My OperaNội dung học ngày 14.07.2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:52:01 AM
1. LISTENING
As long as you love me
2. READING
Passage 1:
HOW DO YOU STUDY
A number of students have submitted questions asking how you actually study for a test. Do you just read through your lecture notes? The answer is definitely that you have to do more than just read if you want to remember and be able to apply the information. Firstly you should make some point form notes on what you read in your textbook and notes. This will get you to think about what you are reading. Once you have condensed the information you need to learn into a set of study notes, you then need to start memorizing this information by testing yourself on it. Read a section, then see what you can say out loud or write down without looking. You will need to do this over and over until you find you can easily remember the information. But that is not enough either! You also have to see how well you have understood what you have learnt and whether you can apply the information. This means doing as many questions as you can and checking your answers – going back and doing questions out of your textbook or from revision sheets, doing practise essays, whatever types of questions you will have to do in the test. And of course, you then ask for help on anything you can’t do or don’t understand
Passage 2:
USING TUTORIAL TIME
What are the advantages of using tutorial time efficiently? Well, you will complete more work in tutorials and so have more free time at home, your tutor will be pleased with your application, and of course, you will learn more! And if you don’t use tutorial time efficiently? Well you will have to do more work at home and you will find you don’t always understand the work. The benefits of working in tutorials are clearly obvious! So what does working effectively in a tutorial mean? It means listening, contributing, staying on task, and working to the best of your ability. It means learning to focus and concentrate and developing the discipline to do work even if it is not your most favorite subject!
Passage 3:
MANAGING WORKLOAD
There are some simple steps students can take to improve the way they manage their workload and avoid the stresses of last minute work. At the start of every term all students should ensure they have a term planner on the wall at home with due dates for tests and assignments clearly marked. Due dates should be written into a diary as well and highlighted. But writing due dates into the diary is only the first step. After receiving details about a task, students should ensure they understand the requirements of the task (and ask if unsure) then brainstorm the steps to complete this task. These steps then need to be scheduled into the diary, written in so there is a plan to complete the work over the available time. This plan is just a guide of course; students can complete the work earlier! But by scheduling the steps to be done, students are much less likely to leave the task to the last minute and can reschedule steps if they have other commitments that night.
3. SPEAKING
FAMILY
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the American family was falling apart – in other words, they though it was dying. A century later, we know that this was not the case. However, although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape are very different from 100 years ago.
In the late 1860s and early 1900s, there were mainly two types of families in the United States the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includes grandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear family consists of only parents and children. As people began to move to other parts of the country to find better jobs, the nuclear family became the most common family structure.
Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in “traditional” families, that is, a stay – home mother, a working father, and their own biological children. Others live in two – paycheck families (where both parents work outside the home), single – parent families (a mother or father living with the children), adoptive or foster families (where adults take care of children that are not biologically theirs), blended families (where men and women who were married before marry again and combine the children from previous marriages into new families), childless families, and so on.
Questions for discussion
1. Can you tell me about your family?
2. What is your position in your family?
3. Are you living with your family or on your own?
4. Which kind of family do you prefer, the extended and the nuclear? Why?
5. How often do you have meals with your family?
6. Do you spend a lot of time with your family?
7. How often do you talk with your father/ mother/brother/sister?
8. What are some family problems you know?
9. Do you prefer traditional families or two – pay check ones? Why?
10. What are your opinions of a happy family?
11. What should a person do to have a happy family?
12. Which would you choose? Why?
a. A high – paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family
b. A lower – paying with shorter hours that would give you more time with family
13. What do you think about these proverbs?
a. God never sends mouth but he sends meat
b. Family affairs should be kept private
As long as you love me
2. READING
Passage 1:
HOW DO YOU STUDY
A number of students have submitted questions asking how you actually study for a test. Do you just read through your lecture notes? The answer is definitely that you have to do more than just read if you want to remember and be able to apply the information. Firstly you should make some point form notes on what you read in your textbook and notes. This will get you to think about what you are reading. Once you have condensed the information you need to learn into a set of study notes, you then need to start memorizing this information by testing yourself on it. Read a section, then see what you can say out loud or write down without looking. You will need to do this over and over until you find you can easily remember the information. But that is not enough either! You also have to see how well you have understood what you have learnt and whether you can apply the information. This means doing as many questions as you can and checking your answers – going back and doing questions out of your textbook or from revision sheets, doing practise essays, whatever types of questions you will have to do in the test. And of course, you then ask for help on anything you can’t do or don’t understand
Passage 2:
USING TUTORIAL TIME
What are the advantages of using tutorial time efficiently? Well, you will complete more work in tutorials and so have more free time at home, your tutor will be pleased with your application, and of course, you will learn more! And if you don’t use tutorial time efficiently? Well you will have to do more work at home and you will find you don’t always understand the work. The benefits of working in tutorials are clearly obvious! So what does working effectively in a tutorial mean? It means listening, contributing, staying on task, and working to the best of your ability. It means learning to focus and concentrate and developing the discipline to do work even if it is not your most favorite subject!
Passage 3:
MANAGING WORKLOAD
There are some simple steps students can take to improve the way they manage their workload and avoid the stresses of last minute work. At the start of every term all students should ensure they have a term planner on the wall at home with due dates for tests and assignments clearly marked. Due dates should be written into a diary as well and highlighted. But writing due dates into the diary is only the first step. After receiving details about a task, students should ensure they understand the requirements of the task (and ask if unsure) then brainstorm the steps to complete this task. These steps then need to be scheduled into the diary, written in so there is a plan to complete the work over the available time. This plan is just a guide of course; students can complete the work earlier! But by scheduling the steps to be done, students are much less likely to leave the task to the last minute and can reschedule steps if they have other commitments that night.
3. SPEAKING
FAMILY
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the American family was falling apart – in other words, they though it was dying. A century later, we know that this was not the case. However, although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape are very different from 100 years ago.
In the late 1860s and early 1900s, there were mainly two types of families in the United States the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includes grandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear family consists of only parents and children. As people began to move to other parts of the country to find better jobs, the nuclear family became the most common family structure.
Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in “traditional” families, that is, a stay – home mother, a working father, and their own biological children. Others live in two – paycheck families (where both parents work outside the home), single – parent families (a mother or father living with the children), adoptive or foster families (where adults take care of children that are not biologically theirs), blended families (where men and women who were married before marry again and combine the children from previous marriages into new families), childless families, and so on.
Questions for discussion
1. Can you tell me about your family?
2. What is your position in your family?
3. Are you living with your family or on your own?
4. Which kind of family do you prefer, the extended and the nuclear? Why?
5. How often do you have meals with your family?
6. Do you spend a lot of time with your family?
7. How often do you talk with your father/ mother/brother/sister?
8. What are some family problems you know?
9. Do you prefer traditional families or two – pay check ones? Why?
10. What are your opinions of a happy family?
11. What should a person do to have a happy family?
12. Which would you choose? Why?
a. A high – paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family
b. A lower – paying with shorter hours that would give you more time with family
13. What do you think about these proverbs?
a. God never sends mouth but he sends meat
b. Family affairs should be kept private
