ĐỀ THAM KHẢO THÊM

(Speaking part 2 và Writing part 2)

1. When you visit the country, what should you do to make trip worthy?

1. Meet and make friends with the locals= have closer contact with indigenes.
- You should ask for an accommodation= a place to sleep over if possible.
- Talk to local people more to get to know their way of living= their lifestyle.

2. Try local foods= Examine that country's delicacies= Sample exotic foods.
- Cook it yourself if you have a chance. ( or when the local are willing to guide you
how to prepare meals in their style.)
- Should not eat packed-meal as you cannot try different tastes.

3. Bond with your companions= Save golden moments with them= Take pictures.
- Treasure time to get closer to each other as normally, you spend most of the time
on your everyday work.
- Keep something for later use. (When you want to recall memorable memory.)

4. Capture the beauty of nature= Take photos of the natural beauty.

- The grander of nature is different from one another.
- Their beauties are worth saving forever in your camera as well as your mind.

4. Experience more.
- Do not lie all day on your hotel bed - > Waste of time.
- Dare to experience, do something different which you have never tried before.

5. Note down=Jot down=Take note if something is amazingly new to you.

- One journey equals one chance to learn something new.
- Enrich your knowledge and stimulate your brain by understanding new horizon.

2. Which type of diet will you follow if you want to lose/ gain weight?

Chọn lose weight viết cho dễ nhé:

1. No canned food= No fast food= No packed meal.

- It is hard for your organs to digest these types of food.
- You will look fatty, which makes you feel unconfident in yourself.
2. Eat vegetables, fruits more.
- They contain vitamin of all kinds( A, C,..)
- Brighten your skin and keep it shining.

3. Drink more water. = Keep your body hydrated all day long.
- Water is an inseparable part in you daily routine.
- Remember to drink at least 2l a day= Do not wait to drink water until you
remember to drink, set a reminder on your phone in order not to dehydrate your
body.

4. No sugar and sweets.

- Sugar is proven to be bad to you body. If you want to have something sweet, use
natural one instead( honey,..)
- Do not eat candies too often because they will damage your teeth as well as having
strong impact on your healthy body.

5. Eat all kinds of nuts and seeds if possible. (peanuts, walnuts, chiaseeds,..)
- Nuts and seeds are good for your heart and brain.
- They keep you busy from eating any other unhealthy food and keep you full longer.

3. Something you did to change your friend? (Việc bạn đã làm cho bạn của
mình thay đổi)

Các bạn nên làm theo dàn ý này nhé:

● When it happened.
● What happened.
● How (s)he changed.

Sample essay:

I have a friend who is quite calm at the first time. However, time flies and she
somehow changes. She often yells at me for no reason. Sometimes, I feel as though
she was a totally different person. At first, I decide to say nothing as I think she will
know that herself. Plus, I am pretty afraid of being shouted at. Nevertheless, after a
while, I cannot bear that any longer. Thus, I call her and ask her out for dinner. While
enjoying our meals, I gentlely express what I am suffering these days and ask her to
change her attitude. Fortunately, she understands that and promises to calm herself
down whenever she feels unwell. Now, we are still friends, and I feel blessed because
of that.

4. Công việc nhà mà bạn không thích

(Nấu ăn: Reason 1: Nấu ăn không ngon. Reason 2: Mất nhiều thời gian cho việc chuẩn
bị, nấu ăn và dọn dẹp. Reason 3: Ở 1 mình, ăn ngoài sẽ thuận tiện và tiết kiệm hơn
do không bị thừa đồ ăn => không lãng phí thức ăn, ...)
5. Would you like to donate to a charity organization? Why (not)?
YES
1. Help other people = Protect them from living in harsh time.
- They do not have enough food, water, clothes.
- They are likely to be threatened from living in poor standard = conditions.

2. Realize how difficult it is while living in poor situation.

- Know= understand how they have to struggle = face everyday's burden to make
ends meet.
- Feel blessed = Appreciate what you are having.

3. Create your own happiness.

- A helping day is a loving day. You can enjoy your day by making others happy.
- You know that at least you can do something to help those who are in need. -> You
are treasure in their eyes.

4. Start a new life for the poor = underprivileges.

- Some poor people, they might be very smart and initiative. However, they lack
money= finance = capital to launch their own project.
- They do not have to live under the bridge or in slums.

5. Reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.

- They will feel better while comparing themselves with others.
- Everyone deserves to have a higher living standard.

6. Disadvantages of increasing private cars?

1. Release fumes = exhaust smoke to the environment. More cars, more exhaust.
- The surrounding atmosphere is affected.
- Make a city no longer a promising land= heaven.
- They have a huge impact on human beings' health.
- In case they are under pressure, it is dangerous for them to drive a car by
themselves.
2. Cause traffic jam= traffic congestion
- It can be seen regularly, especially in rush hours.
- Travellers have to spend longer hours because of it - > cause irritation,
inconvenience.
3. The more private cars appear, the less available space on the road =street
- They occupy space. It is difficult for pedestrians = walkers = commuters on foot to
cross the street, or at intersections.

7. "Can people post and share freely on their own social network pages? Why or
why not? "
Mọi người có nên thoải mái chia sẻ mọi thứ lên các trang phương tiện xã hội của họ
không?
NO

1. It may contain offensive and bad words.

- We are normal human beings= people =creatures, so we can hardly = find it hard to
control ourselves while writing something on social network pages.
- Other people, specifically children, may easily see and imitate you by using those
bad words.
2. It we share something negative, it affects our reputations = our images.
- We show that we are not mature enough as we post negative things on Facebook,
Twitter, etc..
- Moreover, it seems that we are not well- educated since we share not-really-good
posts on the Net.
3. It may hurt other people.
- 'Freely' here means that you can share whatever you think=whatever pops up in
your mind on the Internet. Therefore, people can be affected by your posts if it has
negative and offensive content.
- If you share something related to someone's personal life while you don't even get
what is exactly happening to them, you will definitely hurt them.
4. If you share everything, you will keep nothing for yourself.
- There is nothing, no secret that should be kept and held back for your own.
- Everybody knows you, knows your life - > it becomes boring when you share
something new.
5. You yourself get hurt.
- People have a chance to criticize you if you posts all your personal life on the
Internet.
- You are no longer yourself after being criticized by those who are living in virtual
world like social network.

8. "Home schooling is an ideal way to obtain quality education." Do u agree or

disagree?

DISAGREE
1. Not enough school supplies = teaching and studying tools. ( board, chalks, stickers,
so on)
- Home does not have enough educational tools to teach children.
- Even when it has, the number of it also matters ( schools have more supplies to
offer compared to those at home).

2. No actual environment = children need to be familiar with new environment such

as classroom.
- Home schooling means that they are studying alone = They have no schoolmates,
classmates. => affect their relationship because they do not have friends.
- Have a great impact on the way the interact with others = They only get to know
their parents who are also their home teachers => children find it hard to make
friends when they grow up.

3. No neat and effective educational system.

- Parents might good at teaching their kids. However, they will face difficulties when
it comes to teaching methods, especially modern ones.
- Children won't be exposed under the best learning methods = cannot catch the
latest way of learning.
4. Children will easily get bored. = They do not find studying interesting anymore.
- Having someone to study with is one of the best ways to speed up their studying
process.
- They have no one to practice the lessons with.

5. No Certificates = No official degrees.

- Parents cannot give their kids any kinds of degree.
- It will affect them later in life because they have to standard and official certificates.

9. Các hoạt động bạn tham gia để giúp đỡ cộng đồng?

10. Honesty is essential in all relationships, but a few gentle untruths never hurt
anybody. Agree or disagree? Why (not)?

Agree
1. White lies make things less serious.
- Sometimes, directly seeing the truth is unbearable.
- If we are asked whether this picture is beautiful or not, in case we know that that
person wholeheartedly paints it, we should say Yes even when it is not that beautiful.
2. Gentle untruths can even save a life.
- In a hospital, if a doctor is so frankly honest, it can cost his patient a life when he
directly informs that that patient is going to die shortly.
- In the case that the doctor tries to avoid telling the truth, that patient might live
longer with positive thinking that he can recover soon.
3. Gentle untruths encourage people to work harder and be more successful.
- If your students are not really good at making presentations, before giving serious
comments on their performance, you should gently congratulate and praise them
first even when they are not doing well.
- The same thing happens if you are working as a manager and you need to give
feedback to your employees.
4. Being too honest causes severe consequences.
- It can ruin one's relationship.
- It worsens the way people treat us because they do not want to hear naked truth
from us.
5. Honesty at some certain points of time does more harm than good.
- Back to the past when wars existed, people staying at home, even when there was
something bad happening, they still faked it and tell their husbands who were
protecting the nation that they are alright.
- If not, the soldiers would be under pressure and cannot wholeheartedly serve the
country.

11. Should university students choose developed countries to study? why (not)?

Yes
1. Developed countries have modern technology to supply.
- Students studying at these countries can easily approach new equipments.
- It facilitates their studying.
2. Students have more chances to work.
- They might find it hard to seek employment opportunities in the future if they study
at developing nations.
- On the contrary, in developed countries, they get more options to choose from.
3. Students can experience more in their academic field.
- In developed nations, students are likely to familiarize themselves with authentic
environment.
- They can accumulate more precious experience related to their specialized
knowledge.
4. Students will not face living difficulties which can distract them from their study.
- Modern and convenient transportation would not take much time to commute to
school.
- Available facilities lessen unexpected situations.
5. Students can compare between developing and developed countries.
- If students come from developing countries, they have a chance to see the
differences between the two.
- Students can even outline the reasons why these countries can grow that fast and
help their developing countries be the same or better.

12. ''What factors contribute the most to success of a business?''

“Yếu tố tạo nên thành công của một doanh nghiệp là gì?”
1. Leadership
- The head of the business needs to know what is actually happening with his
corporation.
- Besides, the leader is also the one who thoroughly considers everything and makes
final decisions.
2. Great decisions
- In order to be successful, a business must take risks to seize their opportunities.
- Their decisions need to be practical, realistic to really solve real problems.
3. Communications among people
- People working under the same company should talk properly and build strong
relationships among one another to boost the productivity of the business.
- Not only should co-workers bond with each other, but the bridge between
managers and workers also needs to be taken into consideration.
4. Effective strategies
- It is undoubtedly true about the fact that if one business desires to climb higher,
they must come up with suitable plans and make it doable.
- Imagine that a business just sits still and wants to do nothing with no strategies,
they will disappear from the market soon.
5. Efficient customer care
- A business is nothing without its customers, so it must take this into account.
- A business should find customers and satisfy them so that it will not lose its
potential customers.

What are some benefits of working from home?

What is your greatest concern about the world
Honesty is essential in all relationships, but a few gentle untruths never hurt
anybody. Agree or disagree?
Agree
1. White lies make things less serious.
- Sometimes, directly seeing the truth is unbearable.
- If we are asked whether this picture is beautiful or not, in case we know that
that person wholeheartedly paints it, we should say Yes even when it is not that
beautiful.
2. Gentle untruths can even save a life.
- In a hospital, if a doctor is so frankly honest, it can cost his patient a life when
directly informs that that patient is going to die shortly.
- In the case that the doctor tries to avoid telling the truth, that patient might live
longer with positive thinking that he can recover soon.
3. Gentle untruths encourage people to work harder and be more successful.
- If your students are not really good at making presentations, before giving
serious comments on their performance, you should gently congratulate and
praise them first even when they are not doing well.
 - The same thing happens if you are working as a manager and you need to give
feedback to your employees.
4. Being too honest causes severe consequences.
- It can ruin one's relationship.
- It worsens the way people treat us because they do not want to hear naked
truth from us.
5. Honesty at some certain points of time does more harm than good.
- Back to the past when wars existed, people staying at home, even when there
was something bad happening, they still faked it and tell their husbands who
were protecting the nation that they are alright.
- If not, the soldiers would be under pressure and cannot wholeheartedly serve
the country.
Should university students choose developed countries to study?
Should English be a compulsory subject or an optional subject at school?
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