Title ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 BÀ RỊA VŨNG TÀU 2022-2023.docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TỈNH BÀ RỊA – VŨNG TÀU ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 9 NĂM HỌC: 2022 – 2023 Môn: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài thi: 150 phút Ngày thi: 23/3/2023 (Đề thi có 10 trang) I. LISTENING. (3.0 pts) Part 1. You will hear a woman talking on the radio about a singing course she attended. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. SINGING FOR BEGINNERS Place: Brownstoke College. Course details:  The maximum number of students per course is (1) ________10_______.  All classes start with exercises that help students to (2) ________relax_______.  During the three days, about 20 (3) ________songs_______ are learned in many different styles.  Accommodation in Brownstoke college is very (4) ________comfortable_______.  There’s a very good lunch, especially (5) ________salad(s)_______.  Date the next course finishes: (6) ________Thursday_______, 26th September. (Adapted from Cambridge English – PET) TRANSCRIPT I've just come back from a short music course called Singing for Beginners. It was at Brown Stoke College, which is just to the north of London. A woman called Lena Phipps runs these three-day courses for people with no previous experience of singing. Lena used to be an opera singer but no longer appears on the stage. Nowadays, she occasionally sings in jazz clubs but spends most of her time teaching. She was excellent. There were only nine of us on the course I attended, five men and four women, and Lena never takes more than ten students on a course. This means that everyone has lots of attention and plenty of opportunity to sing. We were all very nervous at the beginning, but every class begins with some exercises to help students relax. These are followed by warm-up exercises to improve the quality of the voice. During the three days, students learn around twenty songs in a variety of different styles depending on the interests of the class members. There are classical and modern songs including pop songs. By the last day, everyone was confident enough to perform their favorite song on their own. I would really recommend this course. Brown Stoke College is an old building surrounded by a beautiful garden.

3 (Adapted from IELTS Listening practice tests) TRANSCRIPT Good morning. Today I'd like to present the findings of our Year 2 project on wildlife found in gardens throughout our city. I'll start by saying something about the background to the project, then talk a little bit about our research techniques, and then indicate some of our interim findings. First of all, how did we choose our topic? Well, there are four of us in the group and one day while we were discussing a possible focus, two of the group mentioned that they had seen yet more sparrow-hawks- one of Britain's most interesting birds of prey - in their own city centre gardens and wondered why they were turning up in these gardens in great numbers (1). We were all very engaged by the idea of why wild animals would choose to inhabit a city garden. Why is it so popular with wildlife when the countryside itself is becoming less so? The first thing we did was to establish what proportion of the urban land is taken up by private gardens. We estimated that it was about one fifth, and this was endorsed by looking at large-scale usage maps in the town land survey office (2) - 24% to be precise. Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many garden owners had interesting experiences to relate regarding wild animal sightings so we decided to survey garden owners from different areas of the city. Just over 100 of them completed a survey once every two weeks for twelve months - ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list - and adding the names of any rarer ones (3). Meanwhile, we were doing our own observations in selected gardens throughout the city. We deliberately chose smaller ones because they were by far the most typical in the city. The whole point of the project was to look at the norm not the exception. (4) Alongside this primary research on urban gardens, we were studying a lot of books about the decline of wild animals in the countryside (5) and thinking of possible causes for this. So what did we find? Well, so much that I just won't have time to tell you about here. If you're interested in reading our more comprehensive findings, we've produced detailed graphic representations on the college web-site and of course any of the group would be happy to talk to you about them. Just email us. What we've decided to present today is information about just three species - because we felt these gave a good indication of the processes at work in rural and urban settings as a whole (6). II. SUPPLY the appropriate forms of the words in brackets to complete the passage. (1.5 pts) More recent trends in reporting have seen a significant increase in stories that have little to do with distributing essential information. The general public is a hungry animal, seeking more and more personal details about celebrities of any description. We read the news for different reasons and different newspapers