UNIT 6.

NATIONALITIES
Pronunciation
Activity 1. Matching

Mother /ˈmʌðər/

Letter /ˈletər/

Thursday /ˈθɜːrzdeɪ/

Sofa /ˈsəʊfə/

Activity 2. Fill in the blank

1. girl

2. Thursday, thirty

3. word

Check-up 1. Underline all the words containing /ə/ sound

Letter Continue
From Answer
Mother
Open

Check-up 2. Underline all the words containing /ɜ:/ sound

Bird Word
Girl Sir
World Thirty
Work

Exercise 1. Fill in the blank then practice

 1. Thursday, mother

2. open, world

Exercise 2. Choose the correct answer

1. B

2. A

3. A

Exercise 3. Listen and fill (Track 1)

1. 34 5. 3rd
6. 21st
2. 13
7. 14
3. 1st
8. 37
4. 30

Vocabulary

Exercise 4. Listen and fill in the blank (Track 2)

1. Mandel, Brazil

2. Block, Finland

3. Elena, Mexico, English

Exercise 5. Fill in the blank

Canadians

English
 language

Grammar
Check-up 1. Find the proper noun in each sentence.
1. The boy threw the ball to his dog, Lulu.
2. I’d like you to meet my friend Mimi.
3. We’ll be vacationing in Da Lat this year.
4. My second-grade teacher was Mrs. Nana.
5. Do you think Nguyen will win the game?

Check-up 2. Define Proper Noun and Common Noun.

1. You broke my favorite pen. -> Common Noun
I can’t believe you broke my Snoopy pen. -> Proper Noun
2. I really want to buy a new dress. -> Common Noun
I really want to buy a new Chanel dress. -> Proper Noun
3. They’re all waiting for us at the restaurant. -> Common Noun
They’re all waiting for us at the Pizza Company. -> Proper Noun

Check-up 3. Define Countable Noun and Uncountable Noun.

1. Fish 2. Idea
_x_ count __ count
__ uncount _x_ uncount
3. Money 4. Weather
_x_ count _x_ count
_x_ uncount __ uncount
5. Pencil 6. Sugar
__ count __ count
_x_ uncount _x_ uncount

Check-up 4. Complete the sentence

1. An animal book
 2. Milk cookies

3. A personal blog

4. The black cat

5. A wool coat

Check-up 5. Change word to Noun

1. Shy -> Shyness 2. Lazy -> Laziness 3. Crazy -> Craziness
4. Sad -> Sadness 5. Edit -> Editor 6. Act -> Actor/ Actress
Exercise 6. Choose the correct answer

1. a paper 4. tomatoes
5. some
2. teeth
6. doesn’t
3. time
7. My hair is

Exercise 7. Fill in the blank

beautiful landscape

the central part

fast modernization

the old town

Exercise 8. Find the mistakes and correct

IELTS Speaking part 1

1. Why do some people keep pets at home?

 I think we would all agree that pets are loyal companions to humans. Especially for
those who adopt pets when they were just newborns, these animals are like precious
children to many families.

2. Have you ever had a pet before?

I used to have a puppy when I was a kid. He and I were best friends, actually. I
remember taking him to the park, feeding him with milk and training him with many cool
tricks. Sadly, when I got older, I discovered that I am allergic to dog fur, so I had to give him

away.

IELTS Speaking part 2:

3. Describe a Family member who you spend the most time with

I am going to talk about my father – a person I spend the most time with. His name is
Cao Son, which can be literally translated into English as ‘High Mountain”. Although he is
already in his early sixties, he looks pretty much younger with a fine figure and surprisingly,
not a lot of wrinkles and grey hair to be found. He really knows how to dress smartly also.

Homework
Exercise 1. Complete the words from its phonetics.

1. circus, amazing

2. father, apartment

3. girl, first

4. learnt, thirteen

5. worst, teacher

Exercise 2. Find and classify the word containing /ə/ and /ɜ:/

/ə/ /ɜ:/
 about, department, from, letter, mother, are, work, birthday, her
for, a, interview, inquiries, also, away, her,
Christmas

Exercise 3. Fill in the blank

INFORMATION

Name: Marry Mary

Old: thirteen years old

Parent’s country: Canada

Her nationality: Japanese

Exercise 4.

Circle Countable noun

Definitely, I love watching films, all genres of them. I try to absorb and enjoy as many
different kinds of films as I can, whether it be the blockbuster Avengers: End Game,
emotional roller coaster-like Parasite, or visual effects such as The Lion King. Film is a
medium that can transport you to radically different worlds and environments. That’s why I
and so many others love it.

Circle Noun

IELTS Speaking part 2: Describe a skill that takes a long time to learn

Today I’m going to talk about a skill that takes a long time to learn, which is the playing
instrument skill. Specifically here, I have the bass guitar. I originally started playing
instruments by playing the actual guitar here as you can see.
 And then I slowly moved on to bass which I really love. But it’s not a very easy instrument to
play. As you can see the string is really thick, so for a girl’s hand which is this little, it was
really painful starting it, and then it took me a really long time to slowly get used to it.

Exercise 5. Match name with characteristics

A. Benson 1, 2, 3 , 5

B. Jenifer 2, 5

C. Peter 3, 5

D. Don 6, 5

E. Alice 7, 4