Bài tập tự luận môn Tiếng anh lớp 8 - Unit 4: Our past

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BÀI TẬP TỰ LUẬN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 8 UNIT 4 OUR PAST 
1. Put the following direct commands into indirect commands, using "ask / tell + 
object + to-infinitive". 
Example: "Buy me some stamps, Hoa" Lan said. 
Lan asked Hoa to buy her some stamps. 
1. "Don't make too much noise, chidren," he said. 
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2. "Switch off the radio," he said to her. 
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3. "Shut the door, Tom," she said. 
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4. "Please pay at the desk," said the assitant to us. 
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5. "Lend him your dictionary for a moment, Lan" I said. 
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6. "Open your bag, please," he said. 
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7. "Don't touch that switch, Tom," I said. 
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8. "Fill up this form and send it by post," the secretary said to me. 
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2. Put the following sentences into the direct speech. 
1. She told me not to forget the explanations to the lessons. 
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2. She told me to stay there. 
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3. He told me to try to come on time. 
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4. The teacher told us not to make so much noise. 
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5. He told us to send him some money at once. 
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6. I told him not to call me again at that late hour. 
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7. His sister told him not to do anything dangerous. 
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8. My brother advised me to work harder for my final exams. 
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9. He asked us to be quiet. 
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10. I told him never to try to do that again. 
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3. Read the following passage, and then answer the questions below. 
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everyone learns his own 
language by remembering what he hears when he is still a small cjild and some chidren 
like boys and girls who live abroard with their parents seem to learn two languages 
almost as easily as one. In school, it is not so easy to learn a second language becuase 
pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well. 
The best way for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind with 
something which we know already, or which we easily remember because we have a 
picture of it in our mind. That is why it is better to learn words in sentences, not by 
themselves, ot to see, or do, or feel what the word means when we first use it. 
1. How does everyone learn his own language? 
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2. Why isn't tit easy for pupils to learn a second language at school? 
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3. What is the best way for us to remember things? 
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4. Is it better to learn words by themselves? 
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5. How should we learn new words? 
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4. Put the following words in the correct order. 
1. I / know / you / hard / this semester / worked / really. 
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2. this dictionary / he / told / me / him / to / give. 
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3. spend / more / you / should / on / English / pronunciation / time. 
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4. best / to / I'll / do / my / improve / them. 
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5. spend / on / how much / you / History / time / do? 
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6. you / should / practise / passages / in / English / reading / aloud. 
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7. experiments / many / conducted / he. 
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8. I / learn / how / should / new words? 
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9. take / physical / should / more / exercise / you. 
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10. to / to / time / should / come / on / he / class / try. 
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5. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences, if any. 
1. We used to playing marbles much years before. 
2. He didn’t used to staying up late night. 
3. On the dictionary Friday comes after Wednesday . 
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4. What do you do yesterday night? 
5. We go swimming on the river on last week. 
6. My sister is born on 1970. 
7. Childs often receivetoys and cakes from Santa Claus on Christmas. 
8. They usually get up soon at the morning. 
9. How do you often take a nap on noon? 
10. It is often rains on summer. 
6. Complete these sentences with “use(d) to. + a suitable verb” 
1. Tom gave up smoking two years ago. He  40 cigarettes a 
day. 
2. Peter . A motorbike, but last year he sold it and bought a car. 
3. They came to live in Paris a few years ago. They  in Lion. 
4. We realy eat ice cream now but we .. it when we were small 
boys. 
5. Lan  my best friend but we aren’t friends any longer. 
6. There . a hotel opposite the train station but it closed a long time ago. 
7. They .. boating when they came back to their village. 
8. I .. coffee but now I don’t drink it ant more. 
7. Practise writing sentences 
1. He stopped going to bed early 
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2. He stopped going out in the evening 
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3. He stopped running three miles evry morning 
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4. He stopped spending a lot of money 
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5. He stopped reading books 
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6. He stopped playing computer games 
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7. He stopped listening to the radio 
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8. He stopped watching films 
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8. Rwrite the following sentences in such a way that the meaningis unchanged, 
beginning with the words given. 
1. What’s his age ? 
 How 
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2. What is the depth of this lake? 
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3. How long is your ruler ? 
 What 
4. How heavy is his brother? 
 What 
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5. This year is 2004 and he is fifteen years old. 
 He 
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6. My father is five year older than my mother. 
 My mother 
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10. The film interested me a lot. 
 I .. 
9. Make questions using the question words given in brackets. 
1. They built a new school two years ago. (When?) 
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2. We ate lunch at the canteen with our friends today. (Where?) 
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3. They found Mrs. Green's purse under the seat. (Where?) 
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4. John spoke to the teacher after the lesson. (Who?) 
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5. My uncle sold his old house last year. (What?) 
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10. Read the following passage, and then answer the questions. 
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the 
kitchen while her lazy sisters did nothing. One night her sisters went to a ball at the 
palace. Cinderella was left at home, feeling very sad. After a time her fairy godmother 
appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball, but she had to return home by 
midnight. So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress and a wonderful coach. She danced 
with the prince, but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on the dance 
floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he 
found that the shoe was the right size for Cinderella. The prince and Cinderella were 
married and lived happily ever after. 
1. Where did Cinderella's sisters go one night? 
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2. How was Cinderella when she was left at home? 
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3. Who appeared and helped Cinderella? 
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4. What did Cinderella do at the ball? 
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5. What was the end of the story? 
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