UNIT 5

PHONETICS

Exercise . Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

1. A. actor B. inventor C. composer D. professor

2. A. writer B. spelling C. very D. ten
3. A. player B. when C. then D. ten
4. A. boring B. professor C. for D. history
5. A. winner B. teacher C. player D. expert

Exercise 4. Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

1. A. contain B. helpful C. body D. muscle

2. A. vitamin B. banana C. average D. calorie
3. A. record B. metre C. medal D. event
4. A. nutrient B. calorie C. detective D. basketball
5. A. dangerous B. interesting C. horrible D. amazing

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

Exercise 1. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.

1. She works in a hospital. It’s a hard job. She’s a ______.

A. dancer B. nurse C. artist D. painter
2. She works in an office. It’s a well-paid job. She’s a ______.
A. mechanic B. waitress C. manager D. teacher
3. He works in many places. It’s a dangerous job. He’s a ______.
A. firefighter B. artist C. writer D. waitress
4. Eating at home is ______ eating in restaurants.
A. cheaper than B. more cheap C. than cheaper D. more cheaper
5. People in cities work ______ hours ______ in the past.
A. than/longest B. longer/than C. than/longer D. long/than
6. There is more traffic now, so the streets are ______.
A. noisier than B. noise C. noisier D. than noisier
7. History is much ______ they were ten years ago.
A. expensive more than B. than more expensive
C. more expensive D. more expensive than
8. Archie was ______ than Carl.
A. fast B. faster C. more fast D. fast more
9. A ______ has ten years.
A. decade B. century C. billion D. millennium
10. A good ______ contains a lot of vegetables.
A. snack B. health C. diet D. height
11. She is ______ than her brother.
A. more short B. shorter C. short more D. short
12. Anna doesn’t play baseball ______ her sister.
A. as good as B. as well as
C. as best as D. as better as
13. A century has ______ years.
A. 5 B. 10 C. 100 D. 1000
14. Bananas contain many helpful ______.
A. beans B. sticks C. muscles D. nutrients
 15. At what ages ______ most people talk?
A. can B. do can C. could D. did could
16. Beethoven couldn’t hear when he composed his 9th symphony, but he ______ imagine music. A. can
B. do can C. could D. did could
17. Agatha Christie ______ spell very well, but she wrote eighty detective books.
A. can B. could C. can’t D. couldn’t
18. The actor Ben Affleck lived in Mexico when he was a teenager. Now he ______ speak English and Spanish.
A. could B. do can C. could D. did could
19. Beyoncé sings some of her songs in Spanish, but she ______ speak the language.
A. could B. can C. can’t D. couldn’t
20. ______ milk is there? - There’s enough for two people.
A. How often B. How many C. How much D. How strict
21. ______ are you? - I’m one metre sixty.
A. How tall B. How far C. How heavy D. How much
22. ______ apples do you eat every day? - One or two.
A. How strict B. How many C. How friendly D. How often
23. ______ can you run? - About one kilometer.
A. How heavy B. How much C. How tall D. How many
24. J.K. Rowling became a writer in 2003. In the next five years wrote five books.
A. firefighter B. artist C. writer D. waitress
25. Agatha Christie was one of the ______ popular writers in history.
A. less B. little C. more D. most

Exercise 3. Complete the sentences using the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives.

1. Tea is __________________ coffee. (cheap)

2. The new harvest machine is __________________ than the old one. (effective)
3. The countryside is __________________ the town. (beautiful)
4. A tractor is __________________ a buffalo. (powerful)
5. My sister is __________________ my brother. (tall)
6. Blue whales are __________________ elephants. (heavy)
7. The Mekong River is __________________ the Red River. (long)
8. Do you think English is __________________ French in grammar? (easy)
9. My new bed is __________________ my old one. (comfortable)
10. The film about my village is __________________ than the book. (interesting)

Exercise 4. Choose the correct words.

1. Mark can to / can / cans play tennis.

2. She didn't could / could no / couldn't swim.

3. He could / could to / coulds dance

4. I can / could / canned paint when I was six

5. We not can / can't / don't1 can cook

6. Alisha can speaks / speak / speaking Vietnamese

Exercise 5. Complete the sentences with can, can't, could, or couldn't and the correct form of the verb.

1. If you try hard, you ____ (pass) your examinations.

2. When I was five, I ____ (swim).

3. Dennis ____ (play) the trumpet after four months.

 4. Luke has passed his driving test, now he ____ (drive) a car.

5. Nick and David are brilliant cooks - they ____ (make) really tasty food.

6. I can use a computer, but I ____ (programme) one.

7. When I was three months old, I ____ (walk).

8. My grandma was very good at music. She ____ (play) the piano and sing.

9. Phong is very intelligent. He ____ (speak) five languages.

10. Nam and I watched a Japanese film last night, but we ____ (understand) it.

Exercise 6. Fill in the blanks with question words: How many, how much, how often, how height, how tall, how much, how old,
how.

1. ____ is she? 1m45

2. ____ is a bottle of cooking1 oil? 25,000 dong

3. ____ do you go to school? By bus.

4. ____ does Mr. Hung go to the cinema? Twice a week.

5. ____ apples do you want? Half a dozen.

6. ____ is this mountain? 30 meters2 high.

7. ____ is Ba? He is 12 years old.

8. ____ rice does Mr. Hai produce? He produces a lot of rice.

Exercise 7. Complete the sentence with the correct form of the word provided.

1. How many3 ____ (play) are there in a football team?

2. My friend’s likes ____ (collect) glass bottles.

3. I prefer mountain ____ (climb) hiking.

4. Doing exercise can keep one ____ (health).

5. Everyone has the right to get ____ (inform) on family planning.

6. The children are playing ____ (noise) in the garden now.

7. There is a ____ (collect) of books on the shelf.

8. It is very ____ (convenience) for people in remote areas to get to hospitals.

9. He is very ____ (skill) with his hands.

10. It is said that water collected from the local streams is ____ to drink. (safe)

READING

Exercise 1. Choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

William Shakespeare was (1)____ in Stratford, Warwickshire and christened (2)____ 26 April 1564. Although historians are unsure

about the exact date of his birth (3)____ believe that his birthday was 23rd April - St. George's Day. Shakespeare was born into a

relatively 'normal' family: his (4)____ (John) was a glove-maker; his mother Mary was the daughter of a farmer (5)____ Robert
Arden; and his grandfather was a farmer too.1 No one could have possibly imagined the fame and fortune that this young child would

soon2 (6)____.

1. A. born B. live C. teach D. burn

2. A. on B. in C. at D. of

3. A. more B. lots of C. most D. much

4. A. brother B. father C. sister D. friend

5. A. had B. sat C. named D. played

6. A. achieving B. achieve C. achieves D. to achieve

Exercise 2. Read the passage, and then decide whether the statements that follow are True (T) or False (F)

Are you good at remembering names and numbers? If the answer is ‘no, perhaps you need some help from Nelson Dellis. He was the
winner of the USA Memory Championships in New York where he broke two American records. He was the fastest to remember a
pack of playing cards – in sixty-three seconds. He also memorized the most numbers in five minutes – 248.

The most important part of Dellis’s work is the training. ‘Everybody who’s in this competition trained their memory,’ he said on the
Today Show on NBC TV. ‘I train everyday … I work out my body, but I also work out my brain.” British-born Dellis was first
interested in brain training, zing memory when his grandmother had memory problems, and he understood it was important for people
to improve their memories.

However, Dellis doesn’t think he’s special or has got a ‘photographic’ memory. He thinks anybody can be a memory expert. People
just need to lean about the brain and how images are important for memory.

If you want to memorize a word or number, you need to change it into a picture. Dellis gives the example of a shopping list. When you
see the word ‘milk’, you need to see a picture of some milk in your head. It’s a simple idea, but one that all memory experts use.

A. Decide True or False

1. ____ Dellis can memorize a pack of playing cards in one minute and three seconds.
2. ____ All the people at the championships did memory training.
3. ____ Dellis was born in the United States
4. ____ Dellis thinks that he’s special.
B. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
5. What is the text about?
A. Remembering names B. Today show
C. A competition D. An amazing memory
6. What do you do to memorize a word or a number?
A. work out my brain B. learn by heart
B. change it into a picture D. improve the memory

WRITING

Exercise 1. Rearrange the groups of words in a correct order to make complete sentences.

1. How to dance/ when did/ like that/ you learn/?/

When did ______________________________________________________________________
2. To cook/ best way/ what is the/ really well/?/
What is the ______________________________________________________________________
3. You should/ a good diet/ practice bodybuilding/ like this/ regularly and have/./
You should ____
4. animal over there / looks like / that big / an elephant /./
 That big ________________________________________________________________________
5. play/ a musical/ can you/ instrument/?/
Can you _________________________________________________________________________
6. on the internet / of information/ about people / there’s a lot/./
There’s a lot ______________________________________________________________________
7. Mozart/ music/ when he was/ couldn’t compose/ eight/./
Mozart __________________________________________________________________________
8. is different / that one/ from/ this book/./
This book _________________________________________________________________________
9. if you are the/ the winner/ first person/ in a race, / you are /./
If you are the _______________________________________________________________________

Exercise 2. Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it.

1. This book is not similar to that one.

This book ________________________________________________________________________
2. She studies the best in this class.
No one else in _____________________________________________________________________
3. He looks different from his brother.
He doesn’t ________________________________________________________________________
4. Peter was born in 1982. Nancy was born in 1985.
Nancy is ________________________________________________________________________
5. Nothing else us as precious as independence.
Independence _____________________________________________________________________
6. Kevin is often slower an Andy.
Andy____________________________________________________________________________
7. Whales have got bigger brains than humans.
Humans__________________________________________________________________________