COMPLETE THE PASSAGE WITH THE WORDS FORM THE BOX interests listening hanging out a musical instrument doing sport Swedish teenagers enjoy 1 ………to music and 2 ………..with friends, just like
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I CHOOSE THE WORDS/PHRASES TO COMPLETE THE PASSAGE
staying indoors hang out playing football doing DIY
walking eating out watching TV
1 To many American teenagers, the shopping mall is one of the top destinations to see friends
and
2.People in Singapore love You can find food courts almost everywhere in this city state
3 .is the most popular individual outdoor activity in the UK
4.These days a lot of children prefer .and to playing outside
5.When you do team sports such as , you develop team spirit too
6.If you have to do home improvements, is a good way to save money
II CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER A B C D
1.Does she fancy _ a book to the younger children?
2.They enjoy on Sundays
3.They love _ with their friends
4.I prefer _ people
5.They detest _ so early in the morning
6.My dad doesn't mind my mom from work every day
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1.Son, do you fancy (play) ……… badminton with me some time next week?
2.I love (listen) ……… to music with good earphones!
3.My brother likes (cook)……… , but he detests (do) ……… the dishes
4.They enjoyed (watch)……… the show very much
5.She doesn’t like (communicate) ………… through emails In fact, she hates (do) …………it She prefers (meet) ……… people in person
6.They adore (make) ………and (eat) ……… good food
IV COMPLETE THE PASSAGE WITH THE WORDS FORM THE BOX
interests listening hanging out
a musical instrument doing sport
Swedish teenagers enjoy (1) ………to music and (2) ……… with friends, just like most children around the world Everyone is encouraged to develop his or her own (3) ……… Singing and playing (4)……… are popular leisure activities According to a government website, almost one in three Swedish children aged 13-15 play an instrument in their spare time (5) ……… sports is also
encouraged 68 per cent of 13- to 15-year-olds are members of a sports club Football is the most
popular (6) ……… among both girls and boys Then comes horse riding for girls Boys prefer
football, swimming, and ice hockey
V FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE WORDS IN THE BOX
FIRST ALSO THEREFORE SECOND THIRD IN SHORT IN ADDITION
Regular exercise brings us many benefits (1)……… , it helps to reduce the risk of obesity (2) ,
………it lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels (3) ………, the likelihood of heartdisease is lower (4)……… , exercise makes your muscles and bones stronger (5) , if you exerciseregularly, you will have less depression and anxiety as well (6)……… , it is very important toinvest time in doing this to improve the quality of your daily life
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I USE THE ADJ TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCES
vast peaceful nomadic inconvenientfriendly quiet safe slow
1.I love the people in my village They are so and hospitable
2.I sometimes lie and watch the movement of the clouds
3.Some peoples in the mountains of north Viet Nam used to have a life They moved to get food and find new lands for growing rice
4.Don’t worry It’s to travel here, even at night
5.It’s so to send a letter from my village The nearest post office is miles away
6.Be ! There’s an exam going on
7.I love the .sky on starry nights It looks fantastic
8.The Tasadays are a tribe They never fight and never hit their children
II PUT THE CORRECT FORM OF THE WORDS
1 We children enjoy ……(RUN)…… around the fields, shouting and laughing happily
2 The …………(NOMADIC)……… have a very hard life They cannot live permanently in one place
3 The hills are (COLOUR)……… in spring when the wild flowers bloom
4 Everybody has to work hard for world ………(PEACEFUL)…
5 ……(RIDE)……… a horse is one of the skills every nomadic child in Mongolia has to learn
6 My sister has a beautiful (COLLECT)……… of paper dolls
III CORRECT MISTAKES IF NECESSARY
1 The cost of living in the countryside is more low than in the city
2 In general, putting up a tent is not as difficult than building a house
3 Harvest is the busiest time of year in the countryside
4 Dogs are much more better than human beings at detecting smells
5 Life in a big city is more exciting than life in a small town
6 This cottage is near to the main road than that red one
Trang 47 The paddy fields in the mountains are usually not as large as those in the lowlands.
8 The path through Dead Valley is the most dangerous in my country
IV USE THE CORRECT FORM OF ADJS OR ADVS
1.A village is much……… a city in size (small)
2.Of the three types of cattle in the Mongolian desert, the sheep is ………… (slow)
3.A city has ……….activities than the countryside (interesting)
4.The city offers more services It’s much……… the countryside (convenient)
5.My village has only 1,200 people It’s not ……… the city (crowded)
6.In the countryside, harvest time is often ……….and ……… time (busy, hard)
7.Some people think that country folk are……… city people (friendly)
8.Which one is……… , the city or the countryside? (noisy)
V CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
1.A.It usually snows more heavily in the mountains than in the lowlands
B.It usually snows heavier in the mountains than in the lowlands.
2.A.Those farmers work much harder on their farms than we can imagine
B.Those farmers work much more hard on their farms than we can imagine.
3.A.City children often react more quickly to technical developments country children
B.City children often react more quickly to technical developments than country children.
4.A.The colour orange shines more brightly in the sun than the colour blue
B.The colour orange shines brightly in the sun than the colour blue.
5.A.I’m not sure who lives more happily: nomads or city dwellers
B.I’m not sure who lives happier: nomads or city dwellers.
6.A.A ger can be more easy pulled down than a house
B.A ger can be more easily pulled down than a house.
VI READ THE PASSAGE AND DO THE TASK FOLLOW
MY VILLAGE
I live in a village by the Mekong River Every day, like most of my friends, I walk to school It is threekilometres away After class, I often help my mother to collect water from the river and feed the chickens At
Trang 5the weekend, the villagers often gather at the community hall where there is a TV The adults watch TV, but more often they talk about their farm work and exchange news The children run around, playing games and shouting merrily Laughter is heard everywhere
My father sometimes takes me to the market town nearby where he sells our home products like vegetables, fruits, eggs He then buys me an ice cream and lets me take a ride on the electric train in the town square I love those trips
On starry nights, we children lie on the grass, looking at the sky and daring each other to find the Milky Way
We dream of faraway places
A Find the words / phrases which match the definition
1 Get water from a river and bring it home………
2 Give food………
3 A place where the villagers can gather for important events………
4 A place where a street is used for the locals to sell their home products………
5 Sit on a bus or a train for it to take you around………
6 Challenging somebody to do something difficult………
B CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER
1 The boy often helps his parents
A.to collect water from the village well
B.to sell the vegetables
C.to collect eggs from the chicken shed
D.to feed the chickens
2.The villagers gather at the community hall
A.every day
B.once a month
C.only when there is an important event
D.at the weekend
3.The thing the boy enjoys better than other things on his trips to town is
A.he can sell his home products
B.he feels grown-up
C.he can ride on the electric train
D.he can buy his father an ice cream
4.The village children dream about
A.having a school that is nearer
B.having a TV at home
C.finding the Milky Way
D.travelling to faraway places
VII READ THE PASSAGE AGAIN AND CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
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Trang 7A.to collect water from the village well
B.to sell the vegetables
C.to collect eggs from the chicken shed D.to feed the chickens
2.The villagers gather at the community hall
A.every day
B.once a month
C.only when there is an important event
D.at the weekend
3.The thing the boy enjoys better than other things on his trips to town is
A.he can sell his home products
B.he feels grown-up
C.he can ride on the electric train D.he can buy his father an ice cream
4.The village children dream about
A.having a school that is nearer
B.having a TV at home
C.finding the Milky Way D.travelling to faraway places
VIII.REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES
1.The Eagle team performed more successfully than the Lion team (successfully)
The Lion team performed
2.In the countryside, children play more freely than in the city (freely)
In the city, children
3.Our gers are now better equipped than in the past (badly)
In the past, our gers
4.A sports car goes faster than an ordinary car (slowly)
An ordinary car goes
5.A business person travels more expensively than a tourist (cheaply)
A tourist travels
6.Mr Thompson works more responsibly than Mr Dylan (carelessly)
Mr Dylan works
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I COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE WORDS/PHRASES IN THE BOX
collection language typical writing systemcrafts festivals speciality ethnic minorities
1.The Yao people use ideograms of Chinese origin to write their
2.The Museum of Ethnology has a huge of items of cultural importance from different ethnic groups
in Viet Nam
3.The Thai have their own language, and they also have their own
4.If you are interested in ethnic minority culture, you should really go to one of the in the northern mountainous regions
5.The Viet people have many traditional : weaving, carpentry, embroidery … and their products are famous everywhere
6.The schools in this region have done much to help children of
7.Mua sap is a dance of the Muong people in the North West
8.Five-coloured sticky rice is a in many parts of Viet Nam
II FILL IN THE QUESTION WITH: wh- questions
1.- .of your parents will go to the meeting? - My mother will
2.- .colour is the symbol of luck for the Hoa people? - Red (is)
3.- .is a ‘long house’ of the Ede people? - About 150 metres long
4.- plays a more important role in a Giarai family? - Women (do)
5.- is the Hoa Ban Festival of the Thai people held? - In Lunar February
6.- .do the Odu people live? - Mainly in Nghe An Province
7.- is it from the centre to the Museum of Ethnology? - It’s about seven kilometres
8.- .is this khan pieu (shawl)? - Sorry, it’s not for sale
II COMPLETE THE PASSAGE WITH A/AN/THE
YMoan was the greatest pop singer of the Ede ethnic group in Dak Lak Province He was born in 1957 and died
in 2010 He was called ‘(1) ……… singer of the great woods’ He is famous for singing songs
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III ODD ONE OUT
IV CHOOSE A B C D
1No one is able to explain the of the old customs
2.There are always regional in every country
3. of your two sisters is studying in Australia?
4.Although there are cultural between ethnic groups, they still keep the identity of their own culture
5.The 54 ethnic peoples of Viet Nam are , but they live peacefully
6.Which of our country would you most like to live in?
7.Most ethnic minority peoples are good farming techniques
8.Chaul Chnam Thmey is the biggest of the Khmer people
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Hoang Ngoc Linh is a member of the Tay ethnic group in a mountainous (1) ……… in Bac Giang Province.She was born in 2003, and she goes to Cam Dan Lower Secondary School In her class there are several students from other ethnic (2) ……… such as the Nung, the Cao Lan (Sanchay) …, and all of them get on very well.Like her classmates, she prefers to wear (3) ……… Kinh’s clothes, and she wears a uniform when she goes
to school Linh loves to (4) ………cartoons on TV and to play with her dolls She can speak some words of the Tay (5) ……… At school, she is popular with her teachers and friends as she is a nice girl She is good
at maths and English Her dream is to become (6) ………English teacher when she grows up
VI CHOOSE A B C D
Spring is a time when there are many festivals in our country Among them, Hoa Ban Festival is the mostbeautiful and interesting, and it takes place in Lai Chau It is typical of the (1) life of the Thai
people In the second lunar month of the year, when it (2) warmer and hoa ban – a kind of
beautiful flower in the northwest mountainous area – blossoms, Hoa Ban Festival is (3) This is
a great time for everyone, (4) _ for boys and girls The boy picks the most beautiful flower andgives it to his girlfriend This is not only a time for love but also for the Thai people to (5) forgood crops, for happiness, and express their special thanks to the Gods and (6) The festival isalways full of songs and prayers
VII READ AND CHOOSE
Gong culture in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam has been recognised by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity
Trang 11Gong culture covers five provinces of the Central Highlands: Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, and Lam Dong The masters of gong culture are the ethnic groups of Bahnar, Sedang, Mnong, Coho, Ede,Giarai … The Gong Festival is held annually in the Central Highlands In the festival, artists from these provinces give gong performances, highlighting the gong culture of their own province.
For the ethnic groups of the Central Highlands, gongs are musical instruments of special power It is believed thatevery gong is the symbol of a god who grows more powerful as the gong gets older Therefore, gongs are
associated with special occasions in people’s lives, such as the building of new houses, funerals, crop praying ceremonies, a new harvest, victory celebrations, etc The gong sound is a way to communicate with the gods.1.The text tells us about
A.a world cultural heritage
B.the artists of the Central Highlands
C.life in the Central Highlands
D.musical instruments of ethnic groups
2.How often is the Gong Festival celebrated?
A.every month
B.every year
C.all the year round D.on special occasions
3.The gongs are
A.a kind of art work
B.musical instruments
C.pieces of folk music D.cultural heritages
4.The ethnic peoples in the Central Highlands believe that
A.special powers like their gongs
B.gongs are associated with new houses
C.their gongs are the symbols of gods
D.the gong is older than themselves
5.For people in the Central Highlands, the gong sound is
A.a way to entertain themselves
B.a sound of victory
C.a form of festival D.a means of communication
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1The Tay people have the second largest population in Viet Nam
2.The cultural heritage of the ethnic peoples in Viet Nam is very rich
3.The last syllable is stressed in the word ‘engineer’
4.Of the three costumes, I like the red one most
5.The sandstone section is the most important collection in Da Nang Museum of the Cham people.6.The Yao people are famous for their elaborate costumes
IX USE THE WORDS TO WRITE THE SENTENCES
1.Hung Kings Temple Festival / significant/ festival/ Viet Nam
2.a public holiday in Viet Nam/ since 2007
3.held annually/ 10th / third lunar month
4.It/ actually/ memorial/ Hung Kings
5.This ceremony/ organised/ to commemorate/ and/ pay tribute to/ contribution/ Hung Kings
6.They/ traditional founders/ nation/ and/ became/ first kings/ our country
TEST YOURSELF 1
I CHOOSE
1.The US is a _ country with over 80 ethnic groups
2.Among the _, the Tay people have the largest population