1. On which days of the week do you have maths in school?

  (ngày nào trong tuần bạn có  toán ở  trường)

• When do you have English?
• When do you have history?
• On which day do you have no school?

4.  Quiz

1. When is the Vietnamese Women’s Day (Ngày Phụ nữ Việt Nam)?
2. When is the celebration of the National Day (Ngày Quốc khánh) in Vietnam?
3. On which day is the Teacher’s Day this year?
4. When is Ho Chi Minh’s birthday?
5. When is Christmas?

II. Time (giờ)

1. Past (hơn)
2. Examples:
3. Twenty past nine / Nine twenty: 9 giờ 20 phút
4. Half past nine / Nine thirty: 9 giờ 30
5. Quarter past nine / Nine fifteen: 9 giờ 15

2.  To (kém)

• Examples:
• Ten to nine: 9 giờ kém 10 hoặc eight fifty: 8 giờ 50
• Quarter to nine (9 giờ kém 15) hoặc eight forty five (8 giờ 45)
• Watch out!
• morning (buổi sáng): Nine am (9 giờ sáng);
• afternoon and evening (buổi chiều hoặc tối): Nine pm (9 giờ tối)

3. Exercise:Practice with a partner. (thực hành với một người bạn)

Example:

Rose: What time is it?

Mary: It’s 25 past 7 am.

Rose: Oh no I’m late for school.

III.School

1.  Read and practise the dialogue with a partner.

a) Favourites

Mary: What subjects do you like? (môn học nào bạn thích?)

Rose: I like literature, art and English. (mình thích môn văn, vẽ và tiếng Anh)

Mary: What’s your favourite subject? (và môn học bạn thích là gì?)

Rose: My favourite subject in school is music. I love music. It is very interesting and our teacher is funny. But I hate maths. (môn học mình yêu thích ở trường là âm nhạc. Mình thích âm nhạc. Nó thật là thú vị và giáo viên của mình rất hài hước. Nhưng mình ghét toán)

Mary: Me too.

b) Exercise:

Ask your partner what subject he/she likes, what his/her favourite subject is and what subject he/she does not like.

1.  Read the dialogue.

a) Timetable (thời gian biểu)

Susan: I don’t have my timetable here. What subjects do we have today?

Megan: Today is Tuesday. On Tuesday we have maths, geography, history and English.

Susan: Oh, when do we have literature? I have my literature homework here.

Megan: On Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Susan: At what time do we have geography lesson?

Megan: We have geography at 9.30. Now it’s 9.20. We are too early.

b) Exercise:

Write down your timetable: On Monday at 7.15 am I have … At … am I have …

IV. My day

1. Read the text.

Tom’s routine (thời gian biểu của Tom)

Every morning, I wake up at 6 o’clock and get up at 6:15. After this, I get dressed and brush my teeth. At 6.30 I wash my face and comb my hair. Then I have breakfast at 6:45.

Today is Monday, so I take a bus and go to my school. In the bus, I meet my friends and read a newspaper or study English. My classes start at 7:15. At 8:00 I have a break. I finish class at 11 o’clock. I go home at 11:30, change my clothes and have lunch with my family. I wash the dishes and I take a nap at 12:15.

In the afternoon, I get up at 2 o’clock. I listen to music and do housework in the afternoon. At 6 o’clock, I help my mother to cook dinner and we eat dinner at 7 o’clock.

In the evening I take a shower and do my homework from 7:30 to 9 o’clock. Then I watch TV, play games or use the computer. I go to bed at 10 o’clock.

 2.   Answer the questions.

1. At what time does Tom get up?
2. At what time does Tom have breakfast?
3. What does he do in the bus?
4. At what time does Tom have classes?
5. At what time does he have a break?
6. At what time does he go home?
7. At what time does he eat dinner?
8. At what time does he do his homework?
9. At what time does he go to bed?

3.  Answer the questions.

1. What does he do at 6 am?
2. What does he do at 6.30?
3. What does he do at 12 o’clock?
4. What does he do at 2 o’clock?
5. What does he do at 6 pm?

4.  Answer the questions about yourself.

1. At what time do you get up?
2. At what time do you have breakfast?
3. At what time do you have classes?
4. At what time do you eat lunch?
5. At what time do you have dinner?
6. At what time do you do your homework?
7. At what time do you go to bed?