Tamcuong Secondary School VINH BAO – HAI PHONG. The Test of English for the first semester Grade 8 Date of testing: ./ ./ . Feedback: ./ ./ Student: . Class:8 . Mark: I- Listen and fill True (T) or False (F) in the box.( 2p) 1. Ba is younger than Lan. 2. Lan is shorter than her brother. 3. Both Ba and Lan go to school in the morning. 4. Ba loves reading novels , playing chess in his free time. 5. Lan doesn’t like cooking , doing the shopping on Sundays. II- Vocabulary and grammar structures.(3) A- Choose the best answers: 1. What’s Nga doing , mom ? –She’s looking at .in the mirror.( herself / her / hers ) 2. Where was your sister born ? – She was born September 12 (in /at /on) 3. Could you me a favour? (do / make / give) 4. Ha Noi is than Ho Chi Minh City. (small / the smallest / smaller) 5. I’m going .Ha Long Bay at 3.30 this afternoon. (visit / visiting / to visit) 6. My father is the same age my mother. (as / like / from ) 7. People can shop in the mall and won’t notice the .(prices / goods / weather) 8. What are you interested ? (on / in / at / to) 9. Would you like . a movie tonight ? (to see / see / seeing ) 10. You to do morning exercises everyday. (must / ought / should) B- Correct form of the verbs: 1. Nam enjoys ( read ) picture stories in his free time. 2. My grandparents (not stay ) on a farm for two months. 3. Be quiet ! Our teacher ( come ) 4. Mr. Quang often (drive) to work everyday, but yesterday(go) by bus. 5. Marry ( buy ) .an English dictionary since last week. Tamcuong Secondary School VINH BAO – HAI PHONG. III- Read the passage and then answer the questions below.(2p) People usually like shopping especially women . Nowadays , many malls appear in city . It is very convenient for customers to choose things of all kinds. In the mall you can have occasions to buy suitable products matched to use and discounting may be ! The products you get from a mall will make you feel confident about the quality and the prices as well . The weather or which store in a comfortable restaurant and children may have time to relax in a playing area. A mall now is not only a place to shop but also an amusement. • Questions: 1. Who like shopping ? . 2. Where can we buy things of all kinds ? . 3. What can people and children do during a shop in a shopping mall? 4. How are the products people get from a mall ? VI- Write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first : (3p) 1. Nga said to me : “ Can you buy me some flowers ? “ _ Nga told 2. The teacher said to the children : “ Don’t talk in class , please ! “ _ The teacher asked . 3 . My son often watches cartoons on T.V . He loves it . ( Gerund ). _ My son loves . 4.M.r Long often smoked a lot last year, but now he doesn’t. _ Mr. Long used to . 5. When did they begin to build this house ? _ How long . 6. Thu’s school isn’t as big as my school. _ My school is . Tamcuong Secondary School VINH BAO – HAI PHONG. Tamcuong Secondary School VINH BAO – HAI PHONG. 1. I like the countryside but I don’t want to live there . a. always b. all life. c. permanently d. permanent. 2. Many areas are getting electricity. a. farther. b. far c. remote. d. remoted. 3. Na prefers country life . city life. a. than b. to c. more than d. to. 4. How long there? – since 1980. a. have you lived. b. did you live c. are you living d. do you live 5. How do you want to send these letters? - : a. By email. b. Through email c. Through airmail d. By airmail II. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets: 1. He (live) . in London since 1991. 2. You (get) a reward if you do your work well. 3. He (drink) tea every morning, but when I (see) him yesterday he (drink) coffee. 4. Be careful! The car (come) . 5. The old man (get) . weaker today. 6. At recent years Vietnam (change) . day by day. III. Read then answer the questions below. Scouting began in England in 1907. Two years later an America businessman, William Boyce, got lost in London. A boy helped him and explained that he was a scout. This meeting led to the Scouts Association crossing the Atlantic in 1910. In 1994, there were 5.400.000 scouts in America. Now scouting is popular worldwide. The scouting association has more than 25 million members, making it the largest voluntary youth organization in the world. Questions: 1. Where and when did the Y&Y begin? . 2. Who made the Scouts Association cross the Atlantic ? . 3. When did the Scouting Association start in America ? . 4. What is the Scouting Association like nowaday ? . Tamcuong Secondary School VINH BAO – HAI PHONG. IV. Rewrite the following sentences using the reported speech. 1. “ Please take these books to my classroom.” => She told 2. “Can you buy me some soap on your way home? => My mother asked 3. Could you lend me your book? => Tam asked . 4. “Clean and tidy your room before going to school” => Lan’s mother told V Write about the changes in your village: Our village / change / all the time. The houses / big / beautiful. There / lots / new houses/ facilities / such / TV, computer center. The roads / larger / cleaner. The farmers / not / hard / like / they / to be / the past. We , children / have / biger / larger / school / study. We / more / facilities / school / to study. But people / our village / the same / the past / friendly / warmly / whom / come / visit / motherland ( You may have as much ideas about yours as possible ) Our village TamCuong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .