Baøi taäp Tieáng Anh 8 - 7
II.
1. It is located in Duong Lam commune at a 45 km distance from Hanoi.
2. It is the birthplace of two kings in the history of Vietnam, Phung Hung (or Bo Cai Dai
Vuong) and Ngo Quyen.
3. It is typical for villages in the midlands in the North of Vietnam.
4. There are still nearly old 200 houses.
5. Phung Hung Temple, Ngo Quyen Royal Tomb, Mong Phu communal house, Ho Gam
Hill, and the temple at which the diplomat Giang Van Minh is worshiped.
E. WRITING
1. The Cham ethnic group has a population of about 100,000.
2. They live mostly on the coast between Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces, or on
the Cambodian border around Chau Doc.
3. The Cham have a tradition of wet rice cultivation.
4. Handicrafts are fairly well-developed, especially silkworm textiles and handmade
pottery wares.
5. Both men and women wear long one-piece sarongs or cloth wrappers.
6. The main color of their daily dress is cotton white.
7. The chief means of transporting goods and farm produce is the back-basket.
8. The most important festival, called Bon Kate, is held near the Cham towers in the tenth
month of the Lunar year.
TEST (UNIT 3)
I. 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. B 10. D
II. 11. speech 12. spend 13. ask 14. sports 15. stone 16. skill
17. spelling 18. speak 19. disk 20. school 21. best 22. stamps
III. 23. mountainous 24. agricultural 25. traditional 26. diversity 27. peaceful
IV. 28. What is the population of the Khmer ethnic group?
29. It is over one million.
30. Where does the Khmer live?
31. They live in Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Can Tho, Kien Giang, and An Giang provinces.
32. What are their customs?
33. Young Khmer people often go to pagodas to study and improve their virtues and knowledge.
34. What do they do to live on?
35. They live on wet rice cultivation, animal husbandry, weaving, pottery and sugar making
from the “Thot Not” tree.
36. What are their main festivals?
37. They are “Chon Cho Nam Tho May” (New Year Festival), Buddha’s Birthday, “Don
Ta” (Forgive the Crimes of the Dead), and “Ooc Om Bok” (Moon Worship).
V. 38. ethnic minority 39. branch 40. share 41. stilt house
42. marriage 43. musical instruments 44. ceremonies 45. a funeral house
VI.
46. The 47. a 48. The 49. The 50. an 51. the 52. the 53. the
VII. 54. What custom do ethnic groups in Central Highlands have?
55. What do people in the Central Highlands believe?
56. What would the dead do if they were not buried in beautiful graves?
57. What is the purpose of making funeral houses and cutting wooden statues?
58. How many tools do people in the Central Highlands use to make statues?
59. What topics for funeral statues are taken from?
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VIII. 60. B 61. C 62. A 63. D 64. C 65. B 66. A 67. B 68. D 69. B
IX. 70. C 71. A 72. C 73. B 74. D
X. 75. It is quite simple to cook Thang Co.
76. The horse meat and organs are washed and mixed with 12 traditional spices: cardamom,
anise flower, cinnamon, ginger and some secret species…
77. Then all meat and organs are put in a large pan and fried.
78. Wait until the meat becomes dry, and pour water in the pan and simmer within more than
an hour.
79. The organs such as heart, liver, blood, bowel, meat, bone are added later and then
simmered and put more vegetables.
80. The pans of Thang Co in highland market fairs are usually enough for a few dozen of people.
TEST YOURSELF 1
I. 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. B
II. 6. D 7. D 8. A 9. A 10. D 11. B 12. C 13. B 14. B 15. A
III. 16. blank 17. blanket 18. blind 19. blouse 20. cleaning
21. clearly 22. blackberry 23. classical 24. block 25. clerk
IV. 26. uploaded 27. video-sharing site 28. online community 29. hits
30. posted 31. website 32. blog 33. download
V. 34. populated 35. optimistically 36. peaceful 37. villagers 38. inconvenience
VI. 39. hate 40. quite like 41. don't really like 42. love 43. don’t mind
VII. 44. Courses 1, 3 45. Course 1 46. Course 4 47. Course 2
48. Courses 2, 3 49. Course 3 50. Course 4 51. Course 1
VIII. 52. tribe 53. takes 54. slope 55 stream
56. image 57. designs 58. use 59. colors
IX. 60. B 61. A 62. A 63. B 64. C
X. 65. C 66. D 67. A 68. C 69. D
XI. 70. D 71. A 72. B 73. D 74. A
XII. 75. In my opinion 76. also 77. I think 78. Besides
79. In addition 80. As I have noted
Unit 4: Our customs and traditions
A. PHONETICS
I.
/spr/ /str/
spray, spout, spring roll, spread,
spring, spreadsheet, offspring
straight, strange, stranger, street, strength, stress,
strict, striker, strings, stripes, instructions,
pedestrians, strawberries, streams, district,
II.
/spr/: spread, spring, newsprint, spreads, spout
/str/: strange, stress, strange, district, street, astronaut, frustrated
B. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
I.
1. a temple 2. take off 3. provider 4. according to – break with tradition
5. a tradition 6. cultural 7. the custom of 8. gift 9. unlucky
10. death 11. clocks