Work in groups of 3-5 students. Design a poster for an Earth Day in your town or city. Choose ONE of the activities people do on Earth Day below for your poster:
1. Plant lots of trees in the city centre
2. Pick up plastic bags and rubbish in the parks
3. Have a party in the park with local musicians
4. Sell energy efficient light bulbs to local people
5. Visit local schools and talk to school children about Earth Day
The ideal city of the future
Work in groups. Design a poster of the ideal city of the future. Present your poster to the class. Use these questions as cues for your presentation.
Where will it be located?
How big will it be?
How many people will live in it?
How will people travel?
What kind of buildings will people live in?
Hi everyone, welcome to our Dream city. It's located in the western Vietnam and has an area of 50 square kilometer. There are 3 million people here. The main transport is green car and motor bike. Besides, modern public transport system is also developed to avoid traffic jams. We utilize modern waste treatment so that the air is not polluted. We also grow a lot of trees, which results in fresh atmosphere around the city. Educational system is supported by high technology, robot teacher, and distance learning is popular among students. Citizens here can enjoy the best health care services in the world and they need to work only 7 hours a day.
1. Work in groups.
Search for a village in Viet Nam or a foraign country that you would like to visit.
2. Design a poster about that village, including:
- name
- location
- scenery
- people and their activities
- ...
3. Present your poster to the class.
Tham khảo
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We went to Doi Tam, a village famous for its drum making techniques, in Ha Nam Province last month. The craft was first introduced to the village sometime in the 8th or 9th century. Today there are more than six hundred drum makers living in Doi Tam village.
I was amazed to see big drums in front of every house in the village. People say that it takes four workers three days to make a drum with a diameter of 1.5 metres. To make a drum, the craftsmen have to follow an eight-stage process. Stretching the drumhead is the most challenging stage since they have to carefully assess the sound it makes. The other steps do not require such high skills.
Nowadays, Doi Tam drums are not only famous in Viet Nam but are also sold to other countries such as Laos, Cambodia, Japan, and the USA.
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Today, I will introduce about Doi Tam Village, a village lying on the foot of Doi Mountain. This village has a traditional drum-making craft for over 1000 years, which has been recognized as “representative craft village”. Doi Tam Village helps maintain historical values, which have been in Vietnamese’s mind for a long time. The village is located at Tien Son Commune, Duy Tan Town, Ha Nam Province. Doi Tam village is famous for its traditional drum making techniques. Doi Tam’s drums has such great reputation that they are used in many important festival of the country. Additionally, the landscapes in the village are beautiful and the air is fresh. The villagers are kind and helpful too. I hope one day you can get the chance to visit this amazing village.
Work in groups. Choose a type of heritage that you are interested in and propose ways to preserve it. Present your ideas to the class in the form of an oral presentation, a leaflet, or a poster. Use these questions as cues.
1. What is the heritage? Where is it? Is it cultural or natural heritage?
2. What is it famous for?
3. How important is it?
4. What can we do to preserve it?
Cultural heritage is imperative. Culture is what defines us and what separates us from animals. To preserve the artifacts of our history for those that will come after us is a difficult task. There are many possible ways of doing so; in this essay, I am going to discuss two of them.
One way is to increase the budget of museums. This would allow them to become better equipped with tools that could be used to preserve their exhibits. It would also allow them to enrich their exhibition. However, museums may well become just another form of entertainment for young people, not teaching them why it is important to care about our history.
Another idea is to educate the young on the matter. This could make them do the job when we have long been gone. This may not give immediate results, but it would certainly be effective when looking at the problem in the big picture. We cannot forget that organizing an effective program can prove to be difficult to be implemented.
I trust the second option represents the approach that should be chosen. After all, history is about long-term solutions, and what future generations will do is just as important as our actions. Turning museums into pure entertainment, which is what might happen if the method mentioned in the second paragraph is applied, will render them devoid of the function we expect them to have.
Read the passage then answer the questions.
People in my city love good food and they often have eat three meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner. At about seven in the morning, they usually have a light breakfast with a bowl of pho or eel soup with some slices of toast. Sometimes they have a bowl of instant noodles or a plate of sticky rice before going to work. Lunch often starts at about 11.30, and most of them have lunch at home. They often have rice, meat, fish, and vegetables for lunch. Dinner often starts at about 8.00 in the evening. It is the main meal of the day. People in my city often have rice with a lot of fresh vegetables and a lot of seafood or various kinds of meal. Then they often have some fruit and a glass of green tea. I think food in my city is wonderful. It is light and full of fresh vegetables. It is healthy and tasty, too.
1. What do people in Nam's city have for breakfast?
2. What time do they usually have for lunch?
3. Which is the main meal of the day?
4. Do they have a lot of dishes?
5. What do you think about food in your region?
Read the passage then answer the questions.
People in my city love good food and they often have eat three meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner. At about seven in the morning, they usually have a light breakfast with a bowl of pho or eel soup with some slices of toast. Sometimes they have a bowl of instant noodles or a plate of sticky rice before going to work. Lunch often starts at about 11.30, and most of them have lunch at home. They often have rice, meat, fish, and vegetables for lunch. Dinner often starts at about 8.00 in the evening. It is the main meal of the day. People in my city often have rice with a lot of fresh vegetables and a lot of seafood or various kinds of meal. Then they often have some fruit and a glass of green tea. I think food in my city is wonderful. It is light and full of fresh vegetables. It is healthy and tasty, too.
1. What do people in Nam's city have for breakfast?
Yes, they do.
2. What time do they usually have for lunch?
They usually have for lunch at about 11.30.
3. Which is the main meal of the day?
Dinner is the main meal of the day.
4. Do they have a lot of dishes?
Yes, they do.
5. What do you think about food in your region?
I think food in your region is very good and wonderful .
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Hi. We are from Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Our planet is named (1) ___________ the Roman god of the sea. The climate here is very unfriendly, with a temperature of around -300 degrees Celsius, and the winds are very strong. Actually, we have a lot of storms here. Everything is freezing on the (2) ___________ of Neptune, so of course we don’t have liquid water. To be able to survive here, we have to build all of our cities underground, a hundred kilometers beneath the surface. Luckily, we don’t have Neptune-quakes!
Our life here is very different from your life on earth. Because it’s extremely (3) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. Every day, we need only three hours for sleep, four hours for work, and the rest of the day we (4) ___________ on our leisure activities. So life is relaxing. Most of us like traveling to other planets for new experiences. Although we are (5) ___________ than you in size, we can move very fast. In fact, we have wings, so we can fly. Thus, we don’t suffer heavy traffic like on your earth. We don’t have oxygen either, but we live on hydrogen.
Question 5:
A. most big
B. biggest
C. bigger
D. the bigger
Đáp án C
Giải thích: câu so sánh hơn với tính từ ngắn “adj + đuôi –er + than”
Dịch: Mặc dù chúng tôi to lớn hơn các bạn về kích cỡ, chúng tôi có thể di chuyển rất nhanh.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Hi. We are from Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Our planet is named (1) ___________ the Roman god of the sea. The climate here is very unfriendly, with a temperature of around -300 degrees Celsius, and the winds are very strong. Actually, we have a lot of storms here. Everything is freezing on the (2) ___________ of Neptune, so of course we don’t have liquid water. To be able to survive here, we have to build all of our cities underground, a hundred kilometers beneath the surface. Luckily, we don’t have Neptune-quakes!
Our life here is very different from your life on earth. Because it’s extremely (3) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. Every day, we need only three hours for sleep, four hours for work, and the rest of the day we (4) ___________ on our leisure activities. So life is relaxing. Most of us like traveling to other planets for new experiences. Although we are (5) ___________ than you in size, we can move very fast. In fact, we have wings, so we can fly. Thus, we don’t suffer heavy traffic like on your earth. We don’t have oxygen either, but we live on hydrogen.
Question 3:
A. dark
B. bright
C. good
D. happy
Đáp án A
Giải thích: dark: tối tăm
Dịch: Vì ở dưới lòng đất cực kì tối, chúng tôi có hệ thống chiếu sáng cực tốt quanh chiếc đồng hồ.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Hi. We are from Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Our planet is named (1) ___________ the Roman god of the sea. The climate here is very unfriendly, with a temperature of around -300 degrees Celsius, and the winds are very strong. Actually, we have a lot of storms here. Everything is freezing on the (2) ___________ of Neptune, so of course we don’t have liquid water. To be able to survive here, we have to build all of our cities underground, a hundred kilometers beneath the surface. Luckily, we don’t have Neptune-quakes!
Our life here is very different from your life on earth. Because it’s extremely (3) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. Every day, we need only three hours for sleep, four hours for work, and the rest of the day we (4) ___________ on our leisure activities. So life is relaxing. Most of us like traveling to other planets for new experiences. Although we are (5) ___________ than you in size, we can move very fast. In fact, we have wings, so we can fly. Thus, we don’t suffer heavy traffic like on your earth. We don’t have oxygen either, but we live on hydrogen.
Question 1:
A. for
B. in
C. after
D. to
Đáp án C
Giải thích: cụm từ “be named after”: được đặt tên theo…
Dịch: Hành tinh được đặt tên theo vị thần đại dương của người Roman.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Hi. We are from Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Our planet is named (1) ___________ the Roman god of the sea. The climate here is very unfriendly, with a temperature of around -300 degrees Celsius, and the winds are very strong. Actually, we have a lot of storms here. Everything is freezing on the (2) ___________ of Neptune, so of course we don’t have liquid water. To be able to survive here, we have to build all of our cities underground, a hundred kilometers beneath the surface. Luckily, we don’t have Neptune-quakes!
Our life here is very different from your life on earth. Because it’s extremely (3) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. Every day, we need only three hours for sleep, four hours for work, and the rest of the day we (4) ___________ on our leisure activities. So life is relaxing. Most of us like traveling to other planets for new experiences. Although we are (5) ___________ than you in size, we can move very fast. In fact, we have wings, so we can fly. Thus, we don’t suffer heavy traffic like on your earth. We don’t have oxygen either, but we live on hydrogen.
Question 4:
A. explore
B. spend
C. play
D. step
Đáp án B
Giải thích: spend (time) on st: dành thời gian làm gì
Dịch: Một ngày chúng tôi chỉ dành 3 tiếng để ngủ, 4 tiếng làm việc, còn lại là dành cho các hoạt động giải trí.
