Lesson 3: Story
1. Objectives
- Using a dictionary; (Sử dụng từ điển)
- Completing a listening practice; (Hoàn thành hoạt động nghe)
- Dictating many sentences (Chép chính tả các câu)
2. Vocabulary
There are 4 steps for students to review the vocabulary at home:
- Step 1: Look closely at the picture, click on the sign (+) and read the word.
- Step 2: Open it and listen to the word carefully
- Step 3: Read the English meaning and Vietnamese meaning (it is helpful for Flyers Reading Part 1 test)
- Step 4: After finishing all the words, read the words one more time
3. Grammar: Time
There are two common ways of telling the time.
1) Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes)
- 6:25 - It's six twenty-five
- 8:05 - It's eight O-five (the O is said like the letter O)
- 9:11 - It's nine eleven
- 2:34 - It's two thirty-four
2) Say the minutes first and then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour)
For minutes 1-30 we use PAST after the minutes.
For minutes 31-59 we use TO after the minutes.
- 2:35 - It's twenty-five to three
- 11:20 - It's twenty past eleven
- 4:18 - It's eighteen past four
- 8:51 - It's nine to nine
- 2:59 - It's one to three
When it is 15 minutes past the hour we normally say: (a) quarter past
- 7:15 - It's (a) quarter past seven
When it is 15 minutes before the hour we normally say: a quarter to
- 12:45 - It's (a) quarter to one
When it is 30 minutes past the hour we normally say: half past
- 3:30 - It's half past three (but we can also say three-thirty)