UNIT 7

/s/ - /ʃ/ - /tʃ/

A. WORDS

/s/

1. six 6. grass
2. sexy 7. office
3. sister 8. police
4. sorry 9. mess
5. dancer 10. seashell

six sexy sister sorry dancer

/sɪks/ /ˈseksi/ /ˈsɪstər/ /ˈsɑːri/ /ˈdænsər/

grass office police mess seashell

/ɡræs/ /ˈɑːfɪs/ /pəˈliːs/ /mes/ /ˈsiːʃel/

/ʃ/

1. wash 6. shirt
2. delicious 7. fashion
3. dish 8. wish
4. passion 9. push
5. English 10. crush

wash delicious dish passion English

/wɑːʃ/ /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ /dɪʃ/ /ˈpæʃn/ /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

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 shirt fashion wish push crush
/ʃɜːrt/ /ˈfæʃn/ /wɪʃ/ /pʊʃ/ /krʌʃ/

/tʃ/

1. child 6. chair
2. cheek 7. kitchen
3. check 8. lunch
4. cheap 9. question
5. champion 10. church

child cheek check cheap champion

/tʃaɪld/ /tʃiːk/ /tʃek/ /tʃiːp/ /ˈtʃæmpiən/

chair kitchen lunch question church

/tʃer/ /ˈkɪtʃɪn/ /lʌntʃ/ /ˈkwestʃən/ /tʃɜːrtʃ/

B. SENTENCES
1. The son sitting on the chair is my sister’s son.
/ðə sʌn ˈsɪtɪŋ ɑːn ðə ʧer ɪz maɪ ˈsɪstərz sʌn/
2. I want to be a dancer in the future.
/aɪ wɑːnt tu biː ə ˈdænsər ɪn ðə ˈfjuːʧər/
3. The office looks like a mess.
/ðiː ˈɑːfɪs lʊks laɪk ə mes/
4. The children were in the kitchen.
/ðə ˈʧɪldrən wɜːr ɪn ðə ˈkɪʧən/

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 5. She likes her teacher very much.
/ʃiː laɪks hɜːr ˈtiːʧər ˈveri mʌʧ/
6. After I go shopping, I will chop the onions.
/ˈæftər aɪ goʊ ˈʃɑːpɪŋ, aɪ wɪl ʧɑːp ðiː ˈʌnjənz/
7. We had fish and chips for lunch today.
/wiː həd fɪʃ ænd ʧɪps fɔːr lʌnʧ təˈdeɪ/
8. Put the cherries on a dish.
/pʊt ðə ˈʧeriːz ɑːn ə dɪʃ/

* TONGUE TWISTERS:
She sells seashells by the seashore.
/ʃiː selz ˈsiːʃelz baɪ ðə ˈsiːʃɔːr/
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
/ðə ʃelz ʃiː selz ɑːr ˈʃʊəlɪ ˈsiːʃelz/
So if she sells shells on the seashore.
/səʊ ɪf ʃiː selz ʃelz ɑːn ðə ˈsiːʃɔːr/
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
/aɪm ʃʊə ʃiː selz ˈsiːˈʃɔːr ʃelz/

C. SPEAKING
1. Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks.
Mitch: Hey Josh. You know what? You are not going to (1) ________who
believe I met
today!
Josh: Hi Mitch. Who? Who did you meet?
Mitch: I met my (2) ________! Do you remember Sherry? Boy, did I have a crush
ex-girlfriend
on her?
Josh: Yeah, I remember Sherry! She was very (3) ________.
special And I think she had
a passion for (4) ________,
dacing didn’t she?
Mitch: Yeah, that’s right. Well, she’s not dancing anymore. Now she has
(5) ________
six children.
Josh: Six kids! How did that happen?
Mitch: Well, she got married to a super nice (6) ________
baseballplayer named Casey,
and they both wanted to start a family.
Josh: Wow. Talk about a super-size family! Can you imagine the scene in the
(7) ________,
kitchen when everyone is eating lunch? Sherry must have to do a
lot of food (8) ________
shopping and she probably spends a lot of time in the kitchen.
I sure hope she likes being a Mom!
kids
Mitch: Oh, I know Sherry loves it. She loves her (9) ________, she loves being
a Mom. I sure hope someday in the future, she will go back to her first love,
(10) ________ I know is dancing.
which
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2. Practice speaking
Work in pairs. Ask and answer all questions below.

What’s the weather like today?

Hot Windy Cold

Rainy Snowy Sunny

1. What is the weather like today?

2. What kind of weather do you like?
3. Which season do you like most?
4. How is the weather in the winter/summer/autumn/spring?
5. What do you like to do when it’s rainy?
6. What don’t you like to do when it’s sunny?
7. How many seasons are there in Vietnam?
8. When does the summer start?
9. Which city in your country has the best weather?
10. Which one do you like better: very hot weather or very cold weather?

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