Read the text and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.

FOOD OF TYPICAL WET RICE COUNTRY

Vietnamese sometime wonder how westerners can eat bread days after days but the vice-versa also holds water. Most tourists coming to Vietnam are amazed at the omni-presence of rice and rice-related dishes.

Rice is an object for worshipping in many temples of Vietnam. It is said to originate from the Mother Godness Worshipping, the most long–standing belief in Vietnam. Yes rice is a big thing out here. The very first written characters constituting the word “Happiness” in ancient Vietnamese is the image of many rice plants and a square symbolizing a paddy field. Rice is not only happiness, it really forms Vietnamese.

Accordingly, many main dishes and snacks in Vietnam are made from rice: boiled rice in daily meal, rice porridge, steamed rice, glutinous rice cake, well-known Banh Chung (square cake) and uncountable made-from rice dishes from every region in Vietnam.

Even the universal Pho that you definitely hear about is made from rice as well. Rice is the center of everything, like a sun lying in the center of the whole solar planet.

Considering rice important, Vietnamese has been always developing their farming method and new rice genres. Many Vietnam rice varieties exported to all over the world are renowned for their distinctive flavor, yet only when coming to Vietnam and have boiled rice with soya sauce pickled egg-plants, your adventure to Vietnam is considered perfect.

Few tourists coming to Vietnam are amazed at the omni-presence of rice and rice-related dishes

A. True

B. False

Exercise 5: Read and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.                 Watching television is an interesting and fun activity. The word television is often shortened to TV. On TV you can watch many different programs about a wide range of things. Some examples of TV programs are news, cartoons, reality shows, sports, documentaries and soap operas. There are several channels which show different TV programs. In Vietnam, the main channels are called “VTV1”, “VTV2”, and “VTV3”. TV guides tell us what programs are showing on which channel, and at what time on a particular day. Most programs on TV are episodes that are part of a series. These episodes usually last for about 30 minutes or full hour. At the weekend, there are lots of interesting movies on TV. Now you don’t need to go to the cinema. You can watch films at home. It’s so comfortable. You can learn a lot from watching TV but you should not watch too much or you will hurt your eyes.

No. Statements T/F

1. Watching television is an interesting and fun activity.

2. You can watch only some programs about a wide range of things.

3. “VTV1”, “VTV2”, and “VTV3” are the main channels in Vietnam.

4. We know the time and the name of programs thanks to TV guides.

5. There are lots of interesting movies on TV on weekdays.

6. TV does brings us any benefits. It damages our eyes.