Vietnamese food is varied and distinctive. It is considerably low fat and high in carbonhydrates. Traditional Vietnamese cooking usually uses fresh ingredients, little dairy and oil, and various herbs and vegetables. Different sauces such as fish sauce, shrimp paste, ans soya sauce are quite popular in various regions.

There is no concept of ‘ course’ in a Vietnamese meal. A meal consists of various dishes( meat, fish, egg or tofu), vegetable, soup and rice. Rice is the staple in Vietnam. In many families, people eat ariund a tray of food with a small bowl of fish sauce in the middle. Around this bowl are dishes. If people place the food on a table, a similar arrangement is followed. In general, Vietnamese food is considered healthy and is popular in other countries.

In my opinion, there are 3 typical characteristics of the Vietnamese people.

First, it’s saving money. They usually save money from their young age and until their old age. Nowadays, in the city, this view seems to change but those in countryside still share this point. The second outstanding feature is they live modestly and always work hard. In the past, they live mainly on farming, they wake up early in the morning and work all long day on the farm till the end of afternoon. They also don’t demand too much for their life, which you can be seen when seeing their houses and their customs. Until these modern days, they still have this habit. Besides, Vietnamese are actually friendly and hospitable people. Their hospitality is shown clearly in the way they greet and treat their friends and visitors. Either pre-arranged or unexpected, you always can receive a warm welcome by Vietnamese people because this is a part of their traditional culture.

Despite going through many ups and downs, basically, Vietnamese have still kept traditional values in their lifestyle reflected in the relationship of family and friends.

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Theo tôi, có 3 đặc trưng điển hình của người Việt Nam.

Thứ nhất, đó là tiết kiệm tiền. Họ thường tiết kiệm tiền từ khi còn trẻ và cho đến tuổi già. Ngày nay, trong thành phố, quan điểm này dường như thay đổi nhưng những người ở nông thôn vẫn còn chia sẻ điểm này. Tính năng nổi bật thứ hai là họ sống khiêm tốn và luôn luôn làm việc chăm chỉ. Trong quá khứ, họ sống chủ yếu bằng nghề nông, họ thức dậy sớm và làm việc cả ngày dài trên đồng cho đến cuối buổi chiều. Họ không yêu cầu quá nhiều, điều này bạn có thể thấy qua nhà cửa và trang phục của họ. Cho đến những ngày nay, họ vẫn có thói quen này. Người Việt Nam thực sự thân thiện và hiếu khách. Sự hiếu khách của họ được thể hiện rõ ràng trong cách họ chào đón và đối xử với bạn bè và khách viếng thăm của họ. Hoặc sắp đặt trước hoặc bất ngờ, bạn luôn có thể nhận được sự chào đón nồng nhiệt của người Việt Nam bởi vì đây là một phần của văn hoá truyền thống của họ.

Mặc dù trải qua nhiều thăng trầm, về cơ bản, người Việt Nam vẫn giữ những giá trị truyền thống trong lối sống của họ phản ánh trong mối quan hệ của gia đình và bạn bè.

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Topic 1:

Unlike in the old days, we could only learn English through radio books, television and in school. There are many more ways to learn English today, especially through the internet, smartphones and many English learning centers opened up. There is no compulsory method to learn English, but each person must find a suitable way to learn it effectively. Many people will think that learning English is difficult, but what we need to do is get our own way of learning and an effort. Using the right vocabulary and sentence structure correctly requires a long process, but we can always invent new learning methods. We can go to parks or join English-speaking clubs for a chance to speak with foreigners, and that helps us improve our grammar and accent. Books, movies, songs, and newspapers in English are also what help us get used to how foreigners use it. The key to learning English is that we should not try to remember everything in the notebook, but we need to meet and practice it in real life. But learning English can be more effective when we can create our own learning styles.

Topic 3

    As far as you know "space" can mean all things that exist, it is a vast space. The space travel is always a hot topic being put on the screen or hit. top-selling newspaper products in the world. You must have seen many pictures of astronauts suspended in the cabin, eating dishes in small tubes such as toothpaste, drinking water in the form of spheres? And you have always assumed that this is the life of astronauts in space, there are some interesting phenomena happening now in the absence of gravity. On the one hand, the fluids in your body tend to move up above your head, so your facial skin will be inflated like a balloon, and the absence of gravity can make you feel disoriented. A trip into space always has fun things, but there are also some issues that make it difficult for you to stay for a while. However, one thing is for sure that the experiences you have in the universe will be ones that you will never forget.

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In different countries around the world, there are many countries with different eating habits. So is the Vietnamese. We have a habit of organizing a combination meal, eating together, so members of the meal are related and closely dependent on each other, so we must be careful when sitting and eating. This is a high expression in Vietnamese community life. In the structure of Vietnamese meals, while other dishes are eaten by people, others are not, while rice and fish sauce are used by everyone. Therefore, the cup of gravy becomes a measure of thoughtfulness, measuring the level of human culture. In the structure of Vietnamese meals, while other dishes are eaten by people, others are not, while rice and fish sauce are used by everyone. Therefore, the cup of gravy becomes a measure of thoughtfulness, measuring the level of human culture. A typical meal consists of rice, soup, sautéed or boiled vegetables and main dishes cooked from meat, fish, eggs, etc. To sustain life with predominantly wet rice agriculture, it influences Vietnamese people's eating habits. In short, this habit has become an important cultural life of our Vietnamese people from past to present.

My favourite food is pancake. It's very tasty and delicous. To do this food we need: two eggs, three teaspoons of sugar, four tablespoons of fluor and one cup of milk. We can make this food such as:

- First, beat the eggs together with suagr, flour and milk.

- Next, heat the oil over medium heat in a frying pan.

- Then, por about 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan at a time.

- After that, cook until golden.

- Finally, serve with some vegetables.

My favourite food is fried fish, its very delicious and good for health. Its very easy to cook this food:

Ingredient:sugar, sauce, salt, garlic and the main is fresh fish.

First: clean the fish

Second: beat the fish together with garlic salt, sugar and sauce

Finally: Fried them

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.

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.