EXAM FOR COMMUNICATION CLASS

I. LISTENING
Exercise 1: (10 pts)
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F
Listen again. Answer the following questions.
1. strew daisies
2. a chimneysweep
3. No, there isn’t
4. recite their vows
5. wedding breakfast
Exercise 2: (15 pts)
Listen to a tale titled: “The Straw, Coal, and Bean”. Answer the questions below.
1. The coal
2. Nervous
3. Burnt
4. Split (herself open)
5. The tailor
Listen again. Fill in the blank with a missing word.
Once upon a time a woman was cooking. She was making a (1) fire She lit up her coals
with straw and was going to cook some beans. Unbeknownst to her, one of the beans fell
to the ground and (2) landed beside a straw. After this, a coal (3) popped out of the fire
and landed beside the bean and the straw. All three of them got to talking about how (4)
lucky they were. They three decided that they must go off on their own in order to be
free and (5) escape death.

They left the woman’s house and (6) soon came to a stream. They didn’t know how they
were going to get across. The straw decided that it would lay itself across the stream and

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the coal and the bean could walk across. The straw (7) situated itself and the coal was
the first to walk across.

Halfway across the stream the coal got (8) nervous and stopped moving. The coal stood
still for too long and burnt the straw in half. Both the straw and coal went to their deaths
in the stream. The bean found all of this funny for some reason and started to laugh. The
bean laughed so hard that she split herself open. This was (9) unfortunate and the bean
almost certainly would have died had it not been for a tailor who was close by. The tailor
saw what happened and decided to do a good deed and sew the bean (10) back up. He
used black thread and too this day, beans have a black seam.

II. READING

Exercise 1: Match the phrasal verbs in the box with their meanings below (15 pts)

 Go in the direction of: Make for

 Go back in the opposite direction: Turn round
 Stay at the same point/ level as: Keep up with
 Leave the ground: Take off
 Go on holiday: Go away
 Start a journey: Set out/ off
 Return from a place: Get back
 Go to a train station, etc, to see someone leave: See off
 Let someone get out of a vehicle; fall asleep: Drop off
 Hit with a car: Run over
 Leave a hotel; investigate: Check out
 Stop by the side of the road in a car: Pull in
 Register at a hotel or an airport: Check in
 Stop in a vehicle to give someone a lift: Pick up
 Reach the same point/ level as: Catch up with

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 Exercise 2: Reorder the words to make the meaningful idioms. Then write their
meanings in Vietnamese below. (20 pts)
1. drink drinks who again will: Who drinks will drink again
In Vietnamese: Chứng nào tật ấy
2. strong horse a as as: As strong as a horse
In Vietnamese: Khỏe như trâu
3. will will be be what: What will be will be
In Vietnamese: Cái gì đến cũng sẽ đến
4. sure slow but: Slow but sure
In Vietnamese: Chậm mà chắc
5. think minds great alike: Great minds think alike
In Vietnamese: Ý tưởng lớn gặp nhau
6. go easy come easy: Easy come easy go
In Vietnamese: Dễ đến dễ đi
7. another way and one act speak: Speak one way and act another
In Vietnamese: Nói 1 đằng làm 1 nẻo
8. for get you pay you what: You get what you pay for
In Vietnamese: Tiền nào của nấy
9. Sunday not every day is: Every day is not Sunday
In Vietnamese: Sông có khúc, người có lúc
10. me dog love my love: Love me love my dog
In Vietnamese: Yêu nhau yêu cả đường đi, ghét nhau ghét cả tông ti họ hàng

Exercise 3: For each question, choose the correct answer. (6 pts)

1 A. class B. subject C. course

2 A. thinking B. trying C. deciding
3 A. way B. path C. plan
4 A. day B. time C. hour
5 A. brought B. turned C. opened
6 A. began B. arrived C. became

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Exercise 4: For each question, write the correct answer. Write one word for each gap.
(6 pts)

(1) a/ this

(2) in/ during

(3) of the town

(4) go on a boat trip or

(5) play/ watch

(6) when/ after

Exercise 5: Look at the text in each question. What does it say? Mark the correct letter
A, B or C on your answer sheet. (5 pts)

1-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-A, 5-B

III. WRITING (15 points)

You have received a letter from your English friend, Kathy

I hear from organized a surprise birthday party for your mother. I’d love to hear from
about it. What kind of party did you organize? Who did you invite? How did your
mother feel? Tell me.
Love,
Kathy
 Now write a letter to your pen friend.
 Write your letter in about 150 words on your answer sheet.

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IV. SPEAKING (15 pts)

You and your best friends are going to go out tonight. Which places would you like
to go to: the cinema, shopping center, the café shop?

Students have 5 minutes to write ideas on your piece of paper before speaking with the
examiner in about 3 minutes.

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