REVISION OF Unit 123

If you are tired of your busy and noisy city life, at the weekend you can go to 1 ___ agreen and peaceful place with friendly people in the Mekong region.. Most of Viet Nam’s rice is gro[r]

Playing beach games Playing computer games

Making crafts Texting Visiting museums

Doing DIY

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4

2

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herding the buffaloes

drying the rice riding a horse flying kites

picking tomatoes

collecting water

musical

instrument

open-air market

terraced field

costume

stilt

festival

1 Listen and repeat the following words and phrases.

2 Listen to the sentences and underline the words with

/sk/, /sp/, /st/, /br/, /pr/, /bl/, and /kl/ Read aloud

1 I used to climb trees when I was small.

2 How can we improve our speaking skills?

3 How annoying, the stadium has closed!

4 I want to buy a blue skirt for my mother.

5 ‘On a dark day, I saw a witch riding a broom in the

sky

/kl/

/bl/ /sk/

/br/

/sk/

3 Organise these words and phrases into pairs of opposites

and write them in the blanks

country life minority remember exciting

hate majority

city life noisy

modern

forget love

boring easy

traditional

hard peaceful

4 Put a verb in the correct form in each gap to complete

the sentences

1 Duong doesn’t playing football He enjoys

2 Don’t _ to lock the door before you go to bed,

Quan.

3 Children in this village love _ kites on

summer afternoons.

4 My sister doesn’t cooking, but she hates

_ the washing up after meals.

5 The Hmong boys like the game danh

quay in spring

playing/ to play

like

forget

flying/ to fly mind

doing / to do

5 Complete the sentences with the correct comparative

form of adverbs from the adjectives in brackets

1 On Saturday night we may stay up than usual

(late)

2 In his free time, Linh enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles

than anything else (much)

3 We speak English now than last year

(fluent)

4 You should buy the blue sweater It suits you _

than the red one (good)

5 Ethnic people in the mountainous regions live

_ than people in the city (simple)

6 Everyone in the race ran fast, but John ran

than all the others (fast)

7 If you write , you will make fewer

mistakes (careful)

later

more

more fluently

better

more simply

faster more carefully

6 Fill each blank with an article (a, an, or the) to complete

the passage.

If you are tired of your busy and noisy

city life, at the weekend you can go to (1)

_ green and peaceful place with

friendly people in the

Mekong region Most of Viet Nam’s rice is grown here You will have (2) opportunity to enjoy the beauty of typical Southern Vietnamese countryside and (3) view of immense rice paddies, coconut plantations and beautiful rivers (4) Mekong Delta is also famous for its fascinating floating markets and fruit orchards where you can taste delicious local fruits especially (5) _

a

an

the The

the a

A B

1 Small children in my village often climb

2 Is it true that there are busy floating

markets on the rivers in the Mekong

region?

b How interesting!

4 Flying kites is very exciting, but we can

5 My dad enjoys doing DIY He made this

Redo the exercises