One of the most famous schools in my city is ABC Elementary School. It has been serving the community for over 100 years and has a long-standing reputation for providing quality education to its students. ABC Elementary School is known for its dedicated and highly qualified teachers who go above and beyond to ensure that every student receives a well-rounded education. The school offers a comprehensive curriculum that focuses not only on academic subjects but also on character development and extracurricular activities. The school's facilities are top-notch, with modern classrooms equipped with the latest technology to enhance the learning experience. There are also well-equipped science and computer labs, a library filled with a vast collection of books, and a spacious playground for students to engage in physical activities. ABC Elementary School takes pride in its strong sense of community and encourages parent involvement. It organizes regular parent-teacher meetings, workshops, and events to foster a collaborative relationship between the school and families. In addition to its academic achievements, ABC Elementary School offers a wide range of extracurricular activities to cater to the diverse interests of its students. These include sports teams, music and art clubs, drama productions, and various academic competitions. Overall, ABC Elementary School has earned its reputation as one of the most famous schools in the city due to its commitment to academic excellence, strong community involvement, and a well-rounded approach to education. It continues to inspire and shape the lives of its students, preparing them for future success.

New Year day is one of the most widely celebrated festivals in our country. This is the occasion that people celebrates with great joy, hope, festivity and different cultural and other programs.

New Year is the time when a new calendar year begins and the year count is incremented. According to the Gregorian calendar, this festival falls on the first January each year.

People start the arrangement to celebrate this festival about one week prior to the 1st January. On the 31st night, people gather together, eat western foods and sometimes the traditional foods, make prayer for the prosperity of for the New Year and stay awake till late night to enjoy the night.

In my country, people groom well in the first January. To some extent, people believe that the first January is important to them as it the starting of a new year. They believe that remaining happy, eating good foods and wearing nice clothes would make them happy and prosperous for the whole year.

People greet others, give and receive gifts, visit the amusement parks and do many other activities. Some fares held on for the occasion and a great gathering is observed there. So of the big trade fares, book fares start on the 1st day of the year.

This is an important festival to us. We along with the whole world take this day as an important festival day. In our tradition, we start the year with the hope of eliminating the bitterness and failure of the past year and start a fresh year with the hope of fortune and happiness.

THAM KHẢO Ạ:

The National Day 2/9 is the speacial day of our country. All of people are joyful, glad and have a lot of exciting plans like as : visitting Uncle’s Ho moselium, going to the movie theater or places of entertainment ... I just had a interesting trip in the Bat Trang pottery village on that day. But It must took two hours to go from here to there, therefore that juorney really made me very tired. We leaved at 6.30 am. It may be quite early. Because when we arrived there, a few stores still hadn’t opened yet. Finally we decided to go to the pottery nearly. Making pottery is the work which requires cleverness and creation. At the first time when I have seen the potters rotate the throwing and make potteries by their hand, I did think that it’s very simple to put the clay body on the turntable of throwing then control of your hand cleverly to create the shape you want. but I were wrong, in fact, if you‘re only careless a little your pottery’ll be out of shape. What a pity! I also tried to make a cup myself and it had never finished.In the pottery, I sudden heard a sound “ Hi! Are you PTIT?” I looked up realizing that sound of Leo( another member of ELFs). That is real a interesting amazement in my trip. We had talked to each other happily.After an hour, we went to paint statues. There were a lot of people like this art game. I must tried so much to get a sit and choose a statue I like best. Almost people concentraded all their mind on painting so much that they didn’t know everything around them. I chose a lovely frog. It seems to be quite like the one in my inventory of our forum. I painted it as carefullly as posssible. How hard the choice of colours was!. Eventualy, I made up my mind to paint the body’s frog in the green; the feet and hands in yellow, the mounth in red; the cheek in white and had more some red dots. Wao! I thought it was very cute!. I like it so much!. If you see it, you ‘ll certainly like it as me.When we came back the the Bat Trang pottery market. There were a lot of people there. Most of the stores always crowed with buyers. The ceramic wares there were very plentiful and multiform which attractted the attention of domestic customs as well as international customs. With me the imperessional potteries were ceramic pictures, vases, bracelets, belt, ear-ring…and a lot of art statues which I had never seen before. There were many cute and lovely ceramic wares suitable of the girls. So It seems the girls like shopping there rather than the boys. I also bought a few lovely things made me pleasure. Speacial I bought a vase and a bundle of beautiful-decorated chopticks for my mother . I ‘m sure she ‘ll like it.About 2 pm, we took a bus and come back home. That was a wonderful day. I’ll remember that interesting trip forever.

II. Read the following passage carefully and do the following tasks. (2ms)

A. Complete each space with one of the words given in the box. (1,0m)

Chu Van An High School is one of the oldest and most prestigious state schools in Viet Nam. Established in 1908 by the French, the school was located beside the West Lake, and was originally named (1)……after………….. the location it was in. It is a very pleasant, spacious school with great (2)………views….….. of the lake from the classroom windows.

In 1943, the school was moved to Ninh Binh, and was not moved back to Ha Noi until 1945. In that year, the school was renamed Chu Van An, after a famous Vietnamese Confucianism teacher of the Tran Dynasty. Professor Nguyen Gia Tuong (3)…………became………….. the first Vietnamese principal of the school. Many (4)……famous……………  people like ex-Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, Doctor Ton That Tung, and poet Xuan Dieu used to be the school's students.

Today the school is still located in the same area, and has maintained its prestige, as well as its reputation as one of the top schools in Ha Noi.

B. Find the words in the text having the following meanings. (0,5 m)

1. in a particular position or place:…………Ha Noi…….……………

2. head teacher: ………………Nguyen Gia Tuong………….

C. Answer the questions. (0,5m)

1. Was Chu Van An High School established at the beginning of the 19^th century?

.....................................................no, it wasn't...........................................................................................................

2. Who was Chu Van An?

............................................a famous Vietnamese Confucianism teacher of the Tran Dynasty....................................................................................................................

D. WRITING (2MS)

I. Rewrite the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. (1m)

1. What about visiting Trang An, a natural wonder of our area?

à He suggested ...........................................................visiting Trang An, a natural wonder of our area............................................................................

2. Despite her tiredness, she finished knitting the scarf for her dad.

à Although ..................................she was tired, she finished knitting the scarf for her dad...........................................................................................................

3. He said to her, “My friends will come here tomorrow.”   

à He told her .............................................that his friends would come there the following day.............................................................................................

4. They reported that two people had been injured in the accident.

à It .........................................is reported that two people had been injured in the accident................................................................................................................

II. Use the words and phrases given to complete the sentences. (1m)

1. She/ wish/ can/ go on a trip/ family/.

..........................................she wish she could go on a trip with her family......................................................................................................................

2. My parents/ pleased/ that/ I/ get/ good results/ last semester/.

........................................my parents were pleased that i got good results last semester........................................................................................................................