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1. What do you think are the necessary life skills for teenagers in our country? | 1. Imagine you have a problem at school or with your friends. |
2. Which skills do you think you have already had? | 2. How do you think you can do to deal with the problem? |
3. Which skills do you need to develop? Why? | 3. What do you think is the most important quality a person needs to be able to get along with others? Why? |
1. If you have good________you can find it easy to recognize and control your feelings and cope with negative emotions. A. housekeeping skills B. emotion control skills C. self-care skills 2 In my village, people ________________ weaving bamboo baskets. A. live on B. turn on C. live in 3 “I’m not sure what to do this weekend. Any ideas?” - “………………” A. Why don’t we go to the concert? B. You will go to the concert, perhaps? C. Do you go to the concert? 4 They said that he didn’t come to the meeting. A. “I have come to the meeting” , they said. B. “He didn’t came to the meeting ” , they said. C. “He doesn’t come to the meeting”, said they
Read the text and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.
Find native English speakers In certain areas it’s the hardest thing to do, but it’s the best use of your time. Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills, speaking or otherwise. So whether you have to Skype them, call them, or beg them to speak to you, do so. Your progress will be faster this way than any other.
Listen to the music of English No, not English music, the music of English - its lilt, its prosody, the sing-songy-ness of it. The intonation. Even if you speak perfect English technically, if you speak it like a robot you’re not speaking it the way it’s meant to be spoken.
Slow down Above all, if you want to be understood, slow down. The more clearly you speak, the better chance your listener has of understanding you. It’s tempting to get nervous and want to speed up to get it all over with, but you can’t do that! Clarity is key - for some native English speakers, too!
Record yourself Though we hear ourselves all the time, we really don’t know quite what we sound like. So record yourself! What are the weak and strong points you hear in your speech? And then you can concentrate on what you need to work on.
Speak English at home This is the biggest, easiest mistake to make. You go about your day, you’re on the job working partly in English, you go to your English class, and then you go home and revert back to your native tongue. While you may be making slow improvements, you’ll never get past that dreaded lingual plateau. Make a point to speak it at home, too. Have only English at the dinner table. Stick to English TV at home. Make it as 24/7 as possible.
Talking to actual native speakers is the least effective way to improve your English skills
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III. Choose the correct option A, B, C, or D for each gap in the passage. In our Life Skills lesson last week, our class (1) ______ a visit from a Fire Safety Officer, and this is what he told us: ‘Today I’m going to tell you what to do (2) ______ fire. If there is a fire, keep calm. Be sure you know where (3) ______ the nearest exit or stairway. Do not use the lift. Before you leave, close all the doors behind you. You should know how (4) ______ the fire alarm, and then shout ‘fire’. You should know what number to call to report the fire and ask to help. In Viet Nam, it's number 114. 1. A. has B. had C. has had D. will have 2. A. in case B. in case of C. if D. unless 3. A. can find B. can you find C. you can find D. you to find 4. A. activate B. activated C. activating D. to activate
1.It isn’t necessary for you to wear uniform on Sunday.=> You don’t …………………
2.There was no need for you to have gone to all the trouble.=>You don’t ………………………
3.It is a waste of time reading that novel.=>You needn’t ………………….
4.It is essential to meet your aunt at the airport?=>Does your aunt ……………………………………
5.It is impossible for roses to be grown in such poor ground.=>Roses can’t ………………………………
You are going to read an article about fitness website on the internet. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is an extra sentence which you do not need to use.
The benefits of fitness online training
Thanks to Internet you can now get into shape dressed in your pyjamas. By Lucy Atkins
Fitness experts these days generally agree that “natural exercise” is the answr to our unhealthy lifestyles. An activity such as stair- climbing or running for the bus, they say, gets the heart rate going for five or ten minutes, several times a day, without the boredom of going to a gym or jogging round the park.
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But thanks to the Internet it is now at least theorically possible to get into great shape without even changing out of your pyjamas. The web is packed with creative, instant and varied excercises that are often avalablefree. Just start typing and watch the kilos disappear.
Joanna Hall is a fitness expert who has set up a walking club on the Internet. At her Walkative website, she promises that in six weeks you can achieve a 25% increase in fitness levels by following her activity programme based entirely on walking. “These days people are used to finding that what they need online,” she says.
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Perhaps the best way to deal with this problem is just to have a look around and see what’s out there
One click of your mouse can take you, for instance, straight into an aerobics, dance and yoga class, or introduce you to a variety of other lively activities. You can put together your own strength training programmes, concentrate on particularly week body parts or learn new ways of getting fit.
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There are so many possibilities that you could spend the entire day sitting on your chair just surfing the websites and chatting with all these new friends you have made.
Quality, however, can be hardeer to find. Some sites try to attempt you into buying DVDs after they’ve started you off with free beginners” programmes.
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Sometimes the quality of the picture or the sound can be extremely poor.
You have to put up with advertisements that suddenly appear on the screen, and there is the annoying tendency of some computers suddenly to pause in the middle of an activity, then return to the the beginning of the video when you start clicking the mouse.
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“ Online programmes allow you to fit your training times around other things you have to do, such as going to collge or work,´says Hall. “They can be a very effective and achievable way to exercise, something you can do all year round.” You can use them any time of the day or night, in an office, hotel room or at home. In addition, you do not have to
turn up at a gym or studio on time, wear embreassing clothing, or deal with annoyingly fit people.
If a particular fitness programme doesn’t fit you, the website may suggest ways of adjusting it to your own needs. It should also, most importantly, offer advice on healthier living in general.
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Some sites will help you brig this about by providing charts showing how much change you can expect for a given amount of exercise. They may even encourage you to keep to your training programme by sending you regular emails, perhaps including a daily “fit tip”
All that is fine, but the trouble is that you do also need to have a certain amount of self-displine to ensure that you keep going once you have started.
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There’s also the danger that family, friends or colleagues could some in and start laughing at you at any time. And there is a risk of injury if you don’t follow the more comples instructions ( though this issue arises with exercise DVDs and poorly taught classes too). Still, if you want a cheap, possibly fuuny and definitely varied ways to get fit, then sit back and surf.
A. Once you manage to find a more worthwhile website, however, there are real advantages.
B. Of course, it’s not easy to include exercise in your daily routine if you are lazy and spend all day sitting around at home. C. Best of all, you can do so with the support of in online community who have the same aims as you. D. Otherwise it’s just too easy to give up because you’ve paid nothing and nobody cares if you log on to (or off) the website, or whether you acctually do any exercise at all.
E. Others require a large joining fee in order to progress to more advanced activities.
F. Good eating habits are essential for achieving this, particularly if you want your weight to decrease, or increase.
H. True, but it can be hard to know exactly what that is when there is such an enormous range of
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LEARNING A LANGUAGE
Whatever your reason for learning a new language, you can probably agree it'd be ideal to learn in fast. …….(16)……. . You'll have to learn a new grammar, memorise vocabulary words, practise speaking, etc. But learning a new language does not need to be a slow or boring process if you flow the right strategy.
The first step to learning a new language fast is to set goals. When you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. …….(17)……. When faced with the idea of learning a new language, most of us feel nervous. Setting goals helps you to focus.
Languages are made up of a shocking number of words. English, for example, has between 600,000 and 1 million words. …….(18)……. Consider this: the top 100 words make up about 50 percent of English language texts, and the top 1,000 words make up about 90 percent! By focusing on learning these words first, you can increase the amount of information you understand very quickly.
One of the best ways to learn vocabulary words is to use flashcards. Flashcards allow you to test yourself, which helps you memorise new information. Try out electronic flash cards. …….(19)……. You can easily carry large amounts of words on your smartphone or tablet, and you can take advantage of flash cards that other people have created and made public.
When you're learning a new language, it can be hard to practise words in context because you haven't mastered yet enough vocabulary to make complex sentences. …….(20)……. . For example, if you're learning the Spanish word casa (house), you could say, “I’m going to go to my casa now.” You can also make up a sentence with the new word you’re learning, the meaning of the word and a word in your own language that sounds similar.
A. Paper flashcards work just as well but electronic flash card programmes provide some great benefits.
B. But in reality, having goals doesn't help you achieve much.
C. If you don't set goals, how can you know what you want to achieve?
D. At this time, there is no point even trying to remember the word.
E. Luckily, you don't need to learn anywhere near that many words to be good at a language.
F. You should aim to learn about 5,000 words in a couple of weeks.
G. To get around this, simply use the word in a sentence in your native language.
H. Yet the idea of learning a language seems anything but fast.
Traditional, mental tests have been divided into two types. Achievement test are designed to measure acquiring skills and knowledge , particularly those that have been explicitness taught. The proficiency exams required by few states for high school graduation are achievement tests. Aptitude tests are designed and measure a person's ability to acquire new skills but knowledge. For example, vocation aptitude tests can help you dicide whether you would do better like a mechanic or musician. However, all mental tests are in some sense achievement tests because they assumption some sort of past learning or experience with certainly objects, words, or situations. The difference between achievement and aptitude tests is the degree intention use.
* Write the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. Do you have the complete ………………………to spend the holiday the way you wish? (free)
2. I’m going to buy a tent which is light enough for backpacking and ………………………. (tour)
3. The ………………………have been trying to protect this forest for years. (environment)
4. I’m very happy that my parents let me make my own ………………………about holiday destinations.(decide)
5. For the more ………………………tourists, there are trips into the mountains with a local guide.(adventure)
In Vietnam people do not celebrate Mother's Day or Father's Day. You think it is necessary to have a day to celebrate for your mom and another for your dad. Write to a friend to share this idea. viết dùm mình nhé