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5 Write each sentence in the box next to its A CLOSER LOOK 2
pattern. Then listen, check, and repeat.
I know! That long? Go away! Grammar
Don’t cry! Don’t turn left! Keep going!
Past perfect: review
1. OO __________________________________
1 Fill in each blank with the past perfect form of
2. OoO __________________________________ the verb in brackets.
3. OOo __________________________________
1. Before the 1990s, trams (be) ______ a popular
4. OOO __________________________________ means of transport in Ha Noi.
2. I won the game because I (play) ______ it a lot with
6 What would you say in each situation? Make my brother.
a sentence for each picture. Write a stress 3. How long ______ you (use) ______ your mobile
pattern under the picture. Then practise phone before it broke down?
reading all the sentences aloud.
4. Before the invention of television, people ______
Example: only (see) ______ fi lms at the cinema.

5. Before the 1990s, Viet Nam (have) ______ an old
banking system.
6. Viet Nam (experience) ______ decades of fi ghting
for freedom before the country became totally
independent.

2 Ask and answer the following questions using
the cues.
Example:
____ OO ____
How long had King Duc Duc ruled our country
before he was overthrown?

He had ruled the country for only three days.

1 2
1. - What/family groups/Vietnamese people/live in
________ ________
before 1990?
- They/live/extended family.
2. - How/people in Viet Nam/travel/before the fi rst
motorbike/imported?

- They/travel/bicycle.
3 4 3. - How/Vietnamese people/live/before the open-
________ ________ door policy in 1986?
- They/had/harder life.
4. - Where/your family/spend/holidays/before 2005?
- We/holidays/Viet Nam/only/before then.
5. - Who/rule/Viet Nam right before the Tran
dynasty?
5 6 - Ly Chieu Hoang/rule/before the Tran dynasty.
________ ________

63 Unit 6/ Viet Nam: Then and Now