This document provides tasks and activities for students to practice reading comprehension and conversation skills. It includes questions to ask about books being read currently or recently. Students are asked to work in pairs to complete conversations about reading habits and books, including questions about title, author, main character, plot, and opinions. They then report their conversation results to the class. For homework, students answer why they enjoy reading books.

1. Teacher: Hoang Thi Ha
Sunday, January 16th
2011

2. WARM-UP:

3. Look at the pictures and give the
kind of book by ordering the
letters on the tables. If you give
the answer correctly and the most
quickly, you will get 10 marks. The
time foreach picture is 10 seconds

4. Comic books

9. TASK 1,2 : Work in pairs. Complete the following
conversation and ask and answer other’s reading
habits.
A:- What ________________________________?
B:- Well, I like reading all sorts of books. Short
stories, science fiction, romance, everything.
A:- How _________________________?
B:- Well, I often read through the book quickly first.
Then I start reading it again, and this time very
slowly to enjoy every detail of it.
A:- When _________________________?
B:- I read books whenever I have a little free time. I
also read while waiting for the bus or during the
break at school.
sort (kind) of books do you like to read
do you often read books?
do you often read books?
Before you speak

10. TASK 3:
ACTIVITY 1: Work in pairs. Complete the following
conversation by using one of the suggested questions and
practise reading it.
1- What do you often do in your free time?
2- What are you doing now?
3- What are you reading at the moment ?
4- Do you like reading books?
5- What soft( kind) of books do you like reading ?
6- How do you often read?
7- When do you often read?
8 – Who is the main character?
9- Who wrote this book? ( Who is the author)
10- What is he/ she like?
11- What is the title of the book?
12- What does the story talk about?

11. A:- ________________________________?
B:- At the moment? Well, I‘m reading “The Chamber
of secrets”, one of Harry Potter books.
A:- _________________________?
B:- The main character? A young boy, Harry Potter,
whose parents are dead and who is trained to be a
wizard in a wizard school.
A:- _________________________?
B:- He is brave, witty and very kind to other people.
What are you reading at the moment
What is the main character
What is she/he like?
Conservation

12. Activity 2: Practise the conversation using the cues below
1- Name of the book “The legend of
Robinhood”
Main character: Robinhood
Other features: a legendary hero who
lived in Sherwood forest, he lived outside
the law, stealing from the rich to help the
poor
2- Name of the book “ The old man and the
Sea
The author: Ernest Hemingway
Main character: An old man Santiago
The plot of the story: talk about an old man
tried to against with a big fish (Cá kiếm -
Xiphias ) for 3 days, but finally he lost his
fish by the sharks
While Speaking

13. TASK 4:
Work in pairs.
Ask and answer
about the book you
are reading at the
moment or you have
already read
recently. Note down
the answers.

14. Post speaking
TASK 5:
Work individually.
Report the result to
the class.

15. Sugges t ed
ans wer:
At the moment, Nam is reading “Die
Another Day” – a detective story. The main
character is James Bond – 007. He is very
brave, talented, handsome, intelligent and
humorous. He struggled against terrorism
and saved the world from the war.

16. Homework
Answer the question:
Why do you read book?