Title 2. UNIT 2. LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE-GV.docx ✅

UNIT 2. LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE A. PHONETICS I. Put the words into the correct column. mother, pick, hospitable, village, picturesque, collect, busy, cottage, water, sing, open, sofa, milk, gather, calendar, hill, around, fish, message, famous, decide, accident, return, suppose, farmer, pretty, symbol, build, today /ə/ /ɪ/ mother, hospitable, picturesque, collect, water, open, sofa, gather, around, famols, accident, suppose, farmer, today pick, village, busy, cottage, sing, milk, calendar, hill, fish, message, decide, return, pretty, symbol, build II. Choose the word whose underlined port is pronounced differently from that of the others. 1. A. activity B. ship C. dinner D. kitchen 2. A. begin B. possible C. sit D. harvest 3. A. sky B. shy C. mystery D. why 4. A. chicken B. excellent C. open D. problem 5. A. ago B. pasta C. banana D. shortage B. VOCABULARY I. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. hospitable paddy field cultivate load well-trained canals orchards herding surrounded combine harvester 1. Villagers in the northeast regions ______________ mostly rice and corn. 2. ______________ and rivers form the waterways of the Mekong Delta. 3. He sometimes goes ______________ the buffalos over several kilometres from home. 4. Most countryside houses are ______________ by green trees and rice fields. 5. In my province, people often ______________ rice onto boats and transport it on rivers. 6. Water buffalos are still used to pull the ploughs through the muddy and flooded ______________. 7. Vinh Long is a beautiful farm province, with grapefruit and orange ______________ everywhere.