Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. dormitory          B. pagoda                  C. course                    D. order
2. A. scenery             B. deposit                  C. exchange               D. rest
3. A. gather               B. blanket                  C. reputation               D. campus
4. A. admire              B. institute                  C. until                        D. picnic
5. A. passed              B. watched                 C. played                   D. washed

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in capital letters. 
1. Minh Hang won the highest prize in a dancing _______ last week. (complete)
2. If we go on littering, the environment will become __________ polluted. (serious)
3. Banh Chung is a _____________ dish at Tet in Vietnam. (tradition)
4. Nowadays, _________ are usually able to predict volcanic eruption in advance. (science)
5. There are many ______________________who work on this farm. (employ)

Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentence.
1. If you study at the Brighton Language Center, you can live in a ______ on campus.
A. dormitory             B. hotel                  C. private room                   D. house
2. How much time do you spend __________the web a day?
A. posting                  B. to surf                    C. surfing                        D. surfed
3. There is a small bamboo ___________at the entrance to the village.
A. tree                        B. forest                     C. street                           D. mountain
4. The next stage in the development of television is ________TV.
A. cooperative          B. interactive            C. expensive                         D. convenient
5. I wish you __________us some day.
A. visit                       B. will visit                C. would visit                       D. visited

 Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. 
1. I (live) _______________ in Ho Chi Minh City since 1975. 
2. He (just see) ______________ her. 
3. They (already show) _______________ the film. 
4. I’m sorry the car is not here. I (just sell) ______________ it. 
5. The Bakers (be) ______________ in New York for 3 months.
 6. My brother (use) ______________ this computer for 2 years. 
7. They (live) ________________ in this street for a long time. 
8. Mr. Green (teach) ______________ French since he left London in 1997.
9. She (not speak) _________________ to me since last week. 
10. Up to now, Hoa (work) _______________ very hard.

 Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. 
1. I (not see) _____________ your brother recently.
 2. They (not contact) _______________ to each other for a long time. 
3. How long _______________you (study) ______________ English? 
4. How many times _________ you (see) ____________him since he went to Edinburgh? 
5. Who is that woman? I (never/ see) _______________ her before.
6. We (be) ____________ from French. We (be) ______________ there for 20 years.
7. I (see) __________ that film several times because I like it. 
8. Mary (lose) _________________ her hat for 2 days. 
9. He (not finish) _______________ doing it yet. 
10. He (not see) ____________ him since Christmas.

 Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. 
1. Bob (see) ______________ this movie before. 
2. Sandra (lend) ___has lent_________ her brother $ 200 so far. 
3. Rashid (just pass) ____has just passed________ his driving test. 
4. Karen (study) _____has studied_______________ Italian for three years now and is still studying. 
5. The teacher (already tell) ___has already told_________ to be quite.
 6. Tim (not take) ____hasn’t taken________ many photos yet. 
7. Jorge (read) ___has read_________ the newspaper already. 
8. We (not begin) ___hasn’t begun__________ to study for the test yet. 
9. John and I (be) ___have been___________ pen pals for nearly 3 years.