Language Focus- Unit 9 Trang 67 Sách Bài Tập (SBT) Tiếng Anh 11

B. LANGUAGE FOCUS

Exercise 1.

A. Below are the transcriptions of some words. Write the orthographic forms of the words.Example: /ai'die/ —> idea

[ Dưới đây là phiên âm của 1 số từ. Viết từ đó.]

1. /skees/      2. /skwi: z/      3./,spəʃi'æliti/        4. /'stʌmək/

5. /'speiʃəs/     6. /'stændəd/     7. /'skaiskreipə(r)/   8./spoil/

Practise reading the following sentences.

[ Thực hành đọc những câu sau ]

1. Stanley asked his son to stop making speeches at school.

2. I can’t stand people speaking ill of me.

3. From dawn to dusk, he spends his time speculating the best score he could have made.

4. The man with a scar on his face standing next to me has just caused a scandal.

Hướng dẫn giải 

1. scarce    

2. squeeze

3. speciality

4. stomach

5. spacious  

6. standard

7. skyscraper

8. spoil

Exercise 2. Join the sentences, using whose.

[ Nối câu sử dụng từ "whose" ]

1. There was a tall man at the funeral. His wife could not come because she was ill.

2. There was a journalist there. Her work took her to lots of different countries.

3. I met a lot of new people at the party. I can’t remember their names.

4. I talked to a woman. Her car had broken down on the way to the party.

5. I was introduced to a man. I had seen his brother on television the evening before.

Hướng dẫn giải 

1. There was a tall man at the funeral whose wife could not come because she was ill.

2. There was a journalist there whose work took her to lots of different countries.

3. I met a lot of new people at the party whose names I can’t remember.

4. I talked to a woman whose car had broken down on the way to the party.

5. I was introduced to a man whose brother I had seen on television the evening before.

Exercise 3. Complete the sentences with "which" or "whose" 

Hoàn thành câu với từ "which" hoặc "whose" 

1. I'm working on a firm ______ main office is in London. 

2. The firm, _______ employs five hundred people, makes video recorders. 

3. My boss, _______ work takes him to a lot of different countries, has decided he needs an assistant in London. That’s me.

4. I work mainly in the Finance Department, ______  is the smallest department in the firm.

5. The work, _______  increases a lot when the boss is away, is always interesting.

Hướng dẫn giải 

1. whose      2. which     3. whose    4. which     5. which

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with who, which, where, whose, or that.

Hoàn thành câu với những từ who, which, where, whose, hoặc that.

1. The house______ I lived as a child has been pulled down now.

2. Stop him. He’s the man_______ stole my wallet.

3. There are many people_______ lives have been spoiled by that factory.

4. Is that the button_______ you pressed?

5. Could everybody______ luggage has got lost please stay here?

6. The man ______ I saw last week said something totally different.

7. They have invented a television set_______ is as small as a watch.

8. My grandmother,_______ was an extraordinary woman, lived to the age of a hundred and fifteen.

Hướng dẫn giải 

1. where       2. who       3. who       4. which

5. whose      6. who        7. which    8. who

Exercise 5. Rewrite the sentences using the relative clauses. Supply the commas where necessary.

Viết lại những câu sau sử dụng đại từ quan hệ. Dùng dấu phẩy nếu cần. 

Example:

Zedco has ten thousand employees. It is an international company.

Zedco, which has ten thousand employees, is an international company.

1. Vicky’s name was missed off the list, so she wasn’t very pleased.

Vicky________ wasn’t very pleased.

2. Laura painted a picture, and it’s being shown in an exhibition.

The picture__________ is being shown in an exhibition.

3. We’re all looking forward to a concert. It’s next Saturday.

The concert_________ is next Saturday.

4. One week Mike and Harriet went camping. It was the wettest of the year.

The week________ was the wettest of the year.