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How to build an eco house

Building an eco house is a great way to reduce environmental impact and save money on energy bills. To start, make sure to design the house to utilise natural light and airflow. It must take advantage of sunlight to make the room warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Besides, having a good ventilation system helps air flow more easily. In effect, this effort reduces the need to use fans or air conditioning.

When building an eco-home, it's important to use materials that won't pollute the environment, like wood or do upcycling from the old items. For insulation, look for natural materials like hemp, cork, or work that are eco-friendly. Those materials help keep the house at the right temperature.

Aside from those efforts, installing renewable energy systems like solar panels helps reduce energy bills. This item creates electricity from the sun, which is a clean and free energy source. For the same purpose, wind turbines use wind to produce energy. Even though it takes more effort at first, building an eco house contributes to saving the planet.

1. Listen and read.

(Lắng nghe và đọc.)

Let’s go green

Mi: Hi, Nick.

Nick: Hello Mi.

Mi: You've bought a lot of things.

Nick: Yes. We're going on a picnic tomorrow. What are you doing at the supermarket, Mi?

Mi: I'm buying some eggs. Hey, what's this?

Nick: It's a reusable shopping bag.

Mi: Do you always use it?

Nick: Yes. It's better than a plastic one. If we use this kind of bag, we will help the environment.

Mi: I see. I'll buy one for my mum. Where can I buy one?

Nick: At the check-out. By the way, you're also green. You're cycling.

Mi: You're right. If more people cycle, the air will be cleaner. Right?

Nick: Yes. Oh, it's 5 o'clock already. I have to go now. See you later.

Mi: See you, Nick. Bye.

2. Read the conversation again. Complete the following sentences. Use no more than three words in each blank.

(Đọc lại đoạn hội thoại. Hoàn thành các câu sau. Sử dụng không quá ba từ trong mỗi chỗ trống. )

1. Nick is going on ______ tomorrow.

2. The green shopping bag is better than the ______.

3. People can buy green bags at ______.

4. Mi wants to buy ______ bag for her mum.

5. Nick thinks that Mi is green because ______.

3. Based on the ideas in the conversation, match the first half of the sentence in column A with its second half in column B.

(Dựa trên các ý tưởng trong đoạn hội thoại, hãy nối nửa đầu của câu ở cột A với nửa sau của câu ở cột B.) 

1. A reporter is interviewing Nam, a member of the 3Rs club. Read the interview. Find these words or phrases and underline them.

(Một phóng viên đang phỏng vấn Nam, thành viên câu lạc bộ 3Rs. Đọc cuộc phỏng vấn. Tìm những từ hoặc cụm từ này và gạch chân chúng.)

Reporter: Can you share with us some tips to make your school greener?

Nam: Sure. Firstly, we put recycling bins in every classroom.

Reporter: What about old books and uniforms?

Nam: We exchange them with our friends or give them to charity. We don't throw them away.

Reporter: Anything else?

Nam: We borrow books from the school library instead of buying new ones.

Reporter: Great! You can save much paper.

Nam: And there's another tip. We bring reusable water bottles to school.

Reporter: I see lots of trees in your school. Is planting trees a good tip?

Nam: Yeah. It makes our school greener.

Reporter: Thanks for sharing. Do you want to add anything?

Nam: Finally, we usually find creative ways to reuse old items before throwing them away.

3. Read the text again. Answer the questions.

(Đọc văn bản một lần nữa. Trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. What is the interview about?

(Cuộc phỏng vấn nói về điều gì?)

2. What will they put in every classroom?

(Họ sẽ đặt gì trong mỗi lớp học?)

3. What can they do with their old uniforms?

(Họ có thể làm gì với đồng phục cũ của mình?)

4. What will they do instead of buying new books?

(Họ sẽ làm gì thay vì mua sách mới?)

5. What type of bottles do they bring to school?

(Họ mang loại chai nào đến trường?)

Reporter: Can you share with us some tips to make your school greener?

Nam: Sure. Firstly, we put recycling bins in every classroom.

Reporter: What about old books and uniforms?

Nam: We exchange them with our friends or give them to charity. We don't throw them away.

Reporter: Anything else?

Nam: We borrow books from the school library instead of buying new ones.

Reporter: Great! You can save much paper.

Nam: And there's another tip. We bring reusable water bottles to school.

Reporter: I see lots of trees in your school. Is planting trees a good tip?

Nam: Yeah. It makes our school greener.

Reporter: Thanks for sharing. Do you want to add anything?

Nam: Finally, we usually find creative ways to reuse old items before throwing them away.

Reading

1. Look at the announcement. What does it advertise? What events are taking place? Listen and read to find out.

(Nhìn bài thông báo. Nó quảng cáo cái gì? Những sự kiện nào đang diễn ra? Nghe và đọc để tìm ra đáp án.)

2. Think of another title for the announcement.

(Nghĩ ra một tiêu đề khác cho bài thông báo.)

3. Match the phrasal verbs in bold to their synonyms in the list.

(Nối các cụm động từ in đậm với từ đồng nghĩa trong danh sách bên dưới.)

• collect
• take something somewhere and leave it there
• reduce

VALUES

Respect for others (Tôn trọng người khác)

4. Read the quotations and match them to their meanings. Which quotation...

(Đọc các câu danh ngôn và nối chúng với ý nghĩa của chúng. Danh ngôn nào.)

1. tells us that looking after the world is good for us as well?

(cho chúng ta biết rằng chăm sóc thế giới cũng tốt cho chúng ta?)

2. means that we don't understand how important something is until we don't have it anymore?

(nghĩa là chúng ta không hiểu một thứ quan trọng như thế nào cho đến khi chúng ta không còn nó nữa?)

3. says that all of us should look after our world?

(nói rằng tất cả chúng ta nên chăm sóc thế giới của chúng ta?)

A. The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." Robert Swan (British explorer)

("Mối đe dọa lớn nhất đối với hành tinh của chúng ta là niềm tin rằng ai đó sẽ cứu nó." Robert Swan - nhà khám phá người Anh)

B. "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." Bradley Miller (American author)

("Dạy một đứa trẻ không giẫm phải sâu bướm cũng có giá trị đối với đứa trẻ cũng như đối với sâu róm." Bradley Miller - tác giả người Mỹ))

C. "When the well is dry, we will know the worth of water." Benjamin Franklin (American politician, inventor and writer)

("Khi giếng khô, chúng ta sẽ biết giá trị của nước" Benjamin Franklin - nhà chính trị, nhà phát minh và nhà văn người Mỹ)

1. Choose the correct word marked A, B, or C to fill each blank in the following passage.

(Chọn từ đúng được đánh dấu A, B hoặc C để điền vào mỗi chỗ trống trong đoạn văn sau)

AIR QUALITY

People need to breathe. If they don’t breathe, they (1)______ die. But how clean is the air people breathe? If they breathe (2)______ air, they will have breathing problems and become (3)_______. Plants and animals need (4)_______ air too. A lot of the things (5)______ our lives create harmful gases and (6)______ the air dirty, like cars, motorbikes and factories. Dirty air is called “(7)_______ air”. Air pollution can also make our Earth warmer. The problem of air pollution started with the burning (8)_______ coal in homes and factories.

1.       A. will                   B. are                     C. must

2.       A. clean                 B. fresh                   C. dirty

3.       A. well                  B. better                  C. ill

4.       A. clean                 B. safe                    C. dirty

5.       A. at                      B. in                       C. on

6.       A. make                 B. get                     C. give

7.       A. pollute              B. polluted              C. polluting

8.       A. in                      B. for                      C. of

2. Read the passage and do the exercises.

 (Đọc đoạn văn và làm các bài tập)

1. Recycling means using rubbish to make new goods that can be sold again. For example, when you put bottles and cans in the recycling bin, people take them to a factory. In this factory, people reprocess these bottles and cans into many new things.

2. The most well-known recycled materials are glass, paper, plastic, and aluminum. Other recyclable materials include batteries, kitchen waste, steel, iron, cotton and timber.

3. Recycling starts when you or your parents drop recyclable materials, such as bottles and cans in the recycling bin. Next, collectors come to pick up the materials and take them to a processing factory where they are sorted and processed into raw materials. After that, factories sell these materials to manufacturers who make the things you buy. These manufacturers make new item from them. Finally, you or your parents buy items made from recycled materials.

a. Match the words in A with their meanings in B

(Nối các từ ở cột A với ý nghĩa ở cột B)  

b. The passage has three paragraphs 1 - 3. Match them with the headings a – c

(Bài đọc có 3 đoạn văn 1-3. Hãy nối chúng với các tiêu đề a – c)

a. the process of recycling (quá trình tái chế)

b. the definition of recycling (khái niệm tái chế)

c. things to be recycled (những thứ để tái chế)

c. Reorder the following pictures to make a recycling process.

(Sắp xếp lại các bức tranh sau để được quá trình tái chế đúng)

Fill each blank with one suitable word by choosing A, B or C.

People need air to breathe. In order to keep us healthy, we need (31) _____ air. However, nowadays, (32) _____ lot of things in our lives create harmful gasses and make the air dirty, like factories, cars and motobikes. Air (33) ______ is one of the worldwide alarming issues nowadays. It causes not only (34) ______ problems in people but also in plants and animals. It’s our responsibility to keep the air (35) _____.

Nowadays, the development of human world causes many bad effects to the environment. We throw garbage everywhere, exploit too much natural resources or contaminate the air. Therefore, our environment is being seriously polluted and we need to protect it from now. First of all, we should reduce, reuse and recycle. Instead of using plastic bags, we can use leaves to wrap food. We can recycle plastic bottles, cans, paper to reduce garbage. Using public transports and decreasing the number of motorbikes and cars are also good ways to reduce carbonic in the air. Besides, we should purify contaminated lakes or rivers in order to lessen the pollution in the water. Last but not least, the government should encourage everyone to take action together. Especially, we need to punish people who contaminate the environment. In conclusion, the Earth is our home so protecting it is everyone's responsibility.