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👉 A CLOSER LOOK 2
Grammar
Yes / No and Wh-questions
- Change the sentences into Yes / No questions.
Example: The farmers are harvesting their crops in the fields.
→ Are the farmers harvesting their crops in the fields.
1. Women play an important role in a Jrai family.
→ _________________________________________________?
2. Mua sap is a popular folk dance of the Thai people.
→ _________________________________________________?
3. We didn’t have boarding shools for minority student in 1950.
→ _________________________________________________?
4. I attended the Ban Flower Festival in Dien Bien last year.
→ _________________________________________________?
5. We will watch a documentary about the Khmer.
→ _________________________________________________? - Choose the correct question word for each question below.
1. A: _ do you like best about Sa Pa?
B: I like local markets best.
A. Why B. What
2. A: _____ can we find the most beautiful terraced fields?
B: In Mu Cang Chai.
A. When B. Where
3. A: _____ is the Ban Flower Festival?
B: It’s in spring.
A. When B. Why
4. A: _____ tall is an average stilt house?
B: About 5-6 meters tall.
A. How B. What
5. A: _____ festival is more important for the Kinh: the Mid-Autumn or the Lunar New Year?
B: The Lunar New Year.
A. What B. Which - Write C (countable) or U (uncountable) for the underlined words.
Some minority (1)groups are farmers. 1. _________
They do not have much (2)land and they use 2. _________
simple farming techniques. After finding an (3)area 3. _________
for a garden, the men cut the (4)trees down and 4. _________
burn them. The (5)ash they collect helps enrich 5. _________
the soil. They then grow a few (6)crops like rice 6. __________
and corn. When the (7)soil becomes poor, 7. _________
they move to a new (8)place. 8. _________ - Fill in each blank with a, much, many, a little, or a few.
1. My uncle has _____ coffee plantation in Kon Tum.
2. How _____ ethnic groups live on the Hoang Lien Son mountain range?
3. There are only _____ waterwheels left in my village.
4. You should add _____ more water to your noodles. It’s a bit dry.
5. How _ information about the Van Kieu have you collected? - GAME Word games
Work in groups. Think of six nouns related to each of the topics below, in which three nouns are countable and three nouns are uncountable. The group that comes up with the correct six words first wins.
- Leisure time
- Living in the mountains
