UNIT 5: CULTURAL IDENTITY

PERIOD 39: LANGUAGE



I. VOCABULARY

1. assimilate (v): đồng hóa
2. maintain (v): duy trì
3. national costumes: trang phục dân tộc
4. custom (n): phong tục, tập quán
5. cultural practices (n): các hoạt động VH
6. multicultural (adj): đa văn hóa
7. intergrate (v): hợp nhất
8. relate (v): liên quan
9. races (n): loài, chủng tộc
assimilate                  maintain            national costumes            
     custom               cultural practices                    multicutural
I. VOCABULARY
1. Write the words or phrases given in the box next to their meanings.
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I. VOCABULARY
2. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in 1.
custom
assimilate                  maintain            national costumes            
     custom               cultural practices                    multicutural
1. Some ethnic groups have strange __________________ such as walking on fire to prevent natural disasters.
2. The Vietnamese people still follow the _______ of giving lucky money to children during the Tet holidays.
3. The ao dai, cheongsam, kimono and sari are women`s ___________ in some Asian countries.
4. Many ethnic groups find it difficult to ___________ their own language or preserve their culture.
5. People living in a(n) _________ society should learn to respect and understand different cultural values.
6. Migrants may lose their cultural identity as they become ___________ into the new community
cultural practices
national costumes
maintain
multicutural
assimilated
II. PRONUNCIATION: Assimilation
1. The following phrases are spoken in slow, careful speech and in fast, connected speech. Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the underlined sounds.
 

 



t  k
d  g
n  ŋ
n  ŋ
s  ʃ
z  ʒ
III. GRAMMAR.
The present perfect vs the present perfect continuous.
1. Put the verbs in brackets in the present perfect or present perfect continuous.
1. I (clean) __________ the whole house. Does it look nice and tidy?
2. For many years, the villagers (try) ___________ very hard to bring back the old custom.
3. That tower (stand) _______ on top of the hill for 300 years.
4. My father (work) ___________ in the garden all morning. He (plant) ___________ a lot of tulips and roses.
5. They (go) ___________ to Hue to attend the festival there and won`t be back until next week.
6. I (not finish) _____________ reading the book about Thai culture yet, so I can`t answer your questions now.
have cleaned
have been trying
has stood
has been working
has planted
has gone
have not finished
REVISION: comparisons
1.Look at the picture; give the correct
form of the words in brackets.
Mary Linda Helen
a. Mary is (tall) as Helen.
b. Mary and Helen, Who is (tall)?
c. Linda is (tall) girl in the picture.
 as tall as
 taller
 the tallest
The airplane is (expensive) ............................
the most expensive.
REVISION
The car is not (cheap) ....................... the plane
but (expensive) ................................ the bicycle.
as/ so cheap as
more expensive than
A. Positive degree- so sánh bằng/ k bằng:
- S1 + be/V + as + adj / adv + as + S2+ (be/do)
- S1+ be/V+ not+ as/so + adj / adv + as + S2 + (be/do)
B. Comparative degree – so sánh hơn:
- S1+ be/V+ short adj / adv + er + than+ S2+ (be/do)
- S1+ be/V+ more + long adj / adv + than+ S2+ (be/do)
- S1+ be/V+ less + adj / adv + than +S2+ (be/do)
C. Superlative degree- so sánh hơn nhất:
- S+ be/V+ the + short adj / adv + est + (N) +…..
- S + be/V+ the + most + long adj / adv +(N) +…
- S + be/V+ the least + adj / adv + (N) +….

COMPARISONS
REVISION





Exceptions:

better

worse

Further/farther

Older/elder
Cách thêm ‘-er’ với short adj.

Cheap -> cheaper
-> the cheapest
Large -> larger
-> the largest
Thin -> thinner
-> the thinnest
Early -> earlier
-> the earliest

Clever -> more clever /
cleverer
-> the cleverest /
the most clever

( simple; narrow; quiet : có thể sử dụng -er/ more… như clever)

less

more
the best
the worst
the furthest/farthest
the oldest/eldest
the least
the most






good / well

bad / badly

Far

Old

Little / a little


Much / many
SITUATION 1
GRAMMAR
What will happen to him?
For breakfast
For lunch and dinner
He will get fat.
He is getting .........................(fat)
fatter and fatter.
The price of gold is becoming ................................(high)
Chart of the price of gold
higher and higher
SITUATION 2
SITUATION 3
Lan is ........................... (beautiful)
more and more beautiful
SITUATION 4
The price of traveling becomes / is becoming ................................................ (expensive)
2 years ago
Now
more and more expensive
DOUBLE COMPARISON
Comparative and comparative
(Càng ngày càng)
Form:
- Short adj/adv: S + be/V + adj/adv-er and adj/adv-er ….
- Long adj/adv: S + be/V + more and more + adj/adv ….


Exceptions:
+ good/well  better and better
+ bad/ badly  worse and worse
. Meaning: càng ngày càng ....,
mỗi lúc một ..... hơn.
- Nam is getting fatter and fatter.
- Lan is more and more beautiful.
Repeated comparatives ( so sánh kép).
2. Complete the following sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets, using repeated comparatives.
1. My father’s cooking is getting .............................. (good) as the years go by.
2. A lot of people are migrating to the city to look for work. The cost of living there is becoming ...............................(high).
3. It’s getting ........................................... (difficult) to find a job these days.
4. The race car was running ............................. (fast) when it crashed into a tree.
5. With the development of the Internet, .......................... (few)
people send greetings cards on special occasions.
6. The practice of using ........................... (much) chemicals to improve crop yields is harmful to people’s health.
better and better
higher and higher
more and more difficult
faster and faster
fewer and fewer
more and more
3. Use the information in the table to make full sentences with repeated comparatives. 
1. It is getting/ becoming colder and colder this winter in New York.
2. Petrol price is becoming lower and lower this year.
3. More and more people are using the internet in my city now.
4. John was driving faster and faster when he realised that the police were trying to stop him.
5. Fewer and fewer customers went to ABC super market last year.
Matching – pairworks.

1.His visit to New York seemed to get …………………(short)
because he was very busy at work.
2. Eating and traveling in this city is getting
…………………………………………………..…(expensive)

3. As the day went on, the weather got …………………..…(bad)
4. We had to stop the discussion because the question was

becoming…………............................(complicated)
5. Your English is OK now, your pronunciation has got
………………………………….. (good)
6. Little John is becoming………………………………………..…( active)
7. As it was getting dark, it was becoming to see everything…………………………………….............( difficult)
8. I feel happy as my birthday is coming........................(close)
shorter and shorter
more & more expensive
worse and worse
more and more complicated
better and better
more and more active
more and more difficult
closer and closer
SITUATION 1
...............................(big) the supermarket is,
................................(wide) the choice is.
The bigger
the wider
.........................................(comfortable) the hotel is,
..........................................(expensive) the rent is.
The more comfortable
the more expensive
SITUATION 2
DOUBLE COMPARISON
II.The + comparative, the + comparative
(Càng ……., càng ………)
Short adj/adv:
the adj/adv-er + S+ V, the adj/adv-er +S+V.
Long adj/adv:
The more+adj/adv +S+V, the more+adj/adv +S+V. Meaning: càng .... càng .....
The bigger the supermarket is, the wider the choice is.
The more comfortable the hotel is, the more expensive the rent is.
NAM HAS…
MILK
2 LOAVES OF BREAD
MEAT
BEEF
CHICKEN
POTATO
PORK
What will happen to Nam?

.................... (much) Nam eats, ......................
(fat) he will become.
SITUATION 3
The more
the fatter

Notes: With clauses:

The more + S + V

 The more Nam eats, the fatter he will become.
The more we learn, the more we know