Speak out – Day 12

INSTRUCTOR: NGUYEN THU NGUYET

Revision

 A deciding moment in life or history when a major choice of options is Fork in the road
required
 the job of checking that a process or system is working well (F) Oversight
 a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and Accountability
can ask them to explain its state or quality
 someone who makes an official agreement to be responsible for money guarantor
that someone else owes, or for someone else’s behavior
 information, especially false information, that a government or propaganda
organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
 the process of carefully watching a person or place that may be involved Surveillance
in a criminal activity
Pronunciation practice

 Self-correction (listen and read the scripts/ subtitles at the same time)
 Shadowing: you listen to a model (i.e. a video or audio of someone
speaking) and you repeat what they say in real time
Useful words or structures

 Traits that improves our judgement:

 Scout mindset: curious, open, and grounded (a)
 Cut through prejudices and biases
 It’s the drive not to make an idea win or another lose
 Feel pleasure when they learn new information or an itch to solve a puzzle
 intrigued when encounter some information that contradicts our beliefs/
expectations
 Traits that affects our judgement unconsciously:
 Defensive
 Yearn to defend your own beliefs
 Takeaway
Do you prefer X to Y?
What do you usually do?
What do you like to do?
What do you like to do?
What do you dislike about X?
How often do you do X?
How often do you do X?
Reference

 Palley, J., Davies, O., & Li, A. (2014). 31 high-scoring formulas to answer the
IELTS speaking questions. Tp. HCM.: Tổng hợp Tp. Hồ Chí Minh.