What do you like about the countryside?

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Topic 1: Leisure activities

1. Which leisure activities do you know?

Singing, dancing, jumping, read book, making crafts, doing DIY, visit heritage site, making origami, cycling, hanging out, skateboarding, yoga, aerobics, playing computer game , playing beach/ folk games, surf the net, skating, skiing, cooking, do the gardening, watch TV, swimming, playing sports, fishing, walking, communication with friends.

2. What do you do in your leisure time?

I drawing imagination animals like dragon, monster, ghost , etc or I watch cartoon on TV in my free time but sometime I do housework.

I cooking some kind of cakes and I grow up my garden bench in my free time but sometime I read book in my free time.

I play some sports with my friends like football, badminton and hanging out with them.

3. How do feel about your leisure activities?

I feel interesting, fun and I feel relax and comfortable too.

4. How much time do you spend a day on leisure activities?

About 1 hour or 2 hours (3 hours, 4 hours or 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, etc) but sometimes there are only a few minutes (5-10 minutes, 10-15 minutes)

5. What are the benefits of using computers or mobile phones for leisure activities?

- Find the information/ knowledge you want to know

-It helps us to talk to each other when we are away

-Relax (after work, school time, etc )

-Use to study and discover.

-Read news, newspaper about the world

6. What are harmful things it may bring us?

-It makes us sore eyes

-Sleeplessness

-Sit or stand a place in front of the computer too long is not good for health

-Not have enough time for family members

-Not able to communicate and do not know how to play sports

7. What do you think is the best leisure activities for teenagers? Why do you think so?

In my opinions, community is the best leisure activities for teenager. First, because today's teens are not confident in communicating and living virtual with technology so they have no hobby and do not know how to play sports and they are afraid to meet someone so it can change they more confident. Second, it will make them know more knowledge and more life skills. Besides, it improves health, helps us feel comfortable and acquainted with many new people will help us always happy and not alone when sad and we can share interesting things together and make us have good friendship. Finally, this action will help the world become more and more attached and better in the future. As I have noted (in short, for these reasons) teenagers should communication with people and friends more for a good future life of yourself and of us.

I believe the best leisure activity for teenagers is any group activity. This could be playing a team sport or joining a hobby group or even volunteering. Firstly, teenagers like to feel that they belong to the group. Secondly, being part of a group helps teenagers make friends. Friendship is very important to teenagers. In addition, they will make friends with people who have the same interests as them. For these reasons, I think group activities are best for teenagers

8. Should parents decide how teenagers spend their free times?

In my opinion, parents should decide for teenagers spend their free time sensibly. It must right balance between learning and playing. First, young people can play thirty minutes in their free time after school is finished, during work breaks, teens can play sports such as basketball, football, badminton and so on. They have few friends, free time is not known, then they on facebook all day, it's a waste of time. Second, young people can read books to develop the brain and thinking ability. Third, young people can help their parents with housework in your spare time, or go charity with her parents. Fourth, parents should provide for youth participation in social activities so that they are more confident and make friends. For this reason, parents should let teens participate in activities or play in their free time and do not create pressure for teens.

Topic 2: Life in the countryside

1. Talking about what you like or dislike about the life in the countryside? Why?

Like: People can live in the fresh atmosphere in the countryside. They can go fishing in the river for food. There was so much space so we can run around the fields and shout out loud without disturbing anybody and we will feel so freedom. I like picking fruits like blackberries, apple, mango, etc, and I like do farm work like digging holes, plaiting vegetables, collecting water, swimming in the river and flying kites with new friends.

Dislike: It is inconvenient without shopping centre, supermarket and entertainment centre is miles away. There is also no running water and electricity and it doesn’t excite at all and the life there have a little boring than the city

2.What do you like about the life of nomads?

I like the ger of them, because it keep cool in summer and warm in winter, even when the temperature drops to -50C and it can be put up then taken down and transported so it convenient.

I like to go to everywhere and meet new people will make we have more skills and I like the beautiful grassland, vast pastures, rivers and mountains they go to.

The children there learn to ride a horse and they learn to be brave and it so interesting with me

3.What don’t you like about the life of nomads?

They can’t live permanently in one place and I don’t like doing too much heavy work like herding the cattle and they only have some little food, no food like noodle, hamburger, etc.

The nomads life is not as modern as the life of city, The life in the city is more interesting things.

4.Talk about changes in your neighborhood.

On summer holidays, I often go back to my hometown and I have seen many changes in this rural area over the years. The most impressive change is in education. Recently, there are more schools rebuilt nearby and they are better equipped. This summer, my hometown friends and me enjoy reading different kind of books and comic in the new library. This change make me stay here a lot more enjoy able. Means of communication is the second big change I can see in this area. In the past, the common way to contact somebody far away was to write letters by hand. Nowadays, thank to mobile phone and even social networks, the local can keep in touch more easily. However, the negative change in the environment is something I dislike, Vast paddy fields where the children used to fly kites no longer exist. Instead a new industrial zone appears. Worse, factories in the zone are polluting the river and make it too dirty for us. As I have noted, my hometown has experienced both positive and negative changes. ( My neighborhood has lot of better change in this area than the past).

5. Do you like live in the city in the country or the city? Why?

I like live in the countryside because it peaceful and the atmosphere there is not polluted as the city. I love the fresh air in here and the beautiful scenery here like the big beautiful vast, the blue sky, the rivers and trees, etc. The people here are friendly and kind, they are hard farmer and I like the persistence of them. I like to help them working and after I finished I can enjoy to relax with a a cup of milk or tea. I love the life in the countryside very much because it have a big meaningful with me.

I like the live in the city because it modern and more convenient than the life of the countryside and it have a lot of interesting things than the countryside. The life of there have lot of modern furniture such as: washing machine, modern television, cleaner machine, electric stove, microwave oven, air conditional, electricity fan, etc and it support for we to do housework. There have a lot of convenient transport and building too like motorbike, car, plane, and big modern skyscrapers, special there have unique homes like UFO home, house upside down, mobile home is very famous. There have the park, zoo, museum, theater too and there are the entertainment place for everybody relax and communicate. I love the life in city because it exiting and envious!!!

Topic 3: People of Viet Nam

1. Talking about life of an ethnic group.

The Bahnar people have a population nearly 227.716 peoples live in the central highland of Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces. They speak a language in the Mon- Khmer family. The Bahnar play a great number of tradition musical instrument like the gong and string instrument made from bamboo. These instrument are sometime played in concert for special occasions, which may also involve ceremonial drinking and group dancing. Like other ethnic, the Bahnar grow rice, water fields and there are many handicrafts such as knitting, weaving, pottery, forging, etc. Bahnar people live close to the natural of the mountain so the villages of the Bahnar people often pants themselves in place near river streams. In each Bahnar villages, there is a large public house and it call the Rong house ( or communal house) in the middle of the villages. The communal house is the headquarters or the villages, where the village elders meet for public work, where the villagers meet, where the unmarried boy sleeps night, where the ceremonial customs or the community and the reception of strange guests in to the villages. Bahnar people have many festival as; thankgiving to parents, buffalo stabbing ceremony, etc. The life of Bahnar have lot of thing interesting with me

The Cham have a population of nearly 162 thousand people living in the provinces of Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai and Tay Ninh. Their language belongs to the Malayo- Polynesian group. Their production activities include: cultivating wet rice, fishing and making handicrafts. The Chan are famous for their silk and hand-made pottery. The Cham have a tradition of wet rice cultivation, they are also experienced in fishing and making handicraft, especially silk and hand-made pottery. Every year, they hold the Kate festival to commemorate the dead and honour heroes in the Cham community. Various agricultural ceremonies are performed during the year for a new canal, for young rice and for many so many other occasions. Personally, I find the Cham ethnic people very interesting. Experience their way of life if possible, it’s worth your time.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-Where do they live?

-What is their population?

-Which language do they speak?

-What activities they do?

-What festival do they have?

-What tradition and custom of them?

2. Write a paragraph about how to cook a traditional dish.

Spring rolls are the perfect dish of the Viet people. Making spring rolls is not so difficult if you know the key steps. First, prepare ingredients: minced pork, dried wood ear fungus, dried glass noodle, eggs, bean sprouts, ground white pepper, chopped onion, chopped carrot, rice paper wrappers and frying oil. Then, soak spring roll wrapper in very hot water until softened, about 30 seconds. Next, prepare spring roll filling with mix pork, fungus, noodles, eggs, bean sprouts, pepper, onion and carrot. After that, Wrap spring rolls by rice paper wrappers, remember to make the right steps to keep it steady. Finally, fry it and make dipping sauce and serve this dish with soy or chili sauce.

Yellow sticky rice are the perfect dish of the Viet people. Making yellow sticky rice is not so difficult if you know the key steps. To make this dish you should prepare ingredients like rice, turmeric, shredded coconut, water and salt. First, soak rice in water and put turmeric and then mix well and leave for 5 minutes. Then, stove in 15 minutes. After that, add shredded coconut , the rice has been stove with salt and mix well. Finally, Stream in 30 mins and remember to check cooked and enjoy this dish with lot of vegetables and sauce.

Topic 4: Custom and tradition

1. What are your family customs and traditions you like most?

I like the tradition of make chung cakes and day cakes at Tet because that is a interesting activities and I like to talk about what you have done with family members in the past year or listen to grandparents telling traditional folk tales and legends of Vietnam.

I like the custom of children in the family standing in a row to greet guests because it show respect and courtesy of guests, respect the guests also respect the parents and express their love to parents

2. How do you feel when you take part in these customs and traditions?

I feel very happy, it was so meaningful with me and I feel satisfied with these customs and tradition in my country.

3. Why is it important to continue these customs and traditions?

-Bringing family together

-Continuing old history

-Passing down traditions

-Sense of belonging

4. Talk about your family customs and traditions

There is one family tradition that my family take on Lunar New Year’ Eve. My grandparents, my parents, my brother and I always gather in the living room and watch the TV show “ Tao Quan”. When the clock strikes 12, we have a champagne toast. After that, my brother and I will receive “lucky money” from my grandparents and my parents. Then we talk a lot about happy events that happened during the past year and everyone’s plans for the new year. We go to bed after having an enjoyable time. I love Lunar New Year’s Eve. It’s a joyful time that brings my family together.

5. Talk about a traditional dance

Now I will to tell you about the xoe dance, a traditional dance of the Thai ethnic group in Viet Nam. Thai people have followed this spiritual tradition for generations. The xoe dance expresses people’s working life and wishes for a happy and wealthy life. It is performed in both public and private gatherings such as celebrations, festivals or family reunions.The xoe dance has more than 30 forms based on the first six ancient forms. The most popular form is the xoe vong or ‘circle dance’ because it expresses social unity. People, young or old alike, join hands to make a circle around the fire and dance to the music. Besides the circle dance, there are dances with conical hats, paper fans or scarves.Old people say they shouldn’t break with this tradition it because reflects Thai culture and lifestyle. As a Thai folk song goes, without the xoe dance, the rice won’t grow and people won’t get married. I like this dance.

The Obon dance is a traditional Japanese dance. People have the honour of their ancestors. The Obon festival takes place in mid-August in many regions of Japan and in mid-July in other regions. There are many forms in different regions. The most typical form is circle dance. People make a circle around a yagura, a high wooden stage; some dancers move clockwise, and some counter-clockwise. This is one of the most important traditions. A lot of people come back to reunite with their families during the Obon festival. I really like this dance.
Topic 5: Festival in Viet Nam

1. Which place do you prefer to go to? Explain your choice.

-I prefer to go to Hung King Temple festival because I really want to participate in exciting activities here suxh as attending the content “Package, cook banh chung, sacrifice day cake to the Hung King, and I have never seen a lot of great art performaces there so I am very excited and I also want to devote my patriotic soirit through this festival.

- I prefer to go to Huong pagoda festival because I want to participate in physical axtivities such as hiking in the mountain, exploring caves ad taking photos of the beautiful scenery here and I would like to take this opportunity to worship the Buddha with the offerings that I will prepare with everyone and my family and me will pray for the good fortune and happiness for our family.

2. What things should you take with you? Why?

- I think I take the umbrella because it can be very shine and that is not good for us and it can make us sunburn and if have rain we also have the umbrella to cover the rain to get wet.

-I think we should to take incense, fresh fruits to the Huong pagoda festival because we will worship and light incense for the Buddha to pray for good fortune and happiness for us

-We think we should bring along enough mineral water to drink if we thirsty during the trip and we’ll need it we join to many activities in the festival

3. Talk about your favorite festival ?

This festival is Ooc bom boc. It’s held by our ethnic group in Soc Trang on the 14^th and 15^th evenings of the 10^th lunar month. We worship the Moon God at the festival. We thank him because he gives us good harvest and plenty of fish in the river. There are many activities: first, we have worshiping ceremony at home, under the bamboo archway at the pagoda. When the moon appears, the old pray to the moon god and the children raise their clasped hand to the moon. The offering are green rice flake, coconuts, potatoes and pie cakes. Then we float beautiful paper lantern on the river and the next evening, we hold trilling dragon boat races. I like this festival becau it interesting and strange with me.

In Viet Nam, there have one of biggest festival is Hung King Temple festival. It’s held in Phu Tho province on the 8^th to 11^th or the third lunar month. This festival commemorate the melt of the Hung King. The festival has a procession from the foot of Nghia Linh Mountain to the Upper Temple on the top of the mountain. There are offerings of incense and specialties such as banh chung (rice cake), thick cake, tray of fruits of the King Hung.There are have many activities like bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing performances. I like this festival because it so meaningful it show the love to my country.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-What is the festival?

-What time this festival take place?

-Who worship in that festival?

-What activities in that festival?

-Do you like this festival? Why or why not?

4. How important is the traditional festival to our in life?

-Festivals bring in positivity and happiness. They make you enthusiastic and excited for little things. They help in spreading love and kindness. And this is what the world needs. Life is cheerful with festivals. They become one reason behind your smile. So celebrate all the good things in life :)

- Festivals for us are the chains and that bind Friends, Families and time together and hence closed ones to spend more lead to happiness and Love which boosts the quality of our Life. In today era where we all are running like crazy behind Materialistic things Festivals are a welcome break for us to stop, smell the roses and prioritize our Goals and what we want from Life. It is very easy to get carried away without a thought to what makes us happy. Festivals for me is a time which takes the clock back and reminds me every single time what I need the most.

- Festivals are like cherry in the cake. Where we make some good memories, meet relatives. If we have festivals we can enjoy life by making it special than the other usual days which have every day. Life is not about living. It is about benefiting everyone by spreading joy and peace.

5. What should we do to preserve our tradition festival?

- Because they are our common experiences and the factors that form nations. Festival can be considered as part of culture and that is a major factor that bonds nations. That is not to say that we must oppose change. A culture that doesn’t changes with time and changing circumstances and under the influence of other cultures becomes a dead culture, just as a language that no longer adepts to changing uses is a dead language.

- Because these things preserved the lives and safety of our ancestors in the past and while they may lack use currently, they may save our children in the future. It rarely cost anything to remember and maintain the key attributes of your cultural identity especially when you integrate them with your current situation.

- Good traditions festival should be preserved until something is proven to be better comes about, something that causes people to rejoice in the goodness of being alive, something that is equally uplifting, something that gives hope and creates love, or until these arrogant, bored, pugnacious generations are gone in order to give rise to yet another generation willing to try and change things for what they perceive to be better than the former generation’s traditions.

Topic 6: Folk tales 1. Talking about a legend/ folk tale/fairy

tale/ fable

-Fable: There was an elderly man living with his wife in a shabby shed. Everyday , he goes fishing. After three days of catching nothing but seaweed and trash, one day he caught a goldfish - a fish that was a god. The fish begged him to release and promised to do what he wanted. However, the old man does not want anything for himself and let go of the fish. When he returned home, he told his wife about the goldfish. She was angry that her husband did not ask for anything from the fish and asked him to go to the sea to ask for a new pig trough because the old one broke. The goldfish happy to meet him. The next day, his wife asked for a new house, and goldfish also responded. Not stop there, his wife sent him to ask for her goldfish to become the first lady goods and then the queen with the palace, the servants of the lower. When it was over, she became mistreated by the old man but the old man persisted. Peak, she demanded to become king of the sea to control the goldfish. At this point, gold fish angry and recover all that has been done. He and his wife returned to poverty earlier.

-Legend: In the life of the sixth Hung King, in the village of Giong has an elderly couple doing business and have the reputation of being virtuous. Two grandparents wish to have a child. One day she came out to see a footprint too big, then set up his feet to try to see how much worse. Unexpectedly about her home pregnancy and twelve months after birth a very handsome nose boy. The couple is very happy. But strange! The child until the three still do not know how to say, laugh, do not know, where to put it lying there. Now An invaders invaded the territory of our country. The enemy was strong, the king was afraid. Worship the messengers go everywhere to find talented people to save the country. The baby heard the news, suddenly said: "Mom invited the messenger here." When the messenger came in, the boy said, "You tell the king to give me a flaming iron horse, an iron bar and an iron armor, and I will destroy the enemy."The messenger was astonished, gladly, hurriedly about the king. The king ordered workers to work day and night to make small things. More strange, after the meeting with the messenger, he grows as fast as blowing. The boy rose up, stretched a sudden turn into a high-rise, his majestic majesty. The bartender stepped up onto his horse's ass. Horses long echoes resound. The armor-bearer wields a whip to jump on his horse. Horses sprayed fire, the master pushed the horse straight to where the enemy, rushed into the heavenly great maid of heaven to exacerbate anomalous violence, the enemy died as rancid. Suddenly the iron rod broke. The brewers then plucked the bamboo clusters next to the road into the enemy. Broke down. The massacres trampled on each other, fleeing to the foot of Mount Soc (Soc Son). Then to the top of Mount Soc Son riding horse back to heaven. The King is gratefulso he make for Phu Dong Thien Vuong and temple in his hometown.

-Folk tales: In the past, the 18th King Hung King brought up a smart boy named Mai Yen, named An Tiem. Growing up, the king married An Tiem, and believed in the court. Suffering thanks to his father, An Tuêm again pretended that self-reliant talent to build his career, but no one. This word came to the king's ears. The king considered An Tiem as an arrogant, ungrateful, full of An Tiem with his wife and son to a remote island, outside the sea of ​​Nga Son (Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam).His wife, Ba, was afraid to die outside the lonely island. But An Tiem calmly said: "Heaven gave birth to me, living death is in Heaven and in me, what to worry.An Tiem and his son lived lonely in a sand beach, on the island. They try to cultivate, cultivate to earn a living. One day, in the summer, a strange bird from the west flies to a sand pit. Birds drop some seeds to the ground. For a while, the seeds germinate, grows the leaves of the leaves. Flowering plants, large fruit. Many green fruits, red intestines. An Injection told his wife: "This plant does not naturally grow there. Then An Tiem picked and tasted, see the green shell, red intestine, black seeds, fragrant and sweet, cool. An Tiem took the seeds planted everywhere, then spread out a lot. One day, a ship was stormed on the isle. Everyone on the beach, there are many strange fruit, delicious. They race to change food for An Tiem family. From then on, the rumor went that there is a very good melon variety on the island. Commodities are busy to buy all kinds of supplies and food for An Tiem family. Thanks to that little family of An Tiem becomes full, the life of the tribe. Because the bird brought melon seed from the West, An Tiem named the fruit this is the West Taurus people eat delicious, compliment is "hẩu", so later called the camp is watermelon. Shortly afterwards, the king sent his son to the island off the coast of Nga Son to investigate the An Thiem family, living or dying. The apostle recounts the prosperous and leisurely life of the An Tiem couple, the king ponders his son's favor, and gives An Tiem an old-fashioned return in the court. An Tiem brought to the King of watermelon that he was lucky. Then distributed the seeds of melon to the people planted in the sandy soil, enriching the country with a famous fruit. The island that An Tiem lived in, was called Chau An Tiem.

-Fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood lives in a forest. One day, she visited her grandmother.When she is picking flowers on the road, she meets an evil wolf. He asked, "Where are you going?" The girl said, "I'm going to visit my grandma."So the wolf made a plan. He ran to her house and swallowed her. It goes to her bed. After a while, Little Red Riding Hood came to the house. She looked at the wolf and said, "Grandmother, you have big eyes!" He replied. "To see me clearly!"Then she said, "Grandma, your ear is big!", She replied, "To hear you better”Finally she said: "Grandma, your teeth are big!", The wolf replied, "To eat you."The woodcutter is working in the woods. He heard screams and ran to the house.He hit the wolf head. The wolf opened his mouth and screamed and she jumped out. The wolf runs away.

*some questions about writing posts (reply): một số câu hỏi về bài viết (tự trả lời)

-What is the title of the story?

-Which story do you like most?

-Who is the main character?

-What is the plot of this story?

-What type of this story?