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pham cong binh secondary school
English group
Teaching project
For
Gifted students
Created by truong quang khanh
September 2007
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Part one
Phonetics
A. The aims:
- To introduce to the sts the phonetic symbols, the transcription of a word, the sound of the
word…
- To improve the sts’ phonetic, stress, and intonation.
- To help the sts do the phonetic exercises.
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B. Teaching procedure :
1. The vowel sounds:
There are 20 vowels in the English language, 12 of them are pure vowels (single vowels),
and the left eights dipthongs (combination of two vowels).
- The 12 pure vowels: / I - i: /, / e - æ/, / o - o:/, / Λ - a: /, / u- u:/, / ә - з/.
- The 8 dipthongs: / ei - ai - oi /, / au - әu /, / iә - eә - uә /
Practical Exercises
Ex1: Classify /i:/ and /I/:
Evening, tin, easy, eat, it, jean, since, this, meat, teach, film, interesting, tea, sea,
seen, sit, seat, minute, fifty, cheese, chinese, free, three, be, she, pleased…
Ex 2: Classify /a:/ and / Λ /:

consonants as they are shown below:
2.1. Voiceless consonants: / p /, / f /, / θ /, / t /, / s /, / ∫ /, / t∫ /, / k /, / h /.
2.2. Voiced consonants: / b /, / v /, / δ /, / d /, / z /, / Ʒ /, / dƷ/, / g /, / l /, /m /, / n /, / /, / rŋ
/, / w /, / j /.
Practical Exercises
Ex 9: Classify / δ / and / θ /:
Think, thigh, though, thought, breath, breathe, bath, bathe, cloth, clothe, clothing,
clothes, threaten, although…
Ex 10: Classify / s / and / ∫ /:
She, see, sugar, seat, sound, show, sure, suit, sugary, sunny, soon, saturn, shrink,
scream, settle, surely…
Ex 11: Classify / k/ and / t∫ /:
Chess, chimney, choice, chaos, chemist, chest, chemical, chicken, cheap, catch,
chemistry, school, scholar…
Ex 12: Classify / s / and / z / :
See, seat, please, measure, mouse, pass, mass, bags, close, has, sum, sick, tease,
sues, rise, lays, eyes…
3. The consonant clusters:
3.1. / s / + / p, t, k, f, m, n, w, j /
Spy, stay, sky, smile, snow, sleep, swear, suit, speak,…
3.2. / p / + / l, r, j /:
Plough, play, proud, pray, pure, puritant,…
3.3. / t / + / r, w, j /:
Tree, try, twin, twice, tune, tunic,…
3.4. / k / + / l, r, w, j /:
Clerk, clay, crown, cry, quite, quick, cure, curious,…
3.5. / b / + / l, r ,j /:
Blind, blow, blown, brown, bring, brick, beauty, bureau,….
3.6. / g / + / l, r /:
Glass, glance, grass, grow,…

course
doe
ere
bee
sealing
chews
coarse
dough
heir
choove
aisle
beach
cell
site
days
fair
isle
beech
sell
cite
daze
fare
I’ll
sight
eight
bean
cheep
cord
dear
feat

sweet suit tail tale threw through tied tide
too two warn worn way weigh week weak
would wood yoke yolk your yore wore war
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Part two
stress
A. The aims:
- To help the sts know the way to mark stresses, and pronounce words correctly.
- To emphasize the important of stresses.
- To show the rules to mark stresses.
- To provide the sts with exercises on stresses and intonation.
B.Teaching procedure:
I. Definition :
Stress is the degree of the loudness or prominence with which a sound ort a word is
pronounced.
II. Degree:
1. In phrases or sentences:
1.1. Primary stress: (/) The strongest and loudest stress of all.
1.2. Secondary stress: (Λ) The second loudest stress.
1.3. Tertiary stress: (\) weaker than secondary stress.
1.4. Weakstress: (٧) Zero stress, the weakest degree of loudness.
2. In words:
2.1 Primary stress: (/) The loudest one.
2.2 Secondary stress: (\) The weaker one.
III. The marking rules for word- stress:
1. For disyllables words:
1.1. Usually on the first syllables: mother, ready, colour, palace, student, teacher,…
1.2. Usually on the root syllables with words having suffixes or prefixes: become, react,
foretell, unpleasant, disorder, peaceful, kindness, scientist,…

more than one consonant : affect, obtain,…
IV. Rules for phrase-stress:
1. Compound nouns: (/ \) farm-house, fire-engine, cowboy, black-bird,..
But: (\ /): pass-by, sun-set, ice-cream, steak-dinner, glass-window, silk-dress, nylon-
stock, cotton-flower,…
2. Compound adjectives: ( \ /) light-blue, absent-minded, blue-eyed, hard-working,…
But: (/ \) sun-burnt, sun-lit, sea-sick, sea-faring,…
3. Adjective-nouns: ( \ /) a sad song, a beautiful picture, a fresh egg, an interesting
lesson,...
4. Present participle-noun: ( \ /) a travelling circus, a singing student, an amusing story,
a sleeping child,…
5. Gerund noun: – (/ \) a dancing teacher, an eating apple, a looking glass, a stepping-
stone, a magnifying glass, a washing machine,…
6. Qualifier-adjective: (Λ /)very tired, rather old, pretty bad, quite important, too weak,…
7. Verb- adverb: (Λ /) come here, speak clearly, try carefully, read aloud, sit down, ….
8. Verb-adverbial particle: ( \ /) put on, look up, put off, come through, take off, call on,
hand over, go over,….
9. Verb-adverbial particle-noun: (\ Λ /) put on the coat, turn on the light,…
10. Verb-noun-adverbial particle: (\ Λ /) put the coat on, turn the light on,…
11. Verb-preposition: ( / Λ)look at, speak to, wait, for, look up,…
Part three
Vocabulary
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A. The aims:
- To help the sts know the function of words.
- To show the sts the way to build up vocabulary, especially related words.
- To provide the sts with vocabulary exercises.
- To enrich the sts’ vocabulary.
B. Teaching procedure:

3.4. Adding ves“ ” to the count-nouns that end in “f, fe”:
singular plural singular plural
a wife wives a leaf leaves
a knife knives a loaf loaves
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3.5. Irregular changes:
singular plural singular plural
a man men a woman women
a child children an ox oxen
a tooth teeth a goose geese
a louse lice a mouse mice
a medium media a phenomenium phenomenia
3.6. Collective noun: crew, family, group, team,…(either singular or plural form, either
singular or plural verb)
3.7. Always plural form-nouns:
clothes police breeches pants pyjamas
trousers scissors pliers (k×m) binoculars glasses
scales shears (kÐo c¾t cá) arms damages earnings
goods greens (vegetable) outskirts savings pains (trouble, effort)
spirits surroundings stairs valuables athletics
ethics mathematics physics politics
3.8. Unchange the names of creatures: deer, sheep,carf, cod, pike, plaice, salmon,
squid, trout, turbot (these nouns can take either singular or plural verbs)
3.9. Plural form but singular verb-noun: news, mumps (bÖnh sng quai hµm), billiards,
bowls
4. Uncount-nouns:
4.1. Substances:
bread
beer

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4.4.6. a fear/ fears; a hope/ hopes; a suspicion/ suspicions: We have a suspicion /
suspicions that no one will agree to help.
5. Compound nouns:
5.1. Noun-noun: Hanoi-capital; halldoor; hitch-hiker; kitchen-table; traffic light; winter
clothes; petrol tank;…
5.2. Noun-gerund: fruit-picking; weight-lifting; lorry-driving; bird-watching; coal-
mining; surf-riding;…
5.3. Gerund-noun: waiting-list; landing card; driving board; dining room; driving
licence; swimming pool;…
5.4. Free combination:
- shop window; church bell; picture frame; garden gate; college library; gear level;
…
- city street; corner shop; coutry lane; …
- summer holiday; spring flowers; Sunday paper; dawn chorus; November fog; …
- steel door; stone wall; silk shirt;…
- coffee cup; golf club; chess board; football ground;…
- fish-farm; gold-mine; oil-rig; …
- football match; beauty contest; pop music;…
6. Suffixes:
6.1. er/ or/ ist/ ant/ ee/ : … teacher, visitor, terrorist, vegetarian, applicant, employee,…
6.2. ent/ ce/ ion/ ism/ ance/ age/ :… government, difference, action, capitalism,
assistance, marriage,…
6.3. hood/ dom/ ship/ ness/ iety/ : … neighbourhood, freedom, friendship, sadness,
variety,..
6.4. ility/ ing/ al/ our/ y/ : … possibility, fishing, refusal, arrival, behaviour, difficulty,…
II. Adjectives (adj):
1. Kinds (Classification):
1.1. Main kinds:

- Peter was as hard-working as I was (me).
3.2. Comparative degree:
3.2.1. Monosyllable-adjectives: adjs-ER + than
Eg: - Lan is shorter than Na
- She was better at English than we were (us)
3.2.2. Multisyllable-adjectives: more + adjs + than
Eg: - She was more hard-working than us.
- We are more intelligent than him.
3.3. Superlative degree:
3.3.1. Monosyllable-adjectives: the adjs-EST
Eg: - Nam is the best in our class.
- She was the kindest lady I ve ever met.’
3.3.2. Multisyllable-adjectives: the most + adjs
Eg: - Sharol was the most intelligent in my group.
- She is the most hard-working girl I ve ever known.’
Notes: For adjs ending in “er”, “y”, “ly”, or the irregular cases:
Adjective Comparative Superlative
clever Cleverer the cleverest
pretty Prettier the prettiest
happy Happier the happiest
silly Sillier the silliest
good Better the best
bad Worse the worst
far farther/ further the farthest/ furthest
little Less the least
many / much More the most
old older/ elder the oldest/ eldest
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3.4. Parallel: - “The…..the”:The older she gets, the wiser she become.

good, important, necessary, unnecessary, vital (tÊt yÕu),…
4.6. It be + adjs + (for O) + infinitves: convenient, dangerous, difficult, easy, hard,
possible, important, safe, unsafe,…
4.7. S + be + adjs + infinitives :
- Angry, delighted, dismayed, glad, happy, pleased, relieved, sorry, sad,…( S + be
+ glad/ happy/ sorry/ sad + to say/ tell/ inform; Others adjs + to find/ learn/ hear/
see/…)
- Able, unable, apt, inclined, liable, prone, prepared, quick, reluctant, slow,
ready, willing, unwilling.
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4.8. Special cases:
- Due: (time) >The race is due to start in 5 minutes.
- Due to: a result of >The accident was due to his carelessness.
- Owing to: because of >owing to his carelessness, we had an accident.
- Certain/ sure + to V= opinion >He is sure to take legal action.
- Certain/ sure that + (clause) = opinion >I am certain that the price will be higher.
- Certain/ sure/ confident of + N/G: He was sure of entering the haunted house.
- Bound + to V= obligation > We were bound to leave.
- Afraid/ ashamed of + N/G: She was afraid of being left alone.
- Sorry for/ about + N/G: Tom felt sorry for making so many mistakes.
- Afraid/ ashamed/ sorry + to V: I m sorry to tell you that bad news.’
- Anxious about = worried He was anxious about going in the dark alone.
- Anxious for O to V = wish He was anxious for you to go in the dark alone.
- Anxious that + (clause) We are anxious that we couldn t come.’
- Fortunate/ lucky that +(clause) = It’s a good thing…It was lucky that we weren t late.’
- S + be fortunate/ lucky to V She was lucky to have such an interesting book.
- Possible/ probable/ likely + future = perhaps It s possible that man will live longer.’
- Aware/ conscious of N/G We should be aware of protecting our nature.
- Aware/ conscious + that +(clause) She was concious that she would be late.