EXERCISE : UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other three.
1. A. letter B. friend C. pretty D. pleasure
2. A. character B. classmate C. happy D. photograph
3. A. enough B. volunteer C. public D. humor
4. A. shy B. curly C. lucky D. library
5. A. comes B. lives C. rises D. smiles
II. Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others.
6. A. annoy B. enough C. lucky D. describe
7. A. sociable B. photograph C. orphanage D. volunteer
8. A. although B. generous C. outgoing D. humorous
9. A. neighbor B. receive C. different D. classmate
10. A. appearance B. reserved C. orphanage D. description
III. Choose the word or the phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.
1. My sister’s hair is not ______.
A. slim B. fat C. curly D. sociable
2. It’s ______ to meet you, Thu.
A. pleasure B. kind C. nice D. lucky
3. He is my ______. We are in the same class.
A. character B. classmate C. principal D. neighbor
4. I ______ a letter from my friend today.
A. sent B. took C. received D. gave
5. The boy is a ______ student. He always gets good grades.
A. generous B. reserved C. humorous D. hard-working
6. The moon ______ around the earth.
A. rides B. moves C. makes D. takes
7. I find he is not communicative. He’s rather ______ in public.
A. outgoing B. reserved C. sociable D. humorous
8. He’s tall and thin. He has ______.
A. black hair short B. short black hair C. hair short black D. black short hair
9. _______. Are you Mr. Thanh?
A. I’m sorry B. Excuse me C. Hello D. Certainly
10. –“Would you like to go to the movie with me tonight?” –“_______.”
A. Yes, please B. No, thanks C. Yes, I’d love to D. I’m sorry. I’d love to
IV. Match the word in column A with it’s synonym in column B.
A
B
Answer

slim
reserved
short
beautiful
generous
sociable
annoy
hard-working
friend
voluntary
kind
pretty
mate
outgoing
thin
willing
small in height
shy
make angry
diligent
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________
4. __________
5. __________
6. __________
7. __________
8. __________
9. __________
10. __________

V. Match a word in column A with its antonym in column B.
A
B
Answer

1. slim
2. outgoing
3. quiet
4. rise
5. generous
6. curly
7. beautiful
8. please
9. tall
10. confident
a. shy
b. annoy
c. short
d. reserved
e. set
f. fat
g. noisy
h. selfish
i. straight
j. ugly
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________
4. __________
5. __________
6. __________
7. __________
8. __________
9. __________
10. __________

VI. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.
People in my country are very warm and ___________. (FRIEND)
An ___________ is a child whose parents are dead. (ORPHANAGE)
L.A Hill is a ___________ writer. (HUMOR)
I’m ___________ sorry for the delay. (EXTREME)
She looks more ___________ than her sister. (BEAUTY)
I am ___________ enough to have a lot of friends. (LUCK)
They enjoy the ___________ summer evenings in the countryside (PEACE)
Those cats look ___________ (LOVE)
It was ___________ of him to offer to pay for us both. (GENEROUSITY)
Role-play is ___________ in developing communication skills. (HELP)
VII. Put the correct tense