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The verb “to have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese Acknowledgement I could not complete my assignment without the great help and useful advice from my teacher, my family as well as my friends. Firstly, I would like to express my great thanks to y supervisor, Assoc. Pro, PhD. Vo Dai Quang for his enthusiastic help. Secondly, I would like to express y deep thanks to all the teachers in Foreign Language Department of Vinh University for giving me helpful lectures. Furthermore, my thanks are also sent to all of my friends from class 17 Master Degree of Arts Course for their encouragement and helps. To everyone, thank you very much. Vinh, November 2010 Le Thi Huong 1 Lê Thị Hương – 17 M. A. Course The verb “to have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese Table of content Part I: Introduction 1. Reasons for choosing the topic 2. Aims of the study 3. Methods of the study 4. Scope of the study Part II: Content 1. “To have” in the sense of possess 1.1. In the sense of “own” or “possess” 1.2. In the sense of “own” or “possess” 1.3. Possession mental and emotional qualities 1.4. Family relationships 1.5. Illness 1.6. Contact with other people 2. “To have” with other meaning 2.1. “To have” in the sense of receiving 2.2. Have in the sense of eat or drink 2.3. “To have” in the sense of organize 2.4. “To have “ in the sense of take part in 2.5. “To have” in the sense of enjoy, experience 2.6. “To have” in the sense of encounter 2.7. “To have” in the sense of understand/ know 2.8. “To have” in the sense of buy or take 3. “To Have” as an empty verb 4. “Have” in Imperative 2 Lê Thị Hương – 17 M. A. Course The verb “to have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese Part III. Conclusion 1. Conclusion 2. Learning implications 3. Teaching implications References Part I: Introduction 3 Lê Thị Hương – 17 M. A. Course The verb “to have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese 1. Reasons for choosing the topic Nowadays, English has become one of the most important international languages in the world. The number of people who communicate and use it as the first language has been increasing day by day. In Vietnam, everyone is aware of the role of English in their life or their jobs, so the need of learning English has been popular in all areas. To meet that need, many English teaching-learning centre are opened, the quality of training course is quite good. This is one of the good signals the Government should care about. English is used in many fields such as politics, economics especially the system of international education. But to learn English is not easy for Vietnamese learners. One verb may have a lot of different meanings depending on the context that verb has its own meaning and this causes great difficulties to learners. “To have” is a verb that the students always confuse about when (they are) asked to define its meaning in different contexts .When learning and teaching English, we find the problems of learners is approaching the verb, we take the great consideration on comparing verb between language. That interests and encourages us to choose the topic: The verb “To have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese. 2. Aims of the study - Helping Vietnamese learners understand the use of the verb “to have” when it is used as an ordinary verb and its equivalents in Vietnamese. - Helping them apply the verb “to have” in appropriate situations. 4 Lê Thị Hương – 17 M. A. Course The verb “to have” and its equivalents in Vietnamese - By means of teaching suggestions of the verb “to have”, we hope that our small assignment will make some contribution to help learners leave out their errors in the process of learning English. 3. Methods of the study - Analysis and presenting - Comparison and contrast method 4. Scope of the study For the reason of limited time and knowledge, the author only focuses on the verb “to have” as an ordinary verb and its equivalents in Vietnamese. 5 Lê Thị Hương – 17 M. A. Course ... - tailieumienphi.vn