Language Review 1

Pronunciation

1. Listen and repeat the following words and phrases.

• spaceship
• toothbrush
• English practice
• blow
• presence
• colourful clothing
• risky
• bloom
• Brau people
• stamp collecting

2. Listen to the sentences and underline the words with /sk/, /sp/, /st/, /br/, /pr/, /bl/, and /cl/ in the following sentences. Then read the sentences aloud.

• 1. I used to climb trees when I was small.
• 2. How can we improve our speaking skills?
• 3. How annoying, the stadium has closed!
• 4. I want to buy a blue skirt for my mother.
• 5. ‘On a dark day, I saw a witch riding a broom in the sky...’

Volcabulary

3. Organise these words and phrases into pairs of opposites and write them in the blanks.

peaceful              hard                  boring                       forget
traditional            easy                  love                          modern
noisy                    city life              majority                    hate
country life           minority             remember               exciting

• peaceful >< noisy                     forget >< remember
• love >< hate                             hard >< easy
• traditional >< modern               majority >< minority
• boring >< exciting                    country >< city life

4. Put a verb in the correct form in each gap to complete the sentences.

• 1. Duong doesn’t _______ like / enjoy ________ playing football. He enjoys _______ listening ________ to music or ________ visiting _______ museums more.

• 2. Don’t _______ forget ________ to lock the door before you go to bed, Quan.

• 3. Children in this village love  _______ flying/ to fly ________ kites on summer afternoons.

• 4. My sister doesn’t _______ mind ________ cooking, but she hates ________ doing/ to do _______ the washing up after meals.

• 5. The Hmong boys like _______ playing/ to play ________ the game danh quay in spring.

5. Complete the sentences with the correct comparative form of adverbs from the adjectives in brackets.

• 1. On Saturday night we may stay up ____ later ______ than usual. (late)
• 2. In his free time, Linh enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles _____ more carefully _____ than anything else. (much)
• 3. We speak English _______ more fluently ________ now than last year. (fluent)
• 4. You should buy the blue sweater. It suits you _____ better _____ than the red one. (good)
• 5. Ethnic people in the mountainous regions live ______ more simply ______ than people in the city. (simple)
• 6. Everyone in the race ran fast, but John ran ____ faster ______ than all the others. (fast)
• 7. If you write _______more carefully________, you will make fewer mistakes. (careful)

Grammar

6. Fill each blank with an article (a, an, or the) to complete the passage.

If you are tired of your busy and noisy city life, at the weekend you can go to 
(1) __a___ green and peaceful place with friendly people in the Mekong region. Most of Viet Nam’s rice is grown here. You will have (2) __an___ opportunity to enjoy the beauty of typical Southern Vietnamese countryside and (3) ___the__ view of immense rice paddies, coconut plantations and beautiful rivers. (4) __the___ Mekong Delta is also famous for its fascinating floating markets and fruit orchards where you can taste delicious local fruits especially (5) __the___ dragon fruit. It will be (6) 
___an__ special treat for you!

Everyday English

7. Match the sentences in A with those in B. Then practise with a friend.

A

• 1. Small children in my village often climb that hill and swim in this river
• 2. It is true that there are busy floating markets on the rivers in the Mekong region?
• 3. I’m sure you will love this new cartoon
• 4. Flying kites is very exciting, but we can never do this in the city
• 5. My dad enjoys doing D.I.Y. He made this dining table set

B.

a. Yes, it’s right up my street

b. How interesting!

c. No, we can’t

d. That’s awesome!

e. Exactly

• 1-b
• 2-a
• 3-b
• 4-c
• 5-d