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WORKSHEET – PERIOD 5&6 - UNIT 1– LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

A. VOCAB & GRAMMAR
I. Choose the correct option A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.
1. She presented me with a new blanket on which she ______________ some beautiful flowers.
A. knitted B. embroidered C. moulded D. carved
2. She is very good at knitting. She ___________ herself this sweater. It looks very nice.
A. knit B. knits C. is knitting D. knitted
3. All the main parts of this machine are ___________ of steel.
A. made B. done C. woven D. given
4. My parents once took me to Bat Trang village. I could make my own ________ there. I really
enjoyed it.
A. pottery B. lacquer C. painting D. sculpture
5. Have you ever _____ to Tay Ho village in Hue? It’s the place where people make the famous Bai
tho conical hats.
A. go B. went C. gone D. been
6. ____________he’s spent a lot of money to redecorate his shop, he cannot make any more profit.
A. In order to B. Although C. So that D. Because of
7. This company has gone bankrupt. Do you know who will ______________?
A. take care of it B. look after it C. take it over D. turn it up
8. The people in my village cannot earn enough money for their daily life. They can’t
_________this traditional craft. They have to find other jobs.
A. help out B. live on C. work on D. set up
II. Make a complex sentence from each pair of sentences. Use the subordinator provided in
brackets and make any necessary changes.
1. There are modern knitting machines. The artisans in my village like using traditional
looms. (ALTHOUGH)
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2. Many children like to go to Bat Trang Ceramic village. They can make their own pottery
there. (AS)
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3. We have to follow more than ten stages. We can make a simple conical hat. (SO THAT)
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4. Sinh paintings are special. They are burned after worship. (SINCE)
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5. We’ll have to phone you first. Then we’ll organize the trip. (BEFORE)
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6. We were visiting an old building. They were going to a traditional market. (WHILE)
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III. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition or adverb to form a phrasal verb.
1. They got______________ the bus and walked to the craft village.
2. The museum has been temporarily closed ______ for reconstruction.
3. Bat Trang Ceramic Village is facing up _______ the lack of artisans.
4. He asked her to go on a vacation with his family but she turned him _________
5. Tourists coming __________ Western countries find conical hats interesting.
6. She is used to dealing ________ all kinds of people in her job.
7. He got ___________to find himself alone in the house.
8. Tomorrow’s match has been called __________ because of the icy weather.
9. I’m looking ___________to the reunion with my family in Vietnam.
10. These traditional stories have been passed __________from parents to their children over
many generations.
B. READING
IV. Underline the correct answer in the following paragraph.
How a conical hat is made
Nowadays, people in Viet Nam use hats (1) made/ make from cloth or plastic but many people still
prefer (2) wear/ wearing hats made of leaves. They say it is (3) more/ most comfortable and cooler
to wear conical hats. A conical hat looks (4) simple/ simply but the hat makers have to follow 15
stages, from going to the forests to collect special leaves, choosing the quality ones, drying and
ironing them to (5) make/ making frames, etc. Conical hats always have two layers of leaves. Hat
makers must be very skillful to make two layers very thin. In Hue, the artisans make special conical
hats by (6) add/ adding poems or paintings of Hue between the two layers to create famous Bai
Tho or poetic conical hats. Making conical hats now (7) represents/ represent one of the traditional
crafts of Viet Nam.
V. Choose the correct word A, B, C or D for each gap to complete the following passage.
I’m fascinated (1)____ traditional handicrafts. At weekends, I usually go to Bat Trang where I was
born. It’s a (2)_______ village not far from Ha Noi centre. My uncle and my aunt still live in Bat
Trang and they own a big workshop there. In fact, my grandparents (3)_____that workshop and
some years ago, my uncle and my aunt (4)_____ the business because my grandparents are very
old. My grandfather is a well-known artisan in the village. Every time I go there, he teaches me how
(5)______ things from clay such as pots, vases and bowls.
There are (6)_______ of tourists coming from all over the country and the world (7)______ Bat
Trang craft village. They (8) ______ make pottery themselves in workshops and they learn how to
paint on ceramics. They can buy the things they like or need (9)___________their houses. Many
people enjoy their visit to Bat Trang and they fell very (10) _____ after their trip.
1.A.in B.of C.by D.about
2.A.making at B.pottery C.moulding D.painting
3.A.started B.set C.went D.made
4.A.looked after B.took care C.set up D.took over
5.A.to make B.to do C.to know D.to find
6.A.much B.lot C.a lot D.little
7.A.at B.in C.on D.to
8.A.could B.were able C.can D.be able to
9.A.on B.for C.at D.of
10.A. interesting B. interestingly C.interested D. to be interesting
C. WRITING
VI. Make up sentences using words and phrases given.
1.in / past / most / girls / like / knit/ scarves / sweaters /themselves.
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2.these/ baskets / made / of / thin / bamboo / strips / that / woven / together.
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3.last weekend / I / went / Van Phuc village / bought / very / nice / silk / scraf / mother.
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4.When / I / go/ somewhere / holiday /my country / I/ usually/ visit / craft/ villages
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5.I / not / been / Tay Ho / conical / hat / making / village /Hue / but / I / been / one/ in / Ha Tay
province.
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VII. Rewrite the following sentences so that their meaning stays the same.
1. The artisan moulded the copper to make a bronze drum. (so that)
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2. I was tired after a long trip. I still went to Tay Ho conical hat making village right
away.(Although)
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3. It rained heavily. We cancelled the trip to the famous Bat Trang craft village. (Since)
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4. Many people like going around West Lake early in the morning. The air is fresh and the scenery
is really beautiful. (because)
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