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WELCOME TO YOU!
WARM UP
What’s this?
A fan
A vase
What’s the difference between the two words?
- Difference in meanings
- Difference in consonant sounds
Films and cinema
Lesson: Language focus
UNIT 13
PRONUNCIATION: /f/ - /v/
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY:
1. Adjectives of attitude
2. It is / was not until … that …
3. a / an and the
A. PRONUNCIATION
1. Listen and repeat
/ f / / v /
fan fiction van vote
first photograph vine Stephen
form enough view leave
2. Practice reading the sentences.
1. He feels happy enough.
2. I want a photograph for myself and my wife.
3. Would you prefer a full photograph or a profile?
4. Stephen is driving a van full of vines.
5. We used to live in a village in the valley.
6. They arrived in the village on a van.
B. Grammar and Vocabulary
Mary has been doing the same job again and again for a long time. She doesn’t enjoy it.
bored
boring
Ex 1: Mary’s job is boring.
Ex 2: Mary is bored with her job.
1. Adjectives of attitude
+ Adjectives ending with -ing form have an active meaning
+ Adjectives ending with –ed form have a passive meaning
1.1. Write the adjectival forms of the verbs below.
Ex: interest interesting

fascinate 6. bore
2. excite 7. surprise
3. terrify 8. amuse
4. irritate 9. embarrass
5. horrify 10. frustrate
exciting
terrifying
irritating
horrifying
boring
surprising
fascinating
amusing
frustrating
embarrassing
Exercise 2
Example : The movie wasn’t as good as we had expected ( disappoint)
a. The movie was __________
b. We were ___________ with the movie
1.It’s been raining all day. I hate this weather. ( depress)
a. The weather is _________
b. This weather makes me __________
2.Astronomy is one of Tan’s main interests. ( interest)
a. Tan is _________ in astronomy
b. He finds astronomy very __________
3.I turned off the T.V in the middle of the program. ( bore)
a. The program was _________
b. I was _________ with the program
depressing
depressed
interested
interesting
boring
bored
disappointing
disappointed
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Buồn chán
2. It is/ was not until…that…
= It was not until 2001 that you started to learn English.
Dialogue
Teacher: When did you first study English?
Nam: In 2001
Teacher: So you didn’t study English before that time?
Nam: No, we didn’t.
Teacher: Yeah, so it was not until 2001 that you started to learn English.
* Rewrite the following sentences, using 
‘It was not until... that...’.
She didn’t become a teacher until 1990.
2. He didn’t know how to swim until he was 30.
3. They didn’t begin to learn English until 1980.
4. They boy didn’t do his homework until his father came home.
-> It was not until 1990 that she became a teacher
-> It was not until he was 30 that he knew how to swim
-> It was not until 1980 that they began to learn English.
-> It was not until his father came home that the boy did his homework.
3. Articles : A, An , The




For lunch I had a sandwich and an apple. The sandwich wasn’t very nice but the apple is very delicious.
“A and An” are used to introduce a subject which is firstly mentioned.
A is used before words beginning with a consonant
An is used before words beginning with a vowel
“The” is used to indicate something that we have already mentioned
Example:
a
The
the
A
an
a
the
The
the
1. I am …. because my exam result is so bad.
A. bore B. bores C. boring D. bored
2. It was not until 2000 that I work as a teacher.
A B C D
D
B
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D
3. What’s a name of the restaurant we went last night?
A B C D
A
4. Are you interesting in soccer?
A B C D
B
5. A. photo B. form C. of D. fiction
C

Make sentences with : exciting, excited, fascinating, fascinated.
Make two sentences using “it was not until…that ”.
Homework