TOPIC Home/ accommodation

1. What kind of housing/accommodation do you live in?

- A small apartment: căn hộ nhỏ
- Spacious: rộng
- Bring warm and cozy feelings to me
- A balcony facing the street
- Yard: sân
- What I like best is +
- Alone
- Feel lonely
- Have some tea/ coffee
2. Who do you live with?
- Live independently
- It depends on sb/sth
- I live alone.
- I live with …
- Feel fortunate and grateful: cảm thấy may mắn và biết ơn
- Support both financially and emotionally: hỗ trợ cả về tài chính và tình cảm
- When I am in the company or I am outside, there is something happening in my
home. There is noone I can ask for help, my family cannot help me b/c they are living
far away from me.
- Solve/ so
3. How long have you lived there?
- My childhood: thời thơ ấu
- Move to + a place: chuyển đến đâu
- Recently: gần đây
- On campus: trong truownfg DH
- Facilitate + N
- On my own
4. Do you plan to live there for a long time?
- Time-consuming: tốn thời gian
- Exhausting: mệt mỏi
- Settle down + a place: sống ổn định ở đâu
- Be able to afford a flat: có khả năng mua đc 1 căn hộ
- Another place
- Position/location
- It is easy for me to V

5. Which room does your family spend most of the time in?
- Dining room: phòng ăn
- Family reunions: các buổi tụ họp gia đình
 - Cozy atmosphere: không khí đầm ấm
- Have meals: ăn cơm
- Talk about our work, study…
- Living room
- Favorite
- Spacious
- I not only … but also
TOPIC TRAVEL ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT
1. What kinds of public transport do you usually take?
- Punctual, on time: đúng giờ
- Reliable: đáng tin
- Time consuming: tốn thời gian >< time saving
- Schedule: lịch trình
- Be stuck in: bị kẹt
- Eg: I don’t want to be
- Private: cá nhân
- Frequent: thường xuyên
- Wait for the bus coming to the bus stop
- Go travelling
- Travel over a long/short distance
- High-speed railway
2. Do most people prefer public transportation in your country?
- Queue up: xếp hàng
- Get around
- Vehicle as a means of transport
- Rush hour: giờ cao điểm
- Crowded: đông đúc
- Traffic jam: tắc đường
- In constrast/by constrast/ on the other hand
- Heavy traffic
- an environmentally-conscious person: người có ý thức bảo vệ môi trường 
- contribute to + V-ing: góp phần vào
3. What will become the most popular means of transportation in your country?
- Convenient: tiện lợi
- Weather: thời tiết
- Sunlight: ánh nắng
- Get around: đi loanh quanh
- Narrow: hẹp
- Go into easily
4. What are the differences about transportation in your country between the past and now?
 - Change: thay đổi
- Popular: phổ biến
- Transportation: vận chuyển
- Economic development: sự phát triển kinh tế
- Coach
- There is/there are = I have/she has: có
- Thì hiện tại hoàn thành: diễn đạt điều đã xảy ra, nhưng k dùng Quá khứ đơn
EG: I have lived here for 2 years
VN has developed recently

TOPIC WEATHER

1. What’s the weather like in your country? # what does she look like?
- Comfortable: thoải mái
- Season: mùa
- Pretty ~very extreme: khá khắc nghiệt
- Extreme sports: thể thao mạo hiểm
- Temperature: nhiệt độ
- degree celcius: độ C
- heatwaves: đợt nóng
- there are some…
- rainy season
- dry season
- hate: ghét
- rain coat
2. Which season do you like best?
-  sport activities 
- Outdoor activities
- physical activities: hoạt động thể chất
- sweat: đổ mồ hôi
- rainy season: mùa mưa
- dry season: mùa khô
- have more meetings
3. Do you do different things in different weather?
- summer time: mùa hè
- bleak: ảm đạm
- dull: tối, mờ, ảm đạm
- favorable: thời tiết đẹp
 - the weather affects my activities a lot.
- If it is a good weather day: 1 ngay dep troi
- More energy/ motivation to work effectively

TOPIC SPORTS
1.  Did you do some sports when you were young?
-  Bookworm: con mọt sách
- Go to the gym:
- Exercise: tập thể dục
- Physical education: mon the duc
- Run along the coast: chạy dọc bờ biển
2. Do you like sports?
- personal trainer : huấn luyện viên cá nhân
- outcome
- perform better at work: the hien tot hon
- reach my goal: đạt đến mục tiêu
- take part in: tham gia vào
- ride bicycle: đạp xe
- bicycle riding club
- refresh my mind: làm cho tinh thần sảng khoái
- recharge my battery: nạp năng lượng
3. Do you often watch sports on TV?

- Free time: thời gian rảnh

- Busy with: bận rộn với cái gì
- pursue other interests: theo đuổi những sở thích khác
- whenever there are global/international football matches like/ such as World cup, I
don’t miss any match.
4. What is the most popular sport in your country?

- most common sport activity: hoạt động thể thao phổ biến nhất
- the king of sports: môn thể thao vua
- keep fit: giữ dáng đẹp
- local stadium: san van dong dia phuong
- ppl from different age groups
Topic TAKING PHOTO
1. Do you like taking photo?
- Remine me of: nhắc tôi nhớ về cái gì
- Good memory: kỉ niệm đẹp
- Capture beautiful moments: chụp lại khoảnh khắc đẹp
 2. Do you like taking selfie?
- Prefer to V: thích cái gì hơn
- Scenery: phong cảnh
- Landscape: phong cảnh
- Share special moments with sb: chia sẻ khoảnh khắc đặc biệt với ai đó
- Snap some photos: chụp nhanh vài bức ảnh

TOPIC HOUSEWORK AND COOKING

1. Do you do some cooking/help your family cook at home now?
- Good at: giỏi về
- Be responsible for: chịu trách nhiệm về
- Prepare: chuẩn bị
- Rinse the vegetables: rửa rau
- Peel the potatoes: gọt khoai tây
- Slice carrots: thái cà rốt
- Fridge: tu lanh
- Divide them into small portions and I put them into plastic boxes
2. Did you do some house cleaning when you were young?
- Do household chores: làm việc nhà = do housework
- Once/twice a week
- Have/On business trips: đi công tác
- Remove the dust: loại bỏ bụi bẩn
- Sweep the floor: quét nhà
- Vacuum the carpet: hút bụi thảm
3. Do you have breakfast at home every day?
- Beforehand: trước đó
- In a hurry: vội
- Fridge: tủ lạnh
- Healthy: lành mạnh
4. Do you want to learn how to cook well?
- My loved ones: những người tôi yêu thương
- Feature (v): chiếu, phát (phim) + nội dung phim
- Chef: đầu bếp
- Dishes: các món ăn
- I learned how to cook mostly from my mom
- Some more
- Recipe: coong thuwsc nấu ăn
- That I have never cooked before

TOPIC SOCIAL MEDIA

 1. Do you like to use social media?
- Be addicted to sth: nghiện
- Alcohol
- Platform: nền tảng
- Express/show my opinions: thể hiện quan điểm
- A part of my life: 1 phần cuộc sống
- Find: thấy
- Look for: tìm kiếm
2. Do you think your friends use too much social media?
- Keep in contact with my friends: giữ liên lạc với bạn bè
- In/ by Contrast: ngươc lại = on the other hand
- Stay up to date with (latest news): cập nhật tin tức mới nhất
- oldest
- Grab the phone to look at Facebook: chộp lấy điện thoại để xem fb
- I would grab sth to eat on my way to work
- Immense: to lớn
- Immerse myself in: chìm đắm trong…
- So adj… that SV…: rất …. Đến mức
- My friends are so addicted to FB that they grab the phone to look at it whenever they
can.
- Go online: lên mạng
3. Do you want to work in social media? Why?
- Be exposed to new things: được tiếp xúc với những điều mới
- I can be ….
- Flexible: linh hoạt
- Future trend: xu hướng tương lai
- Have a chance to V: có cơ hội làm gì
- Industry: ngành
- Give it a try: thử
- Try (v). eg: I want to try to work in social media industry
-
4. What’s the most popular social media in VietNam? Why?
- Attract: thu hút
- Thousands/millions/billions of users: hàng ngàn người dùng
- Informative: nhiều thông tin
- It is informative

TOPIC TECHNOLOGY

1. What technology do you often use, computers or mobile phones?

- Many purposes: nhiều mục đích
- Take online courses: học các khóa học online
- Work on projetcs: làm các dự án
- Necessary: cần thiết
- For taking notes/ for note-taking
2. What electronic devices have you bought lately/recently?
- For note taking: để ghi chú
- Take note: ghi
- Lighter >< heavy: nhẹ - nặng
- Carry: mang theo
- An alternative for: 1 sự thay thế
- Portable: dễ mang theo
3. Are there any technology you want to buy?
- Digital camera: máy ảnh kĩ thuật số
- Photography: (danh từ) sự chụp ảnh/ nhiếp ảnh
- Capture memorable moments: chụp những khoảng khắc đáng nhớ
- Even we are In a far distance: trong khoảng cách xa
- We live far away from them: sống xa
- Just: chỉ
- With just a video call
4. What’s the benefit of technology?
- Bring convenience to my life: mang lại sự tiện nghi cho cuộc sống
- Save time: tiết kiệm thời gian
- Robot vacuum cleaner: máy hút bụi
- Easier to contact + sb: dễ dàng liên lại

TOPIC EMAILS
1. Do you often send emails?
- an international/foreign company: công ty nước ngoài
- sending emails is a part of my work: là 1 phần trong công việc
- exchange information: trao đổi thông tin
2. When would you send emails to others?
- Send reports: gửi báo cáo
- my department supervisor: người dám sát phòng
- manager: quản lý
- keep connection with: giữ liên lạc với ai
- complain: nhàn nàn
3. Is sending emails popular in Vietnam?
- a very popular way of communication : cách trao đổi thông tin phổ biến
- interview: phỏng vấn
- results: kết quả
- assignment: bài tập
- essay: bài luận
 - when you want to apply for a new job, you have to send your CV through emails.
And Time, address and the result of the interview will be aslo sent through emails.
4. Do you think sending emails will be more or less popular in the future?
- Rely more on: dựa vào cái gì
- Other platform
- Reliable: dang tin cay
- Secure: bao mat
- Convenient: tiện lợi

TOPIC CARS
1. 1. Did you enjoy travelling by car when you were a child? (Why/Why not?)
- Have a car trip: chuyến đi bằng ô tô
- Enjoy the changing scenery out of the window: tận hưởng cảnh thay đổi ngoài cửa sổ
- have a picnic: đi giã ngoại
- have movement sickness: bị say những vật chuyển động
- most of the time during the trip b/c I have ………… Sleeping
2. Do you prefer to be a driver or a passenger?
- be responsible for the safety of everyone: chịu trách nhiệm cho sự an toàn của mọi
người
- have a rest: nghỉ ngơi
- takes the front passenger seat: ngồi ở trước
- take a nap: chợp mắt
3. What do you usually do when there is a traffic jam?
- Impatient: mất kiên nhẫn
- Get stuck in traffic: bi ket
- I can do nothing, just wait
- Honk the car: bấm còi xe
- Drive/ride on the sidewalk: lái xe trên vỉa hè
- Avoid being late at work

TOPIC SWIMMING
1. Do you often swim?
- Immerse my body in the water: ngâm mình trong nước
-  sign up for swimming class: đăng kí lớp học bơi
- hygiene condition: điều kiện vệ sinh
- keep myself afloat: nổi trên mặt nước
- relax = relieve stress: giải tỏa căng thẳng
- a form of exercise: 1 hình thức tập thể dục
2. Are there many places to swim near you?
- Live far from/ near the coast: sống xa bờ biển
- Coastal city
- Swimming pool: bể bơi
- Chemical taste: vị hóa học
- Chlorine (n) clo
- Fall into the water: rơi/ ngã xuống nước
- There is a swimming pool in neighborhood/ the apartment complex with free entrance
- As a form of
- Trọng âm: sắc/ không dấu
- Không phải TÂ: huyền/ nặng

3. Is swimming popular/common in your country?

- Most of people
- live along the coastal cities: sống dọc các thành phố ven biển
- consider: coi
- inland cities
- live in mountainous areas: vùng núi
- a good form of exercise: một hình thức thể dục
- Improve their height: cải thiện chiều cao
4. What do you think are the benefits of swimming?
- Improve their height: cải thiện chiều cao
- Good for: tốt cho
- Improve your flexibility - flexible: cải thiện sự dẻo dai
- Prevent from + V-ing/ N: phòng ngừa
- Eg: I exercise to prevent from being obese (adj): béo phì
- Being drowned: bị đuối nước
- Learn to swim to prevent from being drowned.
- Many parents allow their children to go to swimming classes in the hope of/ because
they want to prevent their children from being drowned.
5. Describe a time when you travelled to a beach
When?
Where?
What you did
Why do you like your trip
- It’s about 50km away from HMC
- Chance: cơ hội
6. What benefits can a locality get when having tourist attractions?
- Boost the local economy: đẩy mạnh nền kinh tế địa phương
 - Create more job opportunities: tạo ra nhiều cơ hội việc làm

TOPIC DANCING
1. Do you enjoy dancing and why?
- Inspire (v) truyen cam hung
- They dance beautifully: ho nhay rat dieu luyen
2. Has anyone ever taught you to dance?
- Imitate (v) bat chuoc
- Practice + V-ing: luyện tập
3. Tell me about any traditional dancing in your country.
- It is a representation of national solidarity: no la bieu tuong cua su doan ket dan toc
- Lion Dance: mua lan
4. Do you think traditional dancing will be popular in the future? Why/ why not?
- Have a great sense of patriotism: co tinh than yeu nuoc cao
- Boost economy
MAKING DECISION:
1. What decisions do people usually make in their daily lives?
- decide:
- choose what to have for lunch
- spend money wisely: tiêu tiền khôn ngoan
2. Which is easier making a decision by yourself or making a decision after group
discussion?
- make a decision
- when it comes to: khi nhắc đến
- prefer to V
- decide (v)
- reach wise decision: đạt đến quyết định sáng suốt
- different idea: nhiều ý tưởng khác nhau
3. Why are many young people unwilling to follow their parents’ advice?
- narrow-minded: bảo thủ
- old fashion: lỗi thời
- out of date: lỗi thời
- modern time
- unwilling to follow
4. Do Vietnamese children have difficulties at school?
- be under a lot of pressure: áp lực
- come up with: nghĩ ra
CHANGE
- middle age people: người trung tuổi
- the elderly: người già
- curious: tò mò
- determined: quyết tâm
- unwilling to stick with: không sẵn sàng gắn bó với
1. Is it easier for young people to change?
2. Is it easy for old people to change?
- habits: thói quen
3. How can people change their daily routine if they want to?
- gradually: từ từ,
- start from a small part
- set a (un)realistic goal
4. What are the disadvantages when people keep making changes?
- lose chance/opportunity
- get promoted
- hard to get a good job