Ex 2: Fill in the blank with a suitable word:      ( điền ạ )

1. I often …………………………… English lessons on Wednesday and Friday.

2. I practice listening by………… English cartoon on TV.

3. He ………………………… new words in his notebook and reads them aloud.

4. ……………………………… do you learn vocabulary ?

5. I speak English every day with………………………………friends.

6. To practise speaking you can talk ………………………… foreign friends.

7. He learns English because He wants to………… English songs.

8. What foreign ……………… do you have at school? – I have English and Chinese.

9. To practise ………………………………, I write emails to my friends.

10. Why do you learn English? – ……………………………… I want to sing English songs.

II. Read the passage and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (1 p)

      Brad is forty years old. He is an English (1)……….. in Miami, the USA. He teaches grammar and conversation. He loves his job very much because he can meet a (2)………..of students from different countries in the world to study there. He usually (3)…………. work at 9.30 in the morning and finishes at 3.30 in the afternoon. But he is not working at the moment. He is traveling round Paris (4)…………a group of friends. They walk all day in Paris and see the Eiffel Tower. He is going to try French food and (5)…………..some photos. He will be back to America next week.

Fill the blank with although/ despite/ in spite of Practice 1. Fill the blank with although/ despite/ in spite of 1. ______________________we are a small company, we sell almost a hundred machines a month 2. ______________________all the difficulties, the project started on time and was a success 3. ______________________we were warned against doing so, we went ahead with the project. 4. ______________________his lack of experience, he became a successful businessman 5. ______________________being by far the oldest player, he scored three goals. 6. ______________________he's a millionaire, he drives a second-hand car 7. ______________________it rained a lot, I enjoyed the holiday 8. _____________________working for the company for six months now, he never seems to know what to do 9. _____________________my warnings, he went to Colombia. 10. _____________________she didn't want to see The Lord of the Rings, she enjoyed it in the end. 11. _____________________being bad at pool, she beat him three times in a row 12. She decided to go abroad for a year_____________________ loving her boyfriend very much. 13. He went on holiday to Thailand_____________________ the expensive airfare 14. I phone my brother in Thailand using Skype nearly every day___________________the time difference. 15. The best things in life are free, _____________________ love is often very expensive.

PART III: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR  (2pts)

Task 1. Fill in each blank with one word in the box below (1pt)

1.     A________________  is a film that tries to makes audiences laugh.

2. Bus is the main public________________in Viet Nam.

3. The latest film of that director makes us ________________.

4. People put pumpkin________________outside the homes during Halloween.

Task 2. Give the correct form or tense of the words given to complete these sentences (1pt)

1. My father _________________ me how to ride a bike last week. (teach)

2. I used to _________________ to school when I was in primary school. (walk)

3. The movie was so____________________ that we couldn’t sleep last night. (thrill)

4. Birthday is a family ____________________     (celebrate)

 Read the following passage, then answer the questions. 

In the first year of lower secondary school, I had some difficulties in learning English. My English pronunciation was really bad & my English grammar was worse. I did not know about this. One afternoon after the lesson, my English teacher told me to wait for her outside the classroom. She took me to the school library & showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English – English dictionary to improve my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do”, said she. I made much progress & only one year later, I won the first prize in the English Speaking Contest held for secondary school students in my hometown.

1.      How was his English grammar in the first year?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

2.      Who wanted to meet him one afternoon after the lesson?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3.      Did she show him cassettes of pronunciation drills to help him improve his English grammar?

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4.      What prize did he win in the English Speaking Contest one year later?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………

Read the passage, and decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.

Everybody knows that in studying foreign languages practice is the key to fluency. All foreign language learners even the advanced learners need practice. There is a fact that a learner can know a lot of grammar rules and have a large vocabulary; however, they can't speak well yet. So the learners must know how to use what they have learnt, apart from the ability to explain grammar rules. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are all important skills but most English learners find listening and writing the most difficult.

Question: The key to fluency in studying a foreign language is practice.

Read the passage, and decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.

Everybody knows that in studying foreign languages practice is the key to fluency. All foreign language learners even the advanced learners need practice. There is a fact that a learner can know a lot of grammar rules and have a large vocabulary; however, they can't speak well yet. So the learners must know how to use what they have learnt, apart from the ability to explain grammar rules. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are all important skills but most English learners find listening and writing the most difficult.

The key to fluency in studying a foreign language is practice.

IV. Fill in each blank in these semtences with the suitable form of the words in brackets.

1. The increase of carbon dioxide in the armosphere has............ greatly on the earth clomate rencently. (effect)

2. Recycling of waste is one of the............. solutions for pollution. (practice)

3. Most........... at the international workshop in Tokyo focused on the increase of the earth temperature. (environment)

4. Several families were ............ on the beach. (picnic)

5. Sir Isaac Newtion was an English .......... scientist. (stand)