[ English Discovery] Giải Tiếng Anh 6 Starter Unit 8: Talking to the world - Listening and Vocabulary

1. Study the Vocabulary box. What types of communication can you see in the photos? Write the words from the Vocabulary box in the correct column in the table below. 

=> Answer:

• A. a ( face to face) convasation

• B. someone writing a text massage

• C. someone talking on a moblile phone

• Speaking: conversation, phone call, Skype call

• Writing: email (faceboook), post, letter, postcard, text message

2. Which three types of communication do you use the most with your friends? 

=> Answer:  I use Facebook, text message and conversation the most with your friends.

3. Listen to a class of English language students in the UK.

What is the class about?

a. how to write emails and messages

b. communication problems

c. foreign languages

=> Answer: b

4. Listen again and choose the correct answers.

1. The teacher tells a story about 

a. a phone call

b. a Facebook post

c. a Skype call

2. The teacher's surname is

a. What.

b. Watt.

c. Wadd

3. Sonia wanted to eat a

a. jam sandwich.

b. some strawberries.

c. a ham sandwich.

4. Mario

a. lives in the US.

b. made a mistake.

c. did something brave.

5. In Italian, baldo means

a. having no hair.

b. being brave.

c. you are bad. 

=> Answer:

1. c               2. b                3. c                4. b                5. b

5. Complete the Word Friends with the verbs below. Listen and check. 

ask            call             chat             have             make             post             send

1. ______ a conversation

2. ______ a phone call

3. ______ someone

4. ______ someone a question

5. ______ online

6. ______ a message on Facebook

7. ______ a text 

=> Answer:

1. have a conversation

2. make a phone call

3. call someone

4. ask someone a question

5. chat online

6. post a message on Facebook

7. send a text

6. Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.

1. I ____ a good conversation at breakfast this morning.

2. My mum asks me a lot of ____ about school. I don't always answer her.

3. My best friend lives in New Zealand. We often ____ online.

4. I ____ a message on Facebook last night.

5. I ____ a friend on the phone last night. We talked for hours.

6. I don't like making ____ calls. Its quicker and cheaper to send a ____.

=> Answer:

1. had                         2. questions                       3. chat

4. posted                     5. coiled                              6. phone, text (message) 

7. In pairs, say if the sentences in Exercise 6 are true for you.

A: I had a good conversation about music at breakfast this morning. What about you?

B: No, I didn't have a good conversation. I never talk to anyone at breakfast! 

=> Answer:

I phoned a friend on the phone last night. We talked for hours.