Planning Date: 04/10/2008

Planning date 04/10/2008 Name ENGLISH TEST 9 Class (45 minutes ) Mark Teacher’s remark I Listen and choose whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) (2P) 1 The Petronas Twin Towers is 452 meter[.]

Name:………… ……… ENGLISH TEST 9 Class: …… …… (45 minutes ) Mark Teacher’s remark

I Listen and choose whether the statements are true (T) or false (F): (2P)

1 The Petronas Twin Towers is 452 meters high

2 Phanxipang is thje highest mountain in VietNam 3 Vietnam isn't a tropical country

4 The longest river in the world is River Thames

II Choose the best answer: (2P)

1 Ba has to walk to school, so he wishes he a bicycle

a.has b Had c will have d.shall have

2 She asked me

a.Where did I come from b Where I came from

c Where did I come from? d Where I came from?

3 What aspects of learning English ?

a You find to be difficult?b do you find to be difficult?

c You find difficult? d Do you find difiicult?

4 She asked me

a If I like pop music or not b Whether I like pop music

or not

c If I liked pop music or no d Whether I liked pop music

or not

III Match a verb in A with a phrase in B to have a complete phrase: (2P)

1 To do a The written examination

3 To speak c Writing skills

4 To watch d English with friends

5 To write e by heart new words and phrases

6 To pass f grammar exercises

7 To improve g Short stories in English

8 To learn h English TV programs

IV Rewrite the following sentences so that the second sentence means exactly the same as the first one: (2P)

1 Mary can't sing well and she is not happy about that

Mary

wisches

2 Mum said to me: " I am sad now"

Mum

told

3 The teacher asked me " do you learn the old lesson?"

The teacher

asked

4 He asked Lan " Where do you come from?"

He asked

Lan

V Read the passage and decide which statements are true and which are false:(2P)

Like other laguages, English is always changing, but it changes very slowly People invent new words, borrow words from other laguages and change the meaning of words as needed For example, the English word "byte" was invented by computer specialist in 1959 The word "tomato" was borrowed from Nahuati, an American Indian laguage spoken in Mexico The word :"meat" once referred to food in general People learn English as well as languages by listening, coppying what they hear, and using the laguage Most school children learn their first language easily and sometimes other laguages as well

1 English is changing very quickly

2 Some English words are borrowed from other laguages

3 Some English words are invented by computers 4 One of the ways to learn English is coppying what you hear

The answer key:

Question 1:(0,5 x4 =2P)

Question 2:(0,5 x4= 2P)

Question 3 (0,25 x8 =2P)

1-f 2 - g 3-d 4- h 5- b 6- a 7- c 8-e

Question 4(0,5 x4 =2P)

1 Mary wishes she could sing well

2 Mom told me she was sad then

3.The teacher asked me if I learnt the old lesson or not

4.He asked Lan where she came from

Question 5:(0,5 x4 =2P)