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4. Rearrangeສະຫງວນລິສຂ.ະວ.ສິສດ Put the words in the sentences below in the correct order. A: 1. My mother/food/and /prepared/alms/offer/to/monks/to. ……………………………………………………………………………… 2. practise/people/Lao/Buddhism. ……………………………………………………………………………… 3. celebrate/Lao people/Lao New Year/in/festival/April. ……………………………………………………………………………… 4. Lao people/That Luang/in/celebrate/festival/November/. ……………………………………………………………………………… 5. Boat Race/is /festival/in/October/organized/. ……………………………………………………………………………… 6. I/to/went/the/of/river/bank/the. ……………………………………………………………………………… B: 1. People who/the year of Rat /were born/ in/busy and energetic/are/the. ……………………………………………………………………………… 2. sometimes /forget /to play/ They. ……………………………………………………………………………… 3. They/ parties and/ taking risks/ love. ……………………………………………………………………………… 4. People who/ in the/ year of the Tiger/ are/ brave /were born. ……………………………………………………………………………… 5. They/ find /to be/ married/ it hard. ……………………………………………………………………………… 6. They/ hate to/ and do anything/ to avoid/ a disagreement /argue. ……………………………………………………………………………… Unit 11 144

5 Write Read and complete the text below using the words from the box. A: play organizes players hard together decide competition usually positions am At school, I (1)…………..……play football after my classes. My school has a football field for students to (2)………………..football or other sports. Every year, our school (3)……………..an annual football (4)……..……… between student teams of different years. This year, I (5)…………………in Year one, and our team will play Year four team in the first round. My friends and I have to work (6)…………...….to select players within Year one to form our team. We are all new students, and most of us haven’t played football (7)……………….before. To select (8)………………. we first play football together three times. Then we make a short list of our team players. Next, we (9)………..…… together to form our team. After that, we fix (10)………………….. of players. Finally, we practise playing together after our classes. We hope our team will play well together and get through to the final. ສະຫງວນລິສຂ.ະວ.ສິສດ B: lives dinner celebrates offerings important house use lunar invites firework My friend Chin Tao (1) ……………… in Vientiane Capital. Every year, he (2) ……….….. his Chinese New Year because it is very (3)…………….. for him. The New Year starts at the end of January or February, depending on the (4) …………… calendar. In preparation for the celebration, he cleans his (5) …….……. and prepares special food. He sometimes buys new things Unit 11 145

like clothes and furniture to (6) …………..… in the New Year. He decorates a special table for placing the (7) ……...……… for his ancestors. During the the first day, he (8) …………. friends and neighbours to have lunch at his house. In the evening, his family has (9) …………….… together. After dinner, he gives red envelopes with money inside to his children. At night, he lights (10) ……….…… to welcome the spirits of his ancestors. Chin Tao always invites me and my family to have lunch with his family every year. C: nice temple river chants alms colourful team neighbouring boats eight ສະຫງວນລິສຂ.ະວ.ສິສດ When I was (1)………………….. years old I went with my mother to the (2)……………… village during the Boat Race festival. My mother wore very (3)……………. clothes. She wore a Lao silk skirt, sinh mai Lao, a white shirt and a pink scarf. I wore black shorts and a blue short sleeved shirt. My mother prepared food and (4)………….. to offer to monks. At the temple, people listened to monks’ chant. All the (5)……………. were about Buddhist stories. In the afternoon, I went to the bank of the (6)…………….. to watch the Boat Race. There were eight (7)………….… together participating in the Boat Race. Each boat represented one village from (8)…….…..villages. All of the boats were decorated with (9)…….……strips of clothes with fringes. They looked very beautiful. All the rowers wore uniforms of their own (10)………….…….. Their paddles were painted in bright colours. When the race started it made a very beautiful picture for all the spectators. The boat race was one of my favourite sports. Unit 11 146

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