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Welcome to the Midterm Test for Grade 6 English, based on the Global Success curriculum.
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The Listening Test consists of two parts.
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You will hear each part twice.
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Please listen carefully and answer the questions on your test paper.
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Now let's begin with Part 1.
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Part 1.
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Listen to a passage about Fong's New School and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hi, my name is Fong.
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Last month, I started studying at my new secondary school.
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My school is located in the center of the village.
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It is a large school with 25 classrooms, a big computer room, a library, and a modern gym.
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At school, we usually wear our school uniforms on Mondays and Thursdays.
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I love many subjects, but my favorite subject is English because I like talking with my foreign friends.
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Every day after class, I often do Judo in the school gym with my classmates.
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I really enjoy studying at my new school.
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Now listen again.
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Part 1.
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Listen to a passage about Fong's new school and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hi, my name is Fong.
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Last month, I started studying at my new secondary school.
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My school is located in the center of the village.
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It is a large school with 25 classrooms, a big computer room, a library, and a modern gym.
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At school, we usually wear our school uniforms on Mondays and Thursdays.
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I love many subjects, but my favorite subject is English because I like talking with my foreign friends.
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Every day after class, I often do judo in the school gym with my classmates.
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I really enjoy studying at my new school.
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Part 2.
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Listen to a conversation between
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Nam and Mai about their houses and choose the The best answer, A, B, C, or D.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hi Mai, how is your new house in the city?
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Hi Nam, it's great.
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But I still miss living in a stilt house in the countryside like you.
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Really?
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My stilt house is quite cozy.
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It has six rooms.
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A living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms and a bathroom.
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Wow.
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Where's your living room?
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It's on the first floor.
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It has a big window looking over the rice fields.
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That sounds wonderful.
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In my townhouse, my favorite place is my bedroom.
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Why do you love your bedroom so much?
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Because there is a nice, large window looking over the flower garden behind my house.
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It's very peaceful.
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Now listen again.
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Part 2.
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Listen to a conversation between
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Nam and Mai about their houses and choose the best answer, A, B, C, or D.
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You will hear the recording twice.
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Hi, Mai.
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How is your new house in the city?
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Hi, Nam.
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It's great.
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But I still miss living in a stilt house in the countryside like you.
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Really?
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My stilt house is quite cozy.
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It has six rooms.
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A living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms, and a bathroom.
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Wow.
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Where's your living room?
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It's on the first floor.
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It has a big window looking over the rice fields.
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That sounds wonderful.
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In my townhouse, my favorite place is my bedroom.
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Why do you love your bedroom so much?
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because there is a nice large window looking over the flower garden behind my house.
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It's very peaceful.
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Thank you.
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Tài liệu được bin soạn bởi POM tài liệu chuẩn.
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Số điện thoại liên hệ 0877 430084.
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Thầy cô liên hệ trực tiếp để nhận thông tin tư vấn về tài liệu.
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1. Club 2.
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Calculator 3.
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History 4.
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Rubber 5.
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Biology Hi Vee!
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Hi Fong!
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Are you ready?
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Just a minute!
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Oh, this is Zooey, my new friend!
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Hi Zooey!
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Nice to meet you!
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Hi Fong!
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I live near here and we go to the same school!
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Good!
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Your school bag looks heavy!
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Yes, I have new books and we have new subjects to study.
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And new uniforms, Zoe.
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You look smart.
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Thanks, Fong.
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We always look smart in our uniforms.
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Let me put on my uniform.
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Then we can go.
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Hi, my name's Janet.
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I'm 11 years old.
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I'm now in year 6 at Palmer School.
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I like it here.
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My classmates are friendly.
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The teachers at my school are nice and very helpful.
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And my favourite teacher is Mrs Smith.
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She teaches us maths.
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I have two hours to study Vietnamese every week.
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I usually do my homework in the library.
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We wear our uniforms every day, but today we aren't.
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We're going to have a biology lesson on a farm.
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Exercise 33.
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Listen and tick the sentences you hear.
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1. Nancy lives in a townhouse.
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2. There are two bathrooms and a living room.
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3. My bedroom has a chest of drawers.
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4. The cat is next to a sofa.
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5. Jack's dad has a new flat Wow!
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Your room looks so big, Nick.
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It's Eleanor's room.
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She's my sister.
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I see.
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Is there a TV behind you?
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Yes, there is.
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Where do you live, me?
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I live in a townhouse. And you?
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I live in a country house.
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Who do you live with?
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My parents and younger brother.
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We're moving to a flat next month. Are you?
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Yes, my aunt lives near there and I can play with my cousin.
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Are there many rooms in your new flat?
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Yes, there are.
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There's a living room, three bedrooms, a kitchen and two bathrooms.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “vi deo ôn kiểm tra giữa kỳ 1”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bedroom, listen, uniform, hear, Fong. This video has 133 sentences and 914 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:13. The speaker talks at a steady 111 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 76% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
bedroom noun/ˈbɛdˌɹum/A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
uniform noun/ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
passage noun/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
biology noun/baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/The study of all life or living matter.
classroom noun/ˈklɑːsɹʊm/A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
locate verb/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
countryside noun/ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
lesson noun/ˈlɛs.ən/A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
carefully adverb/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/With care; attentively, circumspectly.
helpful adjective/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
cousin noun/ˈkʌz(ə)n/Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a…
rubber noun/ˈɹʌbɚ/Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
aunt noun/ɑːnt/The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
mathematics noun/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
look over verbTo check quickly; to make a brief or cursory visual inspection of.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Where's your living room?
  • Why do you love your bedroom so much?
  • How is your new house in the city?
  • Where do you live, me?
  • Who do you live with?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itis located
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing formstarted studying · enjoy studying
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a groupThe best
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionwill hear

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, aren't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: biology /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, curriculum /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, calculator /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bedroom, uniform, flower.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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