B. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
1. Check (P)the words that go with the word given.
1. ______ religious ______ flower ______ film ______ cultural ______ Christmas ______ visitor | FESTIVAL |
2. ______ noon ______ afternoon ______ Christmas ______ evening ______ Thanksgiving ______ Tet | AT |
3. ______ Hoi Mua festival ______ ancestors ______ harvests ______ Tet ______ performances ______ New Year | CELEBRATE |
4. ______ Halloween ______ performance ______ samba ______ Christmas ______ fireworks ______ military | PARADE |
5. ______ hold ______have ______ do ______ attend ______ perform ______celebrate | A FESTIVAL |
2. Put in the correct form of the word in brackets.
0. There are many ____ cultural ____ events at the site of the festival. (culture)
1. A Japanese music band will be ________ live at the festival. (perform)
2. The Sakura Festival in Palmerston North, New Zealand was one of the most vibrant ________ I have ever seen. (event)
3. Dalat is a ________city with many places of interest. (romance)
4. The whole family showed up for our anniversary ________. (CELEBRATE)
5. ________ were well under way for the festival. (PREPARE)
6. Hue Festival is ________ every two years. (HOLD)
7. You can watch many dance ________ during the festival. (perform)
8. About 2,000 foreign tourists ________ the event last year. (ATTEND)
9. We can always feel the ________ atmosphere even ten days before the event. ( FESTIVAL)
10. Parents bring up their children in accordance with their own ________. (TRADITIONAL)
3. Choose the correct word ( A, B, C or D ) to complete each sentence.
1. At Thanksgiving, families and friends in the United States ________ together for special meals, typically with turkey pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce.
A. hold | B. do | C. have | D. get |
2. ________ be home until Monday next week?
A. will | B. won’t | C. shall | D. can |
3. Did you ________ yourself when you were attending the festival last week?
A. enjoy | B. like | C. make | D. prefer |
4. The local people in my village used to ________ a great feast at harvest time.
A. turn | B. do | C. talk | D. hold |
5. At the festival, people threw tomatoes ________ each other and had great fun.
6. Come to the ________ festival tomorrow to see how the rice harvest is celebrated this summer.
A. occasional | B. seasonal | C. typical | D. timely |
7. The Edinburgh Festival, ________ is held every summer, usually in August in Edinburgh, Scotland, includes a series of arts and cultural events.
A. what | B. where | C. which | D. it |
8. Wrestling Festival at Sinh Village, Phu Mau commune, Thua Thien Province, is held on the tenth day of Tet to ________ the new year with wishes for well-being and prosperity.
A. see | B. welcome | C. become | D. wait |
9. The Rio Carnival, the biggest carnival in the world, is famous ________ its floats adornments and samba performances.
4. Match the wh-question words to the phrases/ sentences given.
What Which one Whose | When Why How often | Who How long How | Where How much |
0. __When__ 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. ____ 6. ____ 7. ____ 8. ____ 9. ____ 10. ____ | In July. Mine. It takes about 5 minutes to walk there. My maths teacher. This one, please. In New York. Because I want to improve my English. A raincoat. Every two weeks. Twenty collars. By bus. |
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