E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
Pronunciation:
• Listen and repeat.

/I/		/i:/
hit	kick	heat	repeat
bit	click	beat	read
little	interest	meat	eaten

• Practise these sentences.

1. Is he coming to the cinema?
2. We'll miss the beginning of the film.
3. Is it an interesting film, Jim?
4. The beans and the meat were quite cheap.
5. He’s going to leave here for the Green Mountains.
6. Would you like to have meat, peas and cheese?
Grammar and vocabulary
Exercise 1: Complete the blanks in the passage Use the correct simple present form of the verbs in the box. (There are more verbs than needed and you will have to use some verbs more than once).
(Điền vào các chỗ trống trong đoạn văn. Sử dụng động từ ở thì hiện tại đơn. (Có nhiều động từ hơn mức cần thiết và bạn sẽ sử dụng một vài động từ hơn một lần.))

be	play	take	run
fish	go	say	catch
worry	give up	like	realise

Fishing (1)______ my favourite sport. I often (2)______ for hours without catching anything. But this does not (3)______ me. Some fishermen (4)______ unlucky. Instead of catching fish, they (5) ______old boots and rubbish. I (6)_______ even less lucky. I never (7)_______ anything - not even old boots. After having spent whole mornings on the river, I always (8)_______ home with an empty bag. "You must (9)______fishing!", my friends (10)_______ "It's a waste of time". But they don't (11)______that I (12) _______not really interested in fishing. I'm only interested in sitting in a boat, doing nothing at all.
Trả lời:

1.is	2. fish	3. worry	4. are
5. catch	6. am	7.catch	8. go
9. give up	10. says	11. realise	12. am

Exercise 2: Put each of these adverbs of frequency in its appropriate place in the sentences below.
(Đặt các trạng từ tần suất vào vị trí thích hợp trong các câu dưới đây.)

always	usually	sometimes	as a rule
never	often	normally	occasionally

He gets up early.
She is late for school.
Lan practises speaking English.
Thao is a hard-working student.
Trả lời:
- He always/ never/ usually/ often/ normally/ occasionally gets up early.
    He sometimes gets up early.
    Sometimes he gets up early.
    He gets up early sometimes.
    As a rule, he gets up early.
- She is always/ usually/ often/ normally/ occasionally/ never late for school.
    She is sometimes late for school.
    Sometimes she is late for school.
    She is late for school sometimes.
    As a rule, she is late for school.
- Lan always/ usually/ often/ normally/ occasionally/ never practices speaking English.
    Lan sometimes practices speaking English.
    Sometimes Lan practices speaking English.
    Lan practices speaking English sometimes.
    As a rule, Lan practices speaking English.
- Thao is always/ usually/ often/ normally/ occasionally/ never a hard-working student.
    Thao is sometimes a hard-working student.
    Sometimes Thao is a hard-working student.
    Thao is a hard-working student sometimes.
    As a rule, Thao is a hard-working student.
Exercise 3: Supply Ihe correct past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
(Viết dạng quá khứ đơn đúng của các động từ trong ngoặc.)
Late in the afternoon, the boys put up their tents in the middle of a field. As soon as this (1)______(do), they (2)______ (cook) a meal over an open fire. They (3)______ (be) all hungry and the food (4)______(smell) good. After a wonderful meal, they (5)______(tell) stories and (6) ______(sing) songs by the camp­fire. But some time later it (7) ______(begin) to rain. The boys (8)______(feel) tired so they (9)______(put out) the fire and (10)______(creep) into their tent. Their sleeping-bags were warm and comfortable, so they all (11)______(sleep) soundly. In the middle of the night two boys (12)______(wake) up and began shouting. The tent (13) ______ (be) full of water. They all (14)______(leap) out of their sleeping-bags and (15) _____(hurry) outside. It was raining heavily and they (16)______(find) that a stream had formed in the field. The stream (17)______(wind) its way across the field and then (18)_____(flow) right under their tent!
Trả lời:

1.was	2. cooked	3. were	4. smelt
5. told	6.sang	7. began	8. felt
9. put out	10. crept	11.slept	12. woke
13. was	14. leapt	15.hurried	16. found
17. wound	18. flowed