Do the quiz. Compare your scores with a partner. Who has got the best memory?

How GOOD is your MEMORY?

1. What was the last film that you saw?

2. When was the last time that you ate in a restaurant?

3. When did you last go to a circus or a zoo?

4. Where and when did you first ride a bike?

5. Who taught you English at primary school?

6. How old were your parents on their last birthdays?

7. What was the last music that you heard?

8. When did you last make something to eat?

9. What mark did you get in your last English exam?

10. At what age did you first have a mobile phone?

11. What did you do on your last birthday?

12. Who spoke to you first at school today?

13. Who did you speak to last before you left home this morning?

14. How many people gave you presents last year? What were they?

15. How many people did you buy presents for last year? What were they?

KEY: How many things did you remember?

0-5: What a terrible memory you've got! Eat well, exercise and get a good night's sleep to improve it.

6-10: Not bad, but you could do more to improve your memory.

11-15: Well done! You've got an excellent memory.

Exercise 1. Complete the table with the verbs in blue in the Days and Nights Quiz. Then listen and check.

(Hoàn thành bảng với các động từ màu xanh trong Câu đố Ngày và Đêm. Sau đó lắng nghe và kiểm tra.)

Read the magazine quiz and complete the table with the words in blue. Listen and check.

1. You are in a restaurant and you ask the waiter to bring you the most unusual dish on the menu. When the dish arrives, what do you do first?

- Smell it.

- Feel it.

- Look at it closely.

- Ask someone about it.

- Taste it.

2. Which two of these things do you prefer?

- The taste of a delicious meal

- The sight of a beautiful sunset

- The smell of flowers in the summer

- The feel of a warm bed on a winter's night

- The sound of beautiful music

3. What do you think about books?

- I like to hold and smell them when they're new.

- I like the covers and photos.

- I really like recipe books. I can almost taste the food when I read them.

- I prefer audio books or listening to stories.

4. Choose the two conditions which you think are most difficult.

- Colour-blindness, when you can't see some colours.

- Tone-deafness, when you can't sing or play instruments very well because you don't have a 'good ear'.

- ‘Anosmia', when you can't smell anything or taste very little.

- Losing sensation in some of your toes or fingers.

5. Which two of these activities do you prefer to do to relax?

- Watch TV

- Have a warm drink

- Listen to music

- Exercise and then have a shower or a bath

1. Check the meanings of verbs 1-10. Then read the text and sentences 1-4. Match verbs 1-10 with the past simple forms in blue. Listen and check.

(Kiểm tra nghĩa của các động từ 1-10. Sau đó, đọc văn bản và các câu 1-4. Nối các động từ 1-10 với các thì quá khứ đơn có màu xanh lam. Nghe và kiểm tra.)

X GAMES SUPERSTARS

Sports in the X Games are always exciting and often dangerous. The games started in 1995 when 500,000 fans travelled to Newport in the USA and watched sports like BMX, skateboarding and motocross.

Our programme today looks at two skateboarders who decided to leam to skateboard when they were very young. They competed in the X Games and became big stars - Tom Schaar, the youngest gold medallist in the history of the games, and Alana Smith, the youngest silver medallist.

1. She/ He learned to skate when she/he was…………………

a. four                          b. seven                        c. nine

2. She / He first went to the X Games in…………………

a. Barcelona                 b. Miami                       c. Shanghai

3. She/ He did a trick called…………………

a. 900                           b. 108               c. 540 McTwist

4. She / He won an X Games   medal when she/he was…………………

a. ten                            b. twelve                      c. fourteen

Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs below. Then listen again and check.

1. My grandparents______________from Pakistan in the 1960s.

2. She______________home until last summer, when she______________married.

3. I ______________In the village where my family has lived for generations.

4. They managed to save quite a bit of money and eventually______________a small farmhouse with some land.

5. They ______________in love, ______________engaged after a week and were married a month later.

6. I ______________brought up by my mom after she______________back to the UK.

7. They ______________school at 16 and ______________to university.

8. They ______________a successful business and______________until they were in their seventies.

1.Dịch and complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs below. " do win catch go read speak get ". 1. Last month I..... an interesting book about Martin Luther King. 2. Janine........ to New York for two weeks last year. 3. She..... to her mother on the phone every day. 4.we.......three salmon in the river last weekend. 5. I.... some of my homework before breakfast this morning. 6. My cousin...... a job at the new. Supermarket yesterday. 7. Our team ....... the school basketball competition last Saturday Bài tập 2: dịch and complete the sentences and questions with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Use the affirmative, negative or interrogative forms. 1.......( you/ write) an email to James last night? 2. I........(buy) the English-English dictionary because it was very expensive. 3...... (Stuart/see) Karen yesterday evening? She wanted to speak to him. 4. We....( go) to the cinema last Friday, but the film was terrible! 5. Mum.....(cook) dinner last night. We went to a restaurant instead. 6. I don't want lunch today because I .....( have) a big breakfast this morning. 7. ( you/go) to the film club last Wednesday?

Exercise 1. Check the meanings of the verbs in the box. Look at the quiz and complete the questions with eight of the verbs. Listen and check your answers.

(Kiểm tra nghĩa của các động từ trong khung. Nhìn câu đố và hoàn thành các câu hỏi với 8 động từ. Nghe và kiểm tra câu trả lời của em.)

Animal skills quiz

Some animals are fast, some are big and strong. Some are intelligent, some are dangerous. What do you know about animals and their skills?

1. Can elephants (1)..................... with their ears and their feet?

a. Yes, they can.

b. No, they can't

c. Some can and some can't.

2. How big can a gorilla? (2).....................

a. 150 kilos.

b. 200 kilos.

c. 250 kilos.

3. Some scorpions are dangerous. Can a scorpion (3)..................... a human?

a. Yes, it can.

b. No, it can't.

c. Some can and some can't.

4. Camels don't (4)..................... a lot of water. How many months can a camel (5)..................... without water?

a. Three months.

b. Six months.

c. Nine months.

5. How far can an eagle (6).....................? It can (7)..................... a small animal from a distance of

a. 500 metres.

b. one kilometre.

c. more than one kilometre.

6. Ostriches can't (8)..................... but how fast can they (9).....................?

a. Six kilometres an hour.

b. Sixteen kilometres an hour.

c. Sixty-five kilometres an hour.

SPEAKING Work in pairs. Complete the arts quiz. Use vocabulary from exercises 1, 3 and the correct form of the verbs in the following list. Then do the quiz and check your answers at the bottom of the page.

Artistic activities

act      appear in      carve      compose      conduct      create

dance      direct      draw      paint      perform      play      sing      write

Arts quiz

1. Which italian Renaissance artist (1) _____________ the Mona Lisa?

a. Michelangelo

b. Leonardo da Vinci

c. Caravaggio

2. Which Russian (2) _____________ wrote the music for the ballet Swan Lake?

a. Shostakovich

b. Rachmaninov

c. Tchaikovsky

3. Which of these films was not (3) _____________ by Steven Spielberg?

a. Jaws

b. 2001: A Space Odyssey

c. Schindler's List

4. Which Shakespeare (4) _____________ inspired the film West Side Story?

a. Romeo and Juliet

b. Julius Caesar

c. A Midsummer Night's Dream

5. Which famous (5) _____________ cut off part of his ear?

a. Monet

b. Cézanne

c. Van Gogh

6. Which British (6) _____________ sang on the 2011 hit Someone Like You?

a. Adele

b. Ellie Goulding

c. Calvin Harris

7. Which of these film series did actor Robert Pattinson not (7) _____________ ?

a. Harry Potter

b. Twilight

c. The Hobbit

8. What is the name of the famous (8) _____________ in the photo?

a. Mark

b. David

c. Anthony 

*** Complete the following sentences with the adj ending -ing or -ed form of the words in brackets.

1. You will be ... when you see that film. It is a very ... film. (frighten)

2. The Titanic is a very ... film. I was ... to tears when I saw the end of the film. (move)

3. His performance as King Lear was ... . Critics were .. at it. (disappoint)

4. We were all ... when seeing the movie on TV last night. It was really ... (bore)

5. I am ... that she has won the Oscar for Best Actress. her award is ... . (surprise)

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