ĐỀ CƯƠNG ÔN TẬP GIỮA HỌC KỲ I

Trường THCS Nguyễn Lương Bằng, TP Đà Nẵng, 2025 - 2026

A. VOCABULARY:

Unit 1: Leisure activities

Unit 2: Life in the countryside

Unit 3: Teenagers

B. GRAMMAR:

Unit 1: Verbs of liking + gerunds/ to- infinitives / Clusters: /u / and /u: / 

Unit 2: Comparative forms of adjectives /adverbs / Clusters: /ə / and /I / 

Unit 3: simple sentences and compound sentences. Clusters: /uǝ / and /ɔɪ / 

C. SKILLS: Listening, Reading and Writing

D. EXERCISES FOR REFERENCE:

I. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence or do as directed. 

1. I usually water the trees and flowers around my house in my ______ time.

A. harvest     B. leisure   C. busy

2. My friends like _______ DIY because it saves money and increases creativity.

A. doing     B. making     C. playing

3. Sam is keen on______ out. I never see him at home.

A. going     B. to go     C. go

4. Nick enjoys ________ the net when he's at home.

A. surfing      B. to surf       C. surfs

5. Nam helped his parents ________ the rice onto the truck.

A. collect      B. load      C. dry

6. Sky is______ here in the countryside because there are no buildings to block the view.

A. tidy       B. close           C. vast

7. Look! The children are______ the buffaloes in the fields.

A. picking     B. driving     C.herding

8. You have to work ______ if you want to get good marks.

A. hard      B. harder      C. hardest

9. She did the puzzles ______ than I did, so I won the competition.

A. more slowly      B. slowly     C. slow

10. Nowadays, the students are crazy _____ social media.

A. onto     B. about      C. with

11. Anna: Would you like to go to the Sport Club with me, Tom? - Tom: ______

A. No, I don't.       B. Yes, I do.       C. I'd love to. Thanks.

12. ______ time should you spend on daily exercise? - At least an hour. 

A. How long      B. How much      C. How many

13. Your house is_______ decorated than mine.

A. more beautiful.      B. more beautifully.     C. beautifully.

14. Stay away from him. He's a big _______ at our school.

A. pressure     B. website      C. bully

15. You can work in groups, _______ you can work in pairs.

A. however       B. or     C. but

16. He often ________ with some old friends at the English Club.

A. meets      B. connects      C. sees

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently:

17. A. woman       B. school    C. group 

18. A. surprise      B. focus      C. ensure

Choose the word that has the different stress pattern:

19. A. balance    B. language     C. guitar

20. A. picturesque    B. computer     C. imagine

II. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets to complete each sentence. 

1. Teenagers are often very active and ___________ (TALK) 

2. My sister doesn't like surfing the Internet, she says it is ________ (BORE)

3.Skateboarding is also one of the most_______ sports of the teenagers nowadays. (POPULARITY)

4. I rarely use ________ media, and I like going out at the weekend. (SOCIETY)

5. Some people say that the country is more _______ for the people who are retired. (SUIT)

6. She was chatting with her friends, so she couldn't _________ on the lesson. (CONCENTRATION)

7. Sylvia likes the_______ atmosphere during her stay in the conuntryside. (PEACE)

8. It's really __________ to prepare for the midterm tests.  (STRESS) 

9. He failed on his exam because of his bad __________ (PREPARE) 

10._________ the rice is much harder than drying the rice.(HARVEST)

11. The farmers live by__________ rice in the fields.(CULTIVATE)

12. People in my country are very warm and _________ (FRIEND)

13.We will start a __________ in the school forum about learning English this Friday. (DISCUSS)

14. The baby slept ___________ because the bed was really comfortable. (SOUND) 

15. Don't ___________ me. I'm far away, and I will come back home soon. (EXPECTION)

III. Complete each sentence with the correct tense or form of the verb in brackets.

1. My brother fancies __________ (play) with his toys.

2. Miss Linda ____________ (not enjoy / chat) in her free time.

3. ________ you _________ (go) to the cinema last night?

4/ She dislikes__________ (watch) the news on T.V

5. My sister is keen on _________ (cook). She wants to become a chef in the future.

6/ I_____________ (be) ill last week.

7/________ she ___________ (hate) to be late for appointments? 

8/ Lan prefers__________ (walk) to jogging for her exercise.

9/ We___________ (not like / eat) outside when the weather is wet and cold. 

10/ When________ you_________ (buy) the car? -I_________ (buy) it few years ago

11/ The sun________ (rise) in the east and_________ (set) in the west.

12/ I really love_________ (sit) on the beach all day.

13/________ your father love________ (watch) international football matches?

14/ Mr Tony __________ (learn) Vietnamese 5 years ago.

15/ Look over there. The cloud____________________(fly) on the sky.

IV. Write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, or do as directed. 

A. Rewrite this sentence:

1. I love to watch the news on T.V every evening. (using: gerund)

……………………………………….

2 The buses run every 15 minutes. The trains run every 30 minutes. (using comparative form with "frequently")

3. My English is more fluent than my sister's. 

I speak English ……………………………..

4. My mother has a headache. My mother is going to the doctor. (Make a compound sentence) 

……………………………………….

B. Ordering:

1. sometimes / go / I / herding / the pasture / the buffaloes / in /. /

……………………………………….

2. his / to / Nam / do / the / does / in / leisure / hate /time /? / chores / 

……………………………………….

3. however / it / decided / was / heavily / he / to / to / the / field / raining / go /. /

……………………………………….

C. Make question for the underlined words:

1. My mother likes making crafts in her leisure time.

……………………………………….

2. Tuan often uses Messenger to contact with his friends.

……………………………………….

3. Last week, I and my friends went to the village to herd the buffaloes and cows.

……………………………………….

D. Make sentence with the given words:

1. Nam / be / interested / play / sports / therefore / he / join / sports club.

……………………………………….

2. Mai / not like / read / picture books, she/ prefer / read / novels.

……………………………………….

3. My mother / not be / crazy about / chat / the neighbors.

……………………………………….

4. Last year / Linh / go / to Paris / but / she / not find / any jobs.

……………………………………….

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