Speaking Part 2+ 3
Speaking Part 2+ 3
[Link] are going to have some activities for weekend. There are 3 options for you to
choose: relaxing at home/ meeting friends/ going out with family. What is your best
choice?
option 3 because everyone is busy this weekend/ the weather is bad at this weekend.
relaxing at home makes me comfortable and reduce stress after hard working time.
2. You are going to buy a pet. There are 3 options for you to choose: cat/ dog/ bird.
What is your best choice?
a bird because I don’t have a lot of experience to raise and feed the bird
a dog because it is a very intelligent animal which understands what I say. Moreover, dog
is a loyal domestic pet and a good safeguard for my family at night or when we are away.
3. You have to prepare a birthday present for someone who likes traveling. There
are 3 options for you to choose: a selfie stick/ camera/ 3-day holiday. What is your
best choice?
I will choose a 3-day holiday because it’s a good chance for us to relax/ reduce stress
after hard working time
[Link] is important to give the way how to assess primary students. There are 3
options: marks only/ comments only/ both marks and comments . What is your best
choice?
comments only because it’s not motivated for students and parents don’t know about the
ability of their children.
both because it’s the best way to assess students comprehensively/ totally
5. There are plans for your brother after graduation. There are 3 options:
- going to work
- going traveling
option ( 1) because it helps my brother earn money and gain a lot of experience and open
relationship.
Internet: cheap/ fast/ effective because most people use Internet every day.
Tv: expensive
Brochure: it’s not interesting/ expensive/ it’s not popular for everyone.
7. Your parents want your brother to have the best preparation for his entrance
exam to high school. There are 3 options to choose
- hiring a tutor
Classmates: it’s not easy to do the difficult exercises without the help of the teacher.
Extra class: improve knowledge and develop communication skills, learn a lot from
teacher and friends
Classmates: in some difficult exercises, they can’t resolve by themselves. Without the
teacher, The classmates can make noise that makes him difficult to concentrate on the
lesson )
8. Your volunteer group is organizing a trip to help children in a remote class.
There are 3 options: books, clothes and movies. What is your best choice?
Books: it is the best way to improve the knowledge and enrich their mind and relax
Clothes: not suitable for their favourite/ color/ size/ culture / habits and customs
Movies: not all families in remote areas have modern equipment to open movies
9. The manager of an English center wants to advertise it. There are three suggested
media: TV, internet and radio. What is your best choice?
Internet: fast and effective/ cheap / internet is very popular and used by many people.
Tv: expensive
10. You are going to buy a gift for a friend who is going to do a military service.
There are 3 gifts: a book, a CD, a diary. What is the best choice?
Books: The best way to improve the knowledge/ enrich the mind / relax
A CD: not suitable because if he wants to open CD, he needs Cd player which may be not
available in the army.
12. You are asked the best way to take notes in class. Three ways of taking notes:
using pens, using by phone/ ipad; recording the teacher’s lecture. What is your best
choice?
Pens: fast/light/ and effective to use pen to write on notebook- we can keep it for a long
time.
Phone: it’s heavy / slow/ Phone has some problems such as running out of battery or it
can be stolen.
Recording; it takes a long time to listen to the lecture again and sometimes the content
may be lost
13. Your friend wants to organize a high school class reunion. He’s thinking 3
options: visiting old school and teachers, organizing a party and inviting teachers
and classmates, holding one day trip. What is your best choice?
Visiting old school: too simple, we can’t meet our friends and update the information
about the classmates
Organizing ..:more meaningful, can meet teachers and friends to take pictures/ to review
the best memory they had together, update the latest information about the teachers and
classmates
Holding one day trip; expensive, it’s difficult to arrange the time/ destination/ plan for a
whole day
14. Your sister decides to lose weight. Three suggested options: going to the gym;
taking weight loss by drugs; going on a diet. What is your best choice?
Option 1: it is the best way to lose weight and it’s safe to keep fit and stay healthy
Option 2: it’s not safe and she can get some diseases
15. Reading is being encouraged in your high school. Three options: textbooks,
picture books, reference books. What is your best choice?
Option 2: expensive/ there are a lot of pictures that make students lose concentration on
the content / the content of the picture book is very poor
16. A friend from Nha Trang city wants to visit HN this weekend. There are 3
places: HCM mausoleum, Hoan Kiem lake; Ha noi museum. Which is your best
choice?
HCM mausoleum : I know more about the life of the president HCM
HK lake: he visited there many times
17. A foreign student wants to understand about Vietnamese history. There are 3
options: a museum, video, reading books. What is the best choice?
Reading books: it’s convenient to help him know much information about the
Vietnamese history and culture and he can read any time and in any places
Museum: it’s not easy to arrange the time to visit and the museum is not always open.
Video: it’s difficult for him to choose the suitable video about Vietnamese history and not
many videos are translated in to foreign languages.
18. You are thinking about the way to congratulate on your close friend’s
birthday. There are three ways: posting on facebook/ phone call/ send a card.
What is your best choice?
1: I want to make my friend surprised / Through social network, I want many
people to send greetings to my close friends and make her happy
19.A youth club is inviting a speaker to talk about life experience. There are 3
persons suggested: famous singer, company president, excellent student. What is
the best choice?
company president: have much life experience to share/they are successful in their
career/ they have good communication skills
excellent student: He’s too young to have good life experience although he has
good academic achievement.
Famous singer: they sing very beautifully but I am not sure they can deliver a good
speech about sharing life experience.
20. You are planning to have a Sunday evening out. There are 3 options to
choose: seeing a movie, going shopping, singing Karaoke. What is the best
choice?
Movie: it helps me relax or reduce stress after hard working time/ I can update the
latest film.
21. Younger sister told lies many times. What are you going to do: having a talk
with her/ informing your parents/ letting her continue telling lies. What is your
choice?
Have a talk: I want to explain for her that it’s not good to tell lies and advise her to
stop telling lies
Inform parents: I don’t want to hurt my younger sister and my parents to blame her
Letting her…..: This is a bad habit that can affect many people and herself
22. There is a 3 day trip in one city in Viet Nam: Sapa/ HN/ Da nang. What is
the best choice?
Sapa: it’s a beautiful place that I have never visited. There is the highest
mountain in the south East Asia/ I can know more about the culture of ethnic
groups
23. Your nephew is turning 6 years old next week and you are going to buy
him a gift. There are 3 options: robot/ English comic books/ school bag/.
What’s your best choice?
24. Your niece is turning 12 years old next week and you are going to buy her
a gift. There are 3 options: a dress/ an English comic book/ a bouquet (‘bukei)
of flowers. What’s your best choice?
English comic books: it’s useful to for her to learn English
25. There are some ways to assess students’ behavior: self-assessment/ teacher
assessment/ peer assessment. What is the best choice?
Teacher’s assessment:
- Have living experience and know strong points and weak points of
students.
self-assessment: it’s not objective and ss do not have enough skills to assess
themselves.
26. You are studying economics and need daily update on economic news:
Internet/ Tv/ radio. What is the best choice?
TV: It’s not available every time and it follows the timetable
27. You have 3 days off and there are some activities: at home/ go hiking/
travel abroad. What is the best choice?
Hiking: relax and see views/ enjoy the fresh air in the mountain
At home: boring
Travel abroad: expensive / not enough time to travel abroad for 3 days.
28. You are preparing activities for women’s day. There are some activities
suggested: class picnic/ Miss contest/ party ( karaoke). What’s your best
choice?
Class picnic: fun/ have time to meet friends and do many activities
Karaoke: it’s expensive and noisy/ not all students can sing
29. You want to raise money for charity. There are 3 options suggested: concert/
2nd hand market / marathon
Option 2: It’s easy to collect a lot of 2nd hand stuffs and we can get a lot of
money
Concert: I don’t have experience to organize/ not many people understand about
the concert
30. You need to take photo at the end of school year. There are some places
suggested: park/ flower garden/ zoo. What is the best choice?
park: it’s suitable to do exercises/ It’s far from school/ not beautiful
zoo: it’s suitable for visitors/ not suitable for taking photo at the end of school
year.
31. You need to buy some things on Tet holiday. There are some places
suggested: Traditional market/ super market/ department store. What do you
choose?
Traditional market: There are many kinds of things we can buy for Tet holiday and it’s
cheap. We can feel the atmosphere of traditional Tet holiday.
Supermarket: expensive/ takes a lot of time for making a line/ queuing to pay the bill.
-pay 500; this penalty is too light for them because smoke is harmful for both smokers
and non-smokers near them/ rich people are ready to pay a lot of money to continue
smoking
- do community service: He has to work hard such as cleaning toilet in the public place
to see their bad habits to change
reduce
stress
improve
concentration
Well, I would like to tell the topic playing a musical instrument has a lot of benefits.
In this topic, I will support my opinion with examples and reasons. Firstly, I agree that
playing a musical instruments helps us to reduce stress so that we can feel more
comfortable.
Secondly, I support that playing a musical instruments helps us to manage time better
because we have to manage time to play music.
In my opinion, playing a musical instrument helps us to sleep well/ know more about the
culture, tradition, habits, customs of many countries in the world.
In conclusion, we need to think of both advantages and disadvantages of the problem.
The benefits should be noticed while the drawbacks are considered. People should
increase the strong points and reduce the weak points.
Yes, it is good for mental development. Students can improve the love for the country,
land and people. …
I’m not sure but I think it’s pop because many young people like it.
A healthy diet : keep fit / prevent diseases/ refresh your mind/ your own idea
keep fit: people can feel confident and put on beautiful costume
prevent diseases: It improves s good immune system to fight against diseases.
Thirdly, it helps to refresh your mind- we feel relaxed/ comfortable to work better
In my opinion, it helps us to stay strong/ healthy and keep the long life
2. A healthy diet is a key to longevity. Do you agree/ disagree? I agree with this idea
because it helps us to have a long life and make a lot of useful things for society.
I totally agree with that. You can’t enjoy life when you get a lot of diseases
3. Long Tet holidays: gathering/ relaxing time/ traveling/ your own idea
Gathering: it is a chance of gathering( reunion). People who live or work far from home
can come back to join with family
relaxing time. People can reduce stress after hard working time and they can enjoy a lot
of activities with their family such as decorating their house, preparing some traditional
food, visiting their relatives and friends and giving the best wishes for them, going to
temples or pagodas to pray the best things for family all around the year.
traveling: Tet holiday is a good time for travelling to enjoy good time and explore new
places.
In my opinion, tet holiday is a good chance to teach children about the tradition, habits
and customs of our country.
[Link] do you often do during Tet holiday? I often visit relatives, cook traditional food
and watch TV, go to pagodas …
Peope should avoid saying bad things during Tet holidays, breaking glasses, sweeping the
floor on Tet holidays
3. What makes our Tet traditions different from those of other countries?
Maybe Tet in our country still keep traditional characteristics and many not be affected
much by modern life.
4. There are some benefits of mobile phones: Mobile phones: computer functions/
search engines/ means of communication/ your own idea.
Firstly, It is a computer function.( people can get or send email, they can type the
documents on mobile phones)
Secondly, it is a search engine. People can find out all the information on mobile phones.
Thirdly, It is a means of communication (people can use mobile phone to contact with
other people by calling, sending messages, chatting..)
2. Do you think people will continue using mobile phones in the future?
Yes I think so, because it is the fastest way to contact with other people
3. How do the young and the old in your country differ from each other in using mobile
phone?
The old often use mobile phone with simple function as calling and messages while the
young prefer the multi-functional mobile phone including camera, Internet connection,
games, movies, music, social network contact…
Motivating
lessons
Inspiring
A great teacher Your own ideas
personality
Useful advice
Firstly, a good teacher can motivate lessons (because a good teacher is a person who has
good qualifications, and teaching skills to provide good lessons and helps students feel
more eager and excited with the lesson and they understand lessons easily).
Secondly, a good teacher can inspire personality for students. Students always consider
teacher as their idol or a good example for them to follow in terms of behavior, morality,
attitudes…..
Thirdly, a good teacher can give students useful advice (teacher by their life experience
and good communication skills can provide students with good advice to overcome all
difficulties.
In my opinion, a good teacher can become a good friend with students to share a lot of
things in life
[Link] makes a good teacher? A good teacher should have good qualification, good
morality and good methods of teaching
2. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book”. Do you agree or disagree?
I totally agree with this opinion because teachers can motivate students to learn better and
they become good friends to give useful ideas for students in their study and their life.
- Form personalities
Childhood is the most important time of a person’s life. Firstly, it develops physical
health. (It means that children need to be provided enough nutrition and do exercises to
develop their health totally).
Secondly, childhood forms personalities. (It means that adults should become a good
example for children to follow)
Thirdly, children learn things very fast when they are small because at this age the
children are very active to explore everything that is happening around them to
understand about the world.
Childhood is the beginning of their life to learn about the world such as academic
knowledge, art, culture, traditions….
[Link] do you remember most about your childhood? I remember most about the time I
studied at secondary school because I think it’s the best time in my life
[Link] are factors contributing to the mental child’s development? There are some
factors including taking care by parents, teaching activities given by teachers, study
environment at school and government policy.
[Link] you agree that nowadays children are freer to choose what to learn?
Yes, I do. Children are free to choose other subjects which are suitable with their interests
and ability.
There’s too much pressure on school students these days, Firstly, I agree that school
pressure comes from parents’ expectation. (Students feel very stressful about the
achievement at school to make parents happy)
Secondly, peer competition also brings the school pressure. Children have high pressure
to get the good results when their parents often compare them with others in the same
class
Thirdly, heavy workload at school also becomes a pressure for children. Children have to
learn a lot of subjects at school and do a lot of exercises, they have no enough time to
relax or take part in some outside activities.
In my opinion, school regulations also become pressure for children. For example they
can be punished by teachers or school if they come to school late.
+ Cultural understand
+ Global citizens
Everyone should learn at least one foreign language, for example like English because it
helps them to get a good job. Secondly, Learning English helps to understand different
cultures; like English, American,….
Thirdly, it helps us to become Global citizens. When we know foreign language, we can
work in any countries in the world and we can talk with many people in the world.
In my opinion, when we know a foreign language we can travel many places in the
world.
-unreal life
-less privacy
internet creates
the unreal life (talk online but no meeting in real life). The things we see on internet may
be quite different from the real life and the information on internet is sometimes not
reliable.
less face to face talk. It means that we will lack the interaction in real life with our
friends.
less privacy: it is very easy to get personal information on the internet, so people don’t
have much the privacy. Finally, Internet has a lot of black websites which are not good
for children.
+ to protect privacy : In some cases people tell lies to keep secret or keep the
information in safe. For example, when we assess social network like zalo or facebook,
we have to provide the wrong information about address, name, mobile phone,.., to keep
privacy and safe.
+ to avoid embarrassment: sometimes, the truth is not good and it can bad effect on our
life , so telling lies is a good choice.
+ Independence
+knowledge achievement
+ Social network
+Financial difficulties : have difficulties in work and get little money- can’t support the
family life / failure in business….
+ Challenge yourself: when we learn new skills, we can know more about ourselves and
see the strong points and weak points. From that, we can improve the strong and reduce
the weak points.
+Improve our brain functions: Learning a new skill is a good way to improve the
knowledge and enrich our mind and it’s useful to make our brain perform effectively.
+Have a more meaningful life: Learning a new skill is necessary to our life and it will
make us more perfect and feel positive in our life.
+ Your own opinion: live better / feel more confident in working and living
+ Learn more knowledge : improve the knowledge about history, culture, tradition…
+ Talk with other people : make friends and open the relationship
+ Your own opinion : feel proud of the culture and tradition of the country and have a
deep love for the country / have awareness of responsibility to preserve the culture of the
country
+ Academic knowledge
+ Job opportunities
+ Social skills
Study university has a lot of advantages. Firstly, it helps us to get academic knowledge. It
means that we master the knowledge of social and natural science. Secondly, it provides
job opportunities. It means that we can have chance to get a good job with high salary.
Thirdly, it helps us to open social communication. It means that we can make friends and
open the relationship with many people. Finally, we can learn a lot of skills at university
such as: team skills, communication skills,…
1. What do you think about the entrance exam to university in Viet nam? It’s very
stressful and costs a lot of time and money.
2. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion: University is the only route to the
success? There are many ways to get successful in our life and university is not
the only way.
16.
Rich source of
information
Means of communication: contact with other people, make friends open the
relationship….
[Link] are negative influences of FB on users? Waste of time / some people are
addicted to FB / not all information on FB is reliable/ less privacy/
2. How has the number of Fb users changed much in the last 10 years? More
and more people use Fb everyday the number of users has been increasing so fast
in the past few years because of the great benefits FB brings to our modern life.
17. There are several disadvantages of keeping animals in zoos:
Keeping animals in zoos: loss of freedom/ lack of space/ lack of survival skills
Keeping animals in zoos can lead to ….
Firstly, I agree that keeping animals in zoos can make them lose freedom / can lead
to loss of their freedom. It means that their activities are kept in cage and
controlled by human being so that they feel very uncomfortable with their life.
Secondly, I must say that keeping animals in zoos can bring lack of space. It means
that animals have to live in small, isolated and limited space instead of natural
living environment. As a result, some of them can die at the early age.
Thirdly, keeping animals in zoos can make them lack survival skills. It means that
it’s difficult for them to adapt to the living environment now and easy to get some
kinds of diseases to lose their life.
Finally, one more point I want to add here is that because of keeping in the zoos
for a long time and deal with unnatural living environment, some animals can
become extinct
1. Are animals usually kept in zoos? Not all animals are kept in zoos, but some
of them are kept for research, visit or entertainment performance purpose
2. What are benefits of keeping them in zoos? Some animals are kept in zoos
because people want to protect them from being killed or hunted by human
being.
3. What should we do to protect wildlife species?
Don’t cut down the trees or forest to protect wildlife
Stop the forest burning activities to make wildlife animals stay in safe
Weight control
Disease
prevention
Healthy breakfast provides energy…. ( feel relaxed and can work effectively)
- peer pressure
- lack of parents’ supervision: people are busy with work , don’t have enough time
to take care of children
- peer pressure: they can be affected by friends’ behavior or they are the victims of
bullying
- own idea: workload makes young people stressful and causes violence.
1. Are the young becoming more violent than they were in the past?
2. What are the effects of violence among the young?: break the law, kill the
people, out of control
Parents control media and spend time with children / become good example for
children to follow
+ Conserve environment
+ Reduce poverty : ……
- Conserve environment
One of the rules for eco-tourism is to protect the environment. It means that we are
not allowed to damage the natural habitats.
- Reduce poverty: when the tourism develops, it will be helpful to provide
more working chances for local residents to earn a lot of money.
Your own idea: relax, explore new places….
1. Will ecotourism be more popular in your country?
2. What are disadvantages of tourism in your country?
3. What should government do to promote ecotourism in your country?
Advertise through means of media …../ provide good service for tourism
21.
Topic: Museums and art galleries should be free in charge for students:
Widen knowledge
Meet people in
the same
interests.
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- What don’t many children nowadays like museum?
- What types of museum are popular in your country?
- What are reasons that have made people to visit museum change in the last 10
years?
25. There are some drawbacks for college students who live far from home:
What are the benefits of crying when I am sad? Sad feelings will be released by
tears / feel better
What problems can sadness bring to our health? If we keep sadness in our mind for
a long, It’s very harmful for health with some diseases; depression/ sleepless
nights/ …..and It has a bad effect on our work and life.
- Convenient
- Time saving
- Cost saving
- Your own idea
Online learning is….
1. Who may benefit from e-learning the most?
2. What are disadvantages of e-learning compared to traditional learning?
3. Do you think online learning will be more popular? Why/whynot?
30. Games are useful in the classroom.
Classroom games:
-Fun
- creativity
- interaction
+ creativity: require people to use their brain for playing so it’s good to develop
intelligence
+ interaction: develop communication and social skills / open the relationship and
make friends.
+ Your own idea: improve knowledge and enrich their mind/ more motivated in the
lesson
If they play too many games, students can lose concentration on their lesson.
Some games require the large location, time and money investment.
When should games be used in the lesson? It is used before the lesson to warm up
the atmosphere of stressful lessons
Playing games teaches people about life. What do u think about this opinion?
32. Cycling:
- Relax
- Keep fit
- Protect environment
Do you think cycling is good for health?
- improve academic outcome: Students focus on the lessons and the get good
results
- teach work ethics ( morality): Helps students improve their behavior and
become good students
- keep learning environment safe: require/ ask students to follow the rules of
the class and will be punished if they break the rules.
- Teacher can control the class easily
However, It makes students feel stressful and passive
34. Study abroad
-Develop themselves
- natural resources (make use of too much natural resources so it will run out
of. Deforestation for building house/ factory …..
- wastes : rubbish from daily life – make environment polluted
- global warming : smoke and waste from factories, means of transport come
to the air and make it polluted - …..