1 What qualities help you to have good relationships with others? 2 Do you often have problems with family members? 3 Do you think conflicts among family members are unavoidable? 4 What behaviour of o.
Trang 11 What qualities help you to have good relationships with
others?
2 Do you often have problems with family members?
3 Do you think conflicts among family members are
unavoidable?
4 What behaviour of others hurts you most?
5 When you have upset someone with your actions, what
do you try to do?
6 Do you think arguments are important?
7 Are relationships among people better or worse than a
few years ago? Why?
8 Is getting along with others a natural ability from birth or
does it have to be learnt?
1 What kinds of jobs require people to be confident?
2 On what occasions should children be encouraged? How?
3 How do you help children stay focused?
4 What challenges do young people face today?
5 Why people involve in difficult work?
6 Do you think parents allow their children to do difficult things?
7 What kind of difficult things that children do?
Describe a difficult thing you did
You should say What it was?
How did you complete it?
Why it was difficult?
And how you felt about doing it?
• Respect (n): tôn trọng
• Characteristic (n): tính cách
• A healthy relationship: một mối quan hệ lành mạnh
• To empathize (v): đồng cảm
• To maintain (v): giữ cho điều gì đó tiếp tục
• A social connection (n): kết nối, quan hệ xã hội
• The generation gap (n): khoảng cách thế hệ
• A fierce argument (n): một cuộc tranh cãi gay gắt
• Conservative (adj): bảo thủ
• To be not a fan of something: không ưa thích việc gì đó
• To be under one’s control: chịu sự kiểm soát của ai đó
• To be in harmony: hòa hợp
• Individual (n): cá nhân
• Belief (n): lý tưởng, tín ngưỡng
• To clash (v): xung đột
• Inevitable (adj): không tránh được = unavoidable
• To acknowledge (v): công nhận, thừa nhận
• To impact (v): ảnh hưởng
• An apology (n): lời xin lỗi
• Compulsory (adj): bắt buộc
• To be bound to happen: dĩ nhiên xảy ra
• Vividly (adv): rõ ràng
• To assign (v): giao cho
• Presentation (n): thuyết trình
When you approach the question like this – you can talk about many things, such as:
• Passing your driving test: requires studying, preparation, you
might feel nervous or uncomfortable, and not many young people pass first time – so a degree of difficulty
• Graduating from university: requires effort, dedication,
discipline, there is a possibility of failure – so a degree of difficulty
• Saving money for a car: requires determination, discipline,
self-control and patience
requires saving money, navigating the legal process, searching for the right property and making some difficult decisions
• Quitting a bad habit: requires will power, determination,
self-control, usually quitting a habit is not easy – so a degree of difficulty
• Telling someone some bad news: this is normally an
uncomfortable situation, it’s not an easy thing to do, you might feel nervous about how you tell the person
• Improving your fitness: requires discipline, patience,
self-control, it’s not easy - because many people try but fail
Trang 2• To occur (v): xảy ra
• Miscommunication (n): hiểu lầm trong giao tiếp
• A very heated argument (n): một cuộc tranh cãi nảy
lửa
• To track (v): theo dõi, theo dấu, lần lại
• To demonstrate (v): giải thích, minh họa
• To deviate (v):đi chệch hướng
• Frustrated (adj): bực bội
• Fortunately (adv): may mắn thay
• To put all one’s mind: đem hết tâm trí đặt vào
• To hand in (v): nộp (bài)
• To be implemented (v): được thực hiện
• To evaluate (v): đánh giá
• To judge (v): phán đoán
• Evidence (n): bằng chứng, dẫn chứng
• Methods (v): phương pháp
• Investigation (n): điều tra, dò xét
• Settle (v): ổn định, giải quyết
• Dispute (n): tranh chấp
• To take a back seat: trở nên yếu dần, kém dần
• Due to the fact that: dựa trên sự thật là
• To pursue (v): theo đuổi
• To lengthen (v): kéo dài
• Innateness (adj): bẩm sinh
• To make an effort (v): nỗ lực
• Losing weight: same as above – again many people find it
difficult to do this – so if you gained immense weight and lost
it, you can say weight loss was difficult but you succeeded
Moving to another country: this can be emotionally difficult,
being alone, nervous, away from family for the first time, making new friends, dealing with a new culture, everything being strange, etc
Từ vựng topic CHALLENGE trong IELTS SPEAKING
• preparing the college entrance examination
• This exam has been considered as the biggest and most essential exam for most senior high students in Vietnam
• My challenge was to get ready for the exam and score high as much as possible because the better score I got, the higher-ranked university I will enter
• I met this challenge
• it’s getting tougher
• it’s basically an examination of memorization
• We were supposed to memorize a lot of knowledge from the subjects including English, Geography, Science, and History
• I still couldn’t comprehend all the knowledge from the textbooks
• the reason why I think it’s a challenge for me was that the preparation was intensive, which took me a lot of time and painstaking effort to get fully prepared
• I always felt the time was never enough for me
• Another reason why it’s challenging was that, in this exam, I was not competing against myself only, I was actually fighting for an offer against thousands of candidates in our area, which was extremely stressful for me
• parents should create positive challenges for kids, they should encourage children to face things outside of their comfort zone
• a parent should challenge them to read harder books or learn new skills
• This will prepare them for unexpected things that may happen later in life
• The first challenges that children normally have to face up to is making friends and being independent
Trang 3• many children find it a challenge to make friends and be part of a community
• However, these are challenges which all children overcome, and
it is important for their development
• I think the most challenging thing for kids is probably school A lot of kids find school very difficult and struggle to concentrate in classes
• Therefore, it is important that parents offer love and support for their children and are willing to help them with the challenges that they face
• all a child needs is the attention and support of their parents and then they can overcome the challenges that they face
• Climbing is both a physical and mental challenge
• a burdensome task
• The new manager says he relishes the challenge of (thích thử thách) rebuilding the club and winning titles again
• After his unsuccessful challenge for the leadership of the party, the Minister announced his retirement from politics
• parachuting (n): nhảy dù
• unforeseeable dangers (n): Những nguy hiểm không nhìn thấy
• deprive their lives (v phrase): lấy đi mạng sống của ai
• ruin their life (v phrase): phá đi/ hủy hoại cuộc đời
• a desire for thrill and adventure ( n phrase): khát khao/ ham muốn phiêu lưu
• deter him from pursuing (v phrase): Ngăn cản ….theo đuổi
• problem-solving skills (n): Kỹ năng xử lý tình huống/ vấn đề
• hone decision-making skills (v phrase): Phát triển kỹ năng đưa
ra quyết định
• risk-takers (n): người ưa mạo hiểm
• achieve their personal fulfilment (v) Có được cảm giác thỏa mãn
• courageous (adj): Dũng cảm