ĐỀ CƯƠNG ÔN TẬP GIỮA HỌC KỲ II

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

A. VOCABULARY:

Unit 7: Environmental protection: carbon footprint, habitat …

Unit 8: Shopping: open-air market, bargain, home-made...

Unit 9: Natural disasters: types of natural disasters ...

B. GRAMMAR:

Unit 7: Complex sentences with adverb clauses of time, Unit 8: Adverbs of frequency, present simple for future events; Unit 9: Past continuous.

C. SKILLS: Listening, Reading and Writing

- Listening: Listen and choose the word you hear to complete each sentence; Listen again and fill in each blank with ONE word you hear.

- Reading: Complete a passage with the words given; Read and answer questions

- Writing: Rewrite sentences/Transformation; Rearrange the words to make a complete sentence; Write a complete sentence from the words given; Make a question for the underlined words

D. EXERCISES FOR REFERENCE:

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

1. Last night, the Maui volcano ________ and the large areas of land were affected.

A. erupted     B. erupt      C. erupts      D. erupting

2. The earthquake left many ________ trapped under the broken stones and awaiting rescue.

A. victims     B. elders      C. rescuers     D. patients

3. You can ________ bargain at a supermarket because the prices are fixed.

A. never      B. often    C. always     D. usually

4. All our fruit comes from the farmers' ______

A. clothes     B. buyers     C. dollar store      D. market

5. They're offering a 10% ________ on all sofas this month.

A. discount     B. bargain      C. price       D. display

6. I am going to wait right here until Jessica ________

A. comes     B. will have come    C. is coming      D. came

7. Today more than 1 billion people participate ________ Earth Day activities each year.

A. on    B. in    C. of     D. to

8. We saw many beautiful birds while we _______ in the lake.

A. finished      B. would fish      C. were fishing     D. finish

9. Shopping at a shopping centre is _______. It has almost everything you want there.  

A. difficult     B. cheap    C. convenient    D. expensive

10. Andrea lives next door, so we _______ see her.

A. never    B. often    C. rarely    D. sometimes

11. _______ from other states came to Oklahoma to help find the survivors.

A. Scientists      B. Victims     C. Rescue workers     D. Engineers 

12. A/ An ______ may be a whole forest, or a small pond, and it can be any size.

A. ecosystem    B. habitat     C. pollution     D. oxygen

13. I had no idea about the dangers of tsunami ________ I saw the film.

A. as soon as     B. while    C. until       D. whenever

14. There are mainly two _______ of water pollution: man -made and natural.

A. ways     B. results    C. reasons   D. sources

15. This salad is made of _______ vegetables.

A. home-grown      B. home-made     C. hand-made      D. hand-craft

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently: 

16. A. potential      B. cultural     C. national      D. musical

Choose the word that has the different stress pattern:

17. A. marvelous      B. ambitious    C. generous     D. dangerous

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

1. We had left the city __________ before the storm came. (SAFETY)

2. The _________ of the volcanoes is always disastrous. (ERUPT)

3. You must read the _________ carefully before you use the new oven. (INSTRUCT) 

4. The giant panda is an __________ species due to habitat loss and poaching. (DANGER).

5. The dodo bird went into __________ in the 17^th century due to hunting and habitat destruction. (EXTINCT)

6. I enjoy going to ________ open-air markets in the countryside. (TRADITON)

7. The local government is trying to raise __________ of traffic safety. (AWARE)

8. During holidays, a lot of people go to shopping centres to see __________ (DECORATE)

9. One _________ of an open-air-market is that it is different from place to place. (ATTRACT)

10. It is always __________ to watch the cubs at play. (INTEREST)

III. Supply the correct forms of the verbs in parentheses to complete each sentence. 

1. My mother loves watching series film, and she rarely (miss) _________ one.

2. Listen! Someone (knock) ___________ at the door.

3. My grandfather (read) ___________ the newspaper at 6 p. m last night.

4. __________ he often (go) _________ fishing on Sundays?

5. "Ly, what time (be) ________ the concert tonight?" - Let me check.

6. What _________ your sister (do) ________ at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon?

7. They (walk) __________ on the beach when the tsunami (come) _______ 

8. _________ your father (watch) _______ news at 7 o'clock yesterday evening?

9. This brochure says that the big sale (start) _________ tomorrow morning.

10. _________ your mother (cook) ________ now?

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

1. Combine each pair of sentences, using the conjunction in brackets.

a. Tuan was writing a letter. His father was reading a magazine. (while)

___________________________

b. My brother kept trying. He made a successful robot. (until)

___________________________

c. The doctors work in the hospital. They wear face masks. (when)

___________________________

d. We have to turn off the lights and electrical equipment. We leave the classroom. (before)

___________________________

e. I go to the shopping centres with my friends every four or five weeks. (sometimes)

___________________________

f. My mother goes to the grocery store five times a week. (usually)

___________________________

2. Make question for the underlined words in the sentence.

a. My sister goes shopping twice a week.

___________________________

b. Our English lesson starts at 1:00 p. m every day.

___________________________

c. I was studying Maths at 9: 00 p. m last night.

___________________________

3. Rearrange the words to make complete sentences.

a. the ocean /to Scientists, /a strong /a tsunami /according /earthquake / in /caused / in Japan/./

___________________________

b. hours/ well-lit areas / they / walking / for one / or two // in clean / and / enjoy/./

___________________________

c. of the environment/ is/ a special / A National park / and / for the protection /area / wildlife/./

___________________________

d. when / was / Tom's family / the tornado/ having dinner / came/./

___________________________

4. Make sentences with the given words.

a. I/ wait/ Linda / here / until / she / get/ back.

___________________________

b. How/ do/ your mother/ return / things / online /? - Sometimes.

___________________________

c. Last year/ the tsunami / bring / destruction/ cities/ while the people / sleep.

___________________________

d. Don't / use / too much / water / while / you / have a shower.

___________________________

VI READING:

Read the text and choose the letter (A, B, C, D) to indicate the option that best fits each gap.

A greenhouse is a building made of glass, where you can grow flowers and vegetables that need a lot of warmth. Sunlight (1) ________ through the glass and warms the greenhouse while the glass keeps the heat from escaping.

The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of gases that acts just like a greenhouse. Factories, electric power plants and cars make a lot of new gases. These gases are trapping more and more of the sun's (2) ______. This is called "the greenhouse effect."

If the Earth's temperature increases by just a few degrees, it will change the weather all over the planet. Some places will become (3) ________ hot to live in or to grow (4) ________ any more. This will cause a lot of people to starve.

That is why people must do their best to stop the greenhouse effect by (5) ________ fewer energy-consuming products and planting trees.

1. A. shines       B. lights      C. goes      D. looks

2. A. hot     B. heat      C. hotter      D. heating

3. A. enough     B. very     C. much       D. too

4. A. fields     B. crops     C. food       D. weeds

5. A. using      B. buying      C. making     D. doing

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