Exercise 1. Read the description of Ho Chi Minh City. Which words in the THINK! exercise are in the text?

Answer Instructions:

buildings, amusement parks, shopping malls

Exercise 2. Complete the Key Phrase with words from the text.

Answer Instructions:

1. South/ Viet Nam

2. 9,000,000 (Nine million)

3. modern/ really friendlt

4. Many good amusement parks, shopping malls/ buildings

5. Some times visit Vung Tau, Phan Thiet and Da Lat,.../ Ho Chi Minh City is more interesting

Exercise 3. Look at the phrases in blue in the text. Then underline the correct words.

1. When an adjective and a noun are together, the adjective is before / after the noun.

2 We use really, very and quite before / after an adjective.

Answer Instructions:

1. before     2. before

Exercise 4  Compound sentences.

Look at the underlined sentences in the text.

Then cirde the correct words.

1. We use and to join similar / opposite independent clauses in a compound sentence.

2. We use but to join similar / opposite independent clauses in a compound sentence.

3. old town/ 152,160/ Hoi An Town/ and/ is/ got/ a population/ it's/ of about/ an

4. sometimes/ stays in Ha Noi/ Mr Nam/ but/ in Ho Chi Minh/ lives/ he

Answer Instructions:

1. similar

2. opposite

3. Hoi An Town is an old town, and it's got a population of about 152,160

4. Mr Nam sometimes stays in Ha Noi, but he lives in Ho Chi Minh

Exercise 5. Follow the steps in th writing guide

Answer Instructions:

Sam Son is a town in Viet Nam. It's got a population of about 172. 350. It's a coastal area and the people are very friendly. Sam Son beach is a nice place to visit. I sometimes travel to Sam Son with my family