LESSON 3: VOWELS and GRAMMAR

(Education and Employment)

Part 1: Pronunciation
1. Vowels /e/ - /æ/
/e/ a any many

e Check leg letter red sentence every ever best egg

Men seven
ea Bread head read (past tense)
ie Friend
ai Again said

1. Tell me again
2. Send me a cheque
3. Correct these sentences
4. Twenty to twelve
5. Help your friend

/æ/ a Back camera factory hat jam manager map

plan traffic trap hand man have

1. Thanks for the cash

2. I ran to the bank
3. Where’s my black jacket
4. That man works in a jam factory
5. Let me carry your bags

2. Vowels /ɪə/ & /eə/

/ɪə/ ea Real really

ear Ear beard clear hear nearly year fear

tear
 eer Beer cheers

ere Here we’re

1. We’re here
2. Have a beer – Cheers!
3. Is there a bank near here?
4. The meaning isn’t really clear
/eə/ are Care square rarely

air Air chair fair hair stair

ear Wear pear

ere where

aer Aeroplane

1. Look at that Aeroplane!

2. Up there, in the air.

Part 2: Speaking
1. Match photographs A-G with the areas of work and study in the box.
emergency services farming
science (research and development) entertainment
education travel and transport tourism

2. Look at the words in the box. Which words have a negative meaning?
tired great boring embarrassed thrilled
not very exciting challenging interesting fascinated
amazed
3. Read the words in exercise 2 again. Which words can you use to
describe your feelings? Whiich words can you use to describe the
experience of doing the things in the photographs? Put F for 'feelings' or E
for 'experience' next to each word.
Which ONE word can be used to describe both your feelings and the
experience?
tired F
boring E
embarrassed F
challenging E
fascinated F
great F, E
thrilled F
not very exciting E
interesting E amazed F

4. Complete the table. There is an example to help you.

I feel/ felt It is/was
amazed Amazing
Thrilling
Boring
Challenging
Fancinated
Not very excited
tiring
embarrassing
Interested
great
 I feel/ felt It is/was
amazed Amazing
Thrilled Thrilling
Bored Boring
Challenged Challenging
Fascinated Fascinating
Not very excited Not very exciting
Tired tiring
Embarrassed embarrassing
Interested Interesting
great Great

- Cách dùng tính từ đuôi -ing và -ed:

- Tính từ đuô i ing: dù ng để miêu tả về tính chấ t, đặ c trưng củ a ngườ i, sự vậ t,
hiện tượ ng. 
Ví dụ :
The film is very interesting. Lú c nà y, tính từ interesting dù ng để diễn tả tính
chấ t củ a bộ phim.
- Tính từ đuô i ed: dù ng để diễn tả cả m xú c hoặ c nhậ n xét củ a ngườ i hoặ c vậ t về
mộ t sự vậ t, hiện tượ ng hay sự việc nà o đó . 
Ví dụ : 
I’m interested in the film. Lú c nà y, tính từ interested diễn tả cả m xú c củ a chủ
ngữ đố i vớ i bộ phim.
1. Đối với tính từ đuôi ing
- Tính từ ở dạ ng V-ing đượ c sử dụ ng khi danh từ mà nó bổ nghĩa đó ng vai trò
thự c hiện hà nh độ ng hoặ c chịu trá ch nhiệm về hà nh độ ng đang đượ c nhắ c đến.
Độ ng từ trong câ u thườ ng khô ng đi kèm tâ n ngữ và đượ c dù ng ở thì tiếp diễn. 
- Diễn tả bả n chấ t hoặ c tính chấ t củ a sự việc, hiện tượ ng…
Ví dụ :
The movie is thrilling.
The meeting was boring. 
I find French interesting/ fascinating.

2. Đối với tính từ đuôi ed

Tính từ đuô i ed đượ c sử dụ ng khi danh từ mà nó bổ nghĩa là đố i tượ ng chịu sự
tá c độ ng củ a hà nh độ ng đang đượ c nhắ c đến. Tứ c là nó diễn tả : ai đó đang cả m
thấ y thế nà o về mộ t sự việc/ hiện tượ ng. 
Ví dụ :
Are you interested in buying a house?
Everyone was surprised that he passed the interview.

5. Choose the correct word in each sentence.

1 I've got a place on the course! I'm thrilled/ thrilling!
2 It's a very interested/ interesting job - I'm learning a lot.
3 I had to give a presentation in front of my colleagues. I felt really
embarrassing /embarrassed.
4 She gets boring / bored easily, so she's changed jobs twice.
5 He works long hours and late nights and weekends in order to pay for his
daughter's university course. It must be very tired/ tiring for him.
6 She's got an amazing/ amazed job. She's a journalist and she's interviewed
lots of famous people.
Key:
1 I've got a place on the course! I'm thrilled!
2 It's a very interesting job - I'm learning a lot.
3 I had to give a presentation in front of my colleagues. I felt really
embarrassed.
4 She gets bored easily, so she's changed jobs twice.
5 He works long hours and late nights and weekends in order to pay for his
daughter's university course. It must be very tiring for him.
6 She's got an amazing job. She's a journalist and she's interviewed lots of
famous people.

6.
1. Talk about a time when you learnt something new.
2. Talk about your ideal place to study.
3. Talk about the kind of jobs that people do in your home town.

INTRODUCING YOUR TALK

It is important that you introduce your talk. Here are some suggestions of ways
you can begin.
- I'm going to talk about a time when I learnt something new.
- I'd like to tell you about ...
- I want to talk about ...