Unit 2 – Life in the countryside
No English Part of speech Vietnamese
1 Noun Tổ ong
2 Adjective Can đảm
3 Noun Xe trâu kéo
4 Noun Gia súc
5 Verb Thu gom, lấy
6 Adjective Thuận tiện
7 Verb Làm phiền
8 Noun Đồ điện
9 Adjective Hào phóng
10 Noun Lều của dân du mục Mông cổ
11 Noun Cao nguyên Gobi
12 Noun Mùa gặt
13 Verb Chăn dắt
14 Adjective / Noun Địa phương, dân địa phương
15 Noun Moog cổ
16 Noun Dân du mục
17 Noun Thuộc về du mục
18 Noun Đồng lúa
19 Noun Đồng cỏ
20 Verb Hái (hoa, quả…)
Exercise 1: Match the word or phrase with its definition.
1. buffalo drawn cart a. a circular wooden canvas and felt tent
2. harvest time b. land covered with grass where sheep, cows, horses, etc., feed
3. paddy field c. a vehicle with two or four wheels pulled by buffalo
4. cattle d. a structure where bees are kept for producing honey
5. pasture e. cows and bulls that are kept as farm animals
6. ger f. a high mountainous area of a country
7. beehive g. a field in which rice is grown
8. highlands h. the time of year when crops are cut and collected from the fields
9. dairy products i. a member of a community that moves with its animals from place to place
10. nomad j. food made from milk, such as butter and cheese
Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the words in part I.
1. If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the _______________.
2. Horses are grazing in the _______________.
3. He helped his uncle load hay onto a _______________.
4. Mongolia’s nomads live in a traditional tent called _______________.
5. We saw lots of lush rice _______________ on the way to the village.
6. In Mongolia, he spent time with the nomads of the Gobi _______________.
7. A boy was driving the herd of _______________ to the pasture.
8. It is _______________, and all the farmers are very busy.
9. The Maasai are _______________ and cattle raisers.
10. The doctor told me to eat less red meat and _______________.
Exercise 3: Complete the sentences with the adjectivesfrom the box.
generous peaceful optimistic quiet inconvenient
fresh brave exciting vast skillful envious
1. It’s ____________ to see a kite flying high in the sky.
2. It was very ____________ there; you could just hear the wind moving in the trees.
3. I love the ____________ open spaces and the ____________ air in the countryside.
4. The villagers often find it ____________ to get into town due to the lack of public transport.
5. People in rural areas are more ____________ than their city counterparts.
6. I’m so ____________ of you getting such an exciting holiday.
7. Billy is clearly a ____________ person. He contributed lots of money to charity.
8. It was very ____________ of him to jump into the river to save a drowning child,.
9. Most of Mongolian people are ____________ at riding a horse.
10. Life in the countryside is more ____________ and healthier.
