3

2

1

Playing computer games

5

4

Texting

Doing DIY

Playing beach games
6

Visiting museums

Making crafts

picking tomatoes
herding the buffaloes

drying the rice
flying kites

riding a horse
collecting water

stilt
house
musical
instrument

open-air
market
costume

terraced
field
water
festival

1. Listen and repeat the following words and phrases.

spaceship

colourful clothing

toothbrush

risky

English practice

bloom

blow

Brau people

presence

stamp collecting

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.

/kl/

2. How can we improve our speaking skills?

/sp/

/pr/

/sk/

3. How annoying, the stadium has closed!

/st/

/kl/

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

/bl/ /sk/

5. 'On a dark day, I saw a witch riding a broom in the
sky ...
/br/

/sk/

3. Organise these words and phrases into pairs of opposites
and write them in the blanks.

peaceful
traditional
noisy
country life

hard
easy
city life
minority

forget
modern
hate
exciting

boring
love
majority
remember

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4. Put a verb in the correct form in each gap to
complete the sentences.
1. Duong doesn't like
____ playing football. He enjoys
listening
________ to music or visiting
_______ museums more.

forget to lock the door before you go to bed,
2. Don't _______
Quan.
flying/ to fly kites on
3. Children in this village love _____________
summer afternoons.
4. My sister doesn't mind
______ cooking, but she hates
doing
/ to do the washing up after meals.
___________

to play the game danh
5. The Hmong boys like playing/
______________
quay in spring.

5. Complete the sentences with the correct comparative
form of adverbs from the adjectives in brackets.

1. On Saturday night we may stay up ______
later than usual.
(late)
2. In his free time, Linh enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles
________
more than anything else. (much)
fluently now than last year.
3. We speak English more
____________
(fluent)
better
4. You should buy the blue sweater. It suits you _______
than the red one. (good)
5. Ethnic people in the mountainous regions live
___________
more
simply than people in the city. (simple)
6. Everyone in the race ran fast, but John ran ______
faster
than all the others. (fast)
carefully, you will make fewer
7. If you write more
____________
mistakes. (careful)

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)
___ agreen and peaceful place with
friendly people in the
Mekong region. Most of Viet Nam's rice is grown here.
an____ opportunity to enjoy the beauty of
You will have (2)
typical Southern Vietnamese countryside and (3) ____
the
view of immense rice paddies, coconut plantations and
beautiful rivers. (4) The
____ Mekong Delta is also famous for
its fascinating floating markets and fruit orchards where
you can taste delicious local fruits especially (5) _____
the
a special treat for you!
dragon fruit. It will be (6) ____

A

B

1. Small children in my village often climb a. Yes, it's right up
that hill and swim in this river.
my street.
2. Is it true that there are busy floating b. How interesting!
markets on the rivers in the Mekong
region?
3. I'm sure you will love this new cartoon.
c. No, we can't.
4. Flying kites is very exciting, but we can d. That's awesome!
never do this in the city.
5. My dad enjoys doing DIY. He made this e. Exactly.
dining table set.

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