D. Read the article again and answer the questions.

(Đọc lại bài viết và trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. Why do most people want more free time?

(Tại sao hầu hết mọi người muốn có nhiều thời gian rảnh hơn?)

2. What does Leyla write about?

(Leyla viết về cái gì?)

3. How many people follow her blog?

(Có bao nhiêu người theo dõi blog của cô ấy?)

4. What does Michael love doing?

(Michael thích làm gì?)

5. Who does he run with?

(Anh ta chạy cùng ai?)

6. Where does his company have running tours?

(Công ty của anh ấy có các tour chạy ở đâu?)

2. Read the task and the letter. What problem (s) does the writer have? What does she want the recipient to do?

(Đọc bài tập và bức thư. Người viết có (những) vấn đề gì? Cô ấy muốn người nhận làm gì?)

As a result of the pandemic Covid-19, all your classes are now online. You have been having problems with the internet connection in your area. Write a letter of complaint to the internet provider.

(Do hậu quả của đại dịch Covid-19, tất cả các lớp học của bạn giờ chuyển qua trực tuyến. Bạn đang gặp sự cố với kết nối Internet trong khu vực của bạn. Viết một lá thư khiếu nại đến nhà cung cấp dịch vụ Internet.)

Dear Sir or Madam,

1. I am writing to report the slow and unstable internet connection in my area. Since I am now taking online classes, I access the internet for my lessons and materials, so high speed internet connectivity is very important to me. 

2. My main problem is that the signal is not strong enough during the day. As most of my online classes are in the morning, I am frequently disconnected from the lectures. Without stable internet connectivity, it is more and more difficult for me to follow the class. 

3. I realise that it is expensive to support all students in the city who are doing online classes as a result of the pandemic. However, students should be able to attend their classes without any interruption rather than spending all the time adjusting their devices. 

4. In conclusion, I find this is an irritating problem. Unless there is a significant improvement to the internet reliability and speed in the area, the students in our city will not be able to attend online classes. 

Yours faithfully, 

Lam Anh 

Nguyen Lam Anh 

Read and listen to the article again and answer the questions.

1. What problem will we have in the next thirty years?

2. Why are insects the solution?

3. What does the word they in bold refer to?

4. In what parts of the world do people eat insects?

                                                  The food of the future

                                       INSECTS - The superfood of the future

There are a lot of hungry people in the world, so how do we deal with it? In the next thirty years, we'll need to provide enough protein for billions more mouths, and with all these extra people there will be even less space for farming. One solution is for us to eat insects. They are a great source of protein and they don't need as much space or water as farm animals.

So why don't we eat insects regularly? The fact is that many people in Asia, Africa and South America already do. The problem is that Europeans and North Americans don't want to. Some governments are now trying to convince them why it is a good idea. The Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen, for example, developed the 'Insect Deliciousness' project. Its chefs have been to five continents to discover an incredible world of insect flavour. In Australia, they tasted honey ants. They ate fried caterpillars in Tanzania, and in Mexico, they enjoyed desert-ant eggs. Will they and other similar organisations persuade Europeans and Americans to take a bite from a caterpillar or an ant? What's your view? How many people will eat insects in the future? How much food made with insects will you eat?

2. Read aloud the numbers and currencies below. What other currencies do you know?

(Đọc to các con số và đơn vị tiền tệ bên dưới. Bạn còn biết những đơn vị tiền tệ nào khác nữa?)

Numbers and currencies

$500 = five hundred dollars

(năm trăm đô la)

€3,500 = three thousand five hundred / three and a half thousand euros

(ba nghìn năm trăm ơ rô)

500,000đ = five hundred thousand Vietnamese đong

(năm trăm nghìn đồng)

£1 million = a million pounds

(một triệu bảng Anh)

3.5 billion = three point five / three and a half billion yen

(ba triệu rưỡi yên Nhật)

Exercise 3. Read the introduction to the radio programme. Then listen. In what order do they mention the objects in the photos?

(Đọc phần giới thiệu về chương trình radio. Sau đó nghe. Họ đề cập các ảnh theo trình tự nào?)

Tết – Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Radio presenter Zoe Muller talks to people about Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations in London.

(Tết âm lịch của người Việt Nam. Phát thanh viên Zoe Muller nói với mọi người về việc tổ chức Tết Nguyên Đán của người Việt Nam ở Luân Đôn.)

a. Read the article and choose the best title. (Đọc bài viết và chọn tiêu đề tốt nhất.)

1. What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? (Điều gì sẽ xảy ra nếu tất cả chúng ta ngừng ăn thịt?)

2. Why are people eating less meat? (Tại sao mọi người ăn ít thịt?)

Saving the environment doesn't have to be expensive. You don't need to buy an electric car - just change your diet! Here are some of the biggest benefits of choosing a plant-based diet: 

We would reduce greenhouse gases.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), farmed livestock produces 14.5% of the world's greenhouse gases. If we all ate plant-based diets, we would reduce food-related greenhouse gases by 70% by 2050.*

We would save water.

Farming takes up about 70% of all freshwater use and nearly one-third of that is for livestock.** Do you know how much water is used to produce just one kilogram of beef? Over 15,000 liters! Beans, on the other hand, need about 4,000 liters per kilogram and vegetables need just over 300 liters on average. ***

We would save forests and wild animals.

In many parts of the world, forests are being cut down to make land for farming. Deforestation leads to many problems, but the most obvious one is that wild animals lose their homes. According to FAO, of all the land we use for farming, 77% is used for livestock, including the land we use to grow their food **. If we ate less meat and planted more food for humans, we would have more land for forests and wild animals.

Eating less meat is one of the best ways to reduce your impact on the planet. If you start eating more plant-based foods, you might even like vegetables more than meat!

* according to a study in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

** according to Humane Society International

*** according to The Water Footprint Network

Read and listen to the online article again. Why are these numbers mentioned?

1. £22,000          2. $42,000          3. 1.5kg

CHANGING THE WORLD WITH KINDNESS

Sometimes a spontaneous act of kindness can change another person’s life. Read about these incredible people and their actions that helped to make the world a better place for someone else.

IN BRITAIN

Life can't be easy for musician Daniel Black. After a cycling accident in 2009, the doctors told him that he couldn’t walk or play the guitar. He had saved £22,000 for his intended expensive surgery when he heard about a young boy who also needed surgery to allow him to walk. Daniel told the boy's family that he would donate all his money to the boy’s surgery. The little boy was then able to walk again.

IN THE US

Glen James, an unemployed and homeless office worker, did something both honest and kind. The police said that he decided to return a bag with $ 42,000 in it to the owner. A man called Ethan Whittington read about Glen and started a campaign to collect money forhim. Ethan said that anamazing 160,000 was raised and Glen's life hasn't been the same since.

IN VIET NAM

In March 2020, Hoang Tuan Anh, a Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for the poor during the Covid 19 lockdown. The machine distributed a 1.5 kg (3.3lb) bagful of rice from a small silo. The team said that people in need still had access to food and resources during the pandemic.

These stories may persuade you that when you spread a little kindness, there may not be a personal benefit, but you could encourage people to be kind to you, too.

1. Read the article and look at the words in blue. What do we use them for?

(Đọc bài viết và nhìn vào các từ có màu xanh lam. Chúng ta sử dụng chúng để làm gì?)

Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth is a famous Australian actor. He's best known for his roles in the films Thor and Snow White and the Huntsman.

He's very tall (1.90 metres), strong and good-looking. Chris has fair hair and blue eyes. He's sometimes got a beard and a moustache.