Rule a: 

+ Harris Aslam is an ambitious young man who left school at the age of thirteen to work in his family's grocery business.

(Harris Aslam là một chàng trai trẻ đầy tham vọng, bỏ học năm 13 tuổi để làm việc trong công việc kinh doanh tạp hóa của gia đình.)

+ Now, at the age of eighteen, he owns three shops in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the town where he was born and broupht up.

(Bây giờ, ở tuổi mười tám, anh sở hữu ba cửa hàng ở Kirkcaldy, Scotland, thị trấn nơi anh sinh ra và lớn lên.)

+ The job he is now applying for is CEO of Nisa Retail, a grocery business whose annual sales are about £1.6 billion!

(Công việc hiện anh đang ứng tuyển là Giám đốc điều hành của Nisa Retail, một công ty kinh doanh tạp hóa có doanh thu hàng năm khoảng 1,6 tỷ bảng Anh!)

some: some important differences; some hobbies

any: any countries or continents; any coal or oil; any food; any special missions

LEARN THIS! some and any

We use some and any with uncountable and plural countable nouns. (Chúng ta dùng some và any với những danh từ không đếm được và danh từ đếm được ở dạng số nhiều.)

a. We use some in affirmative sentences. (Ta dùng some cho câu khẳng định.)

b. We use any in negatives sentences and questions. (Ta dùng any cho câu phủ định và câu nghi vấn.)

Katie moved to Viet Nam after her mother found a job here. Having spent the first few months fitting to the new school, Katie now has an interesting school life. Last week, she joined her school’s field trip to Con Dao island. It involved releasing sea turtles into the sea. Having listened to careful instructions from the scientists, Katie and her friends received little turtles to care for before they took the turtles to the beach. Katie then learned how to release her little turtles to the sea. Though it was a short one, participating in the trip helped Katie make new friends. She loved having done something to protect the wildlife.

Ví dụ a: “participating in the trip helped Katie make new friends.”

(tham gia chuyến đi đã giúp Katie kết bạn mới.)

“It involved releasing sea turtles into the sea.”

(Nó liên quan đến việc thả rùa biển xuống biển.)

Ví dụ b: “Having spent the first few months fitting to the new school, Katie now has an interesting school life.”

(Trải qua vài tháng đầu tiên để thích nghi với ngôi trường mới, giờ đây Katie đã có một cuộc sống học đường thú vị.)

Ví dụ c: “She loved having done something to protect the wildlife.”

(Cô ấy thích làm điều gì đó để bảo vệ động vật hoang dã.)

Ví dụ d: “Having participated in the trip, Katie felt more connected to the environment.”

(Tham gia chuyến đi, Katie cảm thấy gắn kết hơn với môi trường.)

1. will have

2. will be

3. perfect

4. continuous

1. has

2. been

3. have been

4. since

5. have been

6. for

7. have bee

1. present simple

2. present continuous

3. present continuous

4. present simple

5. present simple

6. present continuous

Amanda recently had a colourful butterfly tattooed on her wrist. Brad had the names of his two daughters tattooed on his neck under his hair. His friend Doug had his back decorated with a large tattoo of a shield. For the people themselves, these examples of body art are meaningful and important. Nevertheless, they deliberately had them done in places that can easily be hidden. Why? Because they want to give themselves the best possible chance of getting a job, and many employers have a negative attitude towards tattoos and other forms of body art (piercings, body painting, etc.). That is because many employers do not think that decorating yourself with tattoos is acceptable. But when these employers were young themselves, back in the 1980s, they probably had their hair dyed a bright colour to shock their parents! Fashions change, but younger generations always have the desire to be different.

a. past simple

b. present perfect

c. present perfect

d. present perfect

e. present perfect

a. the toughest

b. the biggest

c. the most powerful; the most difficult

d. the worst

e. one of the biggest tsunamis

f. the most powerful (earthquake ever) in Japan; the (fifth) most powerful in the world

a: the toughest

b: the biggest

c: the most powerful, the most difficult

d: the worst

e: one of the biggest tsunamis

f:. the most powerful (earthquake ever) in Japan; the (fifth) most powerful in the world

a. We use the second conditional to describe an unreal or imaginary situation and its result.

(Chúng ta dùng câu điều kiện loại 2 để mô tả những sự kiện không có thật hoặc tưởng tượng ra và kết quả của chúng.)

If shops didn't exist (imaginary situation), we would buy (result) everything online.

(Nếu các cửa hàng không tồn tại (tình huống tưởng tượng), chúng ta sẽ mua (kết quả) mọi thứ trên mạng.)

We use the (1) past simple in the if clause and we use (2) would + (3) infinite in the main clause.

(Chúng ta sử dụng thì quá khứ đơn trong mệnh đề if và dùng would + nguyên mẫu không to trong mệnh đề chính.)

b. We can put the main clause first. In this case, we don't need the comma.

(Ta có thể để mệnh đề chính lên trước. Trong trường hợp này, ta không cần dấu phẩy.)

I'd buy you a present if I had enough money.

(Tôi sẽ mua cho cậu một món quà nếu tôi có đủ tiền.)

c. We use could to mean would + be able to. It is also the past simple of can.

(Ta dùng could với nghĩa là would + be able to. Nó cũng là thể quá khứ đơn của can.)

If I won the lottery, I could stop work.

(Nếu tôi thắng xổ số, tôi có thể nghỉ việc.)

If she could speak English, she'd get a job in the USA.

(Nếu cô ấy có thể nói tiếng Anh, cô ấy có thể có việc ở Mỹ.)

The world would be much better if money didn’t exist.

If money didn’t exist, how would you buy things?

If you needed something, you would make it.

If you couldn’t make it, you would swap with somebody else.

So if I wanted a new mobile phone, how would I get it?

If money didn’t exist, life wouldn’t be better for poor people.

If nobody had any money, everybody would be equal.