Match some of the phrases in exercise 2 with the pictures below of the woman at different stages of her life.
Look at the pictures and match them with the ideas below Look at the title of the text. Which of the ideas of future cities do you think are mentioned in the text?
- Sky cities will be built with solar-run buildings.
- Internet will control every human activity.
- People will work in mobile offices.
- Underground trips will become safer and faster than ever.
Go Autonomous - GO GREEN
Since the birth of the car in 1886, transport in big cities has changed a lot. And it is no wonder that many experts think that there will be extraordinary changes in the next few decades.
As technology develops, highways, skylines, subways will be all transformed. Smarter sroadways and highways in cities outfitted with loT sensors will process all kinds of data in real time and alert users of the best transport options. Weather, crashes, traffic conditions will be communicated to users and smart stops will be found everywhere providing renewable energy, green hydrogen or even greener energy, ensuring efficiency and safety on every highway. Tunnels will also be a smart choice 10 because of the reduction of traffic congestion. Underground roads will be built in 3D with a lift system which will take vehicles deep underground and will allow traffic to attain the greatest speed without intersections.
There will also be innovations in the sky. Air taxis are not a new idea, but in the future they will be completely environment-friendly. Aviation gasoline will be no longer used. Green energy will be in place and cost-effective air taxis will enable people to travel from one busy urban city to another in record time.
New technologies such as Al and the rollout of 5G will pave the way for fully autonomous innovation. Cars will not be the only thing to go autonomous. Freight trucks, cargo vehicles, air taxis will all benefit from this technology and that is why 20 the term 'driver' will become extinct.
Transport will go green. Electric or hydrogen power will be mainstream. There will still be issues to solve such as safety, speed and cost, and of course governments will need to make new traffic laws.
- Sky cities will be built with solar-run buildings.
(Các thành phố trên bầu trời sẽ được xây dựng bằng các tòa nhà chạy bằng năng lượng mặt trời.)
- Internet will control every human activity. => Picture D
(Internet sẽ điều khiển mọi hoạt động của con người.)
- People will work in mobile offices. => Picture B
(Mọi người sẽ làm việc trong các văn phòng di động.)
- Underground trips will become safer and faster than ever. => Picture C
(Những chuyến đi dưới lòng đất sẽ trở nên an toàn và nhanh chóng hơn bao giờ hết.)
- I think the idea of future cities “Underground trips will become safer and faster than ever” is mentioned in the text.
(Tôi nghĩ rằng ý tưởng về các thành phố trong tương lai “Các chuyến đi dưới lòng đất sẽ trở nên an toàn hơn và nhanh hơn bao giờ hết” được đề cập trong văn bản.)
5. Find nine phrasal verbs in the texts in exercise 4. Match five of them with the definitions below. Check the meaning of the others in the dictionary. Are the meanings similar to the main verbs or different?
(Tìm 9 cụm động từ trong bài đọc trong bài 4. Nối 5 trong số chúng với các định nghĩa bên dưới. Kiểm tra nghĩa của chúng trong từ điển. Những nghĩa trên giống hay khác với động từ chính.)
1. continue _____
2. delay _____
3. stop using or doing sth _____
4. take care of _____
5. think of _____
1. continue carry on (different) (tiếp tục = carry on (khác))
2. delay put off (different)
3. stop using or doing sth give up (different)
4. take care of look after (different)
5. think of come up with (different)
use up (similar); wake up (similar); close down (similar); rely on (similar)
3. Match at least three of the words in exercise 1 with each of the sports below.
(Nối ít nhất ba từ trong bài tập 1 với mỗi môn thể thao bên dưới.)
basketball climbing football surfing
Basketball (bóng rổ): ball (bóng), hoop (rổ bóng rổ), shirt (áo sơ mi thể thao), shorts (quần đùi thể thao)
Climbing (leo núi): rope (dây thừng), safety harness (dây đai an toàn), helmet (mũ bảo hộ)
Football (bóng đá): goal (khung thành), net (lưới), shorts (quần đùi), shirt (áo sơ mi thể thao)
Surfing (lướt sóng): surfboard (ván lướt), wetsuit (đồ bơi), swimming trunks (quần bơi), swimming costume (đồ bơi cho nữ)
Read the passage carefully, the state whether the statements are True or False.
American students take part in different activities at recess. The energetic students often play basketball, but they never have time to play a whole game. They just practice scoring goals. This is called “shooting some hoop”. Many of the students listen to music. Sometimes they read or study at the same time. Some of the children, mainly boys, swap baseball cards. These pictures of baseball players come in packages of candy. They swap cards with their friends, so they get the ones they want. Eating and talking with friends are the most common ways of relaxing at recess. These activities are the same all over the world.
___ American students take part in different indoor activities at recess.
EXERCISE 10 : Change the acive into the passtive
1. They can't make tea with cold water
2 . The cief engineer was instructing all the workers of the plant
3 . Somebody has taken some of my books away
4 . They will hold the meeting before May Day
5 . They have to repair the engine of the car
6 . The boys boroke the window and took away some pictures
7. Since then people have seen him in 10 different countries
=> He ...............................................................
EXERCISE 10: Change the acive into the passtive
1. They can't make tea with cold water
=> Cold water couldn't made tea.
2 . The cief engineer was instructing all the workers of the plant.
=> All the workers were instructed by the cief engineer of the plant.
3. Somebody has taken some of my books away.
=> My books have been taken away.
4 . They will hold the meeting before May Day.
=> The meeting will be holded before May Day.
5 . They have to repair the engine of the car.
=> The engine of the car had to repair.
6 . The boys broke the window and took away some pictures.
=> The window was broken and some pictures were taken away.
7. Since then people have seen him in 10 different countries.
=> He has been seen in 10 different countries.
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Read the passage carefully, the state whether the statements are True or False.
American students take part in different activities at recess. The energetic students often play basketball, but they never have time to play a whole game. They just practice scoring goals. This is called “shooting some hoop”. Many of the students listen to music. Sometimes they read or study at the same time. Some of the children, mainly boys, swap baseball cards. These pictures of baseball players come in packages of candy. They swap cards with their friends, so they get the ones they want. Eating and talking with friends are the most common ways of relaxing at recess. These activities are the same all over the world.
___ Eating and talking with friends at recess are popular activities worldwide.
For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example: 0 FASCINATING
Same family, different people
The three children grew up in the same home, but for friends of the family the (0) ..........thing is that now, as young adults, they all have very different (1) ..........
Grace, 23, always has to be busy. Ever since she was a young girl, she has been highly (2)......... to succeed, and now that she is working in a business environment she makes no secret of how (3).......... she is: her aim is to be Managing Director before she is 30.
Whereas Grace can sometimes appear rather (4)................ , even cold, her 21-year-old sister Evie can be quite (5)............. to what others say, particularly if their comments are unfair. But she is always kind to her friends, and (6)........... whenever anyone wants to talk about their problems.
Daniel, just 19, is the (7)......... one. He’s mad about sports like rock climbing, snowboarding and motorcycling. He takes too many risks and he gives his family some (8).................moments, but somehow he always manages to get home safely.
0-FASCINATE
1-PERSONAL
2-MOTIVATE
3-AMBITION
4-EMOTION
5-SENSE
6-SYMPATHY
7-ADVENTURE
8-ANXIETY
1 personalities
2 motivated
3 ambitious
4 emotionally
5 sensible
6 sympathetic
7 adventurous
8 anxious
KEY PHRASES Listen again. Which of the underlined phrases from the list below does each student use?
Speculating about photos
It looks like some kind of dance class.
They're in a park, or maybe in the countryside.
I think it's a fitness class of some kind.
There's a sort of climbing frame.
It's most likely in the evening.
Two men are doing pull-ups, or something like that.
She's the instructor, I would say.
I'd say that she's tired.
Student 1:
- It looks like some kind of… (Nó trông giống một loại…)
- or maybe… (hoặc có thể là…)
- It’s most likely… (Nó gần giống như…)
- I’d say that… (Tôi cho rằng….)
Student 2:
- I think it’s a fitness class of some kind (Tôi nghĩ đó là một lớp thể dục)
- There’s a sort of (Có một vài…)
- or something like that (hoặc cái gì đó kiểu vậy)
- I would say…. (Tôi cho rằng…)
Read the passage carefully, the state whether the statements are True or False.
American students take part in different activities at recess. The energetic students often play basketball, but they never have time to play a whole game. They just practice scoring goals. This is called “shooting some hoop”. Many of the students listen to music. Sometimes they read or study at the same time. Some of the children, mainly boys, swap baseball cards. These pictures of baseball players come in packages of candy. They swap cards with their friends, so they get the ones they want. Eating and talking with friends are the most common ways of relaxing at recess. These activities are the same all over the world.
___ Baseball cards are very popular with boys as well as girls.