Hi, a few of them weren’t paying attention at the end when I was about to give it, so I ended up forgetting to give it. But I have it here, if you’re able to pass it onto them?
“Choose a period of time in the past. Write a letter (in the first person) to a friend as someone from that period, explaining how your daily life is.”
Dịch sang Tiếng Việt:
At each period of age I have a different habit, and now I have the habit of listening to English music every day. This started since I was learning English at the age of 12, and my teacher encouraged us to listen to appropriate English songs to improve our listening skill and vocabulary. At first I just listened to them as homework, but gradually I fell in love with the melodies and lyrics of the songs. I listen to music in all of my spare time, and people easily find me wearing headphones everywhere. I listen to many different types of music, and my list of music now is up to a few hundred songs. In the morning I like to listen to Pop and Dance while preparing to go to school because they keep me awake and give me energy for the day. At noon I listen to the gentle country music to relax, and classical music is the first choice at bedtime so I can fall asleep easily. Some of my favorite singers are Adele, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, etc. They also help me read more in English about international music news. My sister is also learning another language, and I encourage her to develop a listening habit so that she can improve her listening skill and vocabulary. Music is such a useful tool for entertaining, and I will maintain this daily routine as a way to both learn relax.
Các bạn dịch sang tiếng việt giúp mk với ạ.
Dear Oanh,
Thank you very much for your letter which arrived a few days ago. It was lovely to hear from you. I am sorry, I haven’t written for you such along time because I studied hard to pass the final exam. However, I had agreat weekend more than every when I went to live concerts last night with my friends. Now, I am writing to tell you how the wonderful concert is.
It is the beautiful concert I have ever taken part in with many people and the miracle of sound of piano. As you know, my pianist is Yiruma and in last concert I couldn’t believe that he appeared in my eyes and gave me a big hug after his performance. I also listen a soothing music which is played by him and other professional musicians. Only when I heard his song from the stage I feel anythings around me seem to disappear and I can fly with many stars on the sky to forget all my fears which I suffered before.
That is amazing.
Let’s come back to my live concert. It is so cool and until now I can’t forget my feeling about it. Do you often to go live concerts? What kind of music do you like listening to? Who is your favourite singer?
I am glad if you tell me about it in the next letter
I look forward to your reply
Your sincerely
Exercise 2: We had dinner at a new restaurant yesterday
Dear Oanh,
Thank you very much for your letter which arrived a few days ago. It was lovely to hear from you.
I think the restaurant which you told me in the letter is very interesting. I also like to eat out and I usually go to a restaurant for dinner with my family tiwce a month. Our favourite restaurant is a traditional restaurant in Hang Bong street. It is not big but it is always busy. There are only afew tables in the restaurant and on each table is a vase with lovely flowers. There are plants in the room corners. I usually order the traditional dishes and eat them with rice. For example, fish cooked with sauce, spring roll,…and vegetable and so on. The food is deliciuous so we enjoy it very much. The service is also quick and frienfdly . My family always have pleasant evening at our favourite restaurant.
Shall we go there when you come to visit my family next time?
See you next time.
Mai
Complete the letter with the present perfect or past simple of these verbs (do,have,make,not do,not sleep,promise,put up,rain,share,start):
Hi John,
I'm writing to you from the mountaineering school in Nepal, where I'm doing a summer course. The course only 1).......................three days ago, but I've learnt so many things that it seems as if I 2)..................it for weeks! Tonight I'm exhausted because we 3).................tents all afternoon. The tents kept falling down because the ground is really wet; it 4)....................since we got here. I 5)...................my dinner, and I'm about to go to bed. I hope I can get some proper sleep. I 6)................well since I arrived, because I 7)...............a room with two older guys who snore really loudly. When I complained, the organisers 8)...................to change me to another room, but they 9).......................anything about it yet. But apart from that, I'm having a great time and I 10)....................loads of friends.
Got to go,
Simon
ai nhanh mik tik ^-^
A visit to the Ocean Center – by Rebecca Hardy, aged 13
My family and I went to the Ocean Center in my hometown recently. It was one of the most
amazing places I’ve ever been. We don’t live near the sea, so I don’t get much chance to see
living creatures for myself.
Inside the center you go on what they call an ocean journey. It takes you from the smallest
stream, through rivers, and out into the deepest ocean. Along the way you meet fish and other
creatures that live in these places. And there are thousands of them – some pretty and peaceful,
and others frightening and deadly.
Our guide told us that the Center was originally set up to help look after the seas and protect the
life within them. In fact, every entry ticket bought there helps the Center to achieve its aim, so I felt
my visit was in a good cause.
By chance, we arrived just at feeding time and watched staff give food to hundreds of fish. I
wanted to do it too, but the staff wouldn’t let me. But I’d still really recommend being there at
feeding time. You’ll see feeding times advertised at the ticket sales, or you can telephone in
advance to find out when they are.
The most fascinating part of the visit for me was a new exhibition at the Center that told the story
of seahorses across the world. It has the biggest collection for these magical creatures in Europe,
and almost as many as one in the USA. I found out about what they ate, and how a male
seahorse managed to give birth to 1500 babies! And although our guide told us it was hard to see
the young ones, we were lucky enough to catch sight of some in the tank!
We also went to one of the Center’s talks about the underwater world.
Ours was called ‘Sharks’,
and the one on the following day was called ‘Creatures of the Deep’. There are talks on other
topics given on different days, so it’s best to check which talk will take place on the day you go.
Once we’d bought our ticket, we could go in and out of the Center as many times as we liked
during the day. We can also buy an annual pass that gives you unlimited entry all year around. I’m
saving up for one!
For questions 1 – 5, circle A, if the sentence is correct, or B, if the sentence is incorrect.
For questions 6 – 10, answer the questions. Use your own words.
1. Rebecca hardy’s home is close to the coast.
2. At the Ocean Center, you can see fish from both seas and rivers.
3. All the creatures that are on display at the Center aren’t dangerous.
4. The admission fee for the center goes to environmental projects.
5. Rebecca was allowed to feed the fish at the Center.
6. Rebecca had to book in advance to see the fish at their feeding time.
7. The Ocen Centre has the largest collection of seahorses in the world.
8. Rebecca was pleased that she was able to see baby seahorses in the exhibition.
9. Each day, the Centre holds lots of talks on different topics.
10. Rebecca found she could leave and return to the Centre during her visit without paying again.
You should call the police when you believe a crime is about to be committed or has been comitted. Cops would much rather hear from people BEFORE the crime than after the crime. For example, if you see a person you don't recognize as a neighbor, in your neighborhood looking into parked cars, call the cops. We would rather try to catch him and identify him before he steals the car, rather than have to chase him (endangering lives) after he steals it.
You should also call the cops about disturbing choices people make that can effect your quality of life. If someone puts their stereo on so loud it bothers you, you should go ask him to turn it down, and if he doesn't then call the cops. If there is a loud party next door and they keep waking you up, call the cops to make them turn down the noise or break up the party. Call in if you have drug dealing or prostitution in your neighborhood. You should not have to put up with that crap.
There are many ways to get your local cops to help you, that is what they are there for, you dont necessarily have to call. If it is an ongoing problem a letter or email to the chief will usually get the ball going. Or you can wave down an officer and tell them what the problem is, they are public servants that work for the citizens. A lot of serious crimes have been solved because a citizen passed along information to an officer.
DICH GIUM VOI
Fill in each blank with the correct tense of the given verbs:
1) All of them (be)... born in My Tho, they (move)... to HCM city in 1995 to get good jobs. Since then, their lives (improve)....
2) Mr and Mrs Bakers usually (come)... to visit us. They (come)... to visit us last night. This is the third time they (come)... to visit us.
3)When I (be)... young, my parent (not give)... me any money when i (go)... to school. Yesterday my parents (give)... me a new bike. They (give)... me three bikes since I (start)... riding to school.
4) She usually (read)... newspapers when she (have)... free time, she (read)... that novel several years ago. You (read)... novel yet?
5) The telephone (ring)... twice yesterday but nobody (answer)... it. It always (ring)... at this time. It (ring)... for a few minutes but nobody (want)... to answer it.
Ai nhanh và đúng mk sẽ tick cho nha!
Dịch:
Some theories of the purpose of dreams
Freud believed that we dream so that we can release the deep, secret desires that we are not allowed to express in real life because of the rules of polite society. Most people know about Freudian dream analysis – a dream about a train going into a tunnel is a dream about sexual intercourse. But couldn’t it just be a dream about travelling on a train?
Another theory is that dreams allow us to solve problems that we can’t solve in real life. We go to sleep with a problem and wake up with the answer. This may be more of a way to ‘use’ our dreams than a ‘purpose’ of dreaming. If you believe that your dreams are important then analysing them may help you to focus your mind on the problem and help you to find the solution.
The modern image is that dreams are the brain’s way of cleaning up the computer’s hard disk, organizing the events of the day into folders and deleting the rubbish that it doesn’t want to keep. But we all know that very little of what we dream every night is concerned with what happened to us that day.
Another idea is that dreams are the brain’s way of practising the behaviour that we need to survive. So we dream about being chased by a monster because one day it might happen! It’s a bit like a pianist practising her scales every day even though she doesn’t need to use them at that moment.
Others believe that dreaming is the brain’s way of exercising the pathways between the brain cells. This may be an important element in why we sleep rather than why we dream. We die if we don’t sleep but we can live without dreaming. Some patients with brain injuries lose the ability to dream but don’t seem to suffer any ill-effects.
REM and dreaming
Scientists used to think that dreaming only happened during Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM). REM sleep is essential for all mammals. We all become irritable and depressed without it. If we don’t have enough REM one night, we will compensate by having more the next. REM is generated by the brainstem – the oldest and most primitive part of the brain. So scientists used to believe that dreaming was also caused by activity in the brainstem. We now know that dreaming can happen at any time during sleep. The only difference seems to be that it’s easier to remember dreams that happen during REM.
Babies have a lot more REM activity than adults, but research shows that they dream less. The same may be true of animals. We know that they have REM activity but that doesn’t mean they dream.
It also seems that dreaming is a skill that develops as you get older, like language for example. Young children’s dreams are very different from older children’s or adult’s dreams.
New research
Modern technology has allowed scientists to map the parts of the brain that are active when we dream. The primitive brainstem is very active, but so are other important areas at the front of the brain. These are the frontal lobes that control emotion, memory, and experiences that come through the senses like hearing and vision. If these areas are injured, the person stops dreaming. On the other hand, the areas that control rational, logical thought are not active at all. This could explain why dreams are so strange. They have no logical sequence or time, which makes them very difficult to explain to other people when we wake up. Dreams combine recent events with long past events and our emotions while we are dreaming are often very strong.
Psychologists have also done studies on people who kept dream diaries for long periods of time (up to fifty years in some cases) and have found that what we dream is very much connected with how we think and behave when we are awake. So an extrovert, adventurous person will have extrovert, adventurous dreams. A shy person will be a shy person in her dreams. People who are important to us will often be in our dreams and so will things that worry us or make us happy.
So what’s the conclusion?
Well, nobody really knows. But scientists are now suggesting that dreams have absolutely no purpose at all. When we are awake we are ‘thinking’ all the time. Some of this thinking is useful and has a purpose. But we often just ‘think’ about nothing in particular while we’re waiting for the bus or walking to work. And that’s what the brain is doing when we are asleep - just thinking. Sometimes it’s interesting and sometimes it’s boring.
Doing the research for this article has made me more interested in my dreams rather than less. I might even start a dream diary! But nothing that I’ve read explains why I sometimes have an embarrassing dream about finding myself standing completely naked at a bus stop. Fortunately, this has never happened to me in real life, and it isn’t something that I think about when I’m awake. I’m told that it’s an example of a ‘universal dream’ – a dream that is common to people all over the world. Dreaming about flying is another example. So what’s the explanation? We can’t all be ‘just thinking’ about the same thing, can we?
Find the new words and translate it
Dịch lá thư sau:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to make an insurance claim for an item that I lost while on holiday last week.
The item is a wristwatch that I inherited from my grandfather. Both the watch strap and the face are made of gold, and the watch is worth a considerable amount of money. It also has great sentimental value.
I believe that I must have left the watch on the beach in front of the hotel where I was staying. I did return to search for it, but I can only assume that it was either covered in sand or that it had been washed out to sea.
I took out comprehensive travel insurance with your company, and my contract states that all lost items are covered. I would therefore ask that you review the attached information regarding the estimated value of the watch, and that you process my claim as quickly as possible.
Please let me know if you require any further information.
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Craig
Direction: As if you are the person in charge, read the letter and give a suitable response.
Tìm lỗi sai và sửa chúng
1.I'm really a keen on going to the cinema, so I have got lots of favorite
2.films. But the best one as I've seen lately is called Pressure. In some
3.ways, I suppose that you could regard it as a detective film,but it's
4.different from most films of that one kind because the characters are
5.they such unusual people. The detective in it,For example, is a computer
6.expert who solves crimes on her computer using information given to
7.her by her assistants, who go out and interview to people. the Case in
8.The film concerns the wife of a millionaire, who has gone missing.
9.Sometimes the plot is a bit complicated but it is not too hard to keep
10.up with it. There are a lot of strange characters in it, such as a man
11.who always wears two hats on and some of the scenes really made me
12.laugh.Also there is a big surprise at the end but i won't say you what
13.that is in the case you go to see it. it was very well acted and I also like
14. the music in it. But what do I really like about the film is that it is so
15.orignal- I have never seen a film quite like that.