TIẾNG ANH 11 CHỦ ĐỀ THE POST OFFICE - LESSON 3 - Ask students to work in pair and answer the following questions. 1. Is your family on the phone? 2. Does any member of your family have a cellphone? What make is it? 3. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of cellphone? _ Introduce some new words : commune communal growth digit subscriber/ rural network/ capacity TASK 1: -Talk about the content of the passage students are going to listen: You will hear some information about the development of Vietnam’s telephone system over the past few years. - Ask students to listen to the tape twice and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D). - Ask students to work in pairs and discuss their answers. - Play the tape again and give feedback. TASK 2: - Ask students to listen again and answer the questions. - Play the tape twice. - Ask students to listen and check their own answers, then compare with each other. - Correct mistakes. -- Ask representative of each group to talk in front of the class. - Give remarks and correct mistakes. Ask them to summarise the main ideas of the listening passage, using their own words. Discuss. Give oral answers. Listen and repeat the new words. Read silently. Answer key: 1. B 2. D 3.C 4. D 5. C - Listen and do as instructions. Answer key: 1. China has the highest growth in the number of telephone subscribers. 2. In the early 1990s, there were only 140,000 telephones in Vietnam. 3. In 1996, the fixed telephone numbers were changed from six to seven digits in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as well as five to six digits in other provinces. 4. In 2001. 5. There are 6,014 communal post offices in Vietnam. Work in group.