LISTENING Listen to the passage and give short answers to the following questions.. 2.5 pts How Nam has improved his English In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some dif
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I LISTENING
Listen to the passage and give short answers to the following questions (2.5 pts)
1. Who is Peter?
2 How old is he?
3 Where does he live?
4 What does he like doing in his free time?
5 What is he going to do next summer?
II READING
Read the passage and choose the most appropriate answer A, B, C or D (2.5 pts)
How Nam has improved his English
In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English My English pronunciation was really bad and my English grammar was worse I did not know how
to improve them I didn’t want my father and mother to know about this One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her outside the classroom She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase She also told me how to use an English-English dictionary to improve my English grammar “Now I think you know what you should do”, said she I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first prize in the English Speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown
1 What difficulties did Nam have in learning English in the first year?
A The pronunciation
B The grammar
C Both pronunciation and grammar
D The way of improving his pronunciation
2 Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?
A His teacher
B One of his friends
C His father
D His mother
3 Where did Nam and his teacher go after that?
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B to the school library
C to the teachers’ room
D to his house
4 What did the teacher show him then?
A A glass bookcase
B An English-English dictionary
C An English Grammar book
D Cassettes of pronunciation drills
5 What did he win in the English Speaking Contest one year later?
A The first prize
B The second prize
C The third prize
D The fourth prize
III LANGUAGE FOCUS
Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences (2.5 pts)
1 I often play soccer _ Sunday afternoon
2 We should wait here _ our teacher comes back
3 Mr Brown is the same age Mrs Brown
4 The little boy is not _ to lift the suitcase
A enough strongB strong enough C too strong D so strong
5 My father was good at swimming He used to swimming in summer
6 Kate hates to classical music
A listens B listened C listen D listening
7 Hung is student in my class
8 Ho Chi Minh City is larger and beautiful than Hanoi
9 Mr Smith likes _ to music in his free time
A listens B listened C listen D listening
10 They built this house _1990
IV WRITING
Write a passage using the following sets of words and phrases You can make all the necessary changes and additions (2.5 pts)
1 Lan / like / learn English
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2 She / begin / learn / this language / 2003
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3 She / always / want / improve her English
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4 Last week / she / buy / English-Vietnamese dictionary
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5 She / often / use/ it/ for reading
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