Read the following text about what children in Wedden like doing in their free time.. City children often react more quickly to technical developments country children.. B: City children
Trang 1I.Choose the best answer A, B, C or D
1 Does she fancy ……… a book to the younger children
A reads B reading c to read d read
2 They enjoy ………… on Sundays
A garden B gardened C gardening
D gadens
3 They love ………… with their friends
A eat out b ate out C having out
D to eat out
4 I prefer ………… people
A text B texing C texted d texts
5 They detest ……… so early in the moning
A gettingup B get up C to get up
D gets up
6 My dad doesn’t mind ………… My mom from work every day
A pick up B picked up C picking up D picks up
- Guide Ss to do the exercise
- After 10 minutes call Ss give their answer in front of the class
- Call other Ss remark
- Give correct answer
II Put the verbs in bracket into the correct form
1.Son , do you fancy (play)……… badminton with me some time next week? 2.I love (listen) ……….to music 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 performs ( meet)………… people in person
6.They adore (make)……… and (eat)……… good food
III Choose the words / phrases in the box to fill the gaps
Staying indoors hanging out playing football
Doing DIY walking eating out watching TV
1.If you have to do home improvement ………….is a good way to save money
2.When you do team sports such as ……… , you develop team sprit too
3.These days a lot of children prefer ………… And to playing outside
4.People in Singapore love ……… You can find food courts almost everywhere in this city stane
5.To many A merican teenagers , the shopping mall is one of the top destinations to see friends and………
6.………… is the most popular individual outdoors activity in the Uk
My village 1…………
I live in a village by the Mekong river Every day, like most 0f my friends, I walk to school It is three kilometers way After class, I often help my mother to collect water from the river and feed the chickens At the weekend, the villagers often gather at the community hall where there is a Tv The adult watch TV, but more often talk about
Trang 2their farm work and exchane news.The childen run around, playing games and shouting merrily Laughter is heard everywhere
2………
My father sometimes takes me to the market town nearby where they sells our home products like vegetables, fruits, eggs… He then buys me an ice cream and lets me take aride on the electric train in the town square I love those trips
3…………
On starry night., 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.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph
A our dream B life in the village C My trips to town
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 ocne a month
C Only when there is an important event
D at the wekend
3 the thing the boy enjoys better than other thing on his trip to town is …………
A he can sell his home products
B he feels grow- 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 farway places
III Fill the gaps with the words in the box More than word can be suitable for some gap
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 blowers presure and cholesterol levels (3)……… the likeihood of heart disease is lower (4)……… , exercise make your mucles and bones stronger (5)…… , if you exercise regularly, you will makes depression and anxiety as well (6)…… , it is very important to invest time in doing this to improve the quality of your daily life
IV Read the following text about what children in Wedden like doing in their free time.
A.fill the gap with the words / phrases provided
Interests listening hanging out
Trang 3a musiccial instument doing sport
Swedish teenagers enjoy (1)……… to music and (2)………… with friends, just like most children around the world Everyone is encourageed to develop his or her own (3)……… Singing and playing (4)………… are popular leisure activities
According to a govement website , almost one in three swedish children aged 13-14 play an instrument in their spare time (5)… sports is also encouraged 68 per cent
of 13 to 15 -year-ols are members of sport club Football is the most popular (6)
………… among both gils and boys Then comes riding for girls Boys prefer
footrball, swimB decide if the statement are T or F
1 Swedish teenagers have leisure activities that are very different from those of the teenagers in other countries
2 they do their leisure activities according to their parents’ wishes
3 Swedish children enjoy music
4 Only Swedish boys like palying football
5 Swesish girls don’t like horses
6 more Swedish boys do ice hokey than horse ridingming and ice hokey
V Match
1.vast area of glass where
the cattle feed
2.Taking the cattle out
for food and looking after
them
3.A time when the
farmers collect their
crops
4 a wooden form of
transport for moving
heavy things
5 a colourful plaything
which can fly
6 an animal for
ploughing in the fields
A a buffllow-drawn cart
B herding
C pastures
D a buffalo
E havest time
F a kite
B Exercises
Use the adjectives in brackets in their correct form of comparison
1.Which one is ………… , the city or the countryside?(noisy)
2.Some people think that country folk are ………… city people ( friendly)
3.In the countryside, havest time is often ……… and …………time (busy, hard) 4.My village has only 1,200 people It’s not ……… the city (crowed)
5 The city offers more services It’s much ……… the countryside ( convenient)
6 A city has ……… activities than the countryside (interesting)
7 Of the three types of cattle in the Mogolian desert, the sheep is………… ( slow)
8 A village is much ………… a city size (small)
II choose the correct sentence A or B
Trang 41 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 harder on their farms than we can imagine
B Those farmers work much more harder 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: nomad or city dwellers
B.I’m not sure who lives happier: nomad or city dwellers
6 a ger can be more easily pulled down than a house
B.ger can be more easy pulled down than ahouse
III Use the words in the right – hand colunm in the correct form to complete the sentences
1.My sister has a beautiful ………… of paper doll ( collect)
2……… a horse is one of the skills every nomadic child in Mongolia has to learn (ride)
3.Everybody has to work for world……… (peaceful)…
4.The hills are ……… in spring when the wild flowers bloom.(colour)
5 the ……… have a very hard life They can not live permanently in one place (nomadic)
6 we children enjoy ……… around the fileds, shouting and laughing happily (Run)
V: find and correct ONE mistake in each sentence.(1.25pts)
1.I prefer read comics in my free time
2.How many leisure time did the people in Vietnam have on an average day?
3.Mai enjoys to make scafts especially cloth dolls
4 What place would you like to visit : the mountains or the sea?
5 There is the colourful picture on the wall
6 What is life like in a countryside?
7 For many ethnic groups in the mountains , the horse is still the more convenient means of transport
8 A Camel runs much more slowly as a horse
9 I often try to finish my homework before going to watch TV
10 For some people, training pets are very hard work
VI Rewite the sentences
1.The Eagle team performed more successfullly than the lions 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)
4 A sport car goes fater than an ordinary car (slowly)
-> An ordinary car goes…………
5 A bussiness person travels more expensively than a tourist (cheaply)
Trang 5-> A tourist travels………
6 MR Thom works more responsibly than Mr Dylan.( carellessly)
-> Mr Dylan works
VII Read the passae and answer the questions
My village
We are Khmer Krom, one of the biggest ethnic groups in the south of Viet Nam We live by farming- Mostly rice- and fishing on the Mekong river Life is sometimes hard
as our work depends heaviy on weather When it is not harvest time, the men of the village go fishing from early morning and don’t return until late afternoon By the time they return, most of the village women will be waiting for them on the river bank They wait to buy the fish, which they will later sell at the local market or bring
to nearby town for a higher price We children will be there too We love running around the beach and waiting for the boats to come in
Our most important festival of the year is Chol Chnam Thmay, which celebrates the New Year It Falls in mid- April Every family tries to prepare well for the festival activities The community also visits and help families so that everybody has a happy New Year
1 Where do the Khmer Krom live?
2 Why is life hard for the Khmer?
3 When do the women and children of the village go to the river bank?
4 What do the women do with the fish they buy from the fishment?
5 What is Chol Chnam Thmay?
6 Who are helped by the community at this festival? Why?
Exercises
I Fill each blank with a, an or the to complte the following passage.
Ymoan was the greatest pop singer of the Ede ethnic group in Da Lat Province He aws born in 1957 and died in 2010 He was called (1)…… singer of the great woods’
He is famous for singing songs about (2)…………central Highlands and the ethinic people there In addition, he made (3)…… important constribution, through his singingand his all songs, to making the central Highlands well- known to millions of people both insite and outside (4)……… country He not only sang about the central Highland He received (5)……… lots of prizes ans awards for his achievements in music In 2010 he was given the title ‘People Artist’ (6)……… highest honourby the state for artists
II.Write questions for the underlined parts in the following sentences.
1.The Tay people have the second largest population in Viet Nam
2.the cultural herritage of the ethnic people in Vit Nam is very rich
3.The last syllable is streesed in the word ‘engineer’
4 Of the three costumes , I like the red one most
5 The sanstone section is the most important collection in Da Nang Museum of the Cham people
6 the Yao people are famous for their elaborate costumes
IV Choose A, B, C or D to complete the sentence
1The volunteers have to work much ………….usaual to save the dying animals from the forest fire
A.as hard as b more hard than c harder than d the hardest
Trang 62……… is the most interesting museum in Ha Noi?
A Which do you think B which you think
C what do you think D Which you think
3 A tent can be ………… pulled down and transported than a ger
A more easy b more easily C easier 4 as easily
4 Both my brother and I help ……… our family ‘s goats We feed them on the pastures by the edge of the village
A herds B to herd c herding D to herding
5 I love …… Ith my best friend Susan during the weekend We go window – shopping or to the cinema
A, chatting b studying C visiting D hanging out
6 ……… Can make you relaxed You enjoy them in your free time
A Sports B Leisure time C riding a horese D flying a kite
7 So many people nowadays are ……… computers and moblie phone They use them a lot
A addicted B bored with C worried D afraid of
8 Among the ……… , Tay people have the largest population
A groups B marorities C ethnic D ethnic cultures
9 the Us … country with over 80 ethnic groups
A multi-cultural B bi-ligual C rich D ethnic
VI Read the following text
Going culture in the Central Highlands
Going culture in the Cenntal Highlands of Viet nam has been recognised by UNECSO as A Masterpiece of the intangible Herritage of Humanity
Going culture convers five provinces of Central Highlands: KonTun, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Giarai… The Gong festival is held annually in the Cental Highlands In the festival, artists from these provinces give gong perfomances, highting the gong culture of their own province
For the ethnic groups of the Central Highlands gongs are musical instruments of special power It is belived that gong is the symbol of a god who grows more powerful
as the gong gets older Therefore, gongs are associated with special occasion in people
‘s lives such as the building of new houses, funrerals, crops praying ceremonies, a new harvest, vitory celebrations, etc The gong sound a way to communicate with the gods
1 the text tells us about ………
A a world cultural herrige
B the artists of the central Highlands
C life in the Central Highlands
D music instruments of ethnic groups
2.How often is gong Festival celebtared?
A every month B every year C all the year round D on special ocassions
3 The Gong are …………
A akind of art work B music instrument
C pieces os music D cultural herritages
4 The ethnis peoples in the Cental Highlands believe that ……
A special power like their gongs
Trang 7B gong are associated with new houses
C their gong s are the symbols of gods
D the gong is older than themselves
5 For people in the Central Highlands, the going sound is ………
A a way to entertain themselves
B a sound of victory
C a form of festival
d a means of communication