Listen and practise the sentences. Underline the bold words with /ə/, and circle the bold words with /ɪ/.

1. There is a lot of water in the bottle.

2. The farmers here are hard-working.

3. They are picking fruits in the orchard.

4. People in my village usually gather at weekends.

5. Please buy some milk and pasta at the supermarket.

Listen and practise the sentences. Underline the words with /bl/, and circle the words with /kl/.

1. Look! There are black clouds all over!

2. A truck blocked the way to the club.

3. The students painted the classroom blue.

4. The wind blew the clock down.

5. We cleaned up the environment after the blast.

2 Complete the text with the words below.

Both photos 1____________ people using smartwatches. In the 2____________ photo, there is a woman on a train who is looking at her watch, 3____________ in the second photo there are two men jogging and wearing smartwatches. The woman looks as 4____________ she is on her way to work and checking her emails. It 5____________ to me that she’s just had a notification of a new message and is looking to see who the sender is. She is holding a book, but her attention is directed at the small screen on her wrist. 6____________ the first photo, the second photo does not show the men looking at their watches. It doesn’t look to me 7____________ if they are interested in anything apart from running. In my 8____________, athletes wear smartwatches to check their performance, such as counting their steps or their heart rates, and not to stay connected with work. They don’t 9____________ stressed or like they need to be checking their phones every two minutes. The way I 10____________ it, we should all have periods of time when we are unconnected from our studies or work, and just use technology for leisure.

I. Give the correct form of the words in CAPITAL to complete the sentences.

1. There is too much __________in this movie. VIOLENT

2. Dolphins sometimes are killed when they are __________entrapped in fishing nets  ACCIDENT

3. It is a good book because it is very________INFORM

4. Third time lucky! After two ____________attempts, Mark’s finally passed his driving test.            SUCCEED

5. He’s so nice. It’s a __________working for him. PLEASE

6. One disadvantage of the Internet is that it takes time away from __________such as     watching TV and reading.        ACT   

7. He is behaving in a very ____________way. MYSTERY

8. My teacher is very ____________about the history of Vietnam. KNOW

9. Don’t eat that fruit. It is ____________. POISON

10. Tim is one of the ____________on a boat trip on Lake Michigan. PARTICIPATE

PART 4. READING

I. Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word.

Dolphins are not fish. They are mammals (1)_________live in water. Dolphins are (2)_________ the most intelligent animals on earth. Although they can be found in (3)_________oceans in the world, dolphins prefer coastal waters and bays. The size of dolphins vary greatly. The smallest dolphin is just about 50 kg in (4)_________and 1.2 metres in length while (5)____________largest one can weigh up to 8,200 kg and is 100 metres (6)_________Dolphins eat (7)_________fish. A female dolphin gives birth (8)_________one calf every two years after a  (9)_________period of eleven or twelve months. A dolphin can normally live from twenty-five to sixty-five years and some species of dolphins can even live longer. Dolphin populations are at risk (10)_________to the pollution of their habitat and accidental entrapment in fishing nets.

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