In the first year of lower secondary (1)___________, I had some difficulties in learning English. My English pronunciation (2)___________ really bad and my English grammar was worse. I did not (3)___________ how to improve them. I didn’t want my father (4)___________ mother to know about this. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher (5)___________ English told me to wait (6)___________ her outside the classroom. She took (7)___________ to the school library and showed me tapes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English – English dictionary to (8)___________ my English grammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” she said. I made much progress and only one year later, I won the first (9)___________ in the English Speaking Contest (10)___________ for secondary school students in my hometown.

Benefits of playing sports

Firstly, playing sports can give you a healthy life and a fit body to you. You will be

more active and healthier (1) __________ playing sports. To illustrate, you can have a lower

chance of getting a serious illness such as (2) __________ attack or high blood pressure.

In other words, it increases your resistance to illness. In leisure time, you can play

sports (3) __________ your friends or your relatives, this not only helps you but (4)

__________motivates everyone around you to take part in sports and have good (5)

__________ .

Furthermore, there are some (6) __________ which you can play easily such as table

tennis, tennis or football and after that, you feel completely relaxed or (7) __________ free

from your stress. Moreover, you also need to allow (8) __________ encourage children to

play sports, especially some outside activities such as football, basketball or volleyball to

decrease the time that your children (9) __________ sitting in front of computers or

watching television. 

 I’m writing to invite you to a party we..................... (1) at the flat next Friday, December 14th. As you know, .....................(2) Lan’s 13th birthday next week and my birthday is in next month, .................... (3)   we thought we’d celebrate together and have a joint party.

I can’t remember if you know my address or not, but anyway, if you   .......................... (4) the direction below, you shouldn’t get lost. Take the Number 15 bus from the station and ...................... (5) at the Star Hotel. Walk down Long Viet Road, past the Dan Chu Cinema, and then  .............……(6) the first turning on the right. That’s Le Loi  Road. Turn left .....................  (7) the first junction, then go straight past the church as far as the next crossroads. ......................(8) and our block of flats is the second on the right. 

Do try and come. Of course you’re ...... (9) to bring someone with you if you want to.

Look forward .............................. (10) you then!