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WEEK 5: TECHNIQUE : PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
1. Definition : A prepositional phrase is a phrase ( a group of words ) beginning with a preposition, for
example: a man with a broken arm, he was regarded as a fool, the party was held in the garden
2. Grammatical Functions:
Noun modifiers / adjective equivalents

Verb modifiers:
He died in England


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We read your article with great interest
They raised cows for milk.
He was at a loss
His passion was for books
He was killed by a stray bullet


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Translate into Vietnamese
 The problem of pollution has reached an alarming point
 I met her on my way out.
 After discussing the matter, we began to vote.
 We can learn by making mistakes.
 I was afraid of losing someone else I loved.
 She went to the man with a cigarette in his mouth.
 He tore the bag open with his teeth.
 They fought with great courage.

1 Living in a small hotel on the left bank in Paris, moving between contacts in the working-class
suburbs and among students in the Latin Quarter, Tito gained many left-wing international contacts.
2. 'When translating, I usually start by dictating a quick, rough translation of the foreign language text
straight onto a cassette, bypassing any difficulties, if necessary devising ad hoc ways of overcoming
them temporarily, and striving to get the general hang of the original, while allowing the natural
rhythm of the spoken word to give the translation a shape and a flow which will not be lost by being
revised and polished later on.'

3. (As a young man, the author had sent a letter to The Times.) To my great astonishment, The Times
published my letter in full. Looking back on it now, over the sixteen years which have seen so much
worse, it seems to me to have been pretentious.
4. A freelancer's life is in a lot of ways freer that other people's, but it demands a great deal of selfdiscipline. When you are first setting up, a lot of your time will be spent writing letters of application
and CVs, preparing for interviews, hounding your friends for contacts, and organizing your time in a
manageable way.
5. 'Hassan! Look at those flies!', and he pointed to the horrible mass that hung from the ceiling. 'Why
have I called you?' 'To drive them away elsewhere,' said Hassan. 'Driven elsewhere they always return.'
6. Taken prisoner of war, he (Tito) was transported to a hospital in an old monastery deep in the
Russian interior at Sviashk.
7. The list of rules (in the lodging house) forbade cooking in one's room, or taking food that did not need
cooking to one's room. No visitors were allowed in one's room at any time for any reason. Breathing


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was allowed as long as it made no noise. The same applied to sleep. Any one who snored would wake
up in the street.
8. Trevor Howard was one of the great stage and screen stars of his generation - an actor of enormous
power and character of whom Robert Mitchum once said: 'The nice thing about Trevor is that you
never catch him acting. ' It was a compliment he well deserved, since nothing would ever induce him to
give a fake performance
9. Going backward over the day, I find things of which I am quite certain, other things of which I am
almost certain, and other things of which I can become certain by thought.
10. Because there is a certain tension involved in eating in public, restaurants employ two major trends
to exploit the mood of their diners. The expensive restaurant, to justify high prices, has to overcome the
tensions. It does this by shielding, screening, and partitioning and also by keeping lights dim and sounds

muffled, and by having more staff than usual so as to reduce waiter-speeds.
11. Remedies
In desperation a householder went out at midnight just before Christmas to try to poison the moles in his
lawn. To illuminate the mole hills, he turned on the lights of his Jaguar, but the car shot into reverse,
causing £6,000 worth of damage to his house.
To make matters worse, an electric heater overturned, igniting the petrol and resulting in his car
becoming a write-off. He finally solved his mole problem with a ton of ready-mixed concrete.

WEEK 4
STUDYING IN VIETNAM, WORKING ABROAD
People used to think that only the Vietnamese students completing their study abroad could
have opportunities to compete in international workforce. At present, a large number of
Vietnamese students trained completely locally can work anywhere in the world as global
citizens.
Training for export
Training students for export is really a new idea for the university education system in VN.
However, FPT University has been helping their students, with their own ability, get into the
world market. The first graduates of the University were welcome by some countries in the
world: 3 students were requested to come and work in England as soon as they had finished
their graduation projects and many other groups coming to the Singapore, Germany, the USA ,
Malaysia… A number of students were invited to come and work for a big Japanese financial
group- the SBI Holding with a monthly salary of more than 50 millions VN dongs excluding
accommodation and transport support … Thanks to this achievement, FPT University could be
considered one of the universities succeeding in ‘exporting’ students to work and study
overseas


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With an aim to gain this success, students studying at FPT University must strictly follow the
internationally standard academic programs and training process, at the same time they are
required to learn two foreign languages (English and Japanese for Information Technology and
Informatics Majors ; English and Chinese for Economics - Applied Information Technology in
Finance Majors )
In particular, after finishing their second year, it is compulsory for any FPT University
sophomore to serve their apprenticeship as a permanent employee within 8 – 12 months at
business firms. Moreover, students are also trained in soft skills, honesty in study and
examination, thus they can gain self – confidence,, honesty and acquire deep knowledge. It
might be this secret that explains why many FPT University students have been invited to work
and study abroad.

particular

ADJECTIVE

1 [ONLY BEFORE NOUN ] used to emphasize that you are referring to one individual person, thing or type of
thing and not others


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SYNONYM : SPECIFIC

There is one particular patient I'd like you to see.

Is there a particular type of book he enjoys?
2 [ONLY BEFORE NOUN] greater than usual; special
We must pay particular attention to this point.
These documents are of particular interest.

IDIOMS

in particular
1 especially or particularly
He loves science fiction in particular.
2 special or specific
Peter was lying on the sofa doing nothing in particular.
Is there anything in particular you'd like for dinner?
She directed the question at no one in particular.

particularly

ADVERB

especially; more than usual or more than others
particularly good/important/useful
Traffic is bad, particularly in the city centre.
I enjoyed the play, particularly the second half.
The lecture was not particularly (= not very) interesting.
‘Did you enjoy it?’ ‘No, not particularly (= not very much).’