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ếng Anh giao tiếp giúp bạn rất nhiều trong công việc. Nếu bạn biết về tiếng Anh bạn có thể trau dồi và mở mang kiến thức bằng cách tham khảo các tài liệu chuyên ngành, lĩnh vực của mình bằng tiếng Anh, vì tất cả những thông tin, xu hướng mới nhất được cập nhật từng ngày, từng giờ bằng tiếng Anh. Trong khi các tài liệu tiếng Việt thì thường bị lạc hậu và bị giảm bớt giá trị của tài liệu gốc. Ngày nay, đối với các công ty lớn của Nhật, Anh, Mỹ.. Hay cả các công ty Việt Nam khi bạn xin việc, thành thạo tiếng Anh như một tấm vé thông hành đưa bạn đến công việc tốt hơn với mức lương cao hơn hẳn so với những người không viết tiếng Anh. Việc học tiếng anh đạt trình độ khá trở lên thì không phải đơn giản và ai cũng làm được. Nhưng không đơn giản không có nghĩa là không làm được, chỉ cần bạn có đủ các yếu tố sau đây thì giấc mơ sử dụng tiếng Anh thành thạo sẽ không hề xa vời chút nào.
Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Write from scratch If you can’t fly, run If you can’t run, walk If you can’t walk, crawl But by all means, keep moving – Martin Luther King- Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Simple questions PART A - Fill in the missing information and delete the wrong information: My name is I come from I'm years old I'm in the th year student My English teacher's name is I live in I am very/quite tall/short/ medium-height I have long/short/medium-length black/brown/blonde hair My eyes are blue/grey/brown 10 I have no brothers or sisters/ one brother and two sisters 11 I like soccer/tennis/reading/swimming 12 I don't like Korean food/homework 13 My favorite color is red/brown/green 14 My favorite school subject is English!!/math 15 A school subject I don't like is 16 Three more sentences about myself or my family: a b c PART B - Write full sentence answers to these questions: a What is your name? b Where are you from? c How old are you? d Which grade are you in? e What is your English teacher's name? f Where you live? g Have you got any brothers or sisters? h What you look like? Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L i What are your hobbies? j What school subjects you like and dislike? Correct simple sentences Correct the sentences, then write your answer underneath what is your naim where are you form who old are you wich grade are you in who is Your Englihs teatcher what is your locker number waht is your Telephone number Unscramble sentences A Unscramble these words to make good sentences Don't forget to put a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end of each sentence name her is Susan goes to she PeakUp Center English from Canada comes she brother in grade the her is seventh old is 19 she years father in works a bank her playing she tennis likes language Vietnamese is first her black green hair eyes and has she 10 by comes to bus school she B Unscramble these words to make good questions Begin each question with a capital letter and end each one with a question mark 11 your is what name Nurture Your English 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Designer: Keller L you from come where old how you are birthday when your is you school how to come your work does father where to what you play like grade are in you which Missing words Each star means a word is missing Erase the star and write in the best word: Gopal and Nataki live near a * in India Gopal is a * and he is happy because he * his job One day he * a big fish in his * ; he is going to kill it when the fish opens its * and starts to talk It says, "Do not * me, put me back in the * I want to live!" So Gopal puts * fish back and goes home When he tells Nataki * the fish, she is angry She tells * to go back to the river and ask the fish for some * and a new red dress So Gopal goes back and the fish * into his net He * the fish what Nataki wants, and the fish answers, "She can't have * she wants Put me back in the river and go home!" When Gopal gets home, he * food on the table and Nataki is * a new red dress "Beautiful!" he says, "Are you * now?" But Nataki is not happy and she tells her husband to go back * the river and * the fish for more things Each time the fish gives her what she * but she is still not satisfied Finally, she wants to be * of her country When Gopal tells the fish, it says again, "She * have everything she wants Put me back in the river and go home And * , Gopal!" When Gopal gets home, Nataki is in her old * and all her new things have gone She is * and tells him to go back to the river, but Gopal * not see the big fish It * jumps into his net again! Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Writing about yourself Write some sentences about yourself: My family: What I like: What I hate: What I like about PeakUp: What I think about Vietnam: Correct a text A Correct the mistakes in this text my Summer Hoiliday ;in the sumerholidays i travellewd to spain with my familie =We ewent their by plain and the jouurney took 4hours : we >staid in abighotel by theSee i went swim ing everyday and 3in the evenings I wached tV i had a great time! & B Write some sentences about your best summer holiday: Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Too many words Read the following text and delete any word that is not necessary JOHN'S SUMMER HOLidAY John lives in the London He is and twelve years old and he is likes swimming and fishing He goes to France every a year with his family They stay in a big hotel by the sea John want goes to the beach every day and plays he on the sand with his friends When the weather is to hot he swims in the sea In the evenings he goes into town and does plays golf with his father He likes the France and wants to go to there again next year Word game Can you make ten new words using letters from each of the following big words? Your words must have four letters Example: CONSERVATION coat coin nest note soon nose vase near rice race CONGRATULATIONS TEMPERATURE BRIEFCASE Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Analogies A Can you complete the following analogies? Example: Boy is to girl as man is to WOMAN Hot is to cold as big is to Hand is to glove as foot is to School is to learn as church is to Simple is to easy as hard is to Word is to dictionary as map is to Peel is to orange as skin is to Pencil is to write as typewriter is to Air is to breathe as water is to Hand is to finger as foot is to 10 Teacher is to classroom as scientist is to B Now write three more analogies of your own: 10 Questions A Write short answers to the following questions Example: Are you sitting next to a boy? Yes, I am! or: No, I'm not! Is Mr Keller wearing a blue shirt today? Did you come to the class yesterday? Are you going swimming tomorrow? Will you give me 50 dollars? Can you play the piano? Were you at pronunciation class? Do you like school? Are you looking at a computer screen? Did you watch television last night? 10 Does your father work in a bank? 11 Did your English teacher give you homework yesterday? 12 Is this the last question? Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L B Now write e questions for these short answers: Example: Do you like English lessons? - Yes, I do! - Yes, I did! - No, I can't! - Yes, I will! - No, I don't! - No, I'm not! - No, I won't! - Yes, I do! - Yes, I can! - Yes, I am! 10 - Yes, I was! 11 - No, it isn't! 12 - No, he didn't! 11 Rhyming words Words that rhyme have the same sound CAT and HAT are examples of words which rhyme A Find a word to rhyme with the examples below; erase the question marks and type in the rhyming word There is a sentence to help you in each case Be careful: not all words that rhyme use the same letters! cat hat (you wear it on your head) Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L mad ????? (short name for father) late ????? (the opposite of love) yard ????? (not easy) house ????? (a tiny animal) book ????? (what you with your eyes) ball ????? (part of a house) tree ????? (doesn't cost anything) grows ????? (you smell with it) 10 meat ????? (on the end of your legs) 11 night ????? (you this with a pen) 12 rule ????? (where you are now) Can you think of more words? B Now write pairs of rhyming words of your own with a clue: 12 Story without a middle There are three main parts to a story The BEGINNING says where and when a story happens and who the people or characters are The MidDLE tells what happens to these people The CONCLUSION tells how the story ends A Read the story below It has a beginning and an conclusion but no middle SALLY'S PROBLEM Sally sat at the back of the classroom, looking out of the window She didn't hear what the teacher said because she was thinking about her big problem Sally jumped up and ran to the phone She just knew everything was going to be alright again Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L B Write two ideas what Sally's problem could be: C Choose the idea you like best, and write about it Put your middle between the beginning and the end of the story of Sally's problem 13 Book review Book reviews tell other people about books we have read A book report gives the author's name, the book title, and says what the book is about A Read this book report by one of last year's ESL students TITLE: Jaws AUTHOR: Robert Benchley type OF BOOK: Adventure CONTENT: It's about a big shark which eats people when they are swimming OPINION: I liked the story It was exciting and a bit frightening I've seen the film - that was good too B Now answer these questions about the book report What is the book about? Who wrote it? Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Sam, to go and see what the men were doing Sam goes out and spoke to the men but they don't tell him When he came back Mrs Cable is very angry with him Next she sent George to find out He didn't want to go at first and Mrs Cable told him he is afraid When he goes out the men ignored him when he said good morning He tries again but this time the big man hit him in the stomach and he fell on the ground Mrs Cable sees all this and came on to the street The men take her by the arms and put her in the box C Now write the word which is the same in both tenses - (you didn't have to change it!) The word is: 49 Extra words A Read the following text and find the extra words The number tells you how many extra words there are in each line Put brackets round the extra word - the first has been done for you Have you ever (not) looked at a bee? If you see why a bee on a flower, and take a close look at it Do you see many little of hairs? The hairs hold something that looks like a bits of dust This "dust" is called from pollen The pollen is food that the bee carries from flower to flower and plant to the plant From some plants it bee carries away pollen On other plants it drops off pollen In this also way the bee carries pollen from one plant to another The pollen helps new or plants to grow While the bee gets food hungry, it is also starting new plants B Now write your own text with extra words: Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L 50 Dog to cat A Can you change DOG to CAT, one letter at a time, using the following clues: DOG *** (You find it on top of the letter i) *** (A baby's bed) CAT B Now change FIND to LOSE: FIND **** (GOOD, BEAUTIFUL) **** (YOU HAVE TO WAIT IN IT IN THE CAFETERIA) **** (SOLITARY) LOSE C Now make up one of your own with clues: Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L 51 More interesting sentences A Look at these sentences: - Chama has a dress It is new It is red It has silver buttons - Noriko ate lunch She ate a sandwich She had a bowl of soup The soup was hot She drank a glass of milk The milk was cold - Vivian comes from Brazil She has hair It is long It is brown She has eyes They are large They are brown B You probably agree that it is boring and difficult to read such short sentences It is much better to put them together like this: - Chama has a new red dress with silver buttons - For lunch Noriko ate a sandwich and a bowl of hot soup and she drank a glass of cold milk - Vivian, who comes from Brazil, has long brown hair and big brown eyes C Make the following short sentences into ONE longer sentence Write it underneath Look at that dog! It is tiny It is black It has white spots on its face My friend likes coffee She likes tea She doesn't like milk Jee Hae comes from Korea Kyung Eun comes from Korea Jae Hyun comes from Korea I'm going to buy the skateboard It is blue It has red wheels It has a picture of a dragon on top My father is 45 years old He plays football He goes jogging He doesn't play tennis any more His wrist was broken This happened two years ago I get up I go to the bathroom I brush my teeth I comb my hair I go back to my bedroom I get ready for school 52 Linking words A Look at these groups of two sentences: - I play tennis The weather is nice Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L - He is playing tennis The weather is bad - I clean my teeth I go to bed - I am very fit I run every day In each case we can join them together using a linking word (conjunction) For example, we could say: - I play tennis when the weather is nice - He is playing tennis although the weather is bad - I clean my teeth before I go to bed - I'm very fit because I run everyday Here are some of the most important linking words: and but when while or so because although until if unless after before Use one of these words to join the following pairs of sentences The new sentence must make sense! I like coffee I don't like tea He had to have a lot of fillings He never cleans his teeth Do you homework You will get a detention I will buy a new skateboard I win a lot of money My friend has two brothers He has three sisters You must wait here I come back It's a good idea to get undressed You get in the bath The telephone rang I was having a shower He studies hard for tests He always gets good grades 10 His parents were pleased with him He brought home a bad report card 11 We will have a picnic tomorrow The weather is bad 12 She went to bed She had done her homework 13 She jumped out of bed Someone knocked on the window B To make our writing more interesting, we can start sentences with some of these joining words (conjunctions) For example we can say: - Although the weather is bad, he is playing tennis - Before I get out of bed, I listen to my radio for ten minutes Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L C Write sentences 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 again underneath with the joining word at the beginning Number has been done as an example D Erase the dots in the following sentences and write in a sensible conjunction He couldn't the answer he asked his teacher you ask the teacher for help, you must try to it yourself You will get a detention you your homework I get some money for my birthday I will buy a new skateboard Wait the rain stops or you will get wet Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Some clever people can their homework watching television at the same time Give me some money I will hit you with a fish! you didn't give me a birthday present I'm not going to give you a Christmas present! you have finished number 10, number 13 10 I don't like big cities, I spent my last holiday in New York 53 Sex change A Change the text so that you are talking about Jane Start like this: Her name is Jane; she Hi! My name is John; I'm 26 years old and I live in London I work as a waiter in a small restaurant near the centre of town I finish work at o'clock and travel home by bus My wife doesn't have a job - she stays at home to look after our baby My wife's name is Jane and she is two years younger than me She is very pretty and likes wearing long dresses She would like to be an actress when our child starts going to school 54 Indirect speech Rewrite the sentences below in indirect speech EXAMPLE: "I'm not going to help you" Answer: He refused to help me "Sorry I'm so late!" She apologized "You're the person who stole the video, aren't you?" He accused me "Please, please don't tell the teacher!" He begged me "No, it wasn't me who broke your walkman." She denied Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L "Would you like to come to my party?" She invited me "Sit down and be quiet!" He ordered me ^ "Why don't you have a holiday? He suggested "I'll lend you the money." He offered "Yes, it was me who broke the window." He admitted 10 "You should stop smoking!" The doctor advised me 11 "Don't forget to buy flowers on your way home." She reminded 12 "I'll kill you if you tell the teacher." He threatened 13 "Don't play with matches!" She warned us 14 "Ok, so we'll meet at sevn o'clock We arranged 15 "Can you help me please?" He requested/asked me 16 "The weather's always so bad in Germany." She complained 17 "Thanks for inviting me I'll be glad to come." She accepted 18 "You must not open that box!" She forbade me 19 "You may close the window if you want." He permitted (allowed) me 20 "Your father looks like a cow!" He insulted 55 Sentence building A sentence is a group of words that tells a complete thought A sentence can be a statement or a question Here are some Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L statements: - I hate Mondays - She forgot to her homework - Girls are cleverer than boys! A Add to the following groups of words to make them statements Don't forget to check punctuation and capitalization after adding your words You can put the words at the beginning, middle or end of your sentence the cafeteria eats glass homework jumped out of the window is disgusting the angry teacher noisy students was late for class ran after me 10 the school bus 11 she never 12 once a week B Now add more words to make each sentence above longer For example: - I really hate wet Mondays in November - She forgot to her homework for the third time in a week - Some girls are cleverer than some boys some of the time! 56 Finish sentences Finish these sentences to give information about yourself: What I like about FIS is What I don't like about FIS is I hate it when Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L My favorite thing in the world is If I won a lot of money I would If I didn't have to come to school any more I would My best ever holiday was The most frightening thing that has ever happened to me was My most embarrassing experience happened when 10 (You choose the start of the sentence!) 57 Sentence building A sentence is a number of words which give us a full and complete idea A sentence can be short, eg The girl is reading or long, eg The beautiful girl with the long black hair is reading a book about insects which she borrowed from the library yesterday during her lunch break But the important thing to remember is that a sentence must be a complete and full idea 'Is reading' is not a proper sentence because it doesn't tell us who is reading 'The beautiful girl with the long black hair is' is not a full sentence because it doesn't say what she is doing A Now look at numbers to 15 below and decide whether they are full sentences or not Write "yes" at the end if you think they are, and "no" if you think they aren't When your answers have been checked, write some extra words to make your "no" answers into full sentences You can write these extra words at the beginning or end Make sure you punctuate correctly Example: The monkey was eating a banana YES Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L My brother likes NO Correction: My brother likes going swimming All the people in the room I hate my teacher because he Plays football every Saturday She likes school After breakfast on Sunday When it rains I don't drink milk Because I had a toothache It's fun to ski 10 Do you know why he? 11 It's going to rain 12 Who are you going? 13 Can you help me with 14 Is looking at you 15 If I get a detention 16 Because he got an A in his last test 17 To buy a book 18 This is the last question B Remember - Finish each uncompleted sentence above! 58 Direct speech Using dialogue (conversation) makes your writing more interesting A Complete the following sentences with the person's actual words Begin the sentence with a capital letter and end with a period Put speech marks (" ") round the sentence you write The first one is done for you The teacher said, "There will be a word test tomorrow." Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L The girl said, Ms Hadley said, The stupid boy said, The lazy student said, B In the next sentences write a question the person asks Make sure you punctuate properly - the first one is done for you The teacher asked, "Have you done your homework?" The principal asked, The school nurse asked, The secretary asked, The clever girl asked, C Complete the sentences below with an exclamation (An exclamation is a short sentence with a strong emotion like surprise, fear or anger) Remember to punctuate with exclamation and speech marks Mr Shoebottom yelled, "Stop that at once!" The policeman yelled, My father yelled, The bus driver yelled, The angry girl yelled, 59 Corrections The person who typed these reports about sport was too lazy to type capital letters or make new sentences with full-stops Can you it for him? Each text should have three sentences the basketball game was very exciting fis was winning 30-28 with three minutes left suddenly the lights in the hall went out and some of the spectators started to scream john was late for the soccer match last saturday he forgot he was supposed to go straight to the sports ground the two teams were already playing when he finally arrived carl lewis won four gold medals at the 1984 olympic games he won his fourth gold medal in the U.S x 100-meter relay race the Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L team set a world record boris becker was in trouble in the last set against ivan lendl he was 40-15 down on his own service and losing 3-5 in games becker then hit aces in a row and finally won the match in the team frisbee competition 6S have won out of games 6G are in last place having lost all their matches the last games take place on friday morning to be a good basketball player you have to practice very hard for many years michael jordan had won every award in the sport except the nba title but at last in 1991 his team Chicago bulls were successful jordan is probably the most famous sportsman in America 60 Wanted The police on Mars are looking for two dangerous murderers who have escaped from prison Write a poster describing them and put a box around your text Example: ======================================== ================= | | | WANTED - DEAD or ALIVE | | | | Drago Dryquzix, aged 1,768, | | he has three heads, each with six square green eyes | | his noses are like upturned bananas and his mouths | | are full of sharp green teeth | | | | Be careful! He's armed and extremely dangerous! | | | ======================================== ================= Your poster: Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L 61 Wrong pronouns The following text has many wrong pronouns, (words like: he, it, we, us, them etc.) Can you find the wrong pronouns and correct them? Use CAPITAL letters Example: He is a cat in the garden THERE is a cat in the garden She was a beautiful summer; I wasn't a cloud in the sky Peter was happy, because school had finished and it had no more tests Now we needed to find a job He wanted to be a writer and work for a newspaper, but first she wanted to have a rest There was hot in the house; he was no wind "They'll go for a walk,' said Peter to ourselves "She'll go down to the river." While I was walking by the river we suddenly saw a beautiful girl He had long blond hair and big dark eyes It was standing on the river bank looking into the water Peter went up to him and started to speak, but they just looked at us and shouted: "Stay away from it or he'll scream!" 62 Wrong prepositions The following text has many wrong prepositions, words like: in, on, at, by, with etc.) Can you find the wrong prepositions and correct them? Use CAPITAL letters Example: School starts in 8.40 School starts AT 8.40 In Saturday I went to visit my grandmother who lives with Berlin My father drove me through the airport and I got on the plane for o'clock We arrived through Berlin two hours later, and my grandmother was there to meet me We got under Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L an S-Bahn and travelled by her house Later I looked after some old photos my grandmother showed me and watched a film without the TV I fell asleep above the sofa, and when I woke down my grandmother had already gone in bed Scroll down for the answers: Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L ... checking your work for errors You should always try to make your finished writing as free of mistakes as possible Your writing should be in correct paragraph form It should have correct spelling,... Designer: Keller L i What are your hobbies? j What school subjects you like and dislike? Correct simple sentences Correct the sentences, then write your answer underneath what is your naim where... Gopal * not see the big fish It * jumps into his net again! Nurture Your English Designer: Keller L Writing about yourself Write some sentences about yourself: My family: What I like: What I hate: