I) Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

I remember the days when I was still a little girl. When the New Year came, my mother used to tell me not to cry, she used to take me to the market and buy new clothes for me, she used to make sticky rice square cakes and cook them all night. She used to go to the flower market to buy some fresh flowers. My father used to pain the walls and redecorate the house and he used to hepl my mom with housework. Now my parents are old and I am grow up so I do everything myself. But I still remember the days...

1. What did your mother use to tell yu when the New Year came?

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2. Where did she use to take you and what did she buy you?

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3. What did she use to make

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4.Where did she use to go?

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5. What did your father use to do?

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6. Do your parents do those things nowadays? Why or Why not?

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III. Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

I remember the days when I was still a little girl. When the New Year cam, my mother used to tell me not to cry, she used to take me to the market and buy new clothes for me, she used to make sticky rice square cakes and cook them all night. She used to go to the flower market to buy some fresh flowers. My father used to pain the walls and redecorate the house and he used to help my mom with housework. Now my parents are old and I am grown up so I do everything myself. But I still remember the days…

1. What did your mother use to tell you when the New Year came?

2. Where did she use to take you and what did she buy you?

3. What did she use to make?

4. Where did she use to go?

5. What did your father use to do?

6. Do your parents do those things nowadays? Why or Why not?

II. Write the sentences, using the cue words.

1. We/ not/ go/ school/ Saturdays.

2. They/ usually/ hold/ party/ New Year’s Eve.

3. I/ going/ see/ John/ lunchtime.

4. Last night/ she/ come home/ 10.30 and 11 o’clock.

5. Jazz/ become/ popular/ United States/ the 1920s.

6. I/ call/ you/ Friday afternoon/ about 2.30.

7. The first man/ walk/ moon/ 21 July 1969.

8. We/ often/ have/ short holiday/ Christmas.

Read and complete the passage with words in the box.

celebrate       traditional       therefore       cannot       served

Tet is the biggest festival in Vietnam. To (1) ……………..Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)……..….foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; (3)…….….., this cake needs a lot of preparation . This cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant foods that (4)……… be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However, sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (5)………..immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

Question 2:

Read and complete the passage with words in the box.

celebrate       traditional       therefore       cannot       served

Tet is the biggest festival in Vietnam. To (1) ……………..Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)……..….foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; (3)…….….., this cake needs a lot of preparation . This cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant foods that (4)……… be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However, sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (5)………..immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

Question 1:

Read and complete the passage with words in the box.

celebrate       traditional       therefore       cannot       served

Tet is the biggest festival in Vietnam. To (1) ……………..Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)……..….foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; (3)…….….., this cake needs a lot of preparation . This cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant foods that (4)……… be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However, sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (5)………..immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

Question 4:

Read and complete the passage with words in the box.

celebrate       traditional       therefore       cannot       served

Tet is the biggest festival in Vietnam. To (1) ……………..Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)……..….foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; (3)…….….., this cake needs a lot of preparation . This cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant foods that (4)……… be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However, sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (5)………..immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

Question 5:

Read and complete the passage with words in the box.

celebrate       traditional       therefore       cannot       served

Tet is the biggest festival in Vietnam. To (1) ……………..Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)……..….foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; (3)…….….., this cake needs a lot of preparation . This cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant foods that (4)……… be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However, sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (5)………..immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

Question 3:

Exercise 3:Read and complete passage with words in the box:
Spring ,kept, celebrate, traditional,Because, therefore,served, However.
-Tel is the biggest festival in Vietnam to.(1)....................Tet, Vietnamese people make many tasty (2)...........foods. the most important fool includes chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, (3)..........rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves (4)................this cake needs a lot of preparation this cake can be (5)...........for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during Tet. Other significant food that cannot be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages spring rolls, and sticky rice. (6)............. sausages are difficult to make,people often bye them from famous suppliers. (7).............. sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be (8)............. immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home.

2. Read the passage , then do the tasks: 

Tet is the biggest festival in Viet Nam. To celebrate Tet, Vietnamese people make many traditional foods. The most important food includes Chung cakes, sausages, boiled chicken, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Chung cake is made of sticky rice, pork, green beans, and other spices, wrapped in green leaves; therefore, this cake need a lot of preparation. The cake can be kept for a long time, even though the weather is often humid during the Tet. Other significant foods that cannot be missed to worship the ancestors are sausages, spring rolls, and sticky rice. Because sausages are difficult to make, people often buy them from famous suppliers. However , sticky rice and spring rolls are easier to prepare and must be served immediately after they are cooked, so they are often made at home. 

a. Find the words from the text that have the same meaning of these words/phrases: 

7. deliciuos: ……………………                        8. wet: …………………….… 

9. not easy: …………………….                       10. wellknown: ………………… 

 b. Answer the questions: 

11. Which festival is the most popular in Viet Nam? …………………………………….. 

12. What do Vietnamese people worship their ancestors?................................................... 

13. Do they make sausages by themselves? 

14. Which ingredients are used to make Chung cakes?