The Khmer have managed to preserve their own language and writings. They usually live with the Kinh and Hoa in "soc" (villages), and "phum" or "ap" (hamlets). The houses are simply built with thatched or tiled roofs. Major Khmer festivals include "Chon Cho Nam Tho May" (New Year Festival), Buddha's Birthday, "Don Ta" (Forgive the Crimes of the Dead), and "Ooc Om Bok" (Moon Worship).

H’mong people are an important member in the community of ethnic minorities in Vietnam with about one million people, ranked 8th among 54 Vietnamese ethnics. They often occupy the upland areas, from 800-1500m above the sea level, mostly in the Northwest and a few in the central highland of Vietnam. You can easily spot them in Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Sa Pa, Lai Chau, Son La and several other provinces.

Their language family is Hmon-Mien, yet the language is a non-written one. Hmong people have a very extraordinary culture that is still vividly seen today. The best time to visit the Hmong is during the Lunar New Year in late January or early February - when they would celebrate the 3-day Tet festival. During the festival, they often cheerfully blow “khèn” (their special woodwind instrument), play swings and other traditional games and sing in the large yard around the village.

Stealing Wife is another special H’mong’s custom: when a man loves a woman, he must ‘steal’ her in the darkest night and imprison her without food for 2-3 days; if the woman accepts to marry him, he will come to her family to ask for her parents’ permission.

H’mong people believe that they have a common ancestor so they greatly value unity in their community. Several families gather into a cluster and has a leader responsible for common works. As for costumes, H’mong people usually wear their self-woven clothes made by linen, decorated with unique technique to express their strong ethnic characteristics. They drink corn, rice wine, smoking cigarettes using plow. Meanwhile, if you are a guest who is invited a self-loaded plow by a H’mong, you should take it as a friendly fondness.

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Vietnamese engagement ceremony is an important ceremony before the wedding which involve both fiancé’s and fiancée’s families. In the past, engagement ceremony was considered very important even than the wedding ceremony because it was an official day to announce the wedding, the relationship between two families. Nowadays, it is less important and varied for each region. In the big city the engagement ceremony could be celebrated 1 day before (and 1 month in the countryside) the wedding ceremony.

Before the engagement day, each family chooses a representative. This person is a member of the family which has a happy life and a high ranking position in the family. Both of representatives do representation, exchange gifts and controlling the flow of the ceremony. Besides choosing the representatives, both families sit together to negotiate the dowry and the good time for the ceremony. The time is chosen very carefully based on the propitious time and day of lunar calendar.

The gifts are prepared by the fiancé family several days before the engagement ceremony. Traditionally the gifts was placed a number of trays. The number must be an odd number 5, 7 or 9… trays depends on the condition of the fiancé family. The gifts are covered by the red color paper or cloth. In Vietnamese beliefs, the odd number and the red color will bring luck to the young couple. The gifts include betel leaves, areca nut fruits (trầu, cau), wine, tea, husband-wife cake (bánh phu thê) and sticky rice… one of the most important gift is the whole roasted pig which placed in a large tray. Both families also choose 5, 7 or 9 people who bring and receive the gifts. These people must be young and not marriage. Boys represent for fiancé bearing the gifts and girls represent for fiancée receiving the gifts.

On the engagement day, the fiancé family brings the gifts to the fiancée family with the warmly welcome. After receiving the gifts, the young couple prays in front of the fiancée’s family altar to ask for approval of fiancée ancestors. When this ritual finishes, the fiancé give the fiancée the engaged ring.

Following the engaged ring giving, the both representatives introduced the member of both families in an order. Then both family enjoy the party which prepared by the fiancée family. It is also expected that some of gifts are returned to the fiancé family for luck before the fiancé family leaves.

The days after the engagement ceremony to the wedding ceremony, the parents of fiancée family bring the wedding cards with gifts to their friends, family members… and neighbors to invite them to the wedding party of their young couple.

Vietnamese New Year

The Vietnamese New Year is also called the Tet. It is the most important traditional festival during Lunar New Year (usually around late January to early February), and people would celebrate it with different kinds of customs, such as ancestor worship, making special New Year food and writing couplet as well as other traditional activities.And people would go to visit friends or relatives' houses on the first day of Tet.

Making Banh Chung
Banh Chung is one of the special traditional foods that people would make during the Vietnamese New Year. It is usually made of sticky rice, along with pork meat and green bean, all wrapped in the shape of perfect square with a leaf of a certain local plant called Dong. And then Vietnamese would place the Banh Chung and other foods on the ancestors' altars (ancestor worship) till cook them on one or two days before the New Year.

Setting up New Year trees
At the end of the preparation for the Tet, a piece of bare bamboo (4-5 meters long) will be set up, with a little bunch of leaves on the tip, and a basket holding some fish and bells made of baked clay, acting as the marks that lead the ancestors' spirits their way home to reunion with the living.

Couplet
It's an indispensable tradition that every family would put up a couplet on the two sides of the main entrance door. The sentences are usually written in two parts. Words of one part must have the opposite meaning to the other part and obey some specific matching rules, which create an easy-pronounced effect. And you can find these traditional couplets written on red paper and being sold on both sides of the street, forming a happy atmosphere.

Water puppetry

If there's one way that combines culture learning and entertainment, the intriguing water puppetry would be an excellent choice. Dating back to the 11th century, this unique variation of ancient Asian puppet art features the skillful manipulation of the puppets, with the puppeteers controlling different varieties of puppet characters through large bamboo rods behind a screen, and not letting the audience see the puppeteers. The show is played on a waist-deep pool, so it would look like the puppets are moving on the water themselves.

The stories of the puppet show are usually about people's daily lives, legends, and some historical heroes. And the background music is played live with story-telling singing, drums, pipes and other traditional instruments. It's a great cultural learning time to share with families.

Where can you watch this show?
Located near the serene Hoan Kiem Lake, the Hanoi Water Puppet Theater is the place where you can admire this unique traditional Vietnamese art performance. The show will be put on every day at 15:30 – 17:00 – 18:30 – 20:00 – 21:15, and Sunday at 9:30

The ugly duckling Once upon a time there was a little mother duck. She was excited. Her five eggs were finally going to hatch. She watched and counted as one by one the eggs hatched. "One duckling, two ducklings, three, four, five ducklings", she said happily. Suddenly she noticed that there was one more egg. It was bigger and whiter than the rest. "This cannot be my egg", she thought. Slowly the big egg began to crack and the strange looking duckling came up. Mother duck was surprised. The younger duckling was great and bigger than the rest. "How ugly the little one is", she thought. As the day went by, the ducklings began to grow, but the younger duckling looked different from the rest. Everybody looked at him and said, "There goes the ugly duckling". His brothers, sisters teased him all the time. The ugly duckling felt very bad. Whenever people laughed at him, he used to run away and hide behind the reeds near the lake. "Nobody loves me", he thought. One day, the duckling decided to run away from home. He swam and swam, and on his way he had many adventures.

There once was a speedy Hare who bragged about how fast he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, the Tortoise challenged him to a race. All the animals in the forest gathered to watch.

The Hare ran down the road for a while and then paused to rest. He looked back at the tortoise and cried out, "How do you expect to win this race when you are walking along at your slow, slow pace?"

The Hare stretched himself out alongside the road and fell asleep, thinking, "There is plenty of time to relax."

The Tortoise walked and walked, never ever stopping until he came to the finish line.

The animals who were watching cheered so loudly for Tortoise that they woke up the Hare. The Hare stretched, yawned and began to run again, but it was too late. Tortoise had already crossed the finish line.

Vietnam is a country that has thousands of years of history. Like many other countries in the world, Vietnam has a culture of its own identity that carries the most typical is the Lunar New Year. It is these features that make manners, shape and identity of the people in Vietnam.

Phong tục tập quán ngày tết của Việt Nam

Lunar New Year is the most important occasion in Vietnam. Lunar New Year, according to the Vietnamese called Tet Nguyen Dan. "Nguyen" is to start, "Dan" is a new day. "Tet Nguyen Dan" is to start a new year, to welcome Spring with everything in its newest appearance. A new year comes with goodluck and in the mean time, all of the badluck will be gone, together with the passed year. "Tet Ta" (Lunar new year) is affected by Chinese Lunar New Year and East Asia Traditional Circle so that "Tet Ta" comes after New Years Eve. According to the old rule: 3 even years/a month of the Lunar Calendar, so the first day of the year is never before Jan 21st or after Feb 19th. Normally, this day will come from about the end of Jan to mid of Feb. The Lunar New Year lasts for 7-8 days of the passed year and 7 days of the new year.

According to East Asian culture and history of China, the origin of Lunar New Year from Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and change from time to time. According to folk beliefs, the New Year started from the concept "Thankfully the rain to sunshine", as well as originating from "tiet" (weather) upon under the operation of the universe, expressed in the cycle times the Spring - Summer - Fall - Winter, which, with a very special meaning for an agricultural country like Vietnam. Farmers for this is the occasion to commemorate the gods are related to agricultural land as the god of rain, thunder god, the god of water ... Farmers do not forget to thank the animals which help them farm work like cattle, poultry and they also thank others food crops, food to feed them.

The Vietnamese concept that everything in Lunar New Year must be very new and soon. So before Tet more than 2 weeks, the family prepare to celebrate. They are usually cleaning, decorating their house with apricot blossom, peach blossom, kumquat, couplets or festival painting. Preparation-work for the day of the Vietnamese New Year usually starts from December 23, the day that the Vietnamese dedicate Kitchen God. Some rural families still keep the tradition planting named “Neu”, while in the city, this custom has been forgotten. According to tradition, the tree is raised up against the devil and the ominous. the tree is often referred to hang or decorate what is considered to scare the devil as: garlic, cactus, effigies and Pandan. Before Tet, the Vietnamese also prepare chung cakes , day cake and hearty dishes to dedicate to their ancestors.

New Year's Day may be the 30th December (for full year) or December 29 (for shortage year). This day family reunion dinner together for the New Year. Between the 30th (or 29th) of December and 1 January, is the most important moment of the festival.It marked the transfer of the old year and new year, called Eve (Giao Thua). In recognition of this moment, people often make two trays. A tray of worship to ancestors at the altar in his house and a tray of worship Heaven and Earth in the front yard. Arrangements the altar of Vietnamese families usually have an altar ancestors, grandparents.The decoration and altar arrangements vary according to each house. However, on the altar every home always display two cane on either side as to the instrument for carrying on with the grandchildren and leading spirits from the sky on the lower boundary. At the same time on the altar also has a tray of five fruits expressed desire of the owner by the name, colours and their arrangement.

In addition, during public holidays are also customary forth. Many people view A day "opened" a new year. They said that on this day, if all goes smoothly, good luck for the whole year, would also be good, convenient. Right after the countdown time, anyone who steps outside into the home with new year wishes are considered to have stormed the land for their home. Moreover, referring to the lunar new year, people cannot help mentioning the continuing exodus, picking fortune, burn votive, congratulated, visiting, receiving lucky money, etc. All this rules are expressed wishes of the people of a prosperous new year, families are healthy, well off, warmth.

And indispensable in the New Year is the traditional dish. First to mention are chung cake, day cake associated with the legend of the same name. The legend tells that King Hung Vuong sixth looking for some twenty sons, one who truly virtuous to the throne should have the conditions: not necessarily the eldest son, who gratify the first king ceremony will be hereditary. The prince racing festival truly post-shopping, delicious. Lang Lieu, the son of the eighteenth, very sad for the poor, only grown accustomed to potatoes, rice, do not know where to get the ceremony delicacies like the other prince. After a night's dream, a hint gods, he took his sticky rice, green beans and pork buns in two things, the type of round, square type for father. King find delicious cakes, again express profound meaning he should take two bread ceremony Heaven, Earth and First King ceremonies, naming round cake is day cake, square cake is chung cake and throne to Lang Lieu. Since then, the chung cakes, day cakes worship ancestors become indispensable traditions of Vietnam's Tet.

Phong tục tập quán ngày tết của Việt Nam

The legend of chưng cake symbolizes conception of the universe of ancient Vietnamese people, while emphasizing the importance of rice and natural rice culture. The legend above want to remind children about the tradition of filial piety, respects; explanation of the meaning and origins of the Earth Cake. This is the beauty of the traditional culture of the nation.

One of the traditional dishes of ethnic is jam. The jam trays is not only delicious by the appearance but also carry different meanings. Whether it's somewhere in the world, the familiar images such as twigs yellow apricot, green chung cakes, red couplets, jam tray Festival, ... every time be mentioned that the Vietnamese to think of the New Year in hometown . Probably just about every spring, the Festival jam tray becomes sweet, meaningful. At Tet, almost every family put on their table all kinds of candies, jams Festival. First is to inviting guests , then the whole family to gather together and enjoy. Many kind of jam are put on the same tray is meant desired harmony, reunion.

For every country, in every period of history, culture, national traditions and language is the foundation of the social spirit, the motivation and goals of development, soul, strength life of the nation, that nation. Therefore, the preservation and promotion of cultural identity, national traditions play a very important role in the construction and development of the country. Through the customary of New Year's Day, the more we love hometown, country, Vietnamese people, saying to myself will try to study and train hard to preserve, promote and introduce the definition nice to her friends in the world.

Normally, when I have free time, I usually play sports, watch tv, surf webs and read books. After learnt stressful hours , activities such as help me entertain and relax. And playing sport is the free time activity I like best. Firstly, I like to play sport because it is really a healthy activity . You knows, sports provides many benefits for our health. It can improve health and help us to be strong. Addition, sport help us increase in statue and have a excellent body. Secondly, I like sports. I fell as dynamic as possible. Moreover, It make me full of energy. Lastly, well, It is what I enjoy most when playing sports. That is sports can help us take up the community. We will knows a lot of peoples because of having the same interests in play sport. True me, I was acquainting a lot of friend when I play sports. In short, I like to play sport because it provides many benefits for me. And you? What are activities you like best in your free time?

Living in the countryside is really good for your life because of these reasons:- First, living in the country can bring you a clean evironment. The air is fresher and there are lots oftrees, rice fields and rivers, you can walk on the fields or along the rivers to enjoy the clean and fresh airthere in the early morning.- Second, living in the countryside is cheaper than in the city because people there have lower income anddon’t have the habit of spending a lot of money. If you live in the country, you can save a lot of money.- Finally, people in the country are more friendly and opener than people in the city because they live neareach other. People live together in a small village so they can talk countryside can have festivals and youcan join and fell very happy.In conclusin, there are many benefits of living in the country

I really like using computers. I started this activity when I was seven. I often use computers an hour per day. Firstly, it is a means of communication. It's so convenient to communicate with each other. Secondly, it helps us expand the relationship. Also, using computers makes us relax after study or work hard. However , every coin has two sides. Using computers can be harmful to both your health and your social life. In sum, I like using computers very much.

mình cho bạn luôn cái đề cương nè!!! chúc bạn thi tốt nha!!!!!

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*Introduce yourself:

Hi( hello). Today (Now) I will introduce myself. My name is……… I’m…....years old. I’m a student in class……of group 8 at the secondary ……………… school. I live in………( address) of………………………….. street. My favorite subject is…………. and I like ………………in my free time.

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Topic 1: Leisure activities

1. Which leisure activities do you know?

Singing, dancing, jumping, read book, making crafts, doing DIY, visit heritage site, making origami, cycling, hanging out, skateboarding, yoga, aerobics, playing computer game , playing beach/ folk games, surf the net, skating, skiing, cooking, do the gardening, watch TV, swimming, playing sports, fishing, walking, communication with friends.

2. What do you do in your leisure time?

I drawing imagination animals like dragon, monster, ghost , etc or I watch cartoon on TV in my free time but sometime I do housework.

I cooking some kind of cakes and I grow up my garden bench in my free time but sometime I read book in my free time.

I play some sports with my friends like football, badminton and hanging out with them.

3. How do feel about your leisure activities?

I feel interesting, fun and I feel relax and comfortable too.

4. How much time do you spend a day on leisure activities?

About 1 hour or 2 hours (3 hours, 4 hours or 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, etc) but sometimes there are only a few minutes (5-10 minutes, 10-15 minutes)

5. What are the benefits of using computers or mobile phones for leisure activities?

- Find the information/ knowledge you want to know

-It helps us to talk to each other when we are away

-Relax (after work, school time, etc )

-Use to study and discover.

-Read news, newspaper about the world

6. What are harmful things it may bring us?

-It makes us sore eyes

-Sleeplessness

-Sit or stand a place in front of the computer too long is not good for health

-Not have enough time for family members

-Not able to communicate and do not know how to play sports

7. What do you think is the best leisure activities for teenagers? Why do you think so?

In my opinions, community is the best leisure activities for teenager. First, because today's teens are not confident in communicating and living virtual with technology so they have no hobby and do not know how to play sports and they are afraid to meet someone so it can change they more confident. Second, it will make them know more knowledge and more life skills. Besides, it improves health, helps us feel comfortable and acquainted with many new people will help us always happy and not alone when sad and we can share interesting things together and make us have good friendship. Finally, this action will help the world become more and more attached and better in the future. As I have noted (in short, for these reasons) teenagers should communication with people and friends more for a good future life of yourself and of us.

I believe the best leisure activity for teenagers is any group activity. This could be playing a team sport or joining a hobby group or even volunteering. Firstly, teenagers like to feel that they belong to the group. Secondly, being part of a group helps teenagers make friends. Friendship is very important to teenagers. In addition, they will make friends with people who have the same interests as them. For these reasons, I think group activities are best for teenagers

8. Should parents decide how teenagers spend their free times?

In my opinion, parents should decide for teenagers spend their free time sensibly. It must right balance between learning and playing. First, young people can play thirty minutes in their free time after school is finished, during work breaks, teens can play sports such as basketball, football, badminton and so on. They have few friends, free time is not known, then they on facebook all day, it's a waste of time. Second, young people can read books to develop the brain and thinking ability. Third, young people can help their parents with housework in your spare time, or go charity with her parents. Fourth, parents should provide for youth participation in social activities so that they are more confident and make friends. For this reason, parents should let teens participate in activities or play in their free time and do not create pressure for teens.

Topic 2: Life in the countryside

1. Talking about what you like or dislike about the life in the countryside? Why?

Like: People can live in the fresh atmosphere in the countryside. They can go fishing in the river for food. There was so much space so we can run around the fields and shout out loud without disturbing anybody and we will feel so freedom. I like picking fruits like blackberries, apple, mango, etc, and I like do farm work like digging holes, plaiting vegetables, collecting water, swimming in the river and flying kites with new friends.

Dislike: It is inconvenient without shopping centre, supermarket and entertainment centre is miles away. There is also no running water and electricity and it doesn’t excite at all and the life there have a little boring than the city

2.What do you like about the life of nomads?

I like the ger of them, because it keep cool in summer and warm in winter, even when the temperature drops to -50C and it can be put up then taken down and transported so it convenient.

I like to go to everywhere and meet new people will make we have more skills and I like the beautiful grassland, vast pastures, rivers and mountains they go to.

The children there learn to ride a horse and they learn to be brave and it so interesting with me

3.What don’t you like about the life of nomads?

They can’t live permanently in one place and I don’t like doing too much heavy work like herding the cattle and they only have some little food, no food like noodle, hamburger, etc.

The nomads life is not as modern as the life of city, The life in the city is more interesting things.

4.Talk about changes in your neighborhood.

On summer holidays, I often go back to my hometown and I have seen many changes in this rural area over the years. The most impressive change is in education. Recently, there are more schools rebuilt nearby and they are better equipped. This summer, my hometown friends and me enjoy reading different kind of books and comic in the new library. This change make me stay here a lot more enjoy able. Means of communication is the second big change I can see in this area. In the past, the common way to contact somebody far away was to write letters by hand. Nowadays, thank to mobile phone and even social networks, the local can keep in touch more easily. However, the negative change in the environment is something I dislike, Vast paddy fields where the children used to fly kites no longer exist. Instead a new industrial zone appears. Worse, factories in the zone are polluting the river and make it too dirty for us. As I have noted, my hometown has experienced both positive and negative changes. ( My neighborhood has lot of better change in this area than the past).

5. Do you like live in the city in the country or the city? Why?

I like live in the countryside because it peaceful and the atmosphere there is not polluted as the city. I love the fresh air in here and the beautiful scenery here like the big beautiful vast, the blue sky, the rivers and trees, etc. The people here are friendly and kind, they are hard farmer and I like the persistence of them. I like to help them working and after I finished I can enjoy to relax with a a cup of milk or tea. I love the life in the countryside very much because it have a big meaningful with me.

I like the live in the city because it modern and more convenient than the life of the countryside and it have a lot of interesting things than the countryside. The life of there have lot of modern furniture such as: washing machine, modern television, cleaner machine, electric stove, microwave oven, air conditional, electricity fan, etc and it support for we to do housework. There have a lot of convenient transport and building too like motorbike, car, plane, and big modern skyscrapers, special there have unique homes like UFO home, house upside down, mobile home is very famous. There have the park, zoo, museum, theater too and there are the entertainment place for everybody relax and communicate. I love the life in city because it exiting and envious!!!

Topic 3: People of Viet Nam

1. Talking about life of an ethnic group.

The Bahnar people have a population nearly 227.716 peoples live in the central highland of Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces. They speak a language in the Mon- Khmer family. The Bahnar play a great number of tradition musical instrument like the gong and string instrument made from bamboo. These instrument are sometime played in concert for special occasions, which may also involve ceremonial drinking and group dancing. Like other ethnic, the Bahnar grow rice, water fields and there are many handicrafts such as knitting, weaving, pottery, forging, etc. Bahnar people live close to the natural of the mountain so the villages of the Bahnar people often pants themselves in place near river streams. In each Bahnar villages, there is a large public house and it call the Rong house ( or communal house) in the middle of the villages. The communal house is the headquarters or the villages, where the village elders meet for public work, where the villagers meet, where the unmarried boy sleeps night, where the ceremonial customs or the community and the reception of strange guests in to the villages. Bahnar people have many festival as; thankgiving to parents, buffalo stabbing ceremony, etc. The life of Bahnar have lot of thing interesting with me

The Cham have a population of nearly 162 thousand people living in the provinces of Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai and Tay Ninh. Their language belongs to the Malayo- Polynesian group. Their production activities include: cultivating wet rice, fishing and making handicrafts. The Chan are famous for their silk and hand-made pottery. The Cham have a tradition of wet rice cultivation, they are also experienced in fishing and making handicraft, especially silk and hand-made pottery. Every year, they hold the Kate festival to commemorate the dead and honour heroes in the Cham community. Various agricultural ceremonies are performed during the year for a new canal, for young rice and for many so many other occasions. Personally, I find the Cham ethnic people very interesting. Experience their way of life if possible, it’s worth your time.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-Where do they live?

-What is their population?

-Which language do they speak?

-What activities they do?

-What festival do they have?

-What tradition and custom of them?

2. Write a paragraph about how to cook a traditional dish.

Spring rolls are the perfect dish of the Viet people. Making spring rolls is not so difficult if you know the key steps. First, prepare ingredients: minced pork, dried wood ear fungus, dried glass noodle, eggs, bean sprouts, ground white pepper, chopped onion, chopped carrot, rice paper wrappers and frying oil. Then, soak spring roll wrapper in very hot water until softened, about 30 seconds. Next, prepare spring roll filling with mix pork, fungus, noodles, eggs, bean sprouts, pepper, onion and carrot. After that, Wrap spring rolls by rice paper wrappers, remember to make the right steps to keep it steady. Finally, fry it and make dipping sauce and serve this dish with soy or chili sauce. Yellow sticky rice are the perfect dish of the Viet people. Making yellow sticky rice is not so difficult if you know the key steps. To make this dish you should prepare ingredients like rice, turmeric, shredded coconut, water and salt. First, soak rice in water and put turmeric and then mix well and leave for 5 minutes. Then, stove in 15 minutes. After that, add shredded coconut , the rice has been stove with salt and mix well. Finally, Stream in 30 mins and remember to check cooked and enjoy this dish with lot of vegetables and sauce. Topic 4: Custom and tradition 1. What are your family customs and traditions you like most? I like the tradition of make chung cakes and day cakes at Tet because that is a interesting activities and I like to talk about what you have done with family members in the past year or listen to grandparents telling traditional folk tales and legends of Vietnam. I like the custom of children in the family standing in a row to greet guests because it show respect and courtesy of guests, respect the guests also respect the parents and express their love to parents 2. How do you feel when you take part in these customs and traditions? I feel very happy, it was so meaningful with me and I feel satisfied with these customs and tradition in my country. 3. Why is it important to continue these customs and traditions? -Bringing family together -Continuing old history -Passing down traditions -Sense of belonging 4. Talk about your family customs and traditions There is one family tradition that my family take on Lunar New Year’ Eve. My grandparents, my parents, my brother and I always gather in the living room and watch the TV show “ Tao Quan”. When the clock strikes 12, we have a champagne toast. After that, my brother and I will receive “lucky money” from my grandparents and my parents. Then we talk a lot about happy events that happened during the past year and everyone’s plans for the new year. We go to bed after having an enjoyable time. I love Lunar New Year’s Eve. It’s a joyful time that brings my family together. 5. Talk about a traditional dance

Now I will to tell you about the xoe dance, a traditional dance of the Thai ethnic group in Viet Nam. Thai people have followed this spiritual tradition for generations. The xoe dance expresses people’s working life and wishes for a happy and wealthy life. It is performed in both public and private gatherings such as celebrations, festivals or family reunions.The xoe dance has more than 30 forms based on the first six ancient forms. The most popular form is the xoe vong or ‘circle dance’ because it expresses social unity. People, young or old alike, join hands to make a circle around the fire and dance to the music. Besides the circle dance, there are dances with conical hats, paper fans or scarves.Old people say they shouldn’t break with this tradition it because reflects Thai culture and lifestyle. As a Thai folk song goes, without the xoe dance, the rice won’t grow and people won’t get married. I like this dance.

The Obon dance is a traditional Japanese dance. People have the honour of their ancestors. The Obon festival takes place in mid-August in many regions of Japan and in mid-July in other regions. There are many forms in different regions. The most typical form is circle dance. People make a circle around a yagura, a high wooden stage; some dancers move clockwise, and some counter-clockwise. This is one of the most important traditions. A lot of people come back to reunite with their families during the Obon festival. I really like this dance.
Topic 5: Festival in Viet Nam

1. Which place do you prefer to go to? Explain your choice. -I prefer to go to Hung King Temple festival because I really want to participate in exciting activities here suxh as attending the content “Package, cook banh chung, sacrifice day cake to the Hung King, and I have never seen a lot of great art performaces there so I am very excited and I also want to devote my patriotic soirit through this festival. - I prefer to go to Huong pagoda festival because I want to participate in physical axtivities such as hiking in the mountain, exploring caves ad taking photos of the beautiful scenery here and I would like to take this opportunity to worship the Buddha with the offerings that I will prepare with everyone and my family and me will pray for the good fortune and happiness for our family. 2. What things should you take with you? Why? - I think I take the umbrella because it can be very shine and that is not good for us and it can make us sunburn and if have rain we also have the umbrella to cover the rain to get wet. -I think we should to take incense, fresh fruits to the Huong pagoda festival because we will worship and light incense for the Buddha to pray for good fortune and happiness for us -We think we should bring along enough mineral water to drink if we thirsty during the trip and we’ll need it we join to many activities in the festival 3. Talk about your favorite festival ? This festival is Ooc bom boc. It’s held by our ethnic group in Soc Trang on the 14^th and 15^th evenings of the 10^th lunar month. We worship the Moon God at the festival. We thank him because he gives us good harvest and plenty of fish in the river. There are many activities: first, we have worshiping ceremony at home, under the bamboo archway at the pagoda. When the moon appears, the old pray to the moon god and the children raise their clasped hand to the moon. The offering are green rice flake, coconuts, potatoes and pie cakes. Then we float beautiful paper lantern on the river and the next evening, we hold trilling dragon boat races. I like this festival becau it interesting and strange with me. In Viet Nam, there have one of biggest festival is Hung King Temple festival. It’s held in Phu Tho province on the 8^th to 11^th or the third lunar month. This festival commemorate the melt of the Hung King. The festival has a procession from the foot of Nghia Linh Mountain to the Upper Temple on the top of the mountain. There are offerings of incense and specialties such as banh chung (rice cake), thick cake, tray of fruits of the King Hung.There are have many activities like bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing performances. I like this festival because it so meaningful it show the love to my country.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-What is the festival? -What time this festival take place? -Who worship in that festival? -What activities in that festival? -Do you like this festival? Why or why not? 4. How important is the traditional festival to our in life?

-Festivals bring in positivity and happiness. They make you enthusiastic and excited for little things. They help in spreading love and kindness. And this is what the world needs. Life is cheerful with festivals. They become one reason behind your smile. So celebrate all the good things in life :)

- Festivals for us are the chains and that bind Friends, Families and time together and hence closed ones to spend more lead to happiness and Love which boosts the quality of our Life. In today era where we all are running like crazy behind Materialistic things Festivals are a welcome break for us to stop, smell the roses and prioritize our Goals and what we want from Life. It is very easy to get carried away without a thought to what makes us happy. Festivals for me is a time which takes the clock back and reminds me every single time what I need the most.

- Festivals are like cherry in the cake. Where we make some good memories, meet relatives. If we have festivals we can enjoy life by making it special than the other usual days which have every day. Life is not about living. It is about benefiting everyone by spreading joy and peace.

5. What should we do to preserve our tradition festival?

- Because they are our common experiences and the factors that form nations. Festival can be considered as part of culture and that is a major factor that bonds nations. That is not to say that we must oppose change. A culture that doesn’t changes with time and changing circumstances and under the influence of other cultures becomes a dead culture, just as a language that no longer adepts to changing uses is a dead language.

- Because these things preserved the lives and safety of our ancestors in the past and while they may lack use currently, they may save our children in the future. It rarely cost anything to remember and maintain the key attributes of your cultural identity especially when you integrate them with your current situation.

- Good traditions festival should be preserved until something is proven to be better comes about, something that causes people to rejoice in the goodness of being alive, something that is equally uplifting, something that gives hope and creates love, or until these arrogant, bored, pugnacious generations are gone in order to give rise to yet another generation willing to try and change things for what they perceive to be better than the former generation’s traditions.

Topic 6: Folk tales 1. Talking about a legend/ folk tale/fairy

tale/ fable

-Fable: There was an elderly man living with his wife in a shabby shed. Everyday , he goes fishing. After three days of catching nothing but seaweed and trash, one day he caught a goldfish - a fish that was a god. The fish begged him to release and promised to do what he wanted. However, the old man does not want anything for himself and let go of the fish. When he returned home, he told his wife about the goldfish. She was angry that her husband did not ask for anything from the fish and asked him to go to the sea to ask for a new pig trough because the old one broke. The goldfish happy to meet him. The next day, his wife asked for a new house, and goldfish also responded. Not stop there, his wife sent him to ask for her goldfish to become the first lady goods and then the queen with the palace, the servants of the lower. When it was over, she became mistreated by the old man but the old man persisted. Peak, she demanded to become king of the sea to control the goldfish. At this point, gold fish angry and recover all that has been done. He and his wife returned to poverty earlier.

-Legend: In the life of the sixth Hung King, in the village of Giong has an elderly couple doing business and have the reputation of being virtuous. Two grandparents wish to have a child. One day she came out to see a footprint too big, then set up his feet to try to see how much worse. Unexpectedly about her home pregnancy and twelve months after birth a very handsome nose boy. The couple is very happy. But strange! The child until the three still do not know how to say, laugh, do not know, where to put it lying there. Now An invaders invaded the territory of our country. The enemy was strong, the king was afraid. Worship the messengers go everywhere to find talented people to save the country. The baby heard the news, suddenly said: "Mom invited the messenger here." When the messenger came in, the boy said, "You tell the king to give me a flaming iron horse, an iron bar and an iron armor, and I will destroy the enemy."The messenger was astonished, gladly, hurriedly about the king. The king ordered workers to work day and night to make small things. More strange, after the meeting with the messenger, he grows as fast as blowing. The boy rose up, stretched a sudden turn into a high-rise, his majestic majesty. The bartender stepped up onto his horse's ass. Horses long echoes resound. The armor-bearer wields a whip to jump on his horse. Horses sprayed fire, the master pushed the horse straight to where the enemy, rushed into the heavenly great maid of heaven to exacerbate anomalous violence, the enemy died as rancid. Suddenly the iron rod broke. The brewers then plucked the bamboo clusters next to the road into the enemy. Broke down. The massacres trampled on each other, fleeing to the foot of Mount Soc (Soc Son). Then to the top of Mount Soc Son riding horse back to heaven. The King is gratefulso he make for Phu Dong Thien Vuong and temple in his hometown.

-Folk tales: In the past, the 18th King Hung King brought up a smart boy named Mai Yen, named An Tiem. Growing up, the king married An Tiem, and believed in the court. Suffering thanks to his father, An Tuêm again pretended that self-reliant talent to build his career, but no one. This word came to the king's ears. The king considered An Tiem as an arrogant, ungrateful, full of An Tiem with his wife and son to a remote island, outside the sea of ​​Nga Son (Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam).His wife, Ba, was afraid to die outside the lonely island. But An Tiem calmly said: "Heaven gave birth to me, living death is in Heaven and in me, what to worry.An Tiem and his son lived lonely in a sand beach, on the island. They try to cultivate, cultivate to earn a living. One day, in the summer, a strange bird from the west flies to a sand pit. Birds drop some seeds to the ground. For a while, the seeds germinate, grows the leaves of the leaves. Flowering plants, large fruit. Many green fruits, red intestines. An Injection told his wife: "This plant does not naturally grow there. Then An Tiem picked and tasted, see the green shell, red intestine, black seeds, fragrant and sweet, cool. An Tiem took the seeds planted everywhere, then spread out a lot. One day, a ship was stormed on the isle. Everyone on the beach, there are many strange fruit, delicious. They race to change food for An Tiem family. From then on, the rumor went that there is a very good melon variety on the island. Commodities are busy to buy all kinds of supplies and food for An Tiem family. Thanks to that little family of An Tiem becomes full, the life of the tribe. Because the bird brought melon seed from the West, An Tiem named the fruit this is the West Taurus people eat delicious, compliment is "hẩu", so later called the camp is watermelon. Shortly afterwards, the king sent his son to the island off the coast of Nga Son to investigate the An Thiem family, living or dying. The apostle recounts the prosperous and leisurely life of the An Tiem couple, the king ponders his son's favor, and gives An Tiem an old-fashioned return in the court. An Tiem brought to the King of watermelon that he was lucky. Then distributed the seeds of melon to the people planted in the sandy soil, enriching the country with a famous fruit. The island that An Tiem lived in, was called Chau An Tiem.

-Fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood lives in a forest. One day, she visited her grandmother.When she is picking flowers on the road, she meets an evil wolf. He asked, "Where are you going?" The girl said, "I'm going to visit my grandma."So the wolf made a plan. He ran to her house and swallowed her. It goes to her bed. After a while, Little Red Riding Hood came to the house. She looked at the wolf and said, "Grandmother, you have big eyes!" He replied. "To see me clearly!"Then she said, "Grandma, your ear is big!", She replied, "To hear you better”Finally she said: "Grandma, your teeth are big!", The wolf replied, "To eat you."The woodcutter is working in the woods. He heard screams and ran to the house.He hit the wolf head. The wolf opened his mouth and screamed and she jumped out. The wolf runs away.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-What is the title of the story?

-Which story do you like most?

-Who is the main character?

-What is the plot of this story?

-What type of this story?

- What do you like about the countryside?

+ Living in the countryside help you live longer because it's quiet, peaceful and fresh.

+ Witnessing breathtaking sceneries everyday as you wake up while inhaling the breeze of fresh crisp air will surely relax your day.

+ Also, the friendly, hospitable and family-oriented people will always welcome you or help you anytime.

+ Unlike in cities, countryside has less pollution since it has no lot of vehicles.

- What don't you like about the countryside?

+ The economy in the city is more developed than the economy in the countryside.

+ The problem is the transportation. Since only few vehicles are in the countryside, you will have a hard time waiting for a ride.

- Talk about the advantages of living in the countryside?

Living in the countryside is really good for your life because of these reasons:

+ First, living in the country can bring you a clean evironment. The air is fresher and there are lots of trees, rice fields and rivers, you can walk on the fields or along the rivers to enjoy the clean and fresh airthere in the early morning.

+ Second, living in the countryside is cheaper than in the city because people there have lower income anddon’t have the habit of spending a lot of money. If you live in the country, you can save a lot of money.

+ Finally, people in the country are more friendly and opener than people in the city because they live neareach other. People live together in a small village so they can talk countryside can have festivals and youcan join and fell very happy.In conclusin, there are many benefits of living in the country
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Living in the countryside is really good for your life because of these reasons:- First, living in the country can bring you a clean evironment. The air is fresher and there are lots oftrees, rice fields and rivers, you can walk on the fields or along the rivers to enjoy the clean and fresh airthere in the early morning.- Second, living in the countryside is cheaper than in the city because people there have lower income anddon't have the habit of spending a lot of money. If you live in the country, you can save a lot of money.- Finally, people in the country are more friendly and opener than people in the city because they live neareach other. People live together in a small village so they can talk countryside can have festivals and youcan join and fell very happy.In conclusin, there are many benefits of living in the country