Match the highlighted words in the text with the following words or phrases.
- limited to an amount
- exactly like a real thing
- a mixture of flour and water
- showing strong feeling of love
- unbelievable
Match the words and phrases with their meanings.
1. interact | a. an area of a town |
2. privacy | b. the feeling of belonging to a group |
3. sense of community | c. to talk or do things with other people |
4. neighbourhood | d. the state of being alone and not watched or interrupted by other people |
Match the words or phrases with their definitions
……1. rusty ……2. accent ……3. dialect ……4. massive ……5. bilingual ……6. simplicity ……7. dominant ……8. intonation ……9. flexibility ……10. derivative | A. very large in size, amount, or number B. the rise and fall of the voice in speaking C. the ability to change to suit new situations D. the quality of being easy to understand or use E. more important or powerful than other things F. a word that has been developed from another word G. able to speak two languages equally well; using two languages H. the way in which people in a particular area or country pronounce words I. not as good at something as you used to be, because you have not practised it for a long time J. the form of a language that is spoken in one area with some different grammar, words and pronunciation |
Task 2: The words in A column appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B column.
A | B |
1. disabled | a. taking or needing a lot of time |
Match the highlighted words in the text with their meanings.
1. maintain | a. particular ways of doing something |
2. styles | b. people who drive dogsleds |
3. experience | c. to do or feel something |
4. mushers | d. to keep, make something continue |
1 - d: maintain - to keep, make something continue
(duy trì – giữ hoặc làm cho thứ gì đó tiếp tục)
2 - a: styles - particular ways of doing something
(phong cách – phương hướng riêng biệt để làm việc gì đó)
3 - c: experience - to do or feel something
(trải nghiệm – làm hoặc cảm thấy gì đó)
4 - b: mushers - people who drive dogsleds
(người lái xe chó kéo – người lái xe trượt tuyết do chó kéo)
Read the following text and use the words given in the box to fill in the le there real sticking about are legally the at Friendship is an interesting kind of love. There’s no contrast (1) __________ binding you two together, there’s no unspoken rule (2) ________loving each other unconditionally, and there’s no (3) ________blinding commitment to the opposite person other than what you are willing to put in to the relationship. But maybe these (4)________the reasons why our relationships are so valuable. The option is always (5) ________ to back out at any time, and yet, with the really, really authentic ones, we never do. Because (6) ________the end of the day- after the breakups and divorces and estrangements- we choose (7) ________companions we want in our lives, and they are the ones worth (8) ________around for.
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Friendship is an interesting kind of love. There's no contract legally binding you two together, there's no unspoken rule about loving each other unconditionally, and there's no real binding commitment to the opposite person other than what you are willing to put in to the relationship. But maybe these are the reasons why our friendships are so valuable. The option is always there to back out at any time, and yet, with the really, really authentic ones, we never do. Because at the end of the day - after the breakups and divorces and estrangements - we choose the companions we want in our lives, and they are the ones worth sticking around for.
Read the news items again and match the highlighted words with their meanings.
1. relations | a. shown over the Internet |
2. eye-opening | b. to act officially for another person or organisation |
3. represent | c. the way in which people or groups of people behave towards each other. |
4. live-streamed | d. surprising because you learn something new |
Match the words and phrases (1 - 5) with the meanings (a - e).
1. during sales
2. browsing
3. online shopping
4. wide renge of products
5. shopaholic
a. the action of using the Internet to order food or goods
b. a time when many things in a shop are at lower prices than usual
c. a person who is addicted to shopping
d. going round and looking at the things on display
e. a great number of goods
1 - b: During sales - A time when many things in a shop are at lower prices than usual.
(Trong thời gian giảm giá – Một thời điểm mà nhiều thứ trong một cửa hàng có giá thấp hơn bình thường.)
2 - d: Browsing - Going round and looking the things on display.
(Đi xem qua – đi vòng vòng và xem những thứ được trưng bày.)
3 - a: Online shopping - The action of using the Internet to order food or goods.
(Mua sắm trực tuyến – Hành động dùng Internet để đặt hàng hoặc đặt đồ ăn.)
4 - e: Wide range of products - A great number of goods.
(hàng loạt các sản phẩm – một lượng lớn hàng hóa.)
5 - c: Shopaholic - A person who is addicted to shopping.
(Người nghiện mua sắm – Người mà nghiện mua sắm.)
Read the text again and match the highlighted phrases in the text with their meanings.
1. get around | a. to start doing something regularly so that it becomes a habit |
2. come up with | b. to perform and complete something |
3. carry out | c. to go or travel to different places |
4. get into the habit of | d. to use something to achieve a particular result or benefit |
5. make use of | e. to produce or find an answer or a solution |