Task 1. Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word

Tet is celebrated on the first day (1) of the Lunar New Year. Some weeks before the New Year, the Vietnamese (2) clean their houses and paint the walls. New clothes are bought (3) for the occasion. One or two days (4) before the festival, people make chung cake, (5) which is the traditional cake. On the New Year's Eve, the whole family gets together for a dinner. On the New Year morning, all the (6) members of the family show respect to the elders by beautiful words. In return, they receive lucky money (7)wrapped in red tiny envelopes. Then people go to (8) visit their neighbours, friends and relatives.

Task 2. Read the passage and decide which statements are true (T) or
false (F).
(Đọc đoạn văn sau và quyết định những câu sau là đúng hay sai)

Mid-Autumn Festival

In Viet Nam, Tết Trung Thu or the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most popular family holidays. It is held on the 15th day of the August lunar month.

Vietnamese families plan their activities around their children on this special day. In a Vietnamese folklore, parents were working so hard to prepare for the harvest that they left the children playing by themselves. To make up for lost time, parents would use the Mid-Autumn Festival as an opportunity to show their love and appreciation for their children.

Appropriately the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Children's Festival. In the United States, this tradition continues in many Vietnamese- American communities. Trung Thu activities are often centered on children and education. Parents buy lanterns for their children so that they can participate in a candlelit lantern procession at dawn. Lanterns represent brightness while the procession symbolizes success in school. Vietnamese markets sell a variety of lanterns, but the most popular children's lantern is the star lantern. Other children's activities include arts and crafts in which children make face masks and lanterns. Children also perform traditional Vietnamese dances for adults and participate in contests for prizes and scholarships. Unicorn dancers are also very popular in Trung Thu festivities.

Like the Chinese, Vietnamese parents tell their children fairy tales and serve mooncakes and other special treats under the silvery moon. A favourite folklore is about a carp that wanted to become a dragon. The carp worked and worked and eventually transformed itself into a dragon. This is the story behind the mythical symbol, Cá Hóa Rồng. Parents use this story to encourage their children to work hard so that they can become whomever they want to be.

Task 3. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete it.
(Đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn đáp án A, B, C hay D để điền vào chỗ trống)

The Rice-cooking Festival

The Rice-cooking (1) festival was held in the communal house yard about one kilometer away from a (2) river. There were three (3) competitions: water fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking. The festival (4) took one day. In the water-fetching (5) contest, one person from each team had (6) to run to the river to get the (7) water. In the fire-making contest, two team members had to make fire in the (8) traditional way. They tried to rub pieces of (9) bamboo together to make the fire. Six people from each team (10) participate in the Rice-cooking Festival. They had to separate the rice from the husk and then cook the rice.