Duong Ha Lower Secondary School

CONSOLIDATION FOR THE FIRST MID- TERM TEST - GRADE 8

School year: 2024 -2025

A/ Theory Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 – ENGLISH 8

1. Vocabulary
+ Leisure time
+ Life in the countryside
+ Teenagers
2. Pronunciation:
+ Circle the words having the underlined parts pronounced differently from that of the others
+ Circle the words having the main stress pattern not the same as that of the others

3. Grammar
1. Verbs of liking + gerunds
2. Verbs of liking + to-inf
3. Verb tenses
4. Comparative forms of adjectives
5. Comparative forms of adverbs
6. Simple sentences and compound sentences
7. Articles : a/ an / the
8. ………….
B/ Some main kinds of exercises:
1. Phonetic
2. Vocabulary and grammar: Gap fill. Choose the correct answer. Read and understand signs,
notice…
3. Reading: Complete the sentences/ passage with the correct words, answer the questions….
4. Writing: Find the mistakes and correct them. Complete the second sentences, complete
sentences using the cues, … with the topics from Unit 1 to Unit 3
5. Listen then choose the best answer to complete the sentences( Practise listening parts from
unit 1- unit 3 and review 1)
C/ Practice (From Unit 1- Unit 3)
I/ Choose the words having the underlined parts pronounced differently from that of the
others
1. A. communicate B. nomad C. custom D. computer
2. A. June B. rude C. truth D. put
3. A. village B. buffalo C. cottage D. shortage
4. A. ancestor B. heritage C. speciality D. gather
5. A. terraced B. satisfied C. hooked D. relaxed
6. A. sure B. soundly C. simple D. stilt
7. A. book B. school C. cool D. pool
8. A. embarrassed B. orchard C. balance D. fancy
II/ Circle the words having the main stress pattern not the same as that of the others
1. A enjoy B. listen C. adore D. detest
2. A. cattle B. country C. collect D. grassland
3. A. ancestor B. curious C. heritage D. tradition
4. A. buffalo B. recognise C. convenient D. cultural
5. A picturesque B. cultivate C. harvester D. messenger
6. A. leisure B. minority C. exciting D. traditional
7. A. bullying B. concentrate C. interested D. however
8. A. picturesque B. origami C. expectation D. snowboarding
III/ Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting.
1. Yoga helps us learn what to co-ordinate breathing and movement.
2. When should children do yoga too?
3. Life in a small town is much peaceful than that in a big city.
4. Today Ba gets up more earlier than he did yesterday.
5. Tom worked harder than Mi; however, he got better results in the exams.
6. While l was browsing some websites, I see an advertisement about a resort.
7. A: How long do Thai hold ceremonies to worship their ancestors? - B: Every year.
8. When you play game online, be careful when you make friends to strangers.
9. Mi loves playing sport, so his brother hates it.
10. If you don’t do your homework more careful, you won’t get good marks.
11. My sister is keen on do DIY.
12. He’s only 16; otherwise, it’s against the law to buy alcohol without his parents’
observation.
13. Don’t worry. It is unsafe to travel to that village even at night.
14. Lan is interested with building websites for her friends.
15. The cake tastes more deliciously than we expected.
16. She was envious to her friend’s incredible ability to learn new languages easily.
IV/ Read and answer the questions
A/ With the habit of working in teams and being helpful to one other, villagers usually earn
their living from farming, raising livestock and making handicrafts. They live in a small
community with a temple or a communal cultural house where great events, such as festivals
worshipping the village god and traditional games are organized. Villagers in the Southern
usually live in houses lined up along central road and built on stilts to keep above flood waters.
Along the coastal lines, fishermen depend on the sea as a means of livelihood. In the Central
of Vietnam, a place suffering lots of natural disasters all the year round, citizens tend to be
more studious and hard-working than those in regions with favourable conditions. People in
the central highlands and the northern mountains live by growing rice, rubber trees coffee and
tea as well as hunting.
(Source: Adapted from Vietnam Travel Center)
1. Can “Vietnamese life in the city” be the topic of the passage?
2. What do villagers do for their livings?
3. Why do Southern villagers need to build their houses on stilt?
B/ Besides its beauty, the countryside of Britain is well known for many contrasts: its bare
mountains and moorland, its lakes, rivers and woods, and its long, often wild coastline.
National parks which are protected from development by the government have the most
beautiful and picturesque scenery. British people often associate the countryside with
farmland, open spaces like fields of wheat and barley, green fields enclosed by hedges or stone
walls in which cows or sheep are raised. Most farmland is now owned by individual people or
independent companies. However, the government has built a network of public footpaths
across the farmland.
Many British people enjoy the peace and relaxation of life in the countryside where
they can spend their free time walking, cycling, or going for a picnic or a pub lunch. In
summer they can pick strawberries and other fruit in fruit farms. Nowadays, few rural people
work on farms. Many of them commute to work in towns. Many others wish to live in the
countryside so that they would have a better and healthier lifestyle.
1. What is the countryside of Britain famous for?
2. Do individual people or independent companies own most farmland in Britain?
3. What does the word "they" in the passage refer to?
V. Choose the correct answers to complete the passage.
When we feel anxious, we often give ourselves negative messages like: “I can’t do this”,
“I’m useless” and “I’m going to fail”.
 It can be difficult but (1) to replace these with positive thoughts such as: ‘this is just
anxiety, it can’t harm me’ and, ‘relax, concentrate - it’s going to be okay’.
Picturing how you’d like things to go can help you feel more (2) ______. Try to imagine
yourself (3) up to an exam feeling confident and relaxed. You turn over your
paper,write down what you do know and come away knowing you tried your best on the day.
It can sometimes feel like your whole future depends on (4) grades you get. There can
be a lot of pressure (5) young people to do well in exams which cancause a lot of stress
and anxiety. You might have (6) certain grades or put into ahigher set, and feel if you
don’t get the grade you’ll let your teachers or parents (7) .
Remember, exams are important – but they’re not the only way to a successful future. Lots
of people (8) success in life without doing well in school exams.
1. a. afford b. allow c. let d. try
2. a. positive b. negative c. tense d. stressful
3. a. to turn b. turning c. turn d. turned
4. a. why b. when c. what d. how
5. a. about b. with c. on d. for
6. a. been predict b. predicted c. be predicted d. been predicted
7. a. down b. up c. on d. off
8. a. take b. achieve c.go d.seek
VI/ Complete the sentences using given words
1. I/ like/ look/ at/ stars/ starry nights.
2. Some farmers/ still/ use/ buffalo-drawn/ carts/ move crops.
3. He/ usually/ go/ herd/ buffaloes/ other boys/ village.
4. I/ like/ look/ at/ stars/ starry nights.
5. Teenagers'/ stress/ may/ come/ schoolwork/, family/, or/ friends.
6. Some teens / participate / school clubs / make / new / friends.
7. Lan/ fond/ messaging/ her friends/ because/ it/ convenient/ than/ calling.
8. Feed / pigs / and / milk / cows / be / her / daily / activities.
VII. Rewrite the sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first
1. She is a more skillful dancer than her sister. => She
2. She finds carving eggshells boring. => She is
3. Life in the countryside isn’t as stressful as life in the city. => Life in the city is _______
4. This is the largest hotel I’ve ever seen. => I’ve
5. Our math teacher started teaching at our school ten years ago.=> Our math teacher ______
6. John works more carefully than Peter. => Peter ___________
7. A horse can run 80km/hr while a camel can only run 12km/hr.=> A horse _______
8. Some teens feel pressure because they want to fit in a group. => Some teenagers want ____.
9. My leisure activities are going hiking and climbing the mountains. => I like_______
10. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. => No mountain ______________.
11 . I like listening to music and watching TV in my free time.=> My leisure activities_____
12. Because some teenagers prefer talking to their parents about their problems, they never
join in any forums for help. => Some teenagers ________________
13. More than 60% of the people in my town are happy with their life while the rate in her city
is only 38%. (happily) =>The people in my town _____________
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