TRUNG VUONG HIGHSCHOOL

GLOBAL SUCCESS 12
Teacher: Lê Thị Hồng Quế
September 4th

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Life stories we
admire LESSON I
GETTING STARTED

The diary of Dang
Thuy Tram

MATCHING

Form

Pronunciation

1. surgeon (n)

/ˈsɜːdʒən/

2. resistance
(n)

/rɪˈzɪstəns/

3. enemy (n)

/ˈenəmi/

4. soldier (n)
5. devote (sth
to sth)

Meaning
a. the act of using force to oppose
somebody/something
b. a member of an army, especially one
who is not an officer

 c. to give an amount of time, attention,
etc. to something

Vietnamese
equivalent
bác sĩ phẫu thuật

sự chống lại

quân địch

/ˈsəʊldʒə(r)/ d. a country or group that you are
/dɪˈvəʊt/

fighting a war against

người lính

e. a doctor who is trained to perform
surgery 

cống hiến

PRACTICE
1 Listen and read.

PRACTICE
2 Read the conversation again and circle the correct answer to
complete each of the sentences.

1. Dang Thuy Tram was born in Ha Noi / Hue.
2. Tram wrote about / operated on injured soldiers
during the war.
3. She died when she was very young / old.
4. An American soldier kept her diary for 27 years /
more than three decades before returning a copy
to her family.

PRACTICE
3 Find words and a phrase in Task 1 with the following meanings.
1. accounts

descriptions of things that
have happened

3. devoting

the end of somebody's life
giving time, attention, etc.
to something

4. youth

the period of time when a
person is young

2. death

PRACTICE
4 Complete the sentences based on the conversation.
Dang Thuy Tram was a young surgeon. She (1) ______
wrote
her diary while she (2) ___________
was working in a field hospital
during the war. One day, she (3) _________
was killed while she
(4) ________________
was doing her duty in the jungle. She was only 27
then. An American soldier (5) ______
kept her diary for
many years before returning a copy to her family.

PRODUCTI
ON

1. A. volunteer
B. hospital
C. province
D. devote

2. A. account       
B. army          
C. battle         
D. cancer

3. The strong bond between _______ who
fought side by side created lifelong
friendships.
 A. soldiers

B. biographies

C. accounts

D. experiences

4. While he was doing his _______, he was
killed by the enemy.
 A. visionary

B. animated

C. duty

D. stylish

5. I _______ about him when suddenly he
came in.
 A. talk

B. talked

C. am talking

D. was talking 

6. I was revising for my civics class when
my dad ____________ me about the
volunteer job.
 A. tell

B. was telling

C. told

D. had told

7. Ms. Trang _____ her time and energy
to giving free English lessons for poor
children.
A. admires        

B. devotes        

C. diagnoses        

D. attends

8. He gave us a thrilling  _____ of his
experiences on the battlefield.
A. rule        
B. biography        
C. account        
D. blockbuster

9. Many Vietnamese young men
volunteered to join the army during
the  _____ war against France.
A. resistance        
B. biography        
C. account        
D. experience

10. Dang Thuy Tram's diary __________ a
lot of interesting information about the life
and career of heroine Dang Thuy Tram.
A. brings up
B. consists of
C. takes up
D. thinks of

CONSOLIDATI
ON
1 Wrap-up

What have you learnt today?
• Some lexical items about a famous person's life
• Reading for specific information
• Past simple and Past continuous

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