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BASIC IELTS
- UNIT 2 -
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Pronunciation
01 /ʊ/, /uː/
Table of
Contents 02 Vocabulary
Personal Information
Grammar
03
Past tenses
Pronunciation
Theory Mouth movement
/ʊ/ /uː/
Word Phonetics Meaning
Food /fuːd/ Đồ ăn
Remove /rɪˈmuːv/ Loại bỏ
Music /ˈmjuːzɪk/ Âm nhạc
Cook /kʊk/ Nấu ăn
Foot /fʊt/ Bàn chân
Activity 1 Match the phonetics with the right picture
/fʊt/ /ˈwʊmən/ /bʊk/ /kʊk/ /fʊl/
/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”

Activity 2 Circle all the words containing /u:/ sound in the passage
Li had a busy day. In the morning, he had to buy presents to send to his
parents in China for the Lunar New Year. Then, he went to buy a new
bamboo flute for his daughter. In the afternoon, he took his son to the
pool. After that, he went to the supermarket to buy food. In the evening,
he checked his wise tooth before going home to cook dinner.
/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”

Sound and spelling
/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”
/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”
Check-up Choose the right answer
/ʊ/ /u:/
Group X
Foot X
Food X
Should X
Sugar X
Tooth X
Blue X
Put X
Good X
Exercise 1. Odd one out
1. A. Too B. Food C. Push D. Two

2. A. Fruit B. Juice C. Good D. Choose
3. A. Goose B. Woman C. Blue D. Tooth
4. A. Pool B. Full C. Put D. Sugar
5. A. School B. Afternoon C. Cushion D. Soup
Exercise 2. Fill in the blank then practice
IELTS Speaking Sample part 1
1.When you buy shoes, do you prefer comfortable or nice ones?

look for shoes that are easy to wear. But I also
Of course, I will /lʊk/
consider the style /tuː/
too , because I want to choose
/tʃuːz/ shoes that match
the clothes I wear.
2.Do you think that children should be taught cookery at school?
Yes, that’s probably a /ɡʊd/
good idea. If all children knew how to /kʊk/
cook
/wʊd/ surely be a /ɡʊd/
a few basic, healthy meals, that would good thing.
Exercise 3. Listen and fill in the blank (Track 1)
sugar
1. Do you take …………?
looking
Could you help me? I’m ………………for
2. ………… good cookery………….
a …………… book
Tuesday , the second of ……………….
3. It’s ……………… June
news
4. Let’s watch the ……………….
Room
5. ……………… two is over there.
………………
spoon for your ……………….
6. Here’s a ……………… soup
Vocabulary
• Phone number
• Date format
• Postcode
IELTS Listening Part 1 sample:
A: What’s your date of birth?

S: 10/10/(1)…………………………..
A: And your telephone number?
S: My phone number is (2) …………………….. and my home phone number is
01265 649 674.
A: Okay and could you tell me your (3) …………………….. please?
S: Sure. It’s SE1 2LP.
PHONE NUMBER
6203 452
Six two oh three, four five two
PHONE NUMBER
• Read numbers from the left to the right

• Read numbers one by one
PHONE NUMBER
What’s your phone number?

It’s …. 5709 1302
Five seven zero nine one three zero two.
Five seven oh nine one three oh two.
“Oh” is more common.
Zero (0) is usually pronounced as Oh

PHONE NUMBER
When numbers are together:

E.g. 6122 4183
Six one two two, four one eight three

Six one double two, four one eight three
Two numbers together are pronounced as DOUBLE …
Summary PHONE NUMBER
In English, we say each number individually or say in other ways:
Number Pronounced
Zero (0) Oh
Two numbers together Double + the number
PHONE NUMBER

• 0 – oh/zero
• 2 consecutive numbers 🡪 double + number
E.g. 44 🡪 double four
DATE
When is your birthday?

A. The tenth of May
B. The ten of May
C. 10th May
PHONE NUMBER
• 0 – oh/zero
DATE
• The + day (ordinal number) + of + month (Spoken English)

• Day (ordinal
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DATE
Twenty sixteen
2016
Two thousand and sixteen
1600 Sixteen hundred
DATE
LIST OF MONTHS
January Tháng 1
February Tháng 2
March Tháng 3
April Tháng 4
May Tháng 5
June Tháng 6
DATE
LIST OF MONTHS
July Tháng 7
August Tháng 8
September Tháng 9
October Tháng 10
November Tháng 11
December Tháng 12
Postcode
A : And the postcode?

B : It’s BS8 9PU.
Postcode: Capital letters + numbers
PHONE NUMBER
• 0 – oh/zero
DATE POSTCODE
• The + date (ordinal number) + of + month Include capitals letters and

• Date (ordinal number) + month numbers
Check-up Choose the right answer
DATE POSTCODE PHONE NUMBER

AE348N1 X
2nd August X
934 0823 X
DA02M X
May, 2020 X
4028 722 X
Exercise 4 A. Circle postcodes in the table and read
2020 Flat 6 WE58GF
19th June, 2001 DBR29 1998
0332 8992 05.10.2010 BS89PU
PA57GJ 3 Oak Street 2389 9222
Exercise 4. B. Circle dates in the table and read
2020 AS0239 in the morning
19th June, 2001 05:00 1998
3217 5896 05.10.2010 November
VTV3 FM09 3rd floor
Exercise 5. Listen and choose the correct option (Track 2)
1. What’s your telephone number?

A. 433 2139
B. 433 2539
C. 833 2029
2. What’s your birthday? 3. What about the postcode?
A. 3rd of July A. BA209N
B. 3rd of June B. BE209M
C. 5th of June C. PA209M
Exercise 6 Listen and fill in the blank (Track 3)
Travel Safe
INSURANCE PLC
Department: Motor Insurance
Client details:
Name: Elisabeth Ricard

8th October, 1975
Date of birth: …………………………
Address: 60 Forest Road, Callington (town)
CZ8809
Policy number:…......................
Exercise 7 Pair work
Name: ……………………………………..
Date of birth: …………………………
Address: ………………………………
Phone number:…......................
Grammar
Past simple
IELTS Speaking Part 2

Describe a device that you can’t live without
I /bɔːt/
bought my cell phone 2 years ago.
PAST SIMPLE USES
Talk about events in the past
PAST SIMPLE Form
I bought my cell phone 2 years ago.
S Ved
S did not V
?
Did S V
PAST SIMPLE TIME EXPRESSIONS
• yesterday
• last night/ last week/ last month/ last year
• last + noun
• two weeks/three months/one year ago
• in 1990
Check up
did many presentations

1. When we were seniors in our university, we (do) ……………
that were related to our major.
were not popular fifteen years ago.
2. Smartphones (be) ………….
went on a trip to Ho Chi Minh City in my summer vacation
3. Last year, I (go) ……….…
and that trip is the most memorable one that I have ever had.
used to be a very famous actor in the 1990s.
4. He (use) ……….….
5. One of the most terrible natural disasters is the earthquake and tsunami that
(happen) happened
……………… in Japan in 2011.
Past continuous Choose the right answer
He ___________ his homework in his bedroom when the burglar

came into the house.
A. is doing B. did C. was doing
Provide the background scene to an action or event (usually in the

past simple)
Often use with: when, while, as

Past continuous
Provide the background scene to an action or

event (usually in the past simple)
Past continuous Choose the right answer
My father was cleaning the house while my mother (was making/made)

dinner.
More than one action happening at the same time in the past
Past continuous
Provide the background scene to an action or event

(usually in the past simple)
More than one action happening at the same time in

the past
PAST CONTINUOUS Form
Affirmative (+)
Subject + was/were +V-ing
Negative (-)
Subject + was/were (not) + V-ing
Interrogative
(WH-Qs) was/were + subject + V-ing?
Past perfect
gone when I arrived.

He had /ɡɔːn/
Talk about something that happened before an event in the past
With words like when, as soon as, by the time, after to show the
order of events
Past perfect
Talk about something that happened before an event in the past
With words like when, as soon as, by the time, after to show the
order of events
Past perfect – Verb form
When Jane’s mom got home, she had finished her homework.
S had Vpp
S had not Vpp
? Had S Vpp
Check-up Give the correct forms of the verbs
1. rose (rise) to 20% in 2010.

The percentage of men who work at night ………..
2. By 2000, smart phone had not become (not become) popular in Vietnam.
………………………….
3. increased
In 1998, the number of fast food consumers in America ………………………….(increase)
dramatically.
4. had dropped (drop) by roughly $90.

By the beginning of 2009 the price of oil ……………………
5. had risen
By 2007, the average computer price………………….(rise) by almost £19,000.
Exercise 7 Write the past perfect tense
Infinitive Past simple Past perfect

Go went had gone
Learn learned/learnt had learned/learnt
Play played had played
Eat ate had eaten
Have had had had
Do did had done
Exercise 8 Fill in the blank with the correct form of past tenses
IELTS Speaking part 1 sample

How long have you lived in your house with your family?
was
Well, I have lived with my parents since I (1) ……………… (be) a little girl.
graduated
After I (2) ………………..…… (graduate) my high school in the hometown , I
moved
(3) ……………… (move) to Hanoi to enter my university where I (4)
lived
……………… (live) in a small flat with my older brother.
Exercise 8 Fill in the blank with the correct form of past tenses
IELTS Speaking Part 1. When was your first flight?
was (be) around 12 years ago, when I (2) ………………

Actually, it (1)……………… was (be) a
traveled (travel) with my family to
student in my secondary school. I (3) ………………..……
was
Thailand. It (4) ……………… (be) a memorable trip because while I (5)
was saw
sitting (sit) in the airplane , I (6)……………..
……………….….. (see) the most beautiful
rainbow ever.
Exercise 9 Put the verbs into the simple past
IELTS Speaking Part 2. Tell me about one of your holidays
went
1. Last year I (go) ………………………to England on holiday.
was
2. It (be) …………………..fantastic.
visited
3. I (visit) ………………….lots was
of interesting places. I (be) …………………..with two friends of
mine.
walked
4. In the mornings we (walk) ……………………..in the streets of London.
went
5. In the evenings we (go) …………………………..to pubs.
was
6. The weather (be)…………………….. strangely fine.
didn’t rain a lot.
7. It (not / rain) ………………………
8. But we (see)
saw
…………………………some beautiful rainbows.

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BASIC IELTS

/fʊt/ /ˈwʊmən/ /bʊk/ /kʊk/ /fʊl/

/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”

/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”

/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”

/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”

1. A. Too B. Food C. Push D. Two

1.When you buy shoes, do you prefer comfortable or nice ones?

A: What’s your date of birth?

Six two oh three, four five two

• Read numbers from the left to the right

What’s your phone number?

“Oh” is more common.

Zero (0) is usually pronounced as Oh

When numbers are together:

Six one two two, four one eight three

Two numbers together are pronounced as DOUBLE …

In English, we say each number individually or say in other ways:

Two numbers together Double + the number

• Read numbers from the left to the right

When is your birthday?

• The + day (ordinal number) + of + month (Spoken English)

1600 Sixteen hundred

A : And the postcode?

Postcode: Capital letters + numbers

• The + date (ordinal number) + of + month Include capitals letters and

DATE POSTCODE PHONE NUMBER

2020 Flat 6 WE58GF

19th June, 2001 DBR29 1998

0332 8992 05.10.2010 BS89PU

PA57GJ 3 Oak Street 2389 9222

2020 AS0239 in the morning

19th June, 2001 05:00 1998

3217 5896 05.10.2010 November

VTV3 FM09 3rd floor

1. What’s your telephone number?

Name: Elisabeth Ricard

IELTS Speaking Part 2

Talk about events in the past

I bought my cell phone 2 years ago.

did many presentations

He ___________ his homework in his bedroom when the burglar

Provide the background scene to an action or event (usually in the

Often use with: when, while, as

Provide the background scene to an action or

My father was cleaning the house while my mother (was making/made)

Provide the background scene to an action or event

More than one action happening at the same time in

gone when I arrived.

Talk about something that happened before an event in the past

Talk about something that happened before an event in the past

S had not Vpp

1. rose (rise) to 20% in 2010.

4. had dropped (drop) by roughly $90.

Infinitive Past simple Past perfect

IELTS Speaking part 1 sample

IELTS Speaking Part 1. When was your first flight?

was (be) around 12 years ago, when I (2) ………………

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