Tiếng Anh 8 i-Learn Smart World_Unit 8
Time allotted: 45
PART LISTENING
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I come from a group which lives in the mountains in the north of the country. The village people wear very simple clothes for
normal days, but when there are festivals, they bring out really beautiful traditional clothes with lots of bright colors and
embroidery.
I go back to my village every summer to stay for two weeks with my grandparents, and they often do something which surprises
me. I ask them, ‘Why are you doing that?’ and they always say the same thing. ‘It’s the custom.’ I don’t understand! Of course, I
live in the capital now, and even people from my ethnic group do not have all these old customs anymore.
My grandparents always give me a gift for my parents. It’s usually a beautiful piece of cloth. All the women of the villages in the
mountains make bright cloth for skirts and headscarves. My grandmother also cooks something special for me to take back to the
capital. She always asks me what I want, and I can never choose. All the ethnic cooking is wonderful, but it takes ages!
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