UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

A. VOCABULARY
Word Pronunciation Meaning
1 catch (v) /kætʃ/ đánh được, câu được (cá)
2 cattle (n) /ˈkætl/ gia súc
3 combine harvester /ˈkɒmbaɪn ˈhɑːvɪstə/ máy gặt đập liên hợp
4 crop (n) /krɒp/ vụ, mùa
5 cultivate (v) /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ trồng trọt
6 dry (v) /draɪ/ phơi khô, sấy khô
7 feed (v) /fːd/ cho ăn
8 ferry (n) /ˈferi/ phà
9 harvest (n, v) /ˈhɑːvɪst/ vụ thu hoạch,gặt hái, thu hoạch
10 herd (v) /hɜːd/ chăn giữ vật nuôi
11 hospitable (adj) /ˈ /hɒˈspɪtəbl/ mến khách, hiếu khách
12 lighthouse (n) /ˈlaɪthaʊs/ đèn biển, hải đăng
13 load (v) /ləʊd/ chất, chở
14 milk (v) /mɪlk/ vắt sữa
15 orchard (n) /ˈɔːtʃəd/ vườn cây ăn quả
16 paddy field (n) /ˈpædi ˌfːld/ ruộng lúa
17 picturesque (adj) /ˌpɪktʃəˈresk/ đẹp, hấp dẫn (phong cảnh)
18 plough (v) /plaʊ/ cày (thửa ruộng)
19 speciality (n) /ˌspeʃiˈæləti/ đặc sản
20 stretch (v) /stretʃ/ kéo dài ra
21 unload (v) /ˌʌnˈləʊd/ dỡ hàng
22 vast (adj) /vɑːst/ rộng lớn, mênh mông, bao la
23 well-trained (adj) /ˌwel ˈtreɪnd/ lành nghề, có tay nghề

II. GRAMMAR: Comparisons of adverbs (Cấp so sánh trạng từ)

1. Adverbs: Trạng từ là loại từ bổ nghĩa cho động từ và miêu tả cách thức của một hành động
diễn ra như thế nào (How).
Eg:: - He drives carefully. (How does he drive?)
* Tương tự như với tính từ, trạng từ chia thành 2 loại: Trạng từ ngắn và trạng từ dài
1.1. Trạng từ ngắn (Short adverbs): - Là những trạng từ có một âm tiết (one syllable)
Eg:: hard, fast, late, far, early, soon …
- She runs fast.
1.2. Trạng từ dài (Long adverbs): Là những trạng từ có 2 âm tiết trở lên (two syllable).
+ Là những trạng từ có đuôi + ly:
Eg:: slowly, carefully, quickly, interestingly,…
- My father drives carefully.
Comparative form of adjective and adverbs

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1. Comparative adjectives (So sánh hơn của tính từ )
Ta sử dụng So sánh hơn của tính từ (Comparative adjectives) để so sánh giữa 2 người (hoặc 2
vật) với nhau . Cấu trúc của câu so sánh hơn
Short Adj: S + be + adj + er + than + Noun/ Pronoun
Long Adj: S + be + more + adj + than + Noun/ Pronoun
Eg: - She is taller than her mother.
+ He is more intelligent than I (am).
2. Comparative adverbs (So sánh hơn với trạng từ):

Short Adv: S + V + adv + er + than + Noun/ Pronoun

Long Adv: S + V + more/ less + adv + than + Noun/ Pronoun
Eg:
- They work harder than I do/ me. (Họ làm việc chăm chỉ hơn tôi.)
- A horse can run faster than a buffalo. (Ngựa có thể chạy nhanh hơn trâu. )
- Mai dances more beautifully than Hoa does. ( Mai nhảy đẹp hơn Hoa.)
- My friend did the test more carefully than I did / me.
(Bạn tôi làm bài kiểm tra cẩn thận hơn tôi.)
3. Cách cấu tạo Trạng từ ngắn và Trạng từ dài.
* Tương tự như tính từ, với các trạng từ có hai hoặc nhiều âm tiết, ta thêm more trước trạng
từ cho so sánh hơn hoặc (the) most trước trạng từ cho so sánh nhất.

Trạng từ So sánh hơn So sánh nhất

carefully more carefully most carefully
slowly more slowly most slowly
quickly more quickly most quickly

* Với các trạng từ có một âm tiết, ta thêm + er với so sánh hơn hoặc + est với so sánh nhất.
Nếu trạng từ loại này tận cùng là y, bạn biến y thành i rồi sau đó thêm er hoặc est.

Trạng từ So sánh hơn So sánh nhất

hard harder hardest
early earlier earliest
fast faster fastest

* Một số trạng từ bất qui tắc:

Trạng từ So sánh hơn So sánh nhất
well better best
badly worse worst
late later latest
little less least
much more most
far farther/ further farthest/ furthest

B. PRACTICE EXERCISES

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A. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR.
Exercise 1: Write the activities from the box under the correct pictures

feeding pigs, unloading rice, drying rice, ploughing a field, catching fish
milking cows, harvesting crops, loading rice

drying rice unloading rice ploughing a field feeding pigs

catching fish milking cows harvesting crops loading rice

Exercise 2: Cho dạng so sánh hơn của các trạng từ trong bảng sau:

Trạng từ So sánh hơn Trạng từ So sánh hơn

long longer than more happily than
high higher than more smartly than
early earlier than more fluently than
late later than more heavily than
fast faster than more clearly than
early earlier than more carefully than
much more than more quickly than
well better than more soundly than
badly worse than more beautifully than
little less than more skillfully than
Exercise 3. Complete each of the sentences with a suitable word or phrase from the box.
[Link]ếu
picturesque, unloaded, cattle, fruit, crops, catching, vast,
well - trained, surrounded, hospitable
2.Băng
[Link]êm
1. We helped the farmers herd ________
cattle . [Link]ên
2. They are helping their parents pick __________
fruit in the orchard. [Link]
3. At harvest time farmers are busy cutting and collecting _________
crops . [Link]ư
unloaded the rice from the back of the truck.
4. The driver ___________ [Link]
5. People here live by __________
catching fish from nearby lakes and ponds. [Link]ệt
6. The lake is ____________
surrounded by a lot of trees. [Link]
7. The local people are kind and hospitable
_________ to visitors.
[Link]
8. Our factory needs a lot ofwell-trained
_________ workers. picturesque
9. While travelling up the mountain, people always stop and take photos of the _____ scenery.
10. The Sahara is a _________
vast desert that covers parts of eleven countries in northern Africa.

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Exercise 4: Underline the correct form of the word.
1. It usually rains heavier / more heavily in my country than in yours.
2. People in the countryside work harder / more hard than those in the city.
3. Nowadays children adapt more quickly / quicklier to technical developments
than their parents.
4. I think countryside dwellers live happier / more happily than city dwellers.
5. This morning, the farmers in my village got up more early/ earlier than usual.
6. The children are playing quiet / quietly in the garden. Hiếu
7. The sun is shining bright / brightly through the trees. Như
8. Don’t talk so fast / fastly – I can’t understand what you’re saying. Phạm Trâm
9. We all find living in the city very stressful / stressfully. Hà Trâm
10. Cattle usually cross over the road. You should drive more careful / more [Link]ên
11. Life in some parts of the country is boring / more boring than that in other [Link]êm
12. The old usually get up earlier / early than the young. Hà My
13. After a hard working day, you may sleep soundlier / more soundly than usual. Băng
14. The bus runs frequent / more frequently than the train everyday. Thầy Thắng
15. I can’t understand. Would you ask him to speak clearlier / more clearly? Thầy Thắng
Exercise 5: Complete the sentences with the comparative forms of the adverbs in
brackets.
1. Horses can run _________
faster (fast) than buffalos.
more carefully
2. You made the same mistake again. You should check your paper_______ (carefully)
before handing it in.
3. All these students are good, but some work ________
harder ( hard) than others.
4. Girls normally become mature________
earlier (early) than boys.
5. My sister speaks English much _______ (fluently ) than I do.
more fluently
6. Every morning Nick gets up ten minutes (early) _________
earlier than his sister.
7. I speak French (fluently)
more_________
fluently now than I did last year.
8. You'll find your way around the village (easily)
more _________
easily if you have a good map.
9. It rained ( heavily) _________ today than it did yesterday.
more heavily
10. If you work ( hard) _________
harder , you will do (well) _________
better in your exam.
11. People in the city seem to react (more
quickly) ____ to changes than those in the country.
quickly
12. We need to work ( hard ) _________
harder , especially at exam time.
13. You must finish harvesting the rice ( early)
earlier____ this year than you did last year.
14. As they climbed ( high) _________
higher up the mountain, the air became cooler.
15. Life here seems to move ( slowly)more _________
slowlythan in cities
Exercise 6: Choose the correct answer (adjective or adverb) to complete the sentences.
1. Horses, mountain bikes and feet work ________ on grasslands. (good/ well) HTBT
2. Agriculture is still based on ________ methods in some countries. (traditional/ traditionally) My
3. The ________ populated provinces present a different economic picture. (dense/ densely) PBT
4. He is very ________ . He often buys things for other people. (generous/ generously) Nguyên
5. The village is ________ situated in a quiet spot near the river. (beautiful/ beautifully) Hiếu
6. Our house is very central, so we can ________ get to theatres and cinemas. (easy/ easily) Băng
7. Children in the countryside play (more freely / freely) than those in the city. Như
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 8. She ________ ran down the stairs to greet her cousins. (excited/ excitedly) Khiêm
9. The Thompson left their homeland and looked for a ________ place to stay. (permanent/
permanently)
10. Some reporters spoke ________ about rural development. (optimistic/ optimistically)

B. READING
I. Read the following passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D that best fits each
of the numbered blanks
MY VILLAGE
I live in a village by Mekong River. Every day, like most of my friends, I walk to school.
It is three kilometers away. After class, I often (1)_________ my mother to collect water from
the river and (2)_________ the chickens. At the weekend, the villagers often gather at the
community hall where there is a TV. The adults watch TV, (3)_________ more often they talk
about their farm work and exchange news. The children run around, playing games and
shouting (4)_________ . Laughter is heard everywhere.
My father sometimes takes me to the market town nearby where he sells our home
(5)________ like vegetables, fruits, eggs… He then buys me an ice cream and lets me take a
ride on the electric train in the town square. I love those trips.
On starry nights, Children lie on the grass, looking at the sky and daring each other to find
the Milky Way. We dream of faraway places.
[Link]ư 1. A. watch B. help C. play D. live
2.Băng 2. A. herd B. drink C. feed D. eat
[Link] 3. A. and B. because C. so D. but
[Link]ên 4. A. merrily B. happy C. well D. carefully
[Link]êm
5. A. farm B. products C. television D. living room
II. Read the passage and choose the best answer to the questions.
The country is more beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people think
so, and go to the country for the summer holidays though they cannot live there all the year
round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find
the time.
English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from one
another. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen
from many miles around. Surrounding the church is the church yard, where people are buried.
The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are built round it.
Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have running water brought through
pipes into each house. Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there
to buy what they can’t find in the village shops.
1. When do city people often go to the country?
A. At the weekends. B. All the year round.
C. At Christmas. D. The summer holidays.
2. What is the advantage of city people when they have a cottage built in the village?
A. They can have their houses rented.

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Hiếu
Hà My
 B. They can go to the country at weekends.
C. They can go to the country whenever they can find the time.
D. All are correct.
3. What is NOT mentioned in the life of English villages?
A. The village green B. The church C. Running water D. The Internet
4. What can villagers do when their villages are close to small towns?
A. They can go there to buy whatever they want.
B. They can go there to buy cheaper things.
C. They can go there to buy what is not found in the village shops.
D. They can go there to buy luxury goods.
5. What is the best tittle for the passage?
A. The English countryside.
B. Advantages of the countryside.
C. Things in an English village.
D. Summer holidays in England.

C. WRITING
I. Making up sentences using the words and phrase given.
Example: countryside/ children/ play/ more/ freely/ city.
 In the countryside, children play more freely than in the city.
1. Can/ you/ speak/ more/ slowly/ so/ I / can/ understand/ you?
,
 ____________________________________________________ .
2. Tet/ our house/ beautifully/ decorated/ than/ during/ year/.
 At Tet, our house is more beautifully decorated than
____________________________________________________ . during year.
3. People/friendly and hospitable./ are / in my village
 ____________________________________________________
People in my village are friendly and hospitable. .
4. They/ and raise cattle./ grow/ cultivate rice,/ vegetables,
 ____________________________________________________
They grow vegetables, cultivate rice and raise cattle. .
5. Many / in the orchards. / families/ by growing fruit trees/ live
 Many families live by growing fruit trees in the orchards.
____________________________________________________ .
6. is / comfortable/ for children./ Life /very / in the village
Life in the village is very comfortable for children. .
____________________________________________________
7. nowadays/ more/ villagers/ use/ cars or motorcycles/ for/ transport/ instead/ riding/ a horse/
or/ walking/.
 ________________________________________________________________________
their of .
8. Thanks/ TV and Internet/ people/ my/ village/ have/ more/ fun/ and/ know/ more/ about/ life/
outside/ village/.
, outside the village .
 ________________________________________________________________________
to in
II. Complete the sentences with suitable forms of the adverbs given in the brackets.
1. I am faster worker than Tom is. (fast)
1.Hà Trâm
 I work faster
___________________________________________________________
than Tom does. .
[Link]ếu
2. Jack’s car cannot run as fast as Tom’s car. (faster)
[Link]êm
 Tom’s car can run faster than Jack's car can. [Link]ên
___________________________________________________ .
3. Mai’s singing is more beautiful than Mi’s. (beautifully)
 Mai sing s___________________________________________________________
more beautifully than Mi does. .
4. I can’t cook as well as my mother .
better than me.
My mother can cook __________________________________________________ .
better than I can. 6
 My mother can cook __________________________________________________ .
5 . Phong is a faster swimmer than Phuc. (fast)
 Phong swims ______________________________________________________
faster than Phuc. .
6. Nick is a careful writer than Phuc. (carefully)
 Nick writes essays ____________________________________________________
more carefully than Phuc. .
7. Tom works hard, but Mi didn’t . Therefore, he got better results in the exams. (hard)
 Tom works ___________________________________________________________
harder than Mi. .
8. Living in the countryside is not as convenient as living in the city.(than)
 Living in the city ______________________________________________________
is more convenient than living in the countryside. .
9. My English is more fluent than my sister’s. (fluently) [Link]
 I speak English _______________________________________________________
more fluently than my sister. [Link]ạm Trâm.
[Link]ệt
[Link] cousin is a better singer than I am. (well)
[Link]ư
 My cousin sings _______________________________________________________
better than me. 9.Băng .
III. Write complete comparative sentences with the cues given. 10.Hà My
1. His farm/ big/ other farms/ neighbourhood
___________________________________________________________ [Link]ên
is bigger than in our 2.Hà Trâm
2. Today/ he/ behave/ less/ responsibly/ he/ used to
[Link]êm
________________________________________________________________
s than 4.Hà My
3. The problem/ traffic jams/ in/ city/ become/ bad/ ever [Link]ếu
_________________________________________________________________
of the is becoming worse than [Link]ư
4. My homework/ be/ all right,/ but/I/ could do/ well/ that [Link]ệt
was
___________________________________________________________________
better than 8.Băng
5. people/ live/ healthily/ rural areas/ in/ cities? [Link]
Do more than [Link]ạm Trâm
__________________________________________________________________?
in
6. Yesterday/ Thomas/ arrive/ at school/ early/ other students
___________________________________________________________________
d earlier than
7. I/ can/ fly a kite/ easily/ on / farm/ many other places
_________________________________________________________________
more the than
8. Our village/ be/ much/ less/ densely populated/ your city
__________________________________________________________________
is than

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