EXERCISES ENGLISH 8 UNIT 1 MY FRIENDS

GRAMMAR POINTS
A. ADJECTIVE ORDERS : (Thứ tự các tính từ)
When there is two or more than two adjectives standing in front of noun, those adjectives are arranged in orders according to
this order that YOU MUST LEARN BY HEART. (Khi có hai hay nhiều hơn hai tính từ đứng trước danh từ, những tính từ này
được sắp xếp theo một thứ tự nhất định mà BẠN PHẢI HỌC THUỘC)
1. Cardinal number (số đếm) : one, two, ten, twenty,… 5. Shape (hình dáng) : round, oval, square, rectangle,…
2. Opinion (ý kiến) : lovely, nice, great, awful, wonderful 6. Color (màu sắc) : red, brown, blue, green, black,…
3. Size (kích cỡ) : big, small, long, short, tall, fat, large,… 7. Origin (xuất xứ) : American, Chinese, Japanese,…
4. Age (tuổi tác) : new, old, young, elderly,… 8. Material (chất liệu) : stone, plastic, leather, paper,…
Note : sau các động từ be, become, get, seem, look, feel,… là các tính từ và động từ nguyên mẫu
B. PHRASE OF RESULT with ENOUGH : (Cụm từ với ENOUGH)
ENOUGH (đủ … để có thể) : được dùng sau
tính từ và trạng từ và dùng trước danh từ
adj / adv + enough + to-infinitive
E.g. : Nam is tall. He can reach the top shelf. He didn’t jump high. He didn’t win the prize.
 Nam is tall enough to reach the top shelf.  He didn’t jump high enough to win the prize.
(Nam đủ cao để với được cái chóp kệ sách) (Anh ta nhảy không đủ cao để đoạt giải)
Note : Khi chủ ngữ trong 2 câu khác nhau thì chủ ngữ trong câu thứ hai chuyển sang for + object.
E.g. : Tim spoke slowly. We could understand.
 Tim spoke slowly enough for us to understand. (Tim nói chậm đủ để chúng tôi hiểu được)
enough + noun + to-infinitive
E.g. : I didn’t have enough money to buy that car. Are there enough potatoes to make soup ?
(Tôi không có đủ tiền để mua chiếc xe đó) (Có đủ khoai để nấu xúp không ?)

EXERCISES
I. Arrange these adjectives in brackets in the correct order :
1. It’s a (wooden / round / brown) table.
2. She is wearing a (green / new / beautiful) dress.
3. What a (lovely / sunny) day !
4. Jack is wearing a (green / new) pullover.
5. My uncle lives in a (old / lovely / small) house.
6. That girl has (blue / nice / big) eyes.
7. He gave me (leather / black) gloves.
8. My teacher has a (round / pink / small) face.
9. It is a (small / metal / black) box.
10. It is a (fat / black / yellow / big) cat.
11. Jimmy has a collection of (postage / valuable / American) stamps.
12. There is a (French / interesting / old) painting in the gallery.
II. Use ENOUGH to combine each pairs of these following sentences :
1. My sister is old. She can drive a car.
2. The coat isn’t warm. I don’t wear it in winter.
3. The weather is fine. We can go camping.
4. Those apples aren’t ripe. We can’t eat them.
5. It’s near our house. We can walk there.
6. We aren’t tall. We can’t see the summit.
7. The ice is quite thick. He can walk on it.
8. The fir isn’t very hot. It won’t boil the kettle.
9. It’s not very dark at the moment. We can see the star clearly.

10. The ladder isn’t very long. I didn’t reach the window.

11. Mr. Robinson isn’t a rich business. He can’t afford to buy a villa.

12. I didn’t have money. I couldn’t go on a holiday to Beverly Hills.

13. The radio isn’t small. You can’t put it in your pocket.

14. She is beautiful and intelligent. She can become Miss World.

15. The worker is clever. He can make fine things from wood.

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PRACTICE EXERCISES
I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others :
1. A. happy B. character C. fat D. classmate
2. A. teacher B. pleasure C. please D. meet
3. A. tomorrow B. brown C. now D. how
4. A. character B. Christmas C. mechanic D. children
5. A. slim B. thin C. smile D. visit
6. A. letter B. friend C. pretty D. pleasure
7. A. character B. classmate C. happy D. photograph
8. A. enough B. volunteer C. public D. humor
9. A. shy B. curly C. lucky D. library
10. A. comes B. lives C. rises D. smiles
II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the others :
1. A. annoy B. enough C. lucky D. reserved
2. A. humor B. orphan C. receive D. curly
3. A. appearance B. annoyance C. outgoing D. character
4. A. extremely B. generous C. orphanage D. humorous
5. A. sociable B. volunteer C. photograph D. beautiful
6. A. annoyance B. remember C. lucky D. describe
7. A. sociable B. photography C. orphanage D. voluntary
8. A. although B. generous C. outgoing D. humorous
9. A. neighbor B. receive C. difference D. roommate
10. A. appearance B. reserved C. orphan D. description
III. Choose the correct answer :
1. She is ________________ to have a lot of brothers and sisters.
A. lucky enough B. too lucky C. enough lucky D. luckily enough
2. The earth _________________ around the sun.
A. moves B. circles C. goes D. all are correct
3. Tom seems very __________________ today. He got bad marks yesterday.
A. happy B. happily C. unhappy D. unhappily
4. What _______________________ ? He is very nice.
A. did Tom like B. is Tom like C. does Tom look like D. was Tom like
5. Generosity is part of the Vietnamese ___________________.
A. straightness B. orphanage C. joke-telling D. character
6. He is tall and thin. He has ____________________.
A. black hair short B. short black hair C. hair short black D. black short hair
7. It’s a ______________ for me not to meet you.
A. pleasure B. nice C. good D. pity
8. He is my ________________. We are in the same class.
A. neighbor B. principal C. roommate D. classmate
9. My mother is wearing a ____________________ dress.
A. red new pretty B. new pretty red C. pretty new dress D. pretty red new
10. I think Peter is not very __________________. He is rather _________________ in the public.
A. kind B. reserved C. sociable D. humorous
11. I love my father very much because of his good sense of ________________.
A. humor B. volunteer C. pleasure D. consideration
12. __________________ is something you say or do to make people laugh.
A. Joke B. Novel C. Poem D. Fairy tale
13. A home for children whose parents are dead is a(n) _________________.
A. resort B. orphanage C. hotel D. motel
14. How do you do ? - _____________________ ?
A. I am very well, thanks B. Nice to meet you C. How do you do ? D. What do you do ?
15. ___________________ to talk to my new friend ? – I’d love to.
A. Would you like B. Are you like C. Do you like D. Are you liking
IV. Choose the word or phrase that needs correcting :
1. I (A) strongly believe that friends (B) plays an important (C) role in (D) our life.
2. Children nowadays spend (A) more time (B) to play video games (C) than (D) reading books.
3. (A) This software isn’t (B) good enough (C) for the children (D) use.
4. Hoa (A) is very (B) happy when she (C) received a letter (D) from her friend this morning.
5. We are (A) very close friends (B) although we (C) have quite different (D) character.
6. You (A) won’t pass the examination (B) if you (C) don’t work hardly enough.
7. He always (A) eats eggs (B) for breakfast and (C) drink some (D) milk.
8. Harry went (A) to Disneyland (B) and (C) has a good (D) time.
9. Each (A) of the (B) rooms (C) have a color (D) television.
10. Once when I (A) was ten, I (B) used to get sick and (C) went to (D) the hospital.
V. Use the correct preposition :
1. There are usually a lot of parties ___________ Christmas.
2. I received a letter __________ my Australian pen pal Mindy yesterday.

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3. She usually goes swimming _____________ Friday afternoon.
4. Khoi is my close friend. I spend most of my time __________ him.
5. My mother usually spends two hours a week __________ ironing clothes.
6. Are you tired ________ listening to her complaints ?
7. His friends don’t laugh _________ his joke.
8. My Dad is loved because of his good sense _________ humor.
9. I often spend my free time doing volunteer work _________ a local orphanage.
10. He lives ________ 26 Tran Phu Street _________ Hanoi.
11. His idea is quite different _________ mine.
12. What does she look __________ ?
13. Last year, she came to the school _________ the first time.
14. ___________ her friends, she is quite reserved in the public.
15. Her family now is living peacefully __________ Hue.
VI. Use the correct verb tense or form :
1. Nien (be) _________ Hoa’s next door neighbor in Hue. She (be) ___________ very beautiful. She (have) __________ big
brown eyes and a lovely smile. Last week, she (go) ______________ to Hanoi (visit) ______________ Hoa. They (travel)
______________ around the city and (see) ______________ a lot of interesting places. Nien (think) _____________ Ha
Noi (be) ___________ a beautiful but so noisy and busy city, so she (not like) ____________ (live) _____________ there.
2. The sun _________________ in the east and (set) ________________ in the west.
3. Yesterday, my friend (accuse) _______________ me of (steal) _______________ his money. I (be) _____________ sad
because she (be) ______________ my best friend.
4. Alexander Graham Bell (not invent) _________________ the electric light bulb. Thomas Edison (do) ________________.
5. What (you / do) ______________________ every day after school ?
6. She (not drink) _________________ coffee. She (drink) _________________ Oolong tea.
7. Look out ! You (fall) ________________ into a big hole.
8. While you (do) ___________________ a test now, what (your mother / do) __________________________ ?
9. Each of the students (have) _______________ their own account in the school website.
10. I ___________________ them because of their joke last night. (annoy)
11. You seem ___________________ very happy and cheerful today. (be)
12. Rice (not grow) ___________________ in cold climates.
13. I would like _________________ a big cake for you and your family. (make)
14. It takes me two hours ________________ this composition. (compile)
15. It (be) ______________ often very hot in the summer.
VII. Use the correct word form :
1. Because his parents were dead, he was an _________________. (orphanage)
2. After taking an aspirin, her headache ______________________. (appearance)
3. My grandmother is loved because she has a good ____________________. (generous)
4. He doesn’t want to do that job much. He works very ____________________. (volunteer)
5. My sister is training to be a __________________. (beautiful)
6. __________________, nobody got lost in the jungle. (luck)
7. Her elder brother is very _________________. She enjoys ________________ with other people. (society)
8. Though Mai and My are twins, they have __________________ characters. (difference)
9. I am very __________________ to hear that you are well. (pleasure)
10. I like living in the countryside owing to its ________________________. (peaceful)
11. My younger brother often ____________________ to join Green Summer campaigns. (voluntary)
12. Mark Twain is a very ___________________ writer. (humor)
13. She was very __________________ sorry for the delay. (extreme)
14. These cats look very __________________. (love)
15. Money doesn’t bring ________________ to people. (happy)
16. How _________________ of you to break that cup ! (care)
17. She has short __________________ hair. (curls)
18. Can you give me some ___________________ about the train to London ? (inform)
19. Uncle Ho has a lot of good __________________________. (characteristics)
20. The band played the play Hamlet very ______________________. (beauty)
VIII. Fill in each blank in this passage with ONE suitable word :
Nga is a good-looking girl (1) _____________ long straight black hair. She goes to school six (2) _________ a week. She
has many (3) ____________. Of all her friends, Lan and Hoa are (4) ____________ ones she spends most of her (5) ________
with. They often go swimming (6) _____________ Sunday mornings. They (7) ____________ like listening to music, but Nga
(8) __________ the peace (9) ___________ quiet of the local library. The three of them (10) ____________ very close friends.
IX. Read these following passages and choose the best answer :
The police are looking (1) __________ a tall, teenager boy (2) __________ blue eyes in connection with a robbery yesterday at
Dayton’s Jewelry store. (3) __________ to the witness, the robber is about six feet, two inches (4) __________. He’s very thin
and his skin is of very (5) _____________ color. He (6) __________ dark straight hair. He has board shoulders and a dimple in
his check. He was last seen to wear a brown jacket and black pants. If you (7) __________ anyone fitting his description, (8)
____________ the police department immediately.
1. A. at B. for C. after D. into
2. A. of B. by C. and D. with
3. A. Following B. Talking C. According D. As
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4. A. tall B. high C. long D. short
5. A. bright B. faint C. heavy D. light
6. A. is B. have C. has D. had
7. A. saw B. see C. seen D. seeing
8. A. say B. come C. promise D. contact
My cousin, Linda, is a motor mechanic. She works (1) ________ a busy garage in the middle of the town about five-minute (2)
_________ from home. She (3) __________ everything about her job, except that she can’t never seem to get (4) __________
clean at the end of the day.
In the factory, most of the workers (5) __________ men. However, she gets on (6) __________ everyone very well. She is not
only a (7) __________ mechanic, but she is also a friendly person. She is considered to be the best mechanic in the garage by
most of her (8) ______________.
1. A. on B. in C. of D. from
2. A. bike B. walk C. running D. riding
3. A. likes B. enjoy C. like D. learn
4. A. completely B. complete C. too D. most
5. A. is B. be C. are D. being
6. A. at B. with C. to D. of
7. A. well B. slowly C. quickly D. good
8. A. students B. classmates C. workmates D. roommates
X. Read these following passages and decide if these following statements are TRUE or FALSE :
Of all my relatives, I like aunt Emily best. She’s my mother’s youngest sister. She has never married and lives alone in a small
village near Bath. She is fifty years old, but she’s quite young in spirit. She has fair complexion, thick brown hair and dark
brown eyes. She has a kind face, and when you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile. Her face is a little wrinkled
now, but I think she is rather attractive. She is the sort of person you can always go to if you have a problem and she’s
extremely generous. She like reading and gardening, and she still goes for long walks over the hills. I hope I’m as active as she
is when I’m in her age.
1. My aunt Emily has been married and now she lives alone.
2. She is attractive because she’s quite young.
3. She usually smiles at everyone she meets.
4. My aunt is an attractive woman.
This is my close friends’ picture. They are Tuong, Hanh, Ha and Nghia. Only Tuong is from Hanoi. He has curly black hair and a
square face with wide mouth. He is very generous and humorous. Nghia is not as tall as Tuong but very sporty and helpful. He
has been the badminton champion for years in his school. Ha is the oldest but the smallest. She is Hanh’s relative sister. She is
kind and hard-working. Thus, she is good at both Mathematics and English. She often goes to English speaking club every
Sunday. The last one is Hanh. She has long hair with beautiful eyes but a little bit reserved. However, she sings very well. I
took this picture when we were singing karaoke at my home last weekend.
1. Tuong is the tallest boy of all.
2. Hanh is sociable and shy and the oldest among the four.
3. Ha has curly hair and beautiful eyes.
4. Nghia is very good at playing sports.
XI. Rewrite these sentences, keeping the meaning unchanged :
1. The gate is too high for me to reach.  I am not
2. My teacher’s hair is long, black and curly.  My teacher has
3. What a lovely smile you have !  How lovely
4. It takes me two hours to watch television every day.
I spend
5. Tam is not strong. He can’t lift that heavy luggage.
Tam is not
6. The question is very easy. All of the students can answer it.
The question is
7. Peter is still young so he can’t swim in the swimming pool for adults.
Peter is not
8. The gate is too short for the truck to go through.
The gate is not
9. They are very intelligent. They can speak four languages.
They are
10. He can’t reach the top of the wardrobe because he is still a bit short.
He is not
11. She runs so fast that she won the first prize of the competition.
She runs fast
12. They spoke very quickly. I couldn’t understand what they said.
The spoke

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