1. Do you think learning online is useful and convenient? Give your opinion about this.

-Flexible schedule and convenient; you can learn at anytime and anywhere with a laptop and the internet.
-more choices: choose one suitable course for yourself from various learning English websites
-lower cost: don’t have to pay for the rents of places, fuel for transport….
-Feel free to study your favorite subjects
-Need self-discipline and responsibility (don’t play games, surf other website while studying)
2. Do you think that young people should go to study abroad? Why or why not? Tell the advantages and
disadvantages of going to study abroad.
-Advantages:
+have opportunities to study with foreign students  widen your worldwide social knowledge, get access to
multi-culture lifestyle
+taught by well-qualified teachers, better facilities  study better
+Live far away from home  independent, take care of yourself
-Disadvantages:
+ homesick, lonely bad study, feeling depressed
+costly fee: school fee, accommodation, transport, daily expenses….
+cultural shock / food / lifestyle, different weather
try to get a scholarship
3. Imagine that a virus caused every computer system in your country to crash. What would happen? In your
opinion, should people who create viruses go to prison? Why or Why not?
-There would be a lot of problems: lose private information, especially our accounts. Machines in factories stop
working. We have many traffic accidents without traffic lights. Doctors can’t do their jobs well because the virus
damaged all the machines. Life would be very difficult.
- Of course, people who create viruses must go to prison, but we should educate and encourage them to make
good things for our countries, use their talented ability for the good of our society.
4. What are the main principles of working in groups? Which do you prefer, team work or individual work? Give
your opinion about this.
-a good leader, well-organized, good plan and assignment, discipline, give and share ideas with each other,
listen to others’ opinions, conflicts between different ideas cooperate relationship between members, work
for the goal
-Team work helps finish the assignment much faster and more easily and successful.
5. Give your opinion about school violence. What should we do to prevent school violence?
-reasons:
+jealous with others (study, relationship…) +abusive parents / unhappy family
+affected by living environment / watching violent clips, movies
-consequences:
+victims: physically & mentally affected depressionbe isolated from everyoneharm themselves.
+bully: people stay away from him/her / high chance of being expelled
-solutions:
+learn to protect ourselves
+family should care more about their children, spend time with each other, understand and encourage children
to talk about their problems
+educate students/ campaigns, make a good relations  raise awareness about the impact of school bullying
+Have talks with the bully, listen to him/her and be sympathy
+stricter punishment
6. What should you do to enrich your vocabulary?
- Read and read as much as you can. Read anything and everything but the most important is read what you
are interested in. While reading, you will come across a new word. Try to guess the meaning from the text
before looking it up in the dictionary. . It will help you remember the word better.
- Writing is also a good method to remember words. Whenever you write an essay, try to use the words you
have learned. Have a small diary with you all the time. Write the word in a sentence. If you hear something
interesting, take it down as soon as possible, especially the collocations
- Listen to what you like (songs, favorite films – see and listen to them). If you are keen on something, you
will learn by that way effectively.
- Speaking. When you communicate with other people, try to use the words you have learned as much as
possible
- Don’t limit yourself to one word. (WORD FAMILY / suffixes, prefixes / antonym, synonym /)
- Use an English-English dictionary
 - Play vocabulary games: Puzzles, crosswords, wordsearches…
7. Plastic waste is a big problem nowadays. How to solve this problem?
-Reasons: Plastic waste is convenient, cheap, easy to find & purchase / people are not aware of its destruction
to environment
-Problem: It takes thousands of years to decompose / hard to dissolve affect the soil, water, marine and
botanical life DEATH
-Solutions: replace plastic things with more environmental- friendly things / set laws to prohibit plastic
production / raise people’s awareness of the harmful effect of plastic waste on the environment
8. What are the main factors that help you get success in your study?
-attitude: passion, dream, set out appropriate goals
-efforts: hard work, spend time doing homework, finding information about the subject you are studying.
 have short breaks to refresh
9. In the future, robots will be able to do many things like humans, for example, home robots can do the
housework, worker robots can build houses, teaching robots can teach children and doctor robots can help
sick people…..Is this a good or a bad thing for us?
-Advantages:
+replace human’s labor, accurate, more efficient, work fast and continuously
+Safety: be able to do dangerous and hard work
-Disadvantages:
+high cost, include repair and maintenance
+take jobs from people  people become lazy, depend on machines

10. What do you like your friend to be? Someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or
someone who is reliable? Which of these characters is most important to you?
-Intelligent: help you with your study, solve difficult problems
-Sense of humor: help you relax
-reliable: no lies, don’t leak each other’s secret, stand by you when you are in trouble, share happiness &
sorrow, understand you the most  give good advice…
reliable is the most important.

TREAT your friends the way you want to BE TREATED.

11. In some countries, teenagers have jobs while they are still students. Do you think it is a good idea? Give your
opinion about this.
+benefits:
working part-time jobs helps students:
- earn a living to support their schoolings
-understand how hard it is to make money – know the value of moneywon’t take it for granted, aware of
their purchase
-develop independent/ confidence and pride
-gain experience, learn life skills from working, enhance communication skills
-learn how to manage time (studying and working)
+limitations:
-distract students from studying/ lack of time on studying, lack of sleep
-may be dangerous at working place / working time (night shift)
 selected part-time jobs get advice from parents/ teachers…
12. Is dream important to teenagers? Tell about your dream.
+The benefits of having a dream: give you a direction, help you better in school
set up your goal and find the ways to overcome any challenges on your way, maintain a positive attitude,
whatever your passion is, find a way to cultivate it
 This is an important life skill that will serve you well in adulthoodEncourage teens to follow their dreams
+Student’s own dream +Your dream should be practical lose faith in yourself
13. Give your opinion about the benefits of a healthy life style.
+A healthy life style keeps your body and mind healthyreduce the risk of having illnesses: cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, obesity…
-habits that keep you healthy: follow certain rules that will help you achieve your goal
plan and follow a balanced diet containing essential minerals and vitamins, eat only healthy foods, avoid junk
and heavily carbohydrate and fatty food, maintain weight, have enough sleep, wake up early in the morning,
 sleep early, use mobile less- the biggest drawback of this generation, causing many physical and mental
problems
do exercise regularly your body more active + release stresses
connect with positive mindsthe more you indulge with these people, the less you will go to the negative
side
avoid bad habits: smoking, drinking, junk food, addiction, meal skipping, overuse of pills….
A healthy life style has many benefits to your social as well as personal lifeimprove the family relationship /
live longer
14. Give your opinion about the importance of breakfast.
+a brief meal in morning, but this 15-minute meal plays an important role in our health and work and to have a
healthy life style:
-the most important meal of the dayprovide nutrients, essential vitamins, minerals….to maintain health and
vitality
-give energy for workingphysically and mentally active
-breakfast boosts brainpowerpositive health and academic outcomes
-improve your energy levels and ability to concentrate in the short term
-help you control your weight: if you become really hungrygrab whatever food nearby, often high fat foods
with added sugar or salt……. daily breakfast helps you make better food choices
-a healthy breakfast may reduce the risk of illnesses
+Despite the benefits of breakfast for your health and wellbeing, many people often skip it, for a variety of
reasons
ways to make it easier to fit breakfast:
-try a nutritious snack such as fresh fruit, yoghurt, veggie sticks and hummus, or a wholemeal sandwich to you
through that mid-morning hunger
- easy-to-prepare breakfast foods are readily available at home
- prepare some quick and healthy breakfast foods the night before or on the weekend
- keep some breakfast foods at school/work (if allowed) to enjoy once you arrive
15. Should students be allowed to use smart phones at school? Give your opinion about this.
+The benefits of using smart phones as students: communication, getting information, doing homework,
entertainment…..
-broaden horizons, self-study, doing research, take short time to find information
-take pictures, copy the lessons
-convenient, portable, provide useful applications such as setting up timetable…
+Teens on the verge of being addicted, neglect study, being short-sighted, turn into passive, unwilling to
communicate, even with parents
Teens should use mobile phones if they know how to control themselves to use them properly and effectively
-set time management in your mobile phones
-take part in outdoor activities after school hours
16. Tell about the person who has made a difference in your life.
-Give a description of him / her. The relationship with him/her.
-What is special about him/her?
-What is his/her characteristic?
-What influence has she had on you? (describe in detail)
-Your feeling to him/her and your promise
17. Tell the time when something did not go as expected.
+when/ where it happened
+what / why that thing did not go as expected: a brief account of it
+feeling about that.
+Lesson learned from that event. Think ways to prevent it from happening again.
18. Tell about the changes you’d most like to make in yourself.
+The changes you want to make: for example shyness, procrastination…
+The reason for the changes: distract me from my study, not finish my work, not make friends easily…
+Ways to make changes: express myself more, be more open, be confident, believe in myself…….
19. Describe your ideal teacher. What is his or her most important characteristic?
-physical appearance doesn’t matter
-personality is the most important:
-love, be responsible with their work, understand the requirements of their jobs
-build a strong relationship with students
 -understand their students, know ways to help students with their problems
-encourage students to take part in classroom activities/ motivate them to work hard and creatively/ inspire
them to do the right things in life/ challenge them to move up to advance levels
-Be entertaining/ humorous/ patient towards their students
-give easy-to-understand lessons
-be fair/ make students feel comfortable and confident
20. What is your favorite school extracurricular activity? Tell about it.
1. Homework should not be given
2. Fashion trends in the last century.
3. Why cell phone use should be allowed at school
4. Practical skills must be taught at school.
5. Teens must tell their parents everything.
6. More time should be spent reading.
7. Should teens get involved in online relationships.
8. It is important that teens become volunteers.
9. Teens should spend more time with the elderly.
10. Teens should avoid dating too young.
11. Environmental problems in our community.
12. Teens should be rewarded for doing the right things.
13. Teens must have mobile phones.
14. Why are Friends so important?
15. Parents have the right to always have access to their teens’ phones.
16. Parents have no right to embarrass their teens.
17. Video games are not the blame for violence at school.
18. Those under 16 should not be allowed to date.
19. Teens need adults to trust them.
20. Teens must stop trying so hard to look like everyone else.
21. Video games should be forbidden.
22. Why I should tell your parents everything
23. Why you can’t trust your mom’s fashion advice
24. Why personality matters more than beauty
25. Teens should spend more time in nature.
26. Cool teachers are easier to learn from.
27. How to organize a fun weekend for the whole family.
28. Why the media is to blame for eating disorders.
21. Trash is increasing everywhere and every day. What should we do with trash?
Become a very serious environmental problem.
Solutions:
+raise people’s awareness
+Reduce, reuse and recycle things
+sort out three different kinds: vegetables matters to make compost, things for recycle…and poisonous trash
+fine heavily people who litter
+educate young generation to form a better way of living, better way of processing trash.

22. Supposed you are a student of Le Qui Don Gifted School. Tell about the benefits of studying there.
The benefits:
+good education environment (gifted students, more extra-activities)
more activeefficient studying environment
+Well-equipped facility for study
+ teachers: well-qualified, experienced
+More chances to enter big competitions
+More chances to get scholarship of LQĐ School, scholarship from overseas schools

23. What skill are you good at in learning English? What are some of your tips for learning that skill?
Be good at reading and listening skills. Tips for improving these skills:
Reading:
+Have clear reading goals (essay, report, topic)help identify relevant information
+Practice reading (scanning / skimming skills) concentrate on main points
 +take notes carefully (underline / highlight words or phrases), write down summaries after reading
Listening:
+Practice listening every day
+Know what you are going to listen (topic)
+Guess the answer in a logically way.
+ Keep open mind.
+Be concentrated on what the speaker is saying
+Be relaxed
+Talk with foreigners
+how to take notes while listening

24. Have you got any problems in learning English? What do you think you should do to overcome these
problems?
EX: have problems with speaking and writing skills
Reasons: Speaking: unnaturally/ influentially / pronunciation / stress/ intonation…..
Writing: narrow range of words
Solutions: +Spend more time practicing these skills.
+Learn from friends /mistakes /teachers (ask them to explain what you don’t understand) and
learn from experience
+talk to native speakers
+Self-correct
+Write diary/ topics. Read them again after two weeks and correct the mistake
+Listen to news / videos then speak to yourself then and record it, listen again to
find mistakes and correct again.
25. How do media affect our life?
Change our life dramatically.
Advantages:
+ Provide information (broaden our knowledge about various fields: science, medicine, cultures, history….)
+ Provide latest news (especially disasters…..)
+ Provide entertainment (music, films…), follow interesting pages/groups, exchange opinions…..
+ keep in touch with friends, relatives
+ exchange / buy / sell things
+ keep up with trends
+ charity / donation (help the poor…)
Drawbacks:
+Distraction / interruption ( working efficiency)
+fake news
26. Emotion is very important in our life. It helps to decide your success or failure. Do you agree with this idea? How
to control our emotion to have better life?
-Emotion is very important. It’s the way we react or feel in different situations. It greatly affects our success or
failure because has both pros and cons sides.
-Positive: Ex: happy: work effectively-complete the task with good quality
make good relationship / creative
-Negative: Depressed: not work effectivelybad marks in exams
Angry: IQ= 0lose control / argument between friends friendship broken

27. People often think cooking is only for women. Do you agree with this idea?
This is an old-fashioned way of thinking for several reasons:
1. Men and women are equal. Women take care of their family, besides, they are at work eight hours a day, so
husband should share the housework. They can get knowledge about foods and nutrition for their family.
2. Cooking is now basic skill. Everyone can learn to cook simple dishes.
3. Men are excellent cooks (well-known male chefs)

28. Noise pollution is increasing in our modern life. Tell your opinion about the effects of noise pollution and the
ways to control noise.
Noise pollution is a serious problem and it’s on the rise.
Causes:
+industrial activities (factories)
 +traffic
+ social activities (big cities, construction sites, work places, social events….)
Effects: cause
+hearing damage
+raise blood pressure and pulse rates
+irritability, anxiety, mental and physical fatigue health, interfere with sleep, recreation, personal community.
Solutions:
+raise awareness about the harm of noise pollution
+use earplugs or earmuffs for industrial activities / construction sites; use modern machine to reduce noise
+reduce sound levels at the source
+ build noise-proof walls (karaoke)
29. Tell your opinion about the traffic in Vietnam. How should we encourage people to use public transport instead
of private vehicles?

Traffic in Vietnam: crowded, traffic jams, narrow roads, accidents, careless divers….
How to encourage people to use public transports:
+Public transport must be cheap, convenient, comfortable, safe, high qualitypopular
+ good service: polite,
+raise awareness of driving rules and fine heavily if drivers break the laws
+develop public transport systems

30. What do you think about violence in schools? How to solve this problem?
31. Public transport is very popular in Singapore while in Vietnam, there are many disadvantages of using public
transport. What should we do to improve it, make it better?
32. What are the main principles of working in groups? Which do you prefer, team work or individual work? Give
your opinion about this.
33. Imagine that a virus caused every computer system in your country to crash. What would happen? In your
opinion, should people who create viruses go to prison? Why or Why not?
34. Would you mind doing a job that is traditionally carried out by people of the opposite sex? Why or why not?
35. Do you think that young people should go to study abroad? Why or why not? Tell the advantages and
disadvantages of going to study abroad.
36. Give your opinion about school violence. What should we do to prevent school violence?
37. Do you think learning online is useful and convenient? Give your opinion about this.
38. What should you do to enrich your vocabulary?
39. In your opinion, do you have a healthy diet and lifestyle?
40. What do you like your friend to be? Someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or
someone who is reliable? Which of these characters is most important to you?
41. If children behave badly, should their parents punish them?
42. Are you good at studying? What distracts you? What do you do to help you concentrate?
43. There is too much vehicle on the streets nowadays, so there are often traffic jams during rush hour. What
should we do to solve this problem?
44. Talk about the person you love and admire.
45. Describe the beauty of Ao Dai, the proud symbol of Vietnam.
46. What are the main factors that help you get success in your study?
47. Plastic waste is a big problem nowadays. How to solve this problem?
48. School accidents can happen easily at any time. Give your opinion about this.
49. “Look on the bright side! Be always positive and you will know how to deal with problems and enjoy your life!”
Do you agree with this idea?
50. In the future, robots will be able to do many things like humans, for example, home robots can do the
housework, worker robots can build houses, teaching robots can teach children and doctor robots can help
sick people…..Is this a good or a bad thing for us?
51. Body language.