Unit 13 - Festivals (bài luyện tập)

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UNIT 13 - FESTIVALS (EXERCISES)
Exercise 1: Read the conversion and decide the statements a to f is true or false?
Liz: Thanks for inviting me to the rice-cooking festival, Ba. Can you explain what is happening?
Ba: Sure. There are three competitions: water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking.
Liz: Where does the water come from?
Ba: There’s a river about one kilometer away. One person from each team has to run to the river. There are four bottles of water on the river bank and each runner must take a bottle and return to the starting position.
Liz: That man seems upset. What did he just yell?
Ba: He ureed his teammate to run faster.
Liz: What’s special about the fire-making contest?
Ba: The fire is made in the traditional way. Two team members try to make a fire by rubbing pieces of bamboo together. The winners are the first ones to make a fire.
Liz: I`m interested in the rice-cooking contest, too.
Ba: Six people from each team participate in this event. They have to separate the rice from the husk and then cook the rice.
Liz: How do they decide who wins the contest?
Ba: The judges try the finished products and the most dclicious rice is the winner. Then all the points are added and the grand prize is awarded.
Liz: Is that what is happening now?
Ba: The council leader just said that he was pleased to award the prize to the Thon Trieu team.
a) Two team members take part in the water-fetching contests.
b) One person has to collect four water bottles.
c) The fire is made without matches or lighters.
d) Pieces of wood are used to make the fire.
e) In the final contest, the team members taste the rice.
f) The grand prize is given to the team with the most points.
Exercise 2: Transform the sentences below into passive form:
Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem “A visit from Saint Nicholas”.

They performed Christmas songs for people in town.

Santa Claus gave children presents on Christmas Eve.

My father decorated the Christmas tree with colored lights.

Miss Thanh taught me to draw the Christmas cards.

Ba invited Liz to the rice-cooking festival

They held the festival in the communal house yard.

The council leader awarded the first prize to the Mekong team.

Exercise 3: Use the verbs in brackets in the correct forms of active or passive:
It’s a big factory. Five hundred people (employ).......................... there.
Water (cover).......................... most of the Earth’s surface.
The letter (post).......................... a week ago and it (arrive).......................... yesterday.
The boat (sink).......................... quickly but fortunately everybody (rescue)...........................
Ron’s parents (die).......................... when he was very young. He and his sister (bring).......................... up by their grandparents.
The gate (lock).......................... at 6.30 pm everyday.
Sue (bear).......................... in London but she (grow).......................... up in the north of England.
We (not/ play).......................... football yesterday afternoon. The match (cancel)..........................
Originally the book (write).......................... in Spanish and a few years ago it (translate).......................... into English.
I saw an accident last night. Somebody (call).......................... an ambulance but nobody (injure).......................... so the ambulance (not/ need)...........................
Exercise 4: Decide whether these sentences are active or passive. Tranform active sentences into passive, and passive sentences into active ones.
Does Egypt export cotton to many countries?

The Christmas trees were decorated and put at the front doors.

Somebody must do something for these poor men.

Did Jack London write the novel “Martin Idon”?

A new supermarket is going to be built next year.

They have just built a new church near my house.

People speak French and English in Canada.

Bell invented the telephone in 1876

People say that he is the best doctor.

His painting will be exhibited for the first time by New Arts Gallery.

Exercise 5: Report these direct sentences.
“I’m living in London now”, Charles said.

“You are my best friends,” Jane said to us.

“I don’t know what Fred is doing,” Johnny said to me.

“We are decorating our Christmas tree,” Hoa said.

“I must go home now,” he said to his friends

“I can’t go out after 8 p.m”, Hoa said.

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