Exercise 4: Read the text and tick (✓) A, B, or C.
Last year my boyfriend Mark was forty and I wanted to get him a special present for his birthday. Just before Christmas I saw tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert for sale on the internet. The concert was in Sheffield, about 25 miles away from where we live, and Mark is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen so I decided to buy two tickets. They weren’t cheap – I think I paid around £90 for each one. I wanted to surprise Mark, so I didn’t tell him about it.
On the day of the concert, I told Mark that I wanted to do some Christmas shopping in Sheffield. We left in my car just after lunch and spent the afternoon in a big shopping centre. I bought Christmas presents for my family and a skirt for work. Mark looked for some new jeans, but he couldn’t find any that he liked. By the time we finished shopping it was nearly 6 p.m. and we were hungry so we had dinner in a Japanese restaurant. After dinner we left the shopping centre and set off on our way home. On the way we passed the concert hall and we could see the crowds of fans outside. Mark was really surprised when I drove into the concert hall car park and gave him the tickets!
The concert was fantastic. We danced all night and Mark took lots of photos on his mobile phone. Afterwards we bought a concert CD. We put it on when we got in the car and we sang all of the songs as we drove home. We didn’t get back home until nearly one o’clock in the morning and we were both really tired, but it was a great night and Mark really enjoyed his surprise.
1. Debbie bought the tickets as ___ present.
A. a Christmas B. a birthday C. an expensive
2. She bought the tickets ___.
A. at a shopping centre B. at the concert hall C. on the internet
3. They arrived in Sheffield in the ___.
A. morning B. afternoon C. evening
4. Debbie didn’t buy ___.
A. presents B. a skirt C jeans
5. They had something to eat ___ the concert.
A. before B during C after
6. Debbie gave the tickets to Mark ___.
A. at the restaurant B in the concert hall C in the car park
7. They ___ on the way back to their house.
A. listened to the radio B. sang Bruce Springsteen songs C. talked about the concert

Exercise 5: Read the text again. Are the sentences True (T) or False (F)?

Last year my boyfriend Mark was forty and I wanted to get him a special present for his birthday. Just before Christmas I saw tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert for sale on the internet. The concert was in Sheffield, about 25 miles away from where we live, and Mark is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen so I decided to buy two tickets. They weren’t cheap – I think I paid around £90 for each one. I wanted to surprise Mark, so I didn’t tell him about it.
On the day of the concert, I told Mark that I wanted to do some Christmas shopping in Sheffield. We left in my car just after lunch and spent the afternoon in a big shopping centre. I bought Christmas presents for my family and a skirt for work. Mark looked for some new jeans, but he couldn’t find any that he liked. By the time we finished shopping it was nearly 6 p.m. and we were hungry so we had dinner in a Japanese restaurant. After dinner we left the shopping centre and set off on our way home. On the way we passed the concert hall and we could see the crowds of fans outside. Mark was really surprised when I drove into the concert hall car park and gave him the tickets!
The concert was fantastic. We danced all night and Mark took lots of photos on his mobile phone. Afterwards we bought a concert CD. We put it on when we got in the car and we sang all of the songs as we drove home. We didn’t get back home until nearly one o’clock in the morning and we were both really tired, but it was a great night and Mark really enjoyed his surprise

1. Debbie thought the tickets were expensive.
2. Mark and Debbie live in Sheffield.
3. Mark bought some jeans.
4. They had dinner at a restaurant in the shopping centre.
5. They drove to the concert hall from the shopping centre.
6. They sat while they watched the concert.
7. Mark used a video camera to film the concert.
8. They arrived home late.
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Changed theses sentences bellow into passive voice
1. My father waters this flower every morning.
2. Has John invited Fiona to his birthday yet?
3. The grandmother was telling her children a story when I arrived last week.
4. His mother wanted him to wash all his dirty clothes.
5. She will have Peter wash her car tomorrow.
6. Tim ordered this train ticket for his mother.
7. They told me that you were the best  architect in this city.
8. I made my nephew paint the gate last week.
9. Jack needs to clean his shoes.
10. She reported that the flowers were killed by frost.

He decided to buy some chocolate kept in an _______ container for his father, a _______ watch for his mother and a doll with ______ for his little sister.

A. tight air; proof water; white snow

B. air-tighted; water-proofed; snow-whited

C. tight aired; proof watered; white snowed

D. air-tight; water-proof; snow-white

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .

Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.

Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.

"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."

David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."

Why does David think he might retire early?

A. He wants to stop working when he is a millionaire

B. You have to be young to write computer programs

C. He thinks his firm might go bankrupt

D. He thinks computer games might not always sell so well

Describe a special quality of 3 people with an anecdote

Gợi ý: think of who you're going to describe, what specific trait you want to describe and tell what happened that makes you think that of your friend or family member.

ví dụ: I think my brother Omar is a very generous person because he doesn't mind sharing his things with my friend other people. Of my three siblings he's the one that always remembers to buy us a birthday present, and it was a very sweet gift. Definetely, Omar a really generous person and I reallyadmire him for