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VOCABULARY:
Word Pronunciation Meaning
catch (v) /kætʃ/ đánh được, câu được (cá)
cattle (n) /ˈkætl/ gia súc
combine harvester /ˈkɒmbaɪn ˈhɑːvɪstə/ máy gặt đập liên hợp
crop (n) /krɒp/ vụ, mùa
cultivate (v) /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ trồng trọt
dry (v) /draɪ/ phơi khô, sấy khô
feed (v) /fːd/ cho ăn
ferry (n) /ˈferi/ phà
harvest (n, v) /ˈhɑːvɪst/ vụ thu hoạch,gặt hái, thu hoạch
herd (v) /hɜːd/ chăn giữ vật nuôi
hospitable (adj) /ˈ /hɒˈspɪtəbl/ mến khách, hiếu khách
lighthouse (n) /ˈlaɪthaʊs/ đèn biển, hải đăng
load (v) /ləʊd/ chất, chở
milk (v) /mɪlk/ vắt sữa
orchard (n) /ˈɔːtʃəd/ vườn cây ăn quả
paddy field (n) /ˈpædi ˌfːld/ ruộng lúa
picturesque (adj) /ˌpɪktʃəˈresk/ đẹp, hấp dẫn (phong cảnh)
plough (v) /plaʊ/ cày (thửa ruộng)
speciality (n) /ˌspeʃiˈæləti/ đặc sản
stretch (v) /stretʃ/ kéo dài ra
unload (v) /ˌʌnˈləʊd/ dỡ hàng
vast (adj) /vɑːst/ rộng lớn, mênh mông, bao la
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.
II. COMPARATIVE FORM OF ADJECTIVE AND ADVERBS
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

Exercise 1: 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.
7. The sun is shining bright / brightly through the trees.
8. Don’t talk so fast / fastly– I can’t understand what you’re saying.
9. We all find living in the city very stressful / stressfully.
10. Cattle usually cross over the road. You should drive more careful / more carefully.
11. Life in some parts of the country is boring / more boring than that in other parts.
12. The old usually get up earlier / early than the young.
13. After a hard working day, you may sleep soundlier / more soundly than usual.
14. The bus runs frequent / more frequently than the train everyday.
15. I can’t understand. Would you ask him to speak clearlier / more clearly?
Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the comparative forms of the adverbs in brackets.
1. Horses can run _________ (fast) than buffalos.
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 ________ ( hard) than others.
4. Girls normally become mature________ (early) than boys.
5. My sister speaks English much _______ (fluently ) than I do.
6. Every morning Nick gets up ten minutes (early) _________ than his sister.
7. I speak French (fluently) _________ now than I did last year.
8. You'll find your way around the village (easily) _________ if you have a good map.
9. It rained ( heavily) _________ today than it did yesterday.
10. If you work ( hard) _________ , you will do (well) _________ in your exam.
11. People in the city seem to react ( quickly) ____ to changes than those in the country.
12. We need to work ( hard ) _________ , especially at exam time.
13. You must finish harvesting the rice ( early) ____ this year than you did last year.
14. As they climbed ( high) _________ up the mountain, the air became cooler.
15. Life here seems to move ( slowly) _________ than in cities
Exercise 3. Complete each of the sentences with a suitable word or phrase from the box.
picturesque, unloaded, cattle, fruit, crops, catching, vast, well-trained, surrounded,
hospitable

1. We helped the farmers herd ________ .

2. They are helping their parents pick __________ in the orchard.
3. At harvest time farmers are busy cutting and collecting _________ .
4. The driver ___________ the rice from the back of the truck.
5. People here live by __________ fish from nearby lakes and ponds.
6. The lake is ____________ by a lot of trees.
7. The local people are kind and _________ to visitors.
8. Our factory needs a lot of _________ workers.
Exercise 4: Choose the correct answer (adjective or adverb) to complete the sentences.
1. Horses, mountain bikes and feet work ________ on grasslands. (good/ well)
2. Agriculture is still based on ________ methods in some countries. (traditional/ traditionally)
3. The ________ populated provinces present a different economic picture. (dense/ densely)
4. He is very ________ . He often buys things for other people. (generous/ generously)
5. The village is ________ situated in a quiet spot near the river. (beautiful/ beautifully)
6. Our house is very central, so we can ________ get to theatres and cinemas. (easy/ easily)
7. Children in the countryside play (more freely / freely) than those in the city.
8. She ________ ran down the stairs to greet her cousins. (excited/ excitedly)
9. The Thompson left their homeland and looked for a ________ place to stay. (permanent/
permanently)
10. Some reporters spoke ________ about rural development. (optimistic/ optimistically)
Exercise 5. Complete the sentence with the words in the box.
boring nomadic hard peaceful colourful
vast slow inconvenient brave friendly
1. Life in the city is fast but life in the countryside is _______slow_______.
2. The old city around the cathedral is the most _______colorful_______ part of town.
3. Our neighbors have always been very _____friendly_________.
4. I’m sure that people are _________hard_____ to strangers in my village.
5. My father is a ____brave__________ soldier.
6. The film was so __boring____________ that I fell asleep.
7. It will be very _______inconvenient_______for me to have no car.
8. The _______vast_______ majority of pupils attend state-funded schools here.
9. She hoped the different ethnic groups in the area could live together in ______peaceful________
co-existence.
10. A ____nomadic__________ life is hard but interesting.
Exercise 6. Fill each blank with a word/phrase in the box.
busiest time herding noisier buffalo buffalo-drawn carts
colorful rice fantastic countryside harvest time
1. At the ______________, my brother always helps my parents load the rice onto the truck and
drives it home.
2. I often help my parents dry the ______________ in the yard in front of my house.
3. Some farmers in my village still use ______________ to transport rice home.
4. He usually goes ______________ the buffaloes with other boys in his village.
5. My pen pal says he would like to visit my ______________ at harvest time to see what farmers
do.
6. My friend has never ridden a ______________ so he would like to try once.
7. Harvest time is the ______________ of the year in the countryside.
8. Our garden is ______________ in spring when almost flowers bloom.
9. I like looking at the stars on starry nights. It's ______________.
10. My uncle lives in the city. He says it’s ______________ than my village.
Exercise 7: 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
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.
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 passge?
A. The English countryside.
B. Advantages of the countryside.
C. Things in an English village.
D. Summer holidays in England.
Exercise 8: : Read the passage and choose the best answer to the questions
Life is changing rapidly in the large cities of England. However, life in other areas remains much
the (1) ____________ as it has been for centuries. Factories have brought huge population
increases to the cities, and city life boomed.
City residents have discovered a new (2) ____________ of life, but in country villages the
traditional lifestyle has remained nearly (3) ____________. There have been a few changes,
particularly the new steam-powered machinery. It made farm production more (4) ____________.
But for the people who remain in the countryside, daily life continues much as it had before the (5)
____________ revolution. Life in country villages continues to (6) ____________ at a slow pace.
The daily schedule depends on the times that the sun rose and set and on the weather. In a typical
village, the (7) ____________ number of workers is still employed in agriculture or in domestic
service. A smaller number of people work in various trades. Even (8) ____________ work in the
professions.
1. A. similar B. same C. different D. both A & B
2. A. method B. walk C. way D. path
3. A. changeful B. changeable C. unchanged D. Change
4. A. efficient B. efficiently C. efficiency D. inefficient
5. A. Industry B. Industrial C. Industrialize D. Industrialized
6. A. run B. walk C. move D. drive
7. A. largest B. biggest C. highest D. all are correct
8. A. more B. less C. few D. fewer