activities and the seasons practice

There are four seasons in my country: spring, summer, autumn and winter.. In the summer, it is hot and sunny.[r]

UNIT 13: ACTIVITIES AND THE SEASONS

PRACTICE

I Choose the word whose sound is pronounced differently from that of the other three:

1 A weather B season C beach D read

2 A sometimes B mother C cold D dozen

4 A badminton B always C warm D fall

7 A activity B winter C diary D picnic

8 A farmer B basketball C lemonade D pastime

10 A purple B hungry C but D must

II Choose the word whose stress is not the same as that of the other three:

1 A careful B chicken C ahead D foodstall

2 A banana B water C letter D spider

3 A weekend B winter C basketball D activity

4 A movie B usually C season D arrive

5 A pastime B fishing C usually D banana

6 A sailing B aerobics C camping D fishing

7 A lemonade B jogging C swimming D autumn

8 A weather B activity C summer D winter

9 A diary B always C prepare D sandwich

10 A activity B picnic C season D camera

III Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in each sentence:

1 _sports does he play?

2 He _to the movies in the evening

A goes often B often goes C is often going D often is going

3 She likes in the country

A live B lives C living D to living

4 How _do you go camping?

A usually B often C sometimes D always

5 It’s always very cold here in the

A fall B summer C spring D winter

6 Swimming is her favorite in the summer

A activity B activities C season D seasons

7 Do you often help your mother the housework?

8 My sister is aerobics at the moment

A having B doing C playing D making

9 Minh likes _ in the mountains

A walking B to walk C walks D walk

10 _ do you go to the library? – Twice a week

A How many B How much C How often D How long

11 There are many flowers in the

A winter B summer C spring D fall

12 Fall means in British English

A spring B summer C autumn D winter

13 Tan likes weather because he can go swimming

A hot B cold C windy D foggy

14 Tuan isn’t sporty He plays sports

A always B usually C often D never

15 Her brother often a kite on the weekend

A fly B is flying C flies D flying

16 Minh goes to the English club _ a week

A two B second C twice D three

17 What’s the weather _ in the summer?

18 Lan to school by bus

C sometimes goes D sometime goes

19 What’s your _ season?

20 You must take a hat with you when you go out It’s very today

21 They are _ badminton at the moment

22 _ sports does he play?

23 What does he do his free time?

24 I go with my friends on Sunday

A volleyball B tennis C sailing D aerobics

25 He always his bike in the spring

IV Supply the correct form of the words in parentheses:

1 He uses a rod to catch fish (FISH)

2 Luis Figo is a really good football _ (PLAY)

3 She trains five times a week at her local _ pool ( SWIM)

4 Mr Tan is a He works on a big ship (SAIL)

5 It’s usually hot and in HCM city in the dry season (SUN)

6 They go to the movies a month ( TWO )

7 Miss Trang likes in the country ( LIVE )

8 We’re going to Japan at the _of July (BEGIN)

9 Her father goes every morning (JOG)

10 We always play _ in the winter (BASKET)

11 Swimming is one of our favorite in the summer (ACTIVITY)

13 It often _ from May to November in HCM city (RAINY)

14 Nam sometimes goes _ with his friends (SAIL)

15 Her daughter is a good _ (SWIMMING)

V V Arrange these words into their correct orders:

1 have / often / a / when / weather / is / the / fine / I / picnic / _

2 it’s / goes / usually / Nam / fishing / warm / Mr / when/

_

3 they / not/ always/ but/ have/ sometimes/ picnic/ a _

4 jogging / He / park / the / is / now / in /

5 sailing / She / in / goes / often / fall / the /

6 camping / they / Do / go / sometimes /?

7 he / usually / summer / swimming / in / go / the / Does / ? _

8 weather / in / the / What’s / Vietnam / the / spring / in / like / ? _

9 sports / Nam / his / Which / do / and / play / father / ? _

10 volleyball / free / He / plays / usually / in / his / time /

_

11 camping / do / What / take / they / when / go / they / ? _

12 how / your / do / you / mother / help / often / ? _

13 movies / We / out /go / but / the / sometimes / are / to / late / we / never /

14 to / now / outside / I / Ha Noi / want / go / somewhere / _

15 have / and / lake / Lan / a / often / her / Do / friends / to / picnic / near / a /?

VI VI Read the passages and choose the best answers :

1 There are four seasons in the year They are spring, summer, fall and winter In the

spring, the weather is usually (1) _ Sometimes it is cold (2) _ not very cold In the spring, there are many flowers In the summer, the days are long and the nighs are (3) People often go to the (4) in the season Fall is the season of fruit People can enjoy different kinds of fruit, especially in tropical (5) like Viet Nam It rains very much in the fall In the winter, it is usually very cold The days are short and the (6) _ are long Answers:

1 A terrible B cold C hot D warm

4 A seaside B hotel C school D farm

5 A factories B countries C cities D activities

6 A nights B mornings C evenings D afternoons

2 My brother is an engineer He is thirty-four years old He is very strong He (1) in

a factory next to my house He likes sports very much He often plays them when he is free Every morning, he goes (2) in the park After work, he usually plays soccer (3) his friends On the weekends, he (4) _ tennis with my father Sometimes, he (5) swimming Now, he is (6) TV in the living room

1 A live B work C works D does

2 A swims B jogging C swim D jog

3 A to B from C with D for

4 A play B is playing C plays D watch

5 A to go B goes C going D go

6 A walking B watching C watches D watch VII.Read the passage then answer the questions:

1 Hello, my name is Hai I live in Ho Chi Minh City This is a very beautiful city In my city,

there are two seasons: dry season and rainy season In the dry season, it’s very hot and sunny every day I usually go swimming with my friends I often eat ice-cream and drink iced-tea in this season In the rainy season, it usually rains It is wet and is not very hot I want to stay at home to read books or watch TV Sometimes the weather is warm or cool

It is never snowy in Ho Chi Minh City

Answer the questions:

1 Where does Hai live?

_

2 How many seasons are there in Ho Chi Minh City? What are they?

3 What does he do when it’s hot?

4 What does he want to do when it rains?

2 My name is Linda I live in England There are four seasons in my country: spring, summer,

autumn and winter In the summer, it is hot and sunny I usually go swimming It is cool in the fall I often go fishing In the winter, it is cold and cloudy I sometimes go skiing In the spring, it is warm and beautiful I sometimes go camping

Answers the questions:

1 Where does Linda live?

_

2 How many seasons are there in her country?

_

3 What’s the weather like in the winter?

_

4 What does she sometimes do in the spring?

_

VIII Rewrite each of the sentences so that the meaning stay the same:

1 Ho Chi Minh city is always hot in the summer

Ho Chi Minh city _

2 What is the weather like in Vietnam in the summer?

How

3 There are four seasons in Sa pa

Sapa

4 Minh likes spring best

Minh’s

5 How is the weather in Hanoi in the winter?

What’s _

6 What is your favorite weather?

What

7 It’s usually cold in the winter

It’s never _