Keep in good condition for the future Show sth for other people to look at Important and valuable Things you need to do or make sth Get rid of sth you don’t want Explain the meaning of a[r]
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A Answer these questions
1 Do you have many photos of your family and
friends? Where do you keep them? What do
you do with them?
2 When you go on vacation, what do you keeps to
remember your trip?
3 What kinds of papers and photos did your
parents save from your childhood? Do you ever look at them?
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SCRAPBOOKING
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Find the explanations for these terms
Layout _
Scrappers _
Crops
An empty book for collecting and preserving photographs, newspaper articles, and other papers.
A page that uses fancy paper, stickers, drawings and words to show the theme.
Big parties where we all work on our scrapbooks.
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1 Define
2 Preserve
3 Throw away
4 Precious
5 Supplies
6 Decorate
7 Universal
8 Display
• Keep in good condition for the future
• Show sth for other people to look at
• Important and valuable
• Things you need to do or make sth
• Get rid of sth you don’t want
• Explain the meaning of a word
• The same everywhere
• To make sth look better
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A Complete the sentences with information
from the article.
1 In her childhood, Diane liked to
2 Diane started making scrapbooks after
3 Her first scrapbooks was about
4 People make scrapbook to and to _
bits of paper, things like movie tickets, vacation postcards, even paper napkins
10 years ago father
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B Answer True(T) or False(F)
1 Scrapbooking has become an important business
2 People in many countries make scrapbook
3 A “crop” is a kind of scrapbooking competition
4 Most scrapbooks are about nationality history
5 A scrapbook page has both words and pictures
F T F F T
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C Answer the questions
1 What kinds of people do you think scrapbooking would be
popular with young or old? Male or female?
2 Do you think scrapbooking would be popular in your
country? Why, or why not?
3 Imagine you’re going to make a scrapbook What theme will
you choose ? What will you put on your scrapbook pages?
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A Answer the questions below Share your answers with your partner
1 What is something you would like to “preserve” for your
children in the future?
2 What is something that you really should “throw away”?
3 How do you like to “decorate” your rooms?
4 What are some leisure activities that are universal?
Trang 9Vocabulary skill
Verb Noun Meaning
Improve Improvement Making sth better
Achieve Achievement to succeed in reaching a
particular goal, status or standard, especially by making an effort for a long
time Measure Measurement to find the size, quantity,
etc of something in standard units Develop Development grow bigger/stronger Require Requirement to need something Agree Agreement to have the same opinion Govern Government to legally control a country
or its people
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B Complete the conversation below using the correct
noun or verb
A: It’s quite an(1) to get into a university like Harvard or Tale B: Yes, I(2) _; but I’m not planning to attend either of those
schools I’m trying to enter the University of Wisconsin The problem is that all international students have to take the TOEFL test It’s a (3) _
A: Well, if you want to go there, you’ll need to (4) _ your test
score.
B: I know, but my current score is still an (5) _ over last month’s score.
A: Well, I’m sure you’ll get into Wisconsin- your English is very good And you know that standardized tests don’t always provide an accurate(6)
_ of a person’s ability to speak in English.
achievement agree
requirement improve
measurement
improvement