Eden: What are you doing?

Anna: I ___________ (collect) all my old clothes to donate to homeless people.

Fill each blank with the present simple, present continuous or past simple form of the verb in brackets.       

1. Instead of going to the gym, I often ___________ (do) yoga in the morning.

Nancy’s uncle works at a big art gallery in France. His main duty is to look (1) ___________ many valuable paintings of famous artists, so he needs to be patient and careful all the time. Every day he checks the maintenance of those (2) ___________ of art and writes a report to the manager. (3) ___________ he has a wide knowledge of both modern art and folk art, he can explain everything about the paintings in the gallery to Nancy impressively. Each time Nancy visits the gallery, her uncle always enthusiastically (4) ___________ her the new paintings that the owner of the gallery has bought. She admires her uncle greatly, and those visits help develop her passion for art (5) ___________ by day.

Read the passage. Circle the best answer A, B, or C to each of the questions.

Jenny and Sarah are practising singing a Vietnamese folk song to take part in a singing contest only for foreign students who are studying in schools in Ho Chi Minh City. Their song is Hoa thom buom luon. It has a beautiful melody, but they find it challenging because the lyrics are difficult for them to pronounce. With the help of Miss Thanh, their Vietnamese tutor, their performance is improving significantly. Besides singing, they also have to practise a traditional dance in order to impress the judges and the audience. Although the dance is not as difficult as the song, they still rehearse very hard. With a lot of efforts, both girls hope they will have a great performance and win the contest.

1. Who can compete in the singing contest?

Choose the word with a different way of pronunciation in the underlined part. Circle A, B, or C.

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. music / school, / compulsory / English / and / In / are / subjects / Lan’s /.

She admires her uncle greatly, and those visits help develop her passion for art (5) ___________ by day.

How is the traditional dance when compared to the song?