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UNIT 3: PEOPLES OF VIETNAM
(3) first museum building was designed by French architects, and construction began
in 1951 and was finished by May 1916.

(4) Museum has played (5) important role in preserving sculpture items
featuring (6) cultural, spiritual and ritual lives of (7) Cham people. They
arranged (8) displays in order to (9) areas where (10) objects were
found.

VII. Read the passage and complete with the correct prepositions.
We send our children (1) school to prepare them (2) the time when they
will be big and will have to work (3) themselves. They learn their own language so that
they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know and understand what
others tell them. They learn foreign languages (4) order to be able to benefit (5)
what people (6) other countries have written and said, and in order to make
people (7) ______ other countries understand what they themselves mean. Nearly everything they
study (8) school has some practical use (9) their life. We go to school
(10) all to learn how to learn, so that, when we have left school, we can continue to
learn.

VIII. Write full sentences about the Cham ethnic group, using the words and phrases given.
Add words if necessary to make sentences meaningful.

1. The Cham ethnic group/ a population/ about 100,000.
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2. They/ live mostly/ the coast/ between Ninh Thuan/ Binh Thuan Provinces/ or/ the Cambodian
border/ around Chau Doc.
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3. The Cham/ a tradition/ wet rice cultivation.

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4. Handicrafts/ fairly well-developed/ especially silkworm textiles/ handmade pottery wares.
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5. Both men/ women/ wear/ long-piece sarongs/ cloth wrappers.
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6. Main colour/ their daily dress/ cotton white.

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7. Chief means/ transporting goods/ farm produce/ black-basket.

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8. Most important festival/ called Bon Kate/ held/ near the Cham towers/ the tenth month/ the
Lunar year.
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IX. Rewrite the sentence that has the same meaning with the previous sentence.
1. I fed the chickens this morning.

 The chickens ...............................................................................................................

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