Giang Vo Secondary School

English 6 Group
REVISION FOR THE MID-TERM TEST
School year: 2022 – 2023

PART I - LANGUAGE AND SKILL FOCUSES (Unit 1 – Unit 3)

1. Phonetics:
• Final sounds: /s/ and /z/
• Sounds: /b/ and /p/
1. Vocabulary:
• My new school: school things and activities
• My house: types of house, rooms and furniture
• My friends: body parts and appearance, personality adjectives
2. Grammar:
• Present simple
• Present continuous
• Adverb of frequency
• Possessive case
• Prepositions of place
3. Communication:
• Introducing someone
• Giving suggestions
• Asking about appearance and personality
4. Reading skill:
• Reading about schools, rooms and furniture, friends and summer camps.
5. Writing skill:
• Write the second sentences so that it has the same meaning to the first one.
• Reorder the words to make correct sentences.
6. Listening skills:
• Listening for specific information about school activities, someone’s house and best friend.

PART II - PRACTICE

* PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others’.
1. A. ears _ B. eyes C. lips D. pencils
2. A. notebooks B. lights C. lamps D. rooms
3. A. job B. tab C. pen D. neighbor
4. A. airport B. speak C. notebook D. spoon

* VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

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II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences.
5. John ………………. in a house in the countryside.
A. live B. lives C. living D. to live
6. ……………….your house have an attic? - ………………. it does.
A. Do/ Yes B. Do/No C. Does/Yes D. Does/No
7. Where are you, Hai? - I’m downstairs. I ………………… to music.
A. listen B. to listen C. am listening D. listening
8. This Saturday, we………………..to the Art Museum.
A. go B. going C. is going D. are going
9. My best friend, Hanh, is ………………. She talks all the time.
A. talkative B. kind C. confident D. creative
10. How often do you watch TV? - ……………….?
A. Twice B. One a week C. Five days D. Every day
11. What does your cousin Mary look like?
- She ………………. very tall, and he ………………. big eyes with a pair of glasses.
A. isn’t-have B. is-have C. isn’t-has D. don’t-has
12. ………………. favourite colors are red, white and gold.
A. Jane’s B. Jane C. Jane’ D. Janes
13. John ………… his mother cook dinner at 6 p.m.
A. usually help B. usually helps C. help usually D. helps usually
14. Hue lives ………… an apartment ………… Hanoi ………… her uncle and aunt.
A. in-on-at B. at-in-with C. in-in-with D. at-at-near

III. Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuous.
15. We often (visit) ……………… ………………….. our grandparents on the weekend.
16. They (not go) ……………… ……………….to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
17. Mr. Ninh (not work) …………… ………………….. in the office tomorrow.
18. Where is Mai? – She (skip) …………… ……………..with her friends in the schoolyard.
19. Listen! Someone (knock) …………..… ……………at the door.

* READING
IV. Complete the following email with the best option (A, B or C) for each blank.
From: an@fastmail.com
To: nick@fastmail.com
Subject: My best friend
Hi Nick,
It's great to hear from you. I want to tell you about my best friend.
My grandma is my best friend. She is 68 years old. She (20) ______ with our family.
She was a maths teacher (21) ______ a secondary school. She likes (22) ______ up
early and watering the flowers in our garden. She usually helps (23) ______ with my
homework. In the evening, she tells me interesting stories. She also listens (24) ____
me when I'm sad. I love my grandma very much. What about you? Who's your best
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Bye bye,
An

20. A. lives B. works C. goes D. walks

21. A. for B. on C. at D. under
22. A. going B. staying C. getting D. playing
23. A. I B. me C. my D. mine
24. A. with B. to C. for D. of

V. Read the following passage and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
The colours you paint the rooms in your house can make you
more comfortable. The following colours can help you to eat,
sleep, study and relax in your own home.
The dining room
The colour orange can make you feel hungrier at mealtime. It
also encourages more interesting talk between family
members.
The bedroom
The perfect colour for your bedroom is blue. It is a very
relaxing colour, and can make you feel happier and more
positive when you wake up in the morning.
The study
Yellow is a good colour for this room: it makes you feel
happier and helps you to think. It also makes dark spaces a little brighter.
The living room
The perfect colour for your living room is pink. Don’t use such colours as red, purple, and black
because they don’t help you to relax.

25. Orange in the dining room makes people eat and talk more. …………….
26. Blue is not a good colour for a bedroom. …………….
27. A yellow study helps you to work better. …………….
28. You feel relaxed in a red or black living room. …………….
29. Different colours are good for different rooms in your house. …………….

* WRITING
VI. Reorder the following words to make meaningful sentences.
30. a/ classroom/ map/ and/ has/ my/ a/ projector/.

31. Sue/ going/ school/ is/ to/ by / tomorrow/ bus.

32. the/ in/ bookshelf/ room/ is/ my/ next/ the/ to/ window.

VII. Rewrite the following sentences based on the given words.

33. My house is next to a big super-market.
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34. There are some trees in front of my school.
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35. Let’s go to the movies tonight!.
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SAMPLE TEST

PART A - PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others’.
1. a. lamps b. desks c. lights d. legs
2. a. ears b. eyes c. hands d. cheeks

PART B - VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

II. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences.
3. The boy is sitting ________ the computer. He is playing computer games.
a. under b. next to c. behind d. in front of
4. Students live and study in a ________ school. They only go home at weekends.
a. secondary b. international c. boarding d. private
5. My best friend is very ________. He plays football and basketball very well.
a. friendly b. sporty c. lovely d. funny
6. Jane is healthy because she does ________ every day.
a. football b. yoga c. basketball d. badminton
7. There are so many new words in the passage. Can I use a ________ to help me?
a. calculator b. ruler c. dictionary d. notebook
8. ‘What are you doing this Saturday?’
‘I’m ________ camping with some friends.
a. having b.going c.doing d. playing
9. ‘How is your first day at school?’
a. By bicycle. b. Five days a week. c. That sounds great. d. Really exciting.
10. ‘Would you like to go for a drink?’ ‘________’
a. Oh sorry, I can’t. b. No, I wouldn’t. c. Not at all. d. My pleasure.
11. Hoa: Hey, do you have any plan this Sunday?
Lan: We _______ our grandparents.
A. visit B. are visiting C. will visit D. visiting
12. I ________ reading books because they make me feel happy and relaxed.
A. love B. am loving C. loves D. will love
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the
following sentences.
13. Their funny stories make us laugh a lot.
A. amusing B. lovely C. cute D. reliable
14. We organize expensive furniture carefully.
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Choose the word of phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to underlined part in each of the
following sentences.
15. He is so generous that he often pays for our drink.
A. mean B. kind C. nice D. reliable
16. We are always prepared to help the poor and the needy.
A. willing B. ready C. unwilling D. polite

Choose the underlined part that needs correcting in each sentence below.
17. Hoa is sitting among Lan and Cuong at the moment.
A. is sitting B. among C. and D. at the moment
18. There are an atlas, a book, a notebook, a computer and a pen on the table.
A. are B. an C. and D. on the table
19. What is the long of the Nile River?
A. What B. long C. of D. Nile River
20. We are understanding our today’s lesson now.
A. are understanding B. our C. today’s D. now
21. He often asks me many difficult questions, so I can’t answer it.
A. asks B. difficult C. so D. it

PART C – READING
III. Read the passage and then decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
I live in a house near the sea. It’s an old house, about 100 years
old, and it’s very small. There are two bedrooms upstairs but no
bathroom. The bathroom is downstairs next to the kitchen and there’s a
living room where there’s a lovely old fireplace. There’s a garden in
front of the house. The garden goes down to the beach and in spring and
summer there are flowers everywhere. I live with my parents, and we
have a lot of visitors. My city friends often stay with me. I love my house for many reasons: the
garden, the flowers in summer, the fire in winter, but the best thing is the view from my bedroom
window.
22. The author lives in the seaside. ……………
23. There is no bathroom in her house. ……………
24. The house has two floors and four rooms. ……………
25. There are flowers in the garden in front of the house. ……………
26. Her family rarely has visitors. ……………

IV. Complete the following email with the best option (A, B or C) for each blank.
From: huy@gmail.com
To: harrysmith@gmail.com

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 Subject: Hi friend!
Hi Harry,
Nice to meet you! My name is Huy and I am fifteen years old. I live in Ho Chi
Minh City with my parents, my little sister Hanh and a bull dog Rocky. We live in
a house on Hung Vuong Street. My house (27) ______________ three bedrooms
and a small garden.
I live (28) ______________ my school so I walk to school every day. I like my
school and my favorite subjects are Math and Science. I also like to work with
computers. What about you? What subject do you like (29) ______________
school?
My best friends are Nam and Quan and we are in the same class. After school I
often go to the school canteen with my friends. The canteen has got wi-fi so we can
chat (30) ______________ while eating or drinking and then usually we go home
and do our homework. At the weekend, I play sports with my friends. We play
football and basketball and sometimes we go swimming.
Write soon and tell me about yourself, your friends and your family.
Best wishes,
Huy

27. a. have b. has c. is d. are

28. a. next b. in front c. near d. far from
29. a. at b. on c. in d. for
30. a. offline b. online c. inline d. outline

PART D - WRITING
V. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to
each of the following questions.
31. My house has a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms.
A. In my house has a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms.
B. There is a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms in my house.
C. There has a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms in my house.
D. There are a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms in my house.
32. I have a plan to visit my grandparents next weekend.
A. I am visiting my grandparents next weekend.
B. I am planning to visit my grandparents next weekend.
C. I will visit my grandparents next weekend.
D. I am having visit my grandparents next weekend.
33. The table is to the left of the bed and to the right of the window.
A. The table is to the right of the bed and to the left of the window.
B. The table is between the bed and the window.
C. The bed is between the table and the window.

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34. Why don’t we have a drink after lunch?
A. What about having a drink after lunch?
B. You had better have a drink after lunch.
C. How about taking a rest after lunch?
D. You should go and have a drink after lunch.
35. My teacher’s hair is straight and black.
A. My teacher has straight and black.
B. My teacher has black straight hair.
C. My teacher has a straight black hair.
D. My teacher has a black straight hair.

VI. Choose the most suitable sentence that can be made from the words given in each of the
following questions.
36. sometimes/weekends/ we/ the/ go/ at/ camping.
A. We go sometimes camping at the weekend.
B. Sometimes we go the camping at weekend.
C. We sometimes go camping at the weekend.
D. At the weekend we go sometimes camping.
37. it/ very/ to/ is/ interesting/ join/ school/in/ my/ chess/ the/ club/ in.
A. It is very interesting to join the chess club in my school.
B. It is very interesting to join chess club in the my school.
C. It very is interesting to join the chess club in my school.
D. It very is interesting to join the chess in my school club.
38. hard-working/ Lam/ is/ student/ class/ intelligent/ in/ an/ my/ and.
A. Lam is an hard-working and intelligent student in my class.
B. Lam is an intelligent and hard-working student in my class.
C. Lam is an intelligent and hard-working in my student class.
D. Lam is hard-working and an intelligent student in my class.
39. at/ teacher/ teaching/ us/ is/ our/ Maths/ the/ moment.
A. At the moment us teacher is teaching our Maths.
B. Our teacher at the moment is teaching Maths us.
C. Our teacher is teaching us Maths at the moment.
D. Our teacher is teaching Maths us at the moment.
40. eyes/ sister/ my/ is/ she/ younger/ and/ short/ has/ round.
A. My younger sister is short and she has round eyes.
B. My sister is younger and she has short round eyes.
C. My younger sister is round and she has short eyes.
D. My sister is younger and she has short round eyes.

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