Unit 4 part C. Speaking
Bài 1 Use one of the expression (A-H) to respond to each of the statement(1-8). Then practise short conversations with a friend.
| A. Me too. That was fun, but so manỵ children did foolish things with them that they had to be banned. | 1. A: My mum said life was hard back then, and did not always have enough food to eat.
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| B. How could they do such things?That is so scary. | 2. A: People, especially girls in the countryside, used to get married as young as fourteen or fìfteen. B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| C. How awful for the children! I can’t even stand skipping one meal. | 3. A: I miss the time when we used to set off firecrackers to celebrate weddings, or welcome the Lunar New Year.
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| D. Well, it explains why people rarely travelled very far then. | 4. A: Did ỵou know that before airplanes were invented, it could take three to four months to cross the ocean by ship?
B:……………………………………………………………….. |
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| E. I guess the Internet really makes life much easier for us now, doesp’t it? | 5. A: Twenty years ago when my mum studied in Australia, I could only talk to her once or twice a month. International calls vvere very expensive.
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| F. I can’t imagine that. My sister is fourteen, and she does not even know how to cook a good meal. | 6. A: I heard that in the past, many tribes used animal sacrifice to worship their gods.
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| G. I feel so lucky that we have televisions now. It is so much more interesting. | 7. A:Can you believe that the giant pyramids in Egypt were built with just human labour?
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
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| H. That’s incredible! I wish I could visit them one day. |
8. A:In the past, people could only listen to music or news on the radio.
B: ……………………………………………………………….. |
Bài 2 Rearrange the sentences to make a complete conversation. Then practise it with a friend. The first one has been marked for you.
…….. A. Your grandmother taught me. Cooking used to be one of the criteria for being a good wife.
…….. B. I’m happy that life has changed.
…….. C. Why so manỵ ‘shoulds’, mum? Didn’t a wife have any rights in the family?
…1.. D. Mum, how can you cook these traditional dishes?
…….. E. There are many. You should know how to sew and how to embroider. You should take care of every member in ỵour husband’s familỵ. You should be obedient and submissive. When you talk, you should …
…….. F. What are some of the other criteria?
…….. G. Very few,dear. When you were married to a man, ỵou had to obey the man as well as hisfamily. You didn’t have a voice in the decision making.
…….. H. I am too.
The right order is:………………………………
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