Tự chọn TA 8 (nâng cao)

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Unit 1 : DESCRIBING PEOPLE (Naâng cao)

Answer the questions :

1 What do you call president Ho ?

2 How was his life ?

3 What did he devote his whole life to ?

4 What was the first impression of the meeting with the Uncle Ho of the Vietnamesepeople ?

5 How do people feel when they meet Uncle Ho ?

Give the adjective form of the words :

II Practice the dialogue :

Lan : Hi, Hoa

Hoa : Hello Lan My friend, Nien is going to visit me next week

Lan : Really ? I saw her photo She’s a lovely girl

Hoa : Yes She’s good looking with long black hair

Lan : I see She has an oval face and a small nose

Hoa : She’s a kind and sociable girl She’s willing to help others

Lan : She’s your close friend Do you know her hobbies ?

Hoa : She likes playing sports, reading books and listening to music

She enjoys traveling, too

Lan : Oh, I’m eager to meet her

• Talk to you friends about your close friend friend.

III Make some questions to ask your friends :

IV Listen to answer True or Fase Correct the false sentences :

1 Yesterday, Shannon Johnes and two of her friends went to the movies

2 Sandra is Shannon’s best friend

3 Sandra has fair hair and she wears glasses

4 Anne has short black hair

5 Lizzie is Shannon’s next-door neighbor

6 Yesterday Lizzie wore a beautiful green blouse

• Tape transcript :

Yesterday, Shannon Johnes and three of her friends, Sandra, Anne and Lizzie,went to the movies Sandra is Shannon’s best friend She has brown hair and shewears glasses Yesterday she has on a blouse dress Anne, Shannon’s friend sinceKindergarten, has very short back hair She always wears Jeans and yesterday shewore agreen blousewith her jeans.Lizzie is Shannon’s nextdoor neighhbor Sheprefers dresses to jeans and yesterday she worea beautiful green dress

V Write a paragraph about famous person (about 50-60 words)

- Body build (appearance, weight, heigh)

- Character

- Hobbies

VI Using the present simple tense or past simple tense :

1 Peter (go) ……… to the park on Tuesdays

2 When yourfather usually (come) ……… home from work ?

3 Why you (arrive) ……… so late ?

I (forget) ……… to set my alarm clock last night

4 Your hands (be) ……… very cold

5 You (hear) ……… me well now ?

6 While I was watching TV last night, a mouse (run) ……… across the floor

7 My father sometimes (drink) a glass of milk before he (go) to bed

8 The sky had been black for sometime before the rain (begin) to fall

9 Carlo (have) a sister and a brother

10 I’ve found my pen

Oh, good Where you (find) it ?

VII Complete the sentences with the correct forms of verbs :

1 Elephants don’t ……… meat

2 Explorers believed that the river ……… in to the Alantic

3 Nothing ……… faster than the speed of light

4 Winter nights ……… long

5 Pasteur ………in 1985

Unit 2 : DESCRIBING PLACES (Naâng cao)

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I Practioce the dialogue :

Mrs Lan : Hi, I am Lan

Mrs Lien : Hello, Lan, I’m Lien I’m a visitor and how about you ?

Mrs Lan : I live here Where do you come from ?

Mrs Lien : Nha Trang Have you ever been there ?

Mrs Lan : Yes It’s an interesting place with the beaitiful beaches

Mrs Lien : That’s right But now it’s very hot there so

I want to enjoy the fresh air in DaLat

Mrs Lan : Do you live near the sea ?

Mrs Lien : Yes I live in a house near the sea

Mrs Lan : I think your house is lovely Is it big ?

Mrs Lien : No, it isn’t very big It’s an old house

There are two bedrooms upstairs The bathroom is downstairs next

to the kitchen and there’s a living room where our family gather to enjoy the happiness every night

Mrs Lan : Great ! Does your house have a garden ?

Mrs Lien : Yes The garden goes down to the beach and in the spring and

summer there are flowers

Mrs Lan : What an interesting garden ! I think you live happily in your house

Mrs Lien : Thank you And how about your house ?

Mrs Lan : It’s near here Would you like to come to my house ?

Mrs Lien : Yes, I’d love to

• Make a similar dialogne to describe your house or flat.

II Choose the appropriate words to complete the passage :

off in on through turn left over round from to

We live in a small house ……… the country When you get ……… the bus,you have to walk ……… the village Across the square, through the narrow streetsand across the market place to the church Then you ……… and go ……… thebridge Don’t jump over the stream _ it’s deep ! Walk through the wood and across theploughed field There’s a fence ……… it, but you can jump over that You’ll seethe farmhouse ……… the top of the hill

Read the passage again then answer “True” or “False” :

………… 1 To go to Bill’s house you can go by bus

………… 2 There is a church and a ploughed field on the way to Bill’s house

………… 3 When you walk to the bridge, turn left and cross the market

………… 4 You can jump over the stream _ it’s shallow

………… 5 You can jump over the fence.

………… 6 Bill’s house is on the hill

III Listen Then answer the questions :

1 Where is the school ?

2 Is it large or small ?

3 Is it a new school ?

4 How are the teachers ?

5 Why are the library, the play ground and the hall large ?

6 Where can students learn ? play ?

Tape transcript.

My school is situated in the central of the town It is a large school It is old butbeautiful There are many classrooms in it The principal is kind The teachers are allclever and hard working teachers

All the students like them very much As there are many students in my school,the library, the play ground and the hall are very large Many students can read andlearn in the library, play in the play ground I am proud of my school

IV Write a paragraph to describe your house.

V Using the prepositions of place to describe your house or your school.

VI Fill in each blank with a correct reflexive pronoun :

1 Mr Nam ……… will take this particular lesson

2 I shall do the job ………

3 Look after ……… !

4 We gave ……… a lot of troubles

5 Mary often looks at ……… in the mirror in the morning

6 Susan, you ……… do this, don’t you ?

7 Miss Hoa and I ……… saw that accident yesterday

8 I think little of ………

9 One should praise ………

10.Sometimes we can’t understand ………

VII Make the sentences with “must” or “ought to” :

1 You / your exercises / regularly

2 We / stop / cars when / traffic lights / on red

3 Men / have oxygen / live

4 You / obey / parents’ words

5 You / keep silent / exam room

6 You / not walk / grass / park

7 Lan / tidy / room / more often

8 We / ride / the right

9 Nam / help / father / when / have / free time.

10.He / stay / bed / because / be / sick

IX Make the questions with “Why” and answer :

1 Lan / stay up late last night ?

She / do / homework

2 Ba / look / happy ?

He / recive / letter / this mornning

3 Hoa / be / unhappy ?

She / miss / parents and friends

Practice asking and answering “Why _question” with your friends.

-Unit 3 : MAKING PREDICTIONS (Naâng Cao)

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I Complete Bill’s letter to Marie with these words :

5 Sandy Lane, London SW12 4 YJ

17 MayMarie Gregg

Thrill Seekers Tours

67 Brom ley way

countries in Europe and to ……… United states, too, but I’ve ……… been to Africabefore.

If I was accepted to go to the ……… I’m sure I would be a useful member

……… the group I can ……… three languages English, French, and Spanish, and Ilike meeting other ……… I can cook quite ……… and I can play ……… guitar,too I passed my ……… test a couple of years ………, but I’m afraid I ………know very much about cars, so I wouldn’t be much help with ……… the car if itbroke down

I ……… you will consider me for a place on the tour and I look ……… tohearing from you

Yours Bill Reynolds

Questions :

Find examples of these grammar points in Bill’s letter ?

The present simple tense

The present continuous tense

The past simple tense

Two negative forms

B Attempts to produce an electric vehicle will fail and we’ll coutinue to use ournormal cars Around the middle of the century, however, the world’s supplies ofpetroleum will run out

C There will be serious racial conflicts as large numbers of people move to try andfind food Water will become a valuable resource and we might see wars over thecontrol of rivers and lakes

D The world’s population will increase from thepresent 6 billion to 10 billion Most

of this increase will be in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

E This could produce a change in the international balance of power, as the countries

in these regions demand more control in international organisations like theUnitedNations and the World Bank

F In the industrialized countries there will be more and old people The costs ofproviding pensions and medical care for than will rise steeply

G With new technology people won’t need to be in the same place to communicateeasily They’ll be able to stay at home and do everything by computer and videophone.

H At the sametime .Howover,the expensive social problems ofa young society_crime, drugs, divorce, could decline

I But this probably won’t matter, because scientists will use genetic engineering toproduce oil from plants like sun flowers

J The future looks bad for the world’s animals.We will continue to destroy hugeareas of the rain forest and other important natural habitats

K Patterns of wark may change People might decide that they don’t actually need to

go to banks, offices, schools, Universities or shops, any more

✫ What do you think the future holds for the world in 2050 ?

Work with a parter Make some predictions

Discuss your predictions with the class

EXERCISE

Comebine each pair of sentences into a new one using the conjuctions in brackets.

1) Nam gave me a present Then he said “Happy birthday” to me (before)

2) We sit and wait here She comes (until)

3) You get acquainted then Let me introduce then to you (before)

4) She got a serious accident She drank too much beer at the party (after)

5) We left our house It rained heavily (as soon as)

Write complete sentece from the given words.

1) where / you / go / this weekend ?

2) you / free / tonight ?

3) hope / everything / happen / beautiful

4) Think / there / heavy rain / tomorrow

5) You / to school / tomorrow afternoon

Write 5 activitiesyou are going to do on this weekend And then tell them your partner.

-Unit 4 : TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENCES (Naâng cao)

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LISTEN AND READ:

Hoa : Hello Nice to see you again

Lan : Hi Nice to meet you

Hoa : You look happy Where did you go last summer?

Lan : I went to Vung Tau beach with my parents

Hoa : How long have you stayed there ?

Lan : I have stayed for one month

Hoa : That sounds interesting What did you do there ?

Lan : I visited many beautiful sights in Vung Tau Every morning, I sunbathed on the beach I sometimes went fishing with my new friends who lived near my uncle,s

house

Hoa : You look fatter.So you are different from after the trip Do you think so ?

Lan :Yes I had a lot of fun I like that place very much

Hoa : What about your uncle? How long has he lived there?

Lan : He has lived there since 1988.He was very happy to meet me because

That was the first time he met me

Hoa:Do youthink you will visit your uncle next summer vacation?

Lan : I am very happy to come there again Will you join us?

Hoa :Great I will ask for my parents ‘ permission

Practice the dialogue with a partner

Complte the sentences Use the words from the dialogue:

Lan went to Vung Tau beach _

She has stayed there once monh

Lan ‘ s uncle has lived there _1988

Hoa likes to _there next summer vacation

PRACTICE

I.Using the comparative form of adjective to write the sentences

My neighborhood is as quiet as the country

My father / busy / my mother

Lan’s house / small / my house

His bike / cheap / Tan’s bike

Sugar / sweet / honey

This river / deep / that lake

II Make the sentences by using comparisons of adjectives (like, as … as, different from, the same as, …” :

Life in the countryside / Life in the city

Buildings in the town / Buildings in the city

My school / Lan’s school

The bridges in the country / The bridges in the city

The streets in the country / not wide / The streets in the city

City dwellers / People in the country

Means of transport in the country / not modern / means of transport in the city

Entertainment in the city / Entertainment in the country

Schools in the country / not much / Schools in the city

The air in the country / not pollute / the air in the city

READ THE TEXT

Although I was born and brought in the country I spent most of my time in the city, however, a comfortable life in the city has never appealed to me at all And the country with its advantages still has a call to me for good.

Living in the country, the fresh and clean air of the country makes you feel healthier How relaxed and pleasant you are when you can enjoy the pure air wafted with soft fragrance of areca and grape fruit trees as you leisurely take a stroll around your garden Morever, living in the country you may feel safer while in town, the city dwellers are in a state of continuously being afraid of committing violent deaths

caused by careless drivers or foolhardy motor-cyclists

In the country you can rest from the noise and bustle of the town Even though you have to get up early to catch buses to get to work in town, you can sleep better at night without being disturbed by deafening sirents of cars or machines running noisily all the time

Questions:

What is the country life ?

Describe the advantages of living in the country and the disadvantages of living in the city

Where do you live ? In the city or in the country

I’ve just spend my holiday on my uncle’s farm I had a lot of fun there The air

is fresh and clean The people are friendly Every morning I and my uncle fed thecattles and watered the vegetables Then I and my friends who made friend with me,went swimming in the river near my house This river flows as slowly as the river thatyou told me In the evening, the members in the family gathered to chat or watch TVlike your family often did

Now, I’m busy, I’ll tell you more next letter and I’ll send you a postcard fromthere

Write soon and tell me all your news

Regards, Hoa

I Correct the verb tense with the present progressive tense :

Mr Nam is the man that we (look) for

Don’t make much noise ! Our father (sleep)

Hoa and Lan (read) books in the library at this moment

Where is your father ? He (plant) trees in the garden.

Be careful ! the boy (cross) the street

II Answer the questions with the words given :

What is he doing ? (newspaper)

What are the girls doing ? (rope)

What are the boys doing ? (marble)

What are they doing ? (trees)

What is Hoa doing ? (English)

Read the passage and write T (True) or F (False) for each sentence :

London is a very important city in the United Kingdom It is not only the capital

of England, but the capital of Britain as well It is considered the cultural capital with alot of world - famous buidings, the British Museum, the National Gallery, the BBC,and the Royal Opera Huose London is also a city of contrasts a city with a mixture ofthe old and the new Just as famous is the amount of green space, especially publicparks All of them are free to everyone

True (T) or False (F) ?

London is the capital of Britain

London has many world-famous buildings

It is an old city

Everyone has to buy tickets when entering public parks

Make questions and answers about the passage.

-Unit 5 : MAKING AND RESPONDING TO REQUESTS (Nâng cao)

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Listen and read :

Ngoc :Tomorrow will be my birthday.Would you like to come to my house for

A party ?

Hoa : I’d love to What time will the party start ?

Nga :It ‘ll start at 7 p.m who will you invite to your birthday party ?

Hoa : I’ll invite our classmates What will you prepare for the party ?

Nga : I’ll make a birthday cake I will have my mother cook something

Hoa : What will you do after the party ?

Ngọc : We’ll play some games Can you sing ?

Hoa : Yes, I can

Ngọc : Shall we sing Karaoke together ?

Hoa : Yes That ‘ll be nice

1 Practice the dialogue with a partner

2 Make the similar dialogue with your friends

I Practice Speaking with a partner by using modal verbs (can, could would,

may, …)

Ex : - Would you like to go to the cinema with me ?

- Yes, I’d love to

……… you help me ? (math exercises)

……… you do me a favor ? (buy some books)

……… I go out ? ( Yes)

……… you show me the way to Vo Thi Sau junior high school ?

(Go straight ahead, turn right)

I promise I ……… study hard in the second semester

II Fill the blanks with the correct modal verbs :

You ……… do your exercises carefully

They ……… send that letter soon

Someone ……… carry those bays to the shop

They ……… see my house from the top of the hill

They ……… sell foods on the sidewalks

We ……… keep our school clean and tidy

People ……… hold a meeting in our school

People ……… learn a foreign language in a week

You ……… put your pens in the box

They ……… takes those magazines out of the library

Read the passage and answer the questions :

Dam Sen Park

With the area of 52 ha, lying on the corner of the 2 roads Lac Long Quan andHoa Binh, Dam Sen park is composed of various area :

Area for entertainment, including many west Highland houses, central flowergarden, water fountains, fun house, house for ball-games, stand for electronic games,make-up rooms, small islands and a sea palace, flower beds, pine tree hills, a rosegarden, royal garden and a prehistoric valley

An area for camping : a large open ground is reserved for visitors who lovecamping

A lake area : Includes, many aquatic games : fishing, boating There are alsoPovillion near the lake, an island for dancing and water puppetry

Quentions :

Where is Dam Sen park ?

What are there in Dam Sen park ?

Is Dam Sen an amusemant place ?

What do the visitors come there ?

Have you ever gone to Dam Sen park ?

Write a passage about tourist site.

Suoi Tien Tourist Site

Situated : North - EastDistrict : Thu DucFar from city : 19 kmArea for entertainmant : Landscapes with streams, forests and lakes

Population of nearly 2,000 crocodiles

Use “Do/Would you mind + V_ing” and “Do/Would you mind if …?” to make the follwing requests more polite and respond to requests :

turn off / lights (agree)

use / computer (disagree)

borrow / reference books (agree)

play / tape once more (disagree)

put off / shoes (agree)

open / windows (disagree)

postpone / meeting (agree)

solve / math exercises (disagree)

Make the requests more polite and respond to requests with your friends

Sword Lake

The lake is not large but is situated in the center of the city The name of SwordLake is derived from a lagend which has it that king Le Thai To had a precious sword.The sword had always been at his side during the 10-year resistance against the Minhaggressors After he won victory over the foreign aggression and returned to ThangLong Citadel, one day he went out and boarded a royal boat to cruise on the lake.Suddently he saw a giant turtle emerging and coming towards him The King withdrewhis sword and pinpointed with the sword the direction of the coming turtle for hissoldiers’ attention All of a sudden, the turtle caught the sword between its teeth andsubmerged The King thought that it might have been that during the resistance waragainst the Minh aggression, the King was offered a sword by the spirit to help himdefeat the enemy Now when peace has returned the spirit appeared and took back the

sword With that thought in mind, King Le Thai To named the lake after episode asHoan Kiem (Lake of Restored Sword)

Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum

After two years of construction, the mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh wasofficially inaugurated on August 29, 1975 The facade of the mausoleum faces thehistoric Ba Dinh square

The mausoleum is divided into three levels with a combined height of 21,6meters The lowest levels forms a terraced stand eclusively used for presidium ofgrand meetings organized at the grassy Ba Dinh square The second levels is thecentral piece of the mausoleum where the remains of the president are kept in achamber accessible throught a series of passages and flights of marble staircases Theupper part of the mausoleum is the roof resembling a three terraced steps The façade

of the upper part bears an inscription “President Ho Chi Minh” made of dark violetprecious stone

The mausoleum is the place to keep the body of President Ho Chi Minh, thegreat patriot who had been conferred the title “World Cultural Activist” and is thenational hero The conferment was made on the occasion of the centenary anniversary

of President Ho Chi Minh’s Birthday (1890-1990) by UNESCO

The mausoleum project was the results of artistic labour of both Vietnamese andformer Soviet Union engineers in respect for President Ho Chi Minh

-Unit 6 : GIVING INTRUCTIONS (Naâng cao)

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Use the provided words to complete the dialogue :

would disappear wrong common cough

feel slight symptoms take headache

Lan : Good morning

Doctor : Good morning Take a seat, please, What’s (1)………… with you ?

Lan : Yes, I have a (2)………… and a stomachache I (3)………… very tired

Doctor : Well, T need to (4)………… your temperature first

Doctor : (5)………… you open your mouth, please ? Thanks

That is 390 C You have a (6)………… fever

Do you have a runny nose, coughing and sneezing ?Lan : Yes, I (7)………… very much

Doctor : All right You catch the (8)………… cold Don’t worry

Your cold will last for afew days and then (9)………… itself.

I will give you some medicines to relieve the (10)…………

Lan : Thank you

- About you Practive the dialogue with a partner.

Change these sentences into passive voice :

1 A dog bitted Mary’s leg so her mother cleaned the victim’swould with warm water and soup

2 Afire burns Hoa’s hand while she is cooking so she eases pain with ice or cold water packs

3 Nam;sfriend pushes him to fall his face down in the school yard while they are catching and he is faint so I leave him lying flat

4 We mustn’t overheat the victim with blanket or coat when he is shock

5 We shouldn’t let the victim become chilled when she has a fainting

6 They will take the victim to see a doctor when a snake bites him

7 If a cat bites someone, we should give the victim an anti – tetanus injection as soon as possible

8 We shouldn’t let the victim drink wine or beer when he is shock

9 Adoctor has given Daisy some medicines since she was headache

10 Can you give a girl a bandage please if she has a hand bleed while she is

cutting oranges?

Read

Hoa and Lan are attending a first – aid course at the Red Cross headquarters in Ha Noi Dr Canh,a Red Cross physician, is conducting tonight’s session on snake bites

“You must take a snake – bite victim to the nearest hospital or clinic” Dr Canh

explains, “even if you think the snake is not poisonous, you should try and get medicaltreatment”

The students work in pairs and practice the first – aid procedure.They have to get the person to lie down , make sure the bite site is below the heart, and tie a tourniquet between the site and the heart When it comes to the final step,most of the students are uncertain about the correct technique for applying a tourniquet.Dr Canh glances around the class and asks ,”Will you lend me your scarf,Lan?”

Langives him the scarf and he uses it to demonstrate how to apply a tourniquet

“Excuse me,Dr Canh,” Hoa interrupts “Will a person die from a snake bite?”

“Not if he or she receives prompt medical attention,” replies Dr Canh “But without treatment ,the victim will go into shock and die”

Answer.Then write the full sentences in your exercise book

a If a snake bites someone,you should …

A find out if the snake is poisonous

B tell the victim to see a doctor

C take the victim to a doctor