Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to
effectively heat and cool buildings.

Solar collectors can heat and cool houses with heat

sun’s rays
absorbed from …………………..…………

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Solar Collector
Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to effectively
heat and cool buildings. The most common type of collector for space heating is
a flat plate designed to absorb both radiation falling directly on it, as well as
radiation scattered by the atmosphere.
Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel. The panels are
usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits reflection and encourages
absorption. Insulation is placed behind the collector to prevent heat loss.
STRATEGIES
Word limits

Refer to the passage Solar Collector and choose from the passage
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences.

1. Collectors are coloured black to prevent …………………………..

Understand the question

STRATEGIES
• Read the instruction carefully and try to
understand the questions.
 Refer to the passage Solar Collector and choose from the passage
STRATEGIES
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Solar Collector
Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to effectively heat
and cool buildings. The most common type of collector for space heating is a flat plate
designed to absorb both radiation falling directly on it, as well as
radiation scattered by the atmosphere.
Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel. The panels are
usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits reflection and encourages
absorption. Insulation is placed behind the collector to prevent heat loss.
STRATEGIES

Solar Collector
Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to effectively
heat and cool buildings. The most common type of collector for space heating is
a flat plate designed to absorb both radiation falling directly on it, as well as
radiation scattered by the atmosphere.
Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel. The panels are
usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits reflection and encourages
absorption. Insulation is placed behind the collector to prevent heat loss.

2. Collectors are coloured black to prevent …………………………..

 Refer to the passage Solar Collector and choose from the passage
STRATEGIES
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Solar Collector
Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to effectively
heat and cool buildings. The most common type of collector for space heating is
a flat plate designed to absorb both radiation falling directly on it, as well as
radiation scattered by the atmosphere.
Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel. The panels are
usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits reflection and encourages
absorption. Insulation is placed behind the collector to prevent heat loss.
STRATEGIES

Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel.

The panels are usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits
reflection and encourages absorption.

2. Collectors are coloured black to prevent …………………………..

STRATEGIES
• Read the instruction carefully and try to
understand the questions.
• Identify the information in the paragraph
STRATEGIES

Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel.

The panels are usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits
reflection and encourages absorption.

1. Collectors are coloured black to prevent ………………………..

STRATEGIES

Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel.

The panels are usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits
reflection and encourages absorption.

Noun(s)
1. Collectors are coloured black to prevent ………………………..

Coloured black = Black colouring

Paraphrasing
Prevent = Inhibit
 STRATEGIES
• Read the instruction carefully and try to
understand the questions.

• Identify the information in the paragraph

• Identify the type of missing words and locate the answer
STRATEGIES

Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel.

The panels are usually painted black. The black colouring inhibits
reflection and encourages absorption.

Noun(s)
reflection
1. Collectors are coloured black to prevent ………………………..
 STRATEGIES
• Read the instruction carefully and try to
understand the questions.

• Identify the information in the paragraph

• Identify the type of missing words and locate the answer
• Fill in the blank
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….

2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

place
1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….

2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….

Paraphrasing
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people.
A public library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.

charges no fee all the people

1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

in a community
1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….

2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

in a community
1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….
?
2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

in a community
1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….
time
2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

in a community
1. A public library provides free services to everyone …………………………….
a specific time
2. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………………….
READING UNIT 1
EXAM PRACTICE
Exercise 1

English Vietnamese
Multilingual (n) Đa ngôn ngữ
Culture (n) Văn hóa
Communicate (v) Giao tiếp
 English Vietnamese
Multiling_al (n) Đa ngôn ngữ
C_lture (n) Văn hóa
Com_unicate (v) Giao tiếp
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Multilingual: what it is like to speak many languages

Today, over 50% of the world’s total population can speak more than one language. Maybe you
are one of these people who can communicate in many languages. However, it may be likely
that you can speak more than Richard Doner, an American teenager who can hold a
conversation in over twenty languages.
Richard lives in New York. It is a city where there are people from hundreds of different
countries. There are around 180 languages spoken in New York schools. This is why Richard
believes that New York is the perfect city for him. “I can discuss many different topics with
people from all over the world and I don’t even need to travel to another country,” Richard says.
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Can he see a disadvantage? “You can never rest. You have to continuously practice and
put in lots of effort all the time to be able to remember the languages. I believe that, if
your brain doesn’t do any work, you can forget what you know. I don’t have time to
speak all of my languages every day, so if I want to get better, if I want to make progress,
the important thing is that I speak each one as often as I can. If I don’t, I start to forget
The phrases and words that I know”.
He also believes that when you learn a language, you don’t only learn words or phrases.
“A language helps you begin to learn more about the people and their cultures – their
ideas, their food, what is important to them and so on”.
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Richard is very popular all over the world. There are lots of video online of him practicing
his skills in a wide range of languages, such as Arabic, Mandarin, German and even
Swahili – language that is common in West Africa.
The most important thing for Richard is to have fun when he learns a language, Learning
is easier if you can make it interesting for yourself, he explains. “Also, take your time –
you have to learn at a speed that works for you. I don’t think many would disagree with
him!
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

1. In New York, you can find people from a large number of ……………………………
2. If Richard wants to talk with people from different countries, it isn’t necessary to
come to …………………………….
3. To remember languages, Richard makes sure his brain does …………………………..
4. Swahili is a popular language in ………………………………..
6. When he learns a language, it is absolutely necessary for Richard to ……………….
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Richard lives in New York. It is a city where there are people from hundreds of
different countries. There are around 180 languages spoken in New York
schools. This is why Richard believes that New York is the perfect city for him.
“I can discuss many different topics with people from all over the world and I
don’t even need to travel to another country,” Richard says.

1 . I n N e w Y o r k , y o u c a n f i n d p e o p l e f r o m a different
l a r g e ncountries
umber
of ……………………………
another countries
2. If Richard wants to talk with people from different countries,
it isn’t necessary to come to ……………………………….
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Can he see a disadvantage? “You can never rest. You have to continuously
practice and put in lots of effort all the time to be able to remember the languages.
I believe that, if your brain doesn’t do any work, you can forget what you know.
I don’t have time to speak all of my languages every day, so if I want to get better,
if I want to make progress, the important thing is that I speak each one as often as
I can. If I don’t, I start to forget the phrases and words that I know”.

3. To remember languages, Richard makes sure his brain does(some) work

…………………
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

He also believes that when you learn a language, you don’t only learn words
or phrases. “A language helps you begin to learn more about the people and
their cultures – their ideas, their food, what is important to them and so on”.

4. If you know a language, you can start to understand about the

their cultures
people and ………………………..
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

Richard is very popular all over the world. There are lots of video online of
him practicing his skills in a wide range of languages, such as Arabic,
Mandarin, German and even Swahili – language that is common in West Africa.

West Africa
5. Swahili is a popular language in ………………………………..
 Read some sentences about the article. Then, complete the sentences
Exercise 1
using NO MORE THAN THREE words.

The most important thing for Richard is to have fun when he learns a language,
Learning is easier if you can make it interesting for yourself, he explains. “Also,
take your time – you have to learn at a speed that works for you. I don’t think
many would disagree with him!

6. When he learns a language, it is absolutely necessary for Richard

have fun
to ……………………………
Exercise 2

English Vietnamese
Prey (n) Con mồi
Predator (n) Kẻ săn mồi
Migration (n) Di cư
Insect (n) Côn trùng
Poison (n) Chất độc, độc tố
Tunnel (n) Hầm, hang
Get rid of (vp) Loại bỏ
Pesticide (n) Thuốc trừ sâu
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

True to their name, bee-eater eat bees (though their diet includes just about
any flying insect). When the bird catches a bee, it returns to its tree to get rid
of the bee’s poison, which it does very efficiently. It hits the insect’s head on
one side of the branch, then rubs its body on the other. The rubbing makes
its prey harmless.

flying insect
1. Bee-eater’s prey are bees and other …………………………………..….

poison
2. Bee-eaters need to remove the …………………………… from bees before eating them.
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) form families that breed in the spring
and summer across an area that extends from Spain to Kazakhstan. Farmland
and river valleys provide huge numbers of insects. Flock of bee-eaters follow
tractors as they eat well- a researcher once found a hundred bees in the
stomach of a bee-eater near a hive.

3. There is plenty of food for bee-eaters on agricultural land

river valleys
and in ……………………………………
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

European bees pass the winter by sleeping in their hives, which cuts off the
bee-eater’s main source of food. So, in late summer, bee-eaters begin a long,
dangerous journey. Massive flocks from Spain, France and northern Italy cross
the Sahara Desert to their wintering grounds in West Africa. Bee-eaters from
Hungary and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe cross the Mediterranean
Sea and Arabian Desert to winter in southern Africa.

Africa
4. Bee-eaters migrate to spend the winter in different parts of ………………………..
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

“It’s an extremely risky stratagem, the migration,” says C. Hilary Fry, a

British ornithologist who has studied European bee-eaters for more than 45
years. “At least 30 percent of the bird will be killed by predators before they
make
it back to Europe the following spring.”
predators almost one-third of bee-eaters do not
5. Because of ……………………………,
survive migration.
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

In April, they return to Europe. Birds build nests by digging tunnels in riverbanks.
They work for up to 20 days. By the end of the job, they’ve moved 15 to 26
pounds of soil – more than 80 times their weight.

tunnels
6. Bee-eaters make nests in ……………………………………, which they build themselves.
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

The nesting season is a time when families help each other, and sons or uncles
help feed their father's or brother's chicks as soon as they come out of their eggs.
The helpers benefit, too: parents with helpers can provide more food for chicks to
continue the family line.

chicks
7. When nesting, the ……………………………………. receive food from different family

members.
 Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Exercise 2
passage for each answer

It's a short, spectacular life. European bee-eaters live for five to six years. The
difficulties of migration and avoiding predators along the way affect every
bird. Bee-eaters today also find it harder to find food, as there are fewer
insects around as a result of pesticides. Breeding sites are also disappearing,
as rivers are turned into concrete-walled canals.

pesticides which have reduced the

8. One problem for bee-eaters is …………………………….,
amount of food available.
Exercise 3

English Vietnamese
Drought (n) Hạn hán
Capture (v) Giữ, bắt giữ
Dam (n) Đập
Haul (v) Vận chuyển
Hygiene (n) Vệ sinh
Disease (n) Bệnh, dịch bệnh
Cultivate (v) Trồng trọt, cày cấy
 Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Exercise 3
from the passage for each answer.

So has every other woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of
south-western Ethiopia in Africa. Binayo left school when she was eight years
old, in part because she had to help her mother fetch water from the Toiro
River. The water is unsafe to drink; every year that the drought continues,
the river carries less water, and its flow is reduced. But it is the only water
Foro has ever had.
drought
1. The water levels in the Toiro River are falling because of …………………………….
 Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Exercise 3
from the passage for each answer.

Bringing clean water close to villagers' homes is the key to the problem.
Communities where clean water becomes accessible and plentiful are
transformed. All the hours previously spent hauling water can be used
to cultivate more crops, raise more animals or even start a business.

3. When families have clean water, they can spend more time
crops…………………………
growing
 Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Exercise 3
from the passage for each answer.

In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours
abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900 million people in the world have
no access to clean water. Furthermore, 2.5 billion people have no safe
way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water and lack of proper hygiene
cause disease and kill 3.3 million people around the world annually,
most of them children.

2. Globally, the number of people who die each year as a result of using dirty
3.3 million
water is …………………….
 Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Exercise 3
from the passage for each answer.

But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are
overwhelming. Locating water underground and then reaching it by means of
deep wells requires geological expertise and expensive, heavy machines.

wells
4. Specialist knowledge and equipment are needed to dig …………………..
 Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Exercise 3
from the passage for each answer.

Today, a UK-based international non-profit organisation called WaterAid

is tackling the job of bringing water to the most remote villages of Konso.
Their approach combines technologies proven to last — such as building a
sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that would otherwise drain away

sand to capture rainwater to

5. WaterAid uses a dam made of ……………….
 Refer to the passage Public Libraries and choose from the passage
Check-up
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences

Public Libraries
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public
library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services.
The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety
of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed,
or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its
materials.