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III)-Read the story summaries below. Decide which story you would like to read. After that, ask and answer the questions about the stories with your partner.

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   Title: Hansel and Gretel
   

Genre: fairy tale (one of Grimm brother’s fairy tales)
Plot: A woodcutter and his second-wife couldn’t afford to feed his own children. The step-mother suggested leaving them in the forest for a while. The children, Hansel and Gretel, heard that and they left their home. Hansel used small rocks to mark the way back home. The two kids had no food when they found a witch’s house made of bread, cake and sugar. Of course, they ate a lot and didn’t die. The witch asked them to stay. After that, she locked up Hansel to fatten him, and made Gretel work hard around the house. This went on for a while until the witch decided to eat both of them. She asked Gretel to check the oven’s heat from inside. Gretel tricked the witch into doing that instead. The witch was burned up and the children went home with a lot of her treasure. Unluckily, the stepmother died. The kids and the father lived happily ever since.

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   Title: The Bronze Pig
   

Genre: fairy tale (one of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales)
Plot: A poor young boy in Florence, Italy, was begging for money, but was not successful. He slept on top of a famous paintings. The next morning, the boy woke up and went home. His stepmother made him go away for not bringing in any money, so he ran away. A glove-maker and his wife took him in. The boy met an artist and he taught the boy to draw. He grew up to become a very talented artist who painted many beautiful pictures, including painting of the bronze pig.

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   I want to read Hansel and Gretel/ The Bronze Pig.
   

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   What kind of the story is it?
   

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   It’s a fairy tale.
   

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   Who are the main characters in it?
   

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   What is the story about?
   

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   What happened first?
   

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   What happened next?
   

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   What is the end of the story?
   

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D. READING
I)-Read the following passage and then answer the questions.
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the kitchen while her lazy sisters did nothing. One night her sisters went to a ball at the palace, Cinderella was left a home, feeling very sad. After a time her fairy godmother appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball, but she has to return home by midnight. So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress and a wonderful coach. She danced with the prince, but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on the dance floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he found that the shoe was right size for Cinderella. The prince and Cinderella were married and lived happily ever after.
1. Where did Cinderella’s sisters go one night?

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   How was Cinderella when she was left at home?
   

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   Who appeared and helped Cinderella?
   

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   What did Cinderella do at the ball?
   

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   What was the end of the story?
   

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II)-Read this legend, and do the tasks that follow.
Da Trang and the Magic Pearl
Long ago, there was a hunter named Da Trang who lived near the edge of the forest. One day, when he returned from hunting, he was terrified to see two bright green snakes moving quickly moving quickly through the grass to the temple! But when he saw them raise their heads to listen to the prayer coming from the nearby temple, he thought, “They are surely harmless. Maybe they are sacred snakes.”
When passing the temple one morning, Da Trang saw a big cobra, jaws open, attacking the snakes. He raised his bow and shot the cobra to save the snakes.
When the arrow struck him, the cobra hissed horribly and moved away as the male snake chased it down the hill. The female snake was badly wounded, and soon died. Da Trang buried her under the temple.
The male snake gave him a beautiful white pearl to allow one to understand the language of animals as a gift of its gratitude.
The King had Da Trang bring the magic pearl to the palace because the King was very enthusiastic to hear about the animals’ conversation and spent a great deal of time listening to them.
One beautiful spring morning, the King and Da Trang went sailing. While the fish were singing happily, Da Trang burst out laughing and dropped the magic pearl into the sea.
Da Trang ordered an army of workmen who brought hundreds of cartloads of sand to the seashore to fill up the sea to find his lost pearl, but he failed and died. Before death, he asked to be buried near the seashore.

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Nowadays, when you are at the seashore early in the morning, you can see many small crabs, believed to do the work of Da Trang.
Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

Answer		A	B
______	11.	prayer (n)	F. having a connection with a god
______	12.	sacred (adj)	G. to make a sound like a long ‘s’
______	13. bow (n)		H. the words that you use when you speak to a god
______	14.	hiss (v)	I. a weapon for a shooting arrows

Task 2: Read the passage again, and then answer the following questions.

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   Why did Da Trang think that the two bright green snakes were harmless?
   

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   What did he do to save the snakes when the cobra attacked them?
   

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   What did the male snake give him? Why?
   

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   Why was the pearl called a magic one?
   

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   Why did Da Trang lose the magic pearl?
   

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   What did he do before his death?
   

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Task 3: Read again, and then complete the details of the legend by filling in each blank with ONE suitable word.
Main characters Character 1: Da Trang. He was (11)____________, but he did
an impossible thing.
Character 2, 3: The green snakes. They were (12)__________, sacred and (13)____________.
Character 4: The cobra. It was (14)____________.
Plot: beginning Long ago, there was a (15)_____________ named Da Trang who lived near the edge of the forest.

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Plot: middle One day, when he (16)___________ the temple, he saw a big
cobra, attacking the snakes. He (17)___________ to shoot the cobra to save the snakes. The female snake died (18)____________ Da Trang buried her under the temple. The male snake gave him a magic pearl to allow one to understand the language of animals.
The King was also (19)_______________ in the magic pearl, and asked him to bring the magic pearl to the palace.
Plot: end One day, (20)__________ sailing on the boat with the King, Da Trang dropped the pearl into the sea. He tried to fill up the sea with sand but he failed and died.

E. WRITING
Make sentences about the Legend of the Milky Way, using the words and phrases given. You can add some words and make changes. The first two sentences have been done for you as examples.
The Legend of the Milky Way

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   Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful and charming princess, named
   

Chuc Nu.

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   She was a very hard-working lady and she was often sitting on the shore of the Silver River to sew clothes.
   

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   One day/ a young man, named Nguu Lang/ heard/ his buffaloes/ the river
   

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   He/ fall in love/ the princess at first sight/ she/ love/ him, too.
   

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   The King of Heaven/ not allow/ daughter/ marry Nguu Lang.
   

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   But the couple/ have to promise/ continue their work/ after marriage.
   

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   They/ enjoy/ being married/ and/ they/ forget their promise.
   

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   The King/ become furious/ and/ order/ them/ separate.
   

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   Each of them/ would live/ one side of the river/ and/ could only look at each
   

other/ across the river.

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   The King/ allow them/ meet once a year/ the seventh month/ the lunar year.
   

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   When/ they/ meet/ they/ usually cry/ joy.
   

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   They/ cry even more bitterly/ when/ it/ time for separation.
   

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   That is why/ it/ rain/ heavily/ the beginning/ the seventh lunar month in
   

Vietnam.

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   If/ you/ look at/ the sky/ clear nights/ you may see/ Silver River/ which/ look like/
   

a long milky white strip.

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TEST (UNITIT 6)

I)-Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

1.	The toad was very ___________ because he tried to find way to the heaven
	to sue God.
	A. brave	B. kind	C. generous	D. mean
2.	The King was very ___________ to allow his daughter. Tien Dung, to travel
	to many wonderful places of the kingdom.
	A. wise	B. mean	C. kind	D. wicked
3.	The Peacock was well known to be a/an ___________ animal, so he just
	applied black colour to the Crow’s feathers.
	A. hard-working	B. lazy	C. ugly	D. clever
4.	The wife of the fisherman was very ___________ when she demanded for
	bigger and bigger things.
	A. kind	B. generous	C. greedy	D. fierce
5.	Ali Baba was very _____________ when he also used the words “Open
	Sesame!” to enter the cave of treasures.
	A. wise	B. cunning	C. kind	D. evil
6.	The servant was very ___________ to mark other houses with white chalk
	so that the thieves couldn’t find Ali Baba’s house.
	A. mean	B. wicked	C. kind	D. clever

II)-Read the following fable and put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
The Fisherman and His Wife
A fisherman and his wife (7. live)________ in a little hut by the sea. One day, while the fisherman (8. perform)___________ his usual work, he (9. catch)__________
a fish who (10. say)___________ he (11. be)_____________ actually a magical prince as well as a talking fish.
The fisherman (12. agree)_____________ to let him go.
The wife (13. not like)_____________ that, and (14. tell)___________ him to go back and ask for a cottage. This wish (15. come)__________ true, but the cottage (16.

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not be)___________ nice enough so the wife then (17. send)____________ the fisherman (18. be)____________ the rulers of the country, and then to be emperors.
Finally, the wife (19. want)___________ to be like God. On returning home, the fisherman (20. find)___________ that his wife (21. sit)____________ in their humble hut again.
III)-Complete the conversation about the legend of “The Toad is the God’s Uncle” with the responses given (A-F). Practise the conversation with your partner.

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   And there is a Vietnamese saying: “Toad is God’s uncle
   

Beat him, God beats back.”

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   The toad, the God, the Thunder genie and the animals on Earth.
   
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   After all, God had to invite the great toad and all of his friends into the court. The toad told God that there was no rain on the earth for four years. God immediately made rain and carefully told the toad just to grind his teeth if the earth needed water.
   

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   Once upon a time, there was no rain for long, long time. The ground cracked all over, all plants and animals had to suffer from thirst.
   

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   Yes. There was a great toad, and he tried to find way to the heaven to let God know what life on the earth was. He was followed by a crab, a bee, a fox, a bear and a tiger.
   
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   You’re right! Finally, they all came to the heaven, and the toad beat the drum loudly. The army from the heaven including the Thunder genie were beaten by the animals.
   

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   I’ve just read a great story named “The Toad is the God’s Uncle”.
   

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   Really? What’s it about?
   

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   It’s about a toad who sued the God for rain.
   

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   Who are the main characters?
   

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   And what’s the story?
   

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   They were to die soon.
   

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   I see. Each type of animals has a different power.
   

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   How powerful and clever animals were, especially the toad!
   

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   I see. Is it from that day on it may rain if toad grinds his teeth?
   

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IV)-Read the story and match the phrases/ sentences A-G with the gaps 28-34.
The Farmers and his Sons

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   as soon as their father had died
   
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   who had worked hard in his vineyard
   
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   what their father had meant by the great treasure
   
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   its own reward
   
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   and all the time as they were working they wondered what their father had left for them
   

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   They felt that their hard work had been for nothing
   
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   Soon they had drug up every inch of the vineyard.
   

There was once an old, dying farmer (28)____________. Before he died he wanted to teach his three sons how to be good farmers. So he called them to him and said, ‘My boys, before I die I want you to know that there is a great treasure buried in the vineyard. Promise me that you will look for it when I am dead.’

The sons promised and (29)_________, they began looking for the treasure. They worked very hard in the hot sun (30)____________. In their minds, they thought of boxes of gold coins, diamond necklaces and other such things. (31)____________. But they found not a simple penny. They were very upset. (32) ____________. But then the grapes started to appear on the vines and their grapes were the biggest and best in the neighbourhood, and they sold them for a lot of money.
Now they understood (33)____________ and they lived happily and wealthily ever after.
“Hard work brings (34)______________.”

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Note:

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   wine (n) = the climbing plant that grapes grown on (cây nho), vineyard (n) = a piece of land where vines are grown (vườn nho)