Language Focus - Unit 11 Trang 126 Tiếng Anh 12

Pronunciation

● Listen and practise reading, the following sentences, paying attention to the stressed syllables.

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1. Why did you behave like that?

2. Come for a swim.

3. I think it will be fine.

4. She’s gone for a walk in the park.

5. I wonder if he'll ever come back.

Mark the primary stress over the main stress syllables, then practise reading the sentences.

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Peter's coming in a minute if he can.

Come and see us at our new apartment.

Where's your new apartment? Is it in another district?

Why was he trying to embarrass me?

Probably he wanted you to notice him.

❖ Grammar

Exercise 1: Rewrite the sentences in the passive.

1. You mustn't use this machine after 5.30 p.m.

2. You must clean this machine every time you use it.

3. You should keep the flower in a warm sunny place.

4. You should pay your bill before you leave the hotel

5. You should give us the information now.

6. You can buy toothpaste at the drug store.

7. We should warn the children not to speak to strangers.

8. Nobody can solve the mystery.

9. You can exchange travellers' cheques at most banks.

10. You shouldn't tell her the news. It might kill her.

Exercise 2: Complete the conversation with the suitable passive form of the verbs in brackets.

Naomi: Dr. Kay. I’d like to ask how meals (1. will/prepare) ……….. in the Space Station ………food (2. be going to/cook)………..on board or taken in the form of tablets?

Dr. Kay: Neither. Gourmet meals (3. will/pre-package) ……………. on Earth then they (4. can/warm up)…………………on board.

Naomi: But the tourists will be from different parts of the world. How…………….food (5. should/choose) …………..to suit everyone’s taste?

Dr. Kay:An international menu (6. have to/offer)………………Food (7. could/select) ………..from food preference forms that tourists completed before the trip. And meals (8. ought to/make)…………….as pleasant as possible.