Bài tập môn Tiếng anh Lớp 9 - Unit 9: English in the world

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1. UNIT 9: ENGLISH IN THE WORLD A. PHONETICS I. Decide whether the underlined words are new (N) or known (K) information. 1. Kingsley: That T-shirt is really nice. Naomi: Yeah! It’s nice, but it’s not cheap. 2. Anna: Which certificate does that school require, TOEFL or IELTS? Lucy: As far as I know, they have changed from TOEFL to IELTS for a long time. 3. Elena: Many people like American English better than British English. Sarah: I prefer Canadian English. 4. James: I want to buy a new smartphone but it’s not easy to choose one with low price but high quality. Oliver: Try using the Samsung. 5. Lucas: Do you like reading e-books? Mason: Yes, I do. One thing I love about e-books on my iPad is the in-text dictionary look-up feature. 6. Jackson: What kind of music do you usually listen to? Samuel: I don’t have time for music, but sometime I enjoy some pop songs. 7. Nicholas: Let’s eat out tonight. Which restaurant would you like? Dominic: I’d like the buffet in Renaissance Hotel. Western cuisine is my favourite, you know. 8. Jack: Which dictionary do you like more, Oxford or Cambridge? Luke: I can’t say for sure because I often use both of them. II. Decide whether the voice goes down (D) or up (U) on the underlined words. 1. Dylan: John is from Leeds. ( ___ ) Issac: Oh, I used to study there. ( ___ ) 2. Alexander: Where did you buy that dictionary? ( ___ ) Cameron: I borrowed it ( ___ ) from the school library. 3. Roman: Which is your hat? ( ___ ) Jordan: The blue one. ( ___ ) 4. Carter: This kind of milk tea ( ___ ) tastes good. Why don’t you try it? Owen: I don’t like milk tea. ( ___ ) 5. Violet: My brother wants to become a teacher. ( ___ ) Bella: Really? My mother is also a teacher. ( ___ ) 6. Grace: I’ll have something for dessert. ( ___ ) Would you like to have some? Chloe: Yes, I’d like some juice. ( ___ ) 7. Natalie: I think English ( ___ ) is the easiest foreign language. Penelope: Yes, people speak it ( ___ ) everywhere. 8. Santiago: I can’t decide which country ( ___ ) in Europe to visit first. Anthony: Why don’t you try England? ( ___ ) B. VOCABULARY 1. Supply noun form of the adjectives given. 1. tired ___ 11. creative ___ 2. stupid ___ 12. simple ___ 3. popular ___ 13. dark ___ 4. ill ___ 14. weak ___ 5. mad ___ 15. obese ___ 6. happy ___ 16. good ___ 7. dense ___ 17. flexible ___ 8. real ___ 18. variable ___ 9. punctual ___ 19. mobile ___ 10. kind ___ 20. possible ___ II. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from the box.
2. 1. This book is about the different ___ of English spoken in North America. 2. She was told she had a very pronounced French ___ when she speaks English. 3. Jimmy Nguyen is an American and he is ___ in Vietnamese and English. 4. In one sense, we all have a(n) ___ as all of us have only one biological mother. 5. Many people have to ___ the meaning of this outdated word in the dictionary. 6. My mother’s English is very ___ these days because she hasn’t spoken it for ages. 7. The teacher has one of the best word books for learning English words and technical 8. If you want to study English to further your education, an English ___ program is the best way to learn the language. 9. English became the ___ for business in spite of the fact that the world’s population was largely Chinese. 10. The villagers often shifted between the local ___ and a more standard variety based on the people they were talking to. III. Choose the best answers to complete the sentences. 1. In Mexico, you can ___ in simple English, but it will be better if you know Spanish. A. get by B. pick up C. look up D. translate 2. A(n) ___ language cannot be learned rapidly, it must be learned step by step. A. first B. second C. official D. foreign 3. Many Spanish, Portuguese, and English words are descendants, or ___, of Latin words. A. transformations B. imitations C. derivatives D. varieties 4. I’ll try to show you some strategies that can help you ___ the meaning of new words. A. correct B. have C. make D. guess 5. My aunt used to work as a ___ secretary for a multinational insurance company. A. bilingual B. fluent C. rusty D. reasonably good 6. English has borrowed words from many other languages due to its ___. A. popularity B. openness C. simplicity D. flexibility 7. The massive ___ to the United States in the 19th century contributed to the growth of English. A. settlement B. establishment C. creation D. immigration 8. He has a good ear for ___ and can usually tell where a speaker comes from. A. pronunciations B. accents C. vocabularies D. meanings 9. A dialect is a ___ form of a language spoken specifically by a particular group of people. A. regional B. native C. national D. original 10. English has become a flexible language in which the same word can operate as many parts of ___. A. statement B. structure C. speech D. sentence IV. Write the correct form of the word in brackets. 1. Jennifer speaks Russian and Italian quite ___ but she’s weak in grammar. (fluent) 2. Could French become the second ___ language in the world, after English? (globe) 3. The ___ has successfully rendered this difficult poem into his native language. (translate) 4. Ms Lan studied western cultures and she has been teaching English to ___ for three years. (foreign) 5. In ___ language, we tend to use more informal expression than in written language. (speak) 6. English has become a world language because of its ___ as a mother tongue outside England. (establish)
3. 7. Openness of vocabulary implies both free admission of words from other languages and the ready creation of compounds and ___. (derivative) 8. English owes its ___ status to the political, colonial, economic and cultural power it deployed from the end of the 16th century. (dominate) 9. You need to be ___ good at English, as your work will require communicating with foreigners. (reason) 10. One of the first ___ in North America was established in the central part of Canada. (settle) C. GRAMMAR I. Write the correct form of the verbs in the conditional sentence type 2. 1. I ___ (be) able to travel around the universe if I ___ (be) an alien. 2. If my brother ___ (get) a new job now, he ___ (probably, make) more money. 3. If we ___ (go) home today, the Johnsons ___ (visit) us on Sunday. 4. What ___ (you, do) if you ___ (win) a scholarship to study in Canada? 5. He ___ (install) this dictionary application if it ___ (be) a free version. 6. I think English ___ (not, be) easier if it ___ (have) fewer technical terms. 7. If Linda ___ (be) here, she ___ (help) us translate the document. 8. My English skills ___ (much, improve) if I ___ (live) in the UK some years. 9. If she ___ (can become) fluent in English, a world of opportunity ___ (open) up for her career. 10. If I ___ (be) you, I ___ (subscribe) to some English classes on the Internet right now. II. Complete the sentences using the conditional sentences type 2. 1. You don’t know English, so you have to study it in our school. If you 2. The students don’t understand the essay because their English is not good. The students 3. I think you should spend more time improving your English pronunciation. If I 4. I choose to study English because it is easy to master and widely spoken. I wouldn’t 5. The foreign company turns down her application since she doesn’t speak English well. If she 6. Those tourists want to order a Vietnamese dish but they don’t know Vietnamese. If those 7. He can’t apply for an interpreting job because he can’t speak English fluently. If he 8. The foreigner teacher’s accent is so strong that many of us can’t follow him. Many of 9. This lesson has so many new words that I will have to learn them for hours. If this 10. She wants to live in Canada but she doesn’t have enough money and she can’t speak English. If she III. Choose the correct options to complete the sentences. 1. We’ve looked at just some of the reasons (what/ which/ why) English in business is important. 2. There are more than 50 English speaking countries, (that/ where/ which) English is either the official or the primary language. 3. What is the easiest foreign language (that/ which/ when) you have learned so far?
4. 4. It is difficult to point to a specific date (when/ why/ where) English was introduced into Viet Nam. 5. Is it important to translate the language (who/ whom/ which) I am learning to my native language? 6. They require that all the students (whose/ who/ that) native language is not English need to take an English proficiency exam. 7. He attended an English teaching program and met great instructors from (where/ who/ whom) he learned effective teaching practices. 8. In the old days, (when/ which/ that) English was a new language, writers could invent new words and use them. 9. Those (whom/ who/ whose) use English for their work on a daily basis need to be able to use it for different purposes. 10. In nearly every major city in Canada, you can find private language schools (which/ who/ where) English is taught alongside other languages of the world. IV. Write complete sentences using the word in brackets. 1. A song won the international competition. It was written in English. (which) The song 2. Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist. He wrote The Old Man and the Sea. (who) Ernest Hemingway, 3. You have chosen Singapore to study English. Can you tell me the reason? (why) Can you ? 4. Dung wants to work as an interpreter. His latest IELTS score is 9.0. (whose) Dung, 5. I am looking for a native English speaker. I can speak to him without hesitation. (whom) I am looking 6. This book presents literary texts from the 14th century. English literature exploded into life at that time. (when) This book 7. I’ll show you the used book store. You can find old dictionaries in this store. (where) I’ll show 8. English today is a changing language. It has been influenced by different cultures and languages. (that) English today 9. There’s simple English. It is spoken in many countries, with many varieties. (which) There’s simple 10. A person speaks English fluently. He is known as an Anglophone. (who) A person V. Choose the best answers to complete the sentences. 1. Would you like to learn a language, ___ is the easiest one to pick up? A. which B. that C. of which D. from which 2. If Jonathan ___ to fail his English test tomorrow, he ___ take it again. A. were - would have to B. was - will have to C. could be - has to D. was - may have to 3. If I ___ a teacher of English, I ___ English through reading appropriate short stories. A. was - will teach B. were - would teach C. was - can teach D. were - may teach 4. This is one of the best English books for boys and girls ___ mother-tongue is not English. A. whom B. that C. who D. whose 5. If English ___ important, they ___ it in all high schools.
5. A. wasn’t - might teach B. wasn’t - could teach C. weren’t - wouldn’t teach D. weren’t - didn’t teach 6. Do you remember that day ___ we said goodbye for the very last time? A. at which B. when C. which D. to whom 7. Linguistics is the scientific study of language, ___ involves analysing language form, language meaning, and language in context. A. whom B. whose C. that D. which 8. If you ___ one thing about English education, what ___ like to change? A. can change - would you B. could change - you would C. could change - would you D. would change - could you 9. What is the most multicultural city, ___ the official language is not English? A. at which B. that C. which D. where 10. Even if English ___, Singapore ___ to attract people from all over the world. A. wasn’t so spoken widely - would undoubtedly continue B. weren’t so widely spoken - would undoubtedly continue C. wasn’t spoken so widely - could continue undoubtedly D. so widely weren’t spoken - undoubtedly could continue VI. Choose the word or phrase that needs correction. 1. One of the reasons that English is known for being difficult is because it’s full of A B C D contradictions. 2. If English weren’t an international language then the books you read would be in English. A B C D 3. In total, around 700 million Africans speak English, including those who speak it like A B C D a foreign language. 4. If we all learn English as the first foreign language, what would happen to the world? A B C D 5. A lingua franca is any language using for communication between people who do not A B C share a native language. D 6. If you use this English pronunciation app, it will help you speaking English confidently A B C D and clearly. 7. If English were not subject to simplifications, it would still be a lot more similar to Germany. A B C D 8. If you asked for information in Japanese, I’m afraid those people could answer, but if A B C you asked in English, all of them would. D 9. Will there be a time when English is replaced, possible by a language that has not even A B C D evolved yet? 10. Unless you wrote “colour” in one sentence and then “realize” in the next, you would A B C be penalised for mixing your spellings. D D. SPEAKING I. Complete the conversation with the sentences from the box.
6. Loan: My father said that I should master English and computer skills if I wanted to have a good job in the future. Hung: He was totally right. (1) ___ Loan: Computer is necessary, but why should it be English? My elder sister is working for a Japanese company with a high salary. (2) ___ Hung: (3) ___Although English is the language for business in many countries, there are still other widely spoken languages that people want to use in their place, such as French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, as in your sister’s company. Loan: How do you think about Chinese? Hung: I think it’s difficult to master Chinese. It uses a complex writing and pronunciation system. (4) ___ Loan: What do you mean originating from Latin? Hung: (5) ___Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Romansh, and other Romance languages are direct descendants of Latin. Loan: Hmm. This makes me wonder whether Vietnamese is also a direct descendant of Latin. Hung: Well, I’m not sure. Maybe we should call it indirect descendant of Latin. A linguist will be able to answer it, I think. Loan: Now that I think about it. (6) ___ Hung: Yes, that’s one of the reasons why we can study English easily. (7) ___ ___ Loan: What is it? Hung: I like computer programming language whose character system basically involves in English. Loan: (8) ___ Hung: Well, now you know. II. Match the sentences. 1. What is “Hinglish”? a. Why not? 2. I don’t know the meaning of this word. b. When did you move to the US? 3. Are you fluent in English? c. Really? Isn’t English their mother 4. I won’t go to England this summer. tongue? 5. Is English the official language in your d. It is a blend of English and Hindi. country? e. To improve my writing skill and 6. Since I moved to the US, I have had a apply for an international scholarship. better chance to practise English. f. A little. 7. What do you do to improve your g. No. It’s French. pronunciation? h. You can look it up in the dictionary.
7. 8. Can you speak German? i. I listen to audio files in English and 9. Why do you take this course? imitate the native speakers’ accent. 10. Those Canadians speak French. j. Not really. I just know enough to get by. E. READING I. Read the passage and choose the best answers. Given the number of places around the world that English is spoken, differences are bound to emerge. Despite how much the USA and the UK have in common, there are enough differences between their two versions of the English language that someone may not always understand exactly what someone from the other country is saying. Not only are there 160 distinct dialects of the English language, but there’s also different spelling and even words, used to describe one or other thing. Fortunately, the US State Department has created a series of useful graphics to help clear things up between the British English and American English usage. Did you know, that the difference between spelling words like American color and British colour, or humor and humour, comes from the Brits adopting, their now called British words, from Old French language? When it came to America later, the spelling was simplified. And so is with many other American English and British English differences, as the adaptation of grammar took its part. The US and the UK’s imperial histories and modern influence over the world have changed the English wording forever. Because it was exported to countries all over the world, it has been forced to accept different variations of the same language, the most known one to be the British and American. 1. What is the passage mainly about? A. Some differences between English and Old French B. Some differences between British English and American English C. Differences in spelling between British English and American English D. The reasons why American English is different from British English 2. The word “distinct” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ___. A. different B. ancient C. modern D. obsolete 3. As we can learn from the second paragraph, the word “neighbor” is ___. A. British English B. American English C. Old French D. None of the above 4. What can we conclude about the spelling of American English according to the passage? A. It creates another usage, as compared to British English. B. It keeps the same form of Old French. C. It is simpler than that of British English. D. It changes according to the grammar. 5. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Despite some differences between the two versions of English, the Brits and the Americans always understand exactly what someone from the other country is saying. B. There are only differences in dialects and spelling between British English and American English. C. The UK and the USA did not adopt any words from Old French language. D. The export of English to countries all over the world resulted in its different variations. II. Fill in each blank with a word from the box. ETS, an American non-profit organization (1) ___ goal is “to help advance quality and equity in education”, manages these two very popular “language certificates”: the TOEFL and the TOEIC.
8. It might be abusive to call them certificates though. Technically they are standardized language tests. That means you cannot fail them and the score is interpreted as your (2) ___ in the English language. In practice, schools use the score to (3) ___ or to refuse students for programs or outgoing mobility. If prospective students do not (4) ___ their requirement, they are not going to get (5) ___. The ETS is thus a service provider (6) ___ gives standardized tests which are recognized everywhere. So the tests do not entitle students to a certificate or a (7) ___. But as those tests have become globally recognized, they have become references and people often write them in their resumes and it’s still (8) ___ even when they past their validity time. And as such, it is no surprise that people have started calling them certificates abusively. F. WRITING I. Combine the pairs of sentences using the words in brackets. 1. English is flexible. The same word can operate as many parts of speech. (weren’t) 2. Learning English online has become popular. It gives learners new experience. (which) 3. Those tourists are bilingual in French and English. They come from Canada. (who) 4. I can’t learn another foreign language. They don’t teach it in high school as a subject. (could) 5. There are plenty of countries around the world. People speak perfect English there everywhere you go. (where) 6. I speak English fluently. It’s easy for me to make lots of international friends. (didn’t) 7. Mr. Robinson is a well-known English teacher. His lectures are always interesting. (whose) 8. You don’t have a TESOL certificate. It’s not easy for you to work as a teacher. (If) 9. This book addresses the pronunciation of Latin in the Middle Ages. It was still the language of western Europe then. (when) 10. Elizabeth is looking for a Russian speaking language tutor. She can speak with him six hours a week. (whom) II. Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first one. 1. Sometimes people wouldn’t understand plain English if you didn’t speak very loudly. Unless 2. Speaking English fluently can make your work easier, but you need to improve other skills. Though speaking English 3. Many students find it difficult to pronounce ‘ear’ sound when they first learn English. Many students who 4. Thanks to the support from a Canadian friend, he speaks English confidently. Without the support 5. I do not know as much about English grammar as my best friend Huong does. My best friend 6. Many English words and technical terms spoken by the American were simplified. Many English words and technical terms which 7. They used to consider London, the capital of the UK, the world’s largest city. London,
9. 8. English is often taught as a foreign language in most countries where it is not an official language. They 9. Were you on summer vacation, you could enjoy yourself the most. If 10. The number of people learning English rose steadily according to the report. The number of people who