[Friends Global] Giải tiếng anh 10 unit 5: Ambition - 5E. Word Skills

1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Think of two advantages of going to university and two advantages of going straight into a job after leaving school. Use the phrases below to help you.

Answer:

Advantages of going to university:

- Going to university can help us get qualifications that are necessary to find a job.

- Going to university help us learn a lot of great knowledge.

Advantages of going straight into a job after leaving school:

- Going straight into a job can help people earn money as soon as they can.

- Going straight into a job help us have a good social life and accquire necessary skills.

2. Read the two texts. Which one is more positive about going to univeristy?

Answer:

The text number 2. It talks about benefits of going to university.

3. Read the Learn this! box. Then read the texts in exercise 2 again and find words with five of the prefixes in the table.

Answer:

co-creator

ex-student

postgraduate

semi-professional

oversleep

4. PRONUNCIATION Listen to the examples in the table and mark the stress. Practise saying the words.

5. USE OF ENGLISH Rewrite the sentences, replacing the underlined words with a word starting with the prefix in brackets.

Answer:

2 Mick over-slept and missed his bus.

3 Please rewrite the sentence.

4 We live in a multi-society.

5 Sam gets an underpaid job.

6. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. Give extra information where you can.

1 Which jobs do you think are overpaid? (Why?)

2 Are you good at multi-tasking? (Give an example.)

Answer:

1 In my opinion, becoming a famous person is a overpaid job. Because famouse people earn very much money even only for one show.

2 I think I'm quite good at multi-tasking when I can study and listen to music at the same time.