34/ Lesson plan for IELTS 11 (SESSION 34 : Date: 4 th

Marc h . 2022)
I/listening practice : An introduction to a lecture
Preparation I/Match the words with the definitions.
to lose track of perception a state concentration absorbed a psychologist
để mất dấu vết của tri giác, trạng thái sự tập trung tập trung vào một nhà tâm lý học
1-so interested in something that you do not notice anything else
1-quá quan tâm đến điều gì đó mà bạn không nhận thấy bất kỳ điều gì khác
2-the way you understand or think about somethingcách bạn hiểu hoặc nghĩ về điều gì đó
3-to forget about quên về
4-the process of giving all of your attention to something quá trình dành toàn bộ sự chú ý của bạn cho một thứ gì đó
5-someone who studies the human mind người nghiên cứu tâm trí con người
6-the physical or mental condition of a person at a specific time
6-tình trạng thể chất hoặc tinh thần của một người tại một thời điểm cụ thể
II/Are the sentences true or false?
1. Positive psychology focuses on people's problems.
Tâm lý tích cực tập trung vào các vấn đề của con người
2. The teacher asks the students to define a happy life.
Giáo viên yêu cầu học sinh xác định một cuộc sống hạnh phúc
3-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes that external events are the main things that make us happy or sad.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi tin rằng những sự kiện bên ngoài là điều chính khiến chúng ta vui hay buồn.
4-Csikszentmihalyi believes that a happy life means being very focused on what you do.
Csikszentmihalyi tin rằng một cuộc sống hạnh phúc có nghĩa là rất tập trung vào những gì bạn làm
5. Csikszentmihalyi studied depression, and from there learned about happiness.
Csikszentmihalyi đã nghiên cứu về chứng trầm cảm, và từ đó học về hạnh phúc
6. Flow means being completely absorbed in what you are doing.
Dòng chảy có nghĩa là hoàn toàn bị cuốn hút vào những gì bạn đang làm
7. Csikszentmihalyi was influenced by watching creative people.
Csikszentmihalyi bị ảnh hưởng bởi việc quan sát những người sáng tạo
8. The rest of the lecture will look at what other psychologists think of this theory.
Phần còn lại của bài giảng sẽ xem xét những gì các nhà tâm lý học khác nghĩ về lý thuyết này.

III/Fill in the blanks

a)inspiration (cảm hứng) b) concentration(sự tập trung) c)absorbed (chuyên tâm) d) explore(thám hiểm)
e)achieve đạt được f)external bên ngoài g) moments) thời điểm h)actively tích cực
i)associate liên kết j/positive tích cực g)compare so sánh h) theory of flowlý thuyết về dòng chảy

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the first lecture of our new course in Positive Psychology. While some people may
___ psychology with looking at what's wrong with us, and at what problems we have, there is much more to psychology than
that. ___ psychology, for example, looks at how to help people become happier.
This lecture begins with a question: what makes a happy life?
Now, I'm going to give you one possible answer. A happy life is a life in which you are completely __ in what you do. Now,
how does this __ with what you and your partner said?
This answer comes from the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the _. Csikszentmihalyi is a psychologist who has spent
much of his professional life on the study of what makes people happy and how we can find happiness.
Csikszentmihalyi suggests the theory that happiness is not caused by ___ events or things that happen to us. Our perception
of these things and how we see these events either makes us happy or sad. In other words, if we want happiness, we have
to ___ look for it. However, this does not mean that we should always look for happiness! Csikszentmihalyi believed that our
happiest __ happen when we are in a state of flow.
The theory of flow can be summarised like this: when we are totally involved in, or focused on, what we are doing, we are in
a state of flow.
Csikszentmihalyi got the __ for this theory when he noticed how artists worked in a studio. They completely lost track of
time, they didn't notice they were hungry or tired, and they could work for hours, even days, without stopping. Anyone I
have spoken to who has experienced this state of __ has said it's difficult to explain. The best way to explain it is that it is
like being in a river and the flow of the water carries you away.
For the rest of this lecture, I will ___ this theory of flow in more detail. First we will look at Csikszentmihalyi's life, and how it
influenced his ideas. Then we will look at the conditions that go with a state of flow. What creates flow, exactly? Finally, we
will look at activities that can help us __ flow in our everyday lives. Will this course make you happy for life?

II/ Speaking prac tice

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3- Rob : Would you like some more brandy , Barbara ?
Rob: Bạn có muốn thêm một ít rượu mạnh không, Barbara?
Barbara : Oh, no thanks . No more for me . I’m driving tonight
Barbara: Ồ, không, cảm ơn. Tôi Khong uống thêm nữa. Tôi sẽ lái xe tối nay
Rob : Oh come on … Just a small one
Rob: Ồ thôi nào… Chỉ là một cái nhỏ thôi
Barbara : No really .. I mustn’t . I’ll Anna with the washing up
Barbara: Không thực mà .. Tôi không được. Tôi sẽ giúp Anna
Rob: The washing up ! No,no Don’t worry . We always leave that until the morning
Rob: Rửa chén bátsao! Không, không, đừng lo mà. Chúng tôi luôn để việc đó cho đến sáng mai
III/ reading practice
Reading B1: The legend of fairies – preparation
A.Match the words with the definitions.
a.To invade b.a spirit c. a tribe d. fake e. to worship f. to support g. origin h.a weapon
1-the explanation for how something started
2-the part of a living thing which is not the body and you can't see or touch it
3-to pray to
4-a group of people, usually connected to each other by place or culture
5-something used to hit or hurt people
6-to attack a place with an army
7-to make something stronger
8-looks real but is not
B.Reading text owe many of our modern ideas about fairies to Shakespeare
(1) Fairies today are the stuff of children's stories, little magical people with wings, often shining with light. Typically pretty
and female, like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, they usually use their magic to do small things and are mostly friendly to humans
(2) We owe many of our modern ideas about fairies to Shakespeare and stories from the 18th and 19th centuries. Although
we can see the origins of fairies as far back as the Ancient Greeks, we can see similar creatures in many cultures. The
earliest fairy-like creatures can be found in the Greek idea that trees and rivers had spirits called dryads and nymphs. Some
people think these creatures were originally the gods of earlier, pagan religions that worshipped nature. They were
replaced by the Greek and Roman gods, and then later by the Christian God, and became smaller, less powerful figures as
they lost importance.
(3) Another explanation suggests the origin of fairies is a memory of real people, not spirits. So, for example, when tribes
with metal weapons invaded land where people only used stone weapons, some of the people escaped and hid in forests and
caves. Further support for this idea is that fairies were thought to be afraid of iron and could not touch it. Living outside of
society, the hiding people probably stole food and attacked villages. This might explain why fairies were often described as
playing tricks on humans. Hundreds of years ago, people actually believed that fairies stole new babies and replaced them
with a 'changeling' – a fairy baby – or that they took new mothers and made them feed fairy babies with their milk.
(4) While most people no longer believe in fairies, only a hundred years ago some people were very willing to think they
might exist. In 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took two photos of her cousin, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths, sitting with
fairies. Some photography experts thought they were fake, while others weren't sure. But Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of
the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, believed they were real. He published the original pictures, and three more the girls
took for him, in a magazine called The Strand, in 1920. The girls only admitted the photos were fake years later in 1983,
created using pictures of dancers that Elsie copied from a book.
C.Are the sentences true or false or is the information not given?
Fairies are not usually male. True False Not given
Newer religions changed how people thought of fairies. True False Not given
People used iron to protect themselves from fairies. True False Not given
People thought very good babies were presents from the fairies. True False Not given
Arthur Conan Doyle created some of the fake photos. True False Not given
Elsie and Frances were surprised Arthur Conan Doyle believed them. True False Not given
D.Choose the best answer.
1-In paragraph 1, the word 'they' in bold refers to …
A.fairies. B.children. C.stories.
2-In paragraph 2, the words 'these creatures' in bold refer to ….
A.trees and rivers B.the spirits of trees and rivers. C.the Ancient Greek people.
3-In paragraph 2, the word 'They' in bold refers to …
A.pagan gods. B.pagan religions C.Greek and Roman gods.
4-In paragraph 3, the words 'this idea' in bold refer to …
A.the idea that fairies were based on people. B. the idea that fairies used metal weapons.

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5-In paragraph 3, the word 'This' in bold refers to …
A.the fact that fairies were thought to be afraid of iron. B.stolen food.
C.the possibility that hiding people stole food and attacked villages.
6.In paragraph 4, the word 'more' in bold refers to …
.A.the girls. B.the photos C.the fairies.
1-associate 2-Positive3-absorbed4-compare 5-theory of flow6-external 7-actively8-moments9-inspiration
10-concentration 11-explore12-achieve
IV/ writing practice

Model answer
1-gives information / many / books /men/ women /read /this four-year period /Burnaby Public Library / 2011 / 2014..
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2-Overall,/ a strong upward /number /books read / men.
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3-Although women read /books than men/ 2011/ reading fell / below / men 2014.
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4- seen / graph,/ different trends/ men / women/
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5- number /books read / men increased / 2011 / 2012/3000 / 4000.
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6-After/ number / dramatically / 14000 / 2014//. highest figure/ period.
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7-Women /started /reading/ books than men/ numbers/ followed /different pattern.
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8-2011-2012, /increase /3000 /5000 books /8000/then a gradual rise /10000 books/2013.
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9- However, / 2014/numbers / back / 8000
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