WHILE YOU READ 

Read the story, and then do the tasks that follow.

(Đọc câu chuyện và sau đó làm bài tập sau.)

MY MOST EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE

My most embarrassing experience happened a few years aso. when I was a grade 9 student. In those days, my biggest dream was a red hat - a floppy cotton hat like the one my pop star idol wore in her video clip. I thought I would look great in it.

My father knew this, so on my birthday, he gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself. I was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop at once. I got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about my age. The boy glanced at me and turned away. There was a sneaky look on his face, but I didn't think much about it. I was busy imagining how I would look in the hat. After a while, I turned round and noticed that the boy’s schoolbag was open. Inside it, I saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones my father had given me. I quickly looked into my own bag - the notes had gone! 1 was sure that the boy was a thief. He had stolen my money. I didn’t want to make a fuss, so I decided just to take my money back from the schoolboy’s bag, without saying a word about it. So I carefully put my hand into the boy’s bag, took the notes and put them in my own bag.

With the money, I bought the pretty hat of my dreams. When I got home, I showed it to my father.

“How did you pay for it?” he asked.

“With the money, you gave me for my birthday, of course. Dad,” I replied.

“Oh? What's that then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of dollar notes on the table.

Can you imagine how I felt then?

Task 1. The words/ phrases in the box all appear in the passage. Use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences.

(Tất cả các từ/ cụm từ trong khung đều xuất hiện ở đoạn văn. Sử dụng chúng để điền vào chỗ ở trong các câu.)

1. The girl was so shy that she didn't look at him in the face. She just ______at him and looked away.

2. She complains noisily about anything she doesn’t like. She is the type of person who is always ______.

3. She was in a very______situation. She felt so stupid and didn’t know what to say.

4. Teenagers nowadays often have their own______who they really love and imitate in different ways.

5. I don't like the look of that man. There is something______about him.

Task 2. Work in pairs. Put the pictures of the events (on page 22) in the order they happened in the story.

(Làm việc theo cặp. Đặt những tranh của sự kiện (ở trang 22) theo đúng thứ tự chúng xuất hiện trong câu chuyện.)

Task 3. Answer the questions.

(Trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. What did she wish to have when she was in grade 9?

(Cô ấy muốn có cái gì khi học lớp 9?)

2. Why did her father give her some money on her birthday?

(Tại sao bố cô cho cô ấy tiền vào ngày sinh nhật?)

3. What did she see in the boy’s bag?

(Cô ấy thấy gì trong cặp sách của chàng trai?)

4. Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without saying anything about it?

(Tại sao cô ấy quyết định lấy tiền từ trong cặp của chàng trai mà không nói lời nào?)

5. What did she do with the money?

(Cô ấy đã làm gì với số tiền đó?)

AFTER YOU READ

Work in pairs. Discussion the question: What do you think the girl had to do after she discovered that the money she had taken from the boy's bag was not hers?

(Làm việc nhóm. Thảo luận câu hỏi: Em nghĩ cô gái phải làm gì sau khi cô khám phá ra rằng tiền mà cô lấy ở cặp của cậu bé không phải là tiền của cô.)