5. Truong walked, thinking, so coming to the head of the street without noticing.

The darkness of the

small street covered him. He walked more quickly.

( While) Walking and thinking, Truong didn’t recognize/know that he had arrived/reached his home
street. The darkness of the small street surrounded/covered (che bên trên)/enclosed/swallowed him.
He walked more quickly / still walked quickly / kept walking faster.

Truong was walking, thinking, so he didn’t …. he had arrived at…

Coming near his house, he saw there were people sitting enjoying the fresh air on the veranda. They
talked happily, and he suddenly realized that it was a pleasant and clear voice of a girl in that crowd.

When approaching home / near his home, he saw/find some of his neighbors sitting enjoying (hđ song
song) the fresh air on the veranda ( see so doing sth). He recognized a pleasant and clear voice of a girl
among the cheerful gossip.

1. Tan was looking down the hill, watching the white clouds drifting in the distance/ far away. Since
coming back to his homeland, he has loved contemplating clouds which he never noticed before
in the city/province.
Be used to: ở ĐL 4 năm nên quen khí hậu rồi
Since returning home/to his hometown / since his return to his hometown, he often looked at
the clouds, a habit he never had/got into when living in the city

Tan recalled all his childhood years in the city. As he was very young, his parents sent him to his
uncle in Hanoi / working in Hanoi.
His parents sent him to his uncle working in Hanoi at his early age

His family was not very rich/not richer than others, but it was also among the most well-off in
the village. Like all the other rich families in that village, Tan’s parents hoped that they allowed
him to go to school to become intellectual