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Recording yourself is a good way to discover your weak and strong points

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The more clearly you speak the better chance your listener has of understanding you.

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Listening to the music of English means Listening to English music.

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Find native English speakers      In certain areas it’s the hardest thing to do, but it’s the best use of your time. Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills, speaking or otherwise. So whether you have to Skype them, call them, or beg them to speak to you, do so. Your progress will be faster this way than any other.

Listen to the music of English    No, not English music, the music of English - its lilt, its prosody, the sing-songy-ness of it. The intonation. Even if you speak perfect English technically, if you speak it like a robot you’re not speaking it the way it’s meant to be spoken.

Slow down    Above all, if you want to be understood, slow down. The more clearly you speak, the better chance your listener has of understanding you. It’s tempting to get nervous and want to speed up to get it all over with, but you can’t do that! Clarity is key - for some native English speakers, too!

Record yourself   Though we hear ourselves all the time, we really don’t know quite what we sound like. So record yourself! What are the weak and strong points you hear in your speech? And then you can concentrate on what you need to work on.

Speak English at home    This is the biggest, easiest mistake to make. You go about your day, you’re on the job working partly in English, you go to your English class, and then you go home and revert back to your native tongue. While you may be making slow improvements, you’ll never get past that dreaded lingual plateau. Make a point to speak it at home, too. Have only English at the dinner table. Stick to English TV at home. Make it as 24/7 as possible.

Talking to actual native speakers is the least effective way to improve your English skills

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People buy a lot of goods when they go to supermarkets.

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Customers get the goods they need from the shelves.

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A trolley carries you around the supermarket.

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You will need a basket if you want to buy a lot of things.

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It is comfortable and convenient to shop at a supermarket.

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The prices of the goods are written on small labels all over the shelves.

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An assistant in a supermarket will serve you if you ask for help.

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Now people buy all they need only from stores and markets.

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We go to a supermarket if we want to buy different kinds of goods at one time.

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Many years ago, people used to buy what they needed from stores and markets. Now where would you go if you wanted to buy all these goods at one time? Ask anybody, and he would probably say "you'd better go to the supermarket". A supermarket is a special kind of market. It is usually much larger than an ordinary store. In a supermarket, you can buy all kinds of food, household, products and daily necessities. In a store, a customer is served by a storekeeper but in a supermarket, the goods are arranged on rows of shelves along the aisles. The prices are printed on small labels on the goods. A customer gets goods he needs from the shelves. This is known as self-service. Of course, you can always ask for help from the supermarket shop assistants.

When you enter a supermarket, you take a basket to carry the goods you will buy. If you want to buy a lot of things, you will need a trolley. A trolley is like a large basket on wheels. You can push it along the aisles, choose what you want from the shelves and put it into your trolley. A supermarket often provides a more comfortable environment for shopping than a market that is usually wet and dirty. As a result, many people usually buy more goods than they need when they visit a supermarket.

Many years ago, people used to buy what they need from supermarkets.

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Why did the traffic stop?

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What didn’t happen during the time of “London Killer Fog”?

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How long did the “London Killer Fog” last?

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What is his unforgettable personal experience?

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I often hear or read about “natural disasters” – the eruption of Mount St. Helen, a volcano in the state of Washington; Hurricane Andrew in Florida; the floods in the American Midwest; terrible all over the world; huge fires; and so on and so on. But I’ll never forget my first personal experience with the strangeness of nature – “the London Killer Fog” of 1952. It began on Thursday, December 4, when a high – pressure system (warm air) covered southern England. With the freezing – cold air below, heavy fog formed. Pollution from factories, cars, and coal stoves mixed with the fog. The humidity was terrible high, there was no breeze at all. Traffic (cars, trains, and boats) stopped. People couldn’t see, and some walked onto the railroad tracks or into the river. It was hard to breathe, and many people got sick. Finally, on Tuesday, December 9, the wind came and the fog went away. But after that, even more people got sick. Many of them died.

Which “natural disaster” isn’t mentioned in the text?

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The most important thing is that we ……… foreign tourists come back to Viet Nam again .

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It …………that some foreigners had collected rubbish on Cat Ba Beach.

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The local government suggested ……. a road through the Nam Cat Tien National Park.

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The public suggested that the factories ………. with waste treatment system.

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It ……….. that China dug up the ocean floor to build artificial islands.

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We are going to visit Ha Long Bay ______ is one of the most interesting places of the North.

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My mother is a strong person. She stays_____ even in the worst situations

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Do you need to be that stressed______?

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I wish my parents could put themselves in my ______

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Physical changes are different for every, so you don’t need to feel embarrased or______

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Take the food _________ on the table.

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I know a man ___________ at Jones & Roe.

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A man ___________ sell cars.

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The ________ of the volcano was predicted in advance, so no one was injured.

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A ________ is a very strong wind that goes quickly around in a circle.

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