IELTS SPEAKING

Chiến thuật trả lời trong Part 3 IELTS Speaking

Part 2 : "Describe an interesting trip you have been on"
Part 3 : Câu hỏi sẽ liên quan với phần Part 2
_ "Can you tell me about different types of trips and holidays in your country?"
_ "Can you tell me the importance of tourism?"
*** Đưa ra câu trả lời mang tính "General ideas" chứ không dựa vào "personal experience"
1. Dạng câu hỏi so sánh
_ Time comparison
Example : Are houses nowadays, the same as houses 30 years ago in your country?
_ Social group comparison
Example : Do men and women like the same types of books?
                Do old and young people like the same holidays?
_ Geographic comparison
Example : Are houses in North same as houses in South Vietnam?
2. Dạng câu hỏi phỏng đoán
_ What will house be like in the future?
_ What will schools be like in the future?  
_ What will restaurants be like in the future?    
_ What types of people will become famous in the future?
_ Do you think we will see any changes in the weather in the future?
_ Changes in variety (There will be a wider variety)
_ Changes in price (Thing will be come cheaper or more expensive)
_ Changes in size, material or appearance
_ Changes in location
_ Changes in form 
3. Dạng câu hỏi về "Why" question.
_ Why do so many people want to be famous?
_ Why is it important to protect old/historical buildings?
_ Why is it important to learn a foreign language?
_ Why do many people want to live abroad?
4. Dạng câu hỏi advantages and disadvantages
_ What are the advantages of using a public library?
_ What are the advantages of spending time in a foreign country?
_ What are the advantages of getting news from newspaper?
_ What are the disadvantages of air travel?
_ What are the disadvantages of shopping in supermarket?
_ What are the disadvantages of using technology in education?
5. Dạng câu hỏi về "Problem"
_ What environment problem are common in your country?
_ What are the problems facing the natural environment?
_ What problems are associated with the internet?
_ What problems are associated with globalization?
_ What problems are caused by the use of too much technology?  
6. Dạng câu hỏi về "solution"
_ Chính là những solutions đi theo sau những câu hỏi problems.
Technique for answering
Bước 1 : Answer the question directly
Bước 2 : Explain the answer (especially, because...)
Bước 3 : Give example 
Bước 4 : Explain the alternative/opposite ( Đưa ra tình huống ngược lại (If not, without...it wouldn't be/ wouldn't have been).
Example 1 : Do you think that it's better to have clear aim for the future, or it best to take each day as it comes?
(Answer) I think it's best to have a good idea if what you want to do with your life, especial in terms of studies and career.
(Why) Having aims allows you to plan what you need to do today and tomorrow in order to achieve longer term objectives.
(Example) For example, if you want to become a doctor, you need to choose the right subjects at school, get the right exam results and work hard at university.
(Opposite) Without a clear aim, it would be impossible to take the necessary steps towards a career in medicine or any other profession. 
Example 2 : Do you think that it's important for children to take a part time job? 
_ Bước 1 : Yes, of course, doing part time jobs will have a positive impact on educating people and give them a sense of independence, especially teenagers.
_ Bước 2 : Because they can realized how difficult to earn money and therefor know how to respect their efforts as well as their parents. ( they have to learn how to manage their difficulties and challengers in life all by themselves which betters their flexibility and improves their other soft skill in their near future.
_ Bước 3 : For instance, my younger sister, thanks to a new part time as a teaching assistant at the university, she realize the value of the money she earn, become more mature independent. She know often think for my parents and respect their sacrifice for us, which is exactly to the person she was before.
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Chiến thuật trả lời trong Part 2 IELTS Speaking

Structure of exam : 
_ Cue card = 1 Topic + gợi ý
_ 1 phút chuẩn bị
_ 2 phút nói  
Chiến thuật làm bài
1. Đừng chỉ tập trung vào nội dung : Don't just think about what you say, think about how you say.
2. Gợi ý trong cue card : focus keep talking, tập trung từ vựng phù hợp, không nhất thiết phải trả lời hết câu hỏi...
3. Chuẩn bị từ vựng ở nhà : Topic 2
_ People
_ Places
_ Experience/Past events
_ Objects
_ Media related
_ Others (anything that doesn't fit into the 5 categories above)
4. Một phút chuẩn bị : Describe an interesting trip you have been on 
You should say :
_ Where/when you went : Trip to Da Nang
_ Who did you go with : Family
_ What you did there : Go to the beach, Bana Hills, eat seafood.
_ And explain why you think that trip was interesting : It's fun, beautiful.
=> Mở rộng câu trả lời, ý tưởng...
_ Da Nang
_ Middle of June (16th) - during heatwaves, boiling hot - ideal to head on to the beach.
_ Close-knit friends, family - always spend time together
_ Hang out on beautiful long side beach, went backpacking to Son Tra island signed up for a guided tour around the central, enjoyed local cuisines.
_ Most famous trip explore attractive excursion with beloved people, visit sightseeing, make friends with foreign people (tell story).
Tip : Explain the reason why? => tell story
*** Formula
Start :  
1. I'm going to talk about "or" I'd like to talk about + paraphrase lại đề.
Example : I'm going to talk about a very memorable trip trip that I had last year.
2. Dùng mệnh đề quan hệ để trả lời câu hỏi chính.
Example :  Chuyến đi nào? (Which is the tour to Da Nang)
3. Một câu nhấn mạnh biểu thị quan điểm, cảm xúc của mình về đối tượng mà mình miêu tả.
Example : 
_ One of the most interesting trip that I've ever had.
_ One of the most influential to my life.
_ One of the people that impressed me the most.
Body :
1. Gợi ý đầu tiên
_ I think I should start my mentioning the name of the book...
_ I guess I will start by talking about when I had that trip
2. Gợi ý 2/3
_ Moving on the the next point of what we did during this trip...
3. Gợi ý cuối
_ Finally, f I still have time, I would like to tell you the reason why I think this is an interesting trip, firstly because... 
Conclusion
_ Ok, so that's all about the...I hope that...
Example : OK, so that's all about my memorable trip to Da Nang with my family last year. I hope we will have more opportunities to spend more fantastic moment together in the near future.
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Tổng kết Part 1 IELTS Speaking - Những lưu ý quan trọng

1.Topic
_ Personal Background ( Your job, your study...)
2. Trả lời ngắn gọn
_ Part 1 : trôi chảy,tự nhiên, ngắn gọn.
Trả lời bằng 2 câu
_ Trả lời thẳng vào câu hỏi.
_ Detail câu trả lời.
=> Cách detail :
2.1_ Đưa ra reason -> "Because"
Example : Do you like walking?
=> Yeah, I love walking because it helps me to refresh, re-charge and re-energize myself after a long hard working day. Besides, walking on daily basic also gets me into shape.
=> Nah, to be honest I'm not quite into walking because I often feel blue and time-consuming when just doing nothing but walk.
2.2 Especially/Particularly
Example : Do you like walking?
=> Yeah, I love walking, especially in the early morning when there is less traffic and therefore less air pollution.
2.3 Đưa ra ví dụ (For example...)
2.4 Nói về những thứ xung quanh đó (Mở rộng câu về địa điểm, thời gian...).
3. Sử dụng từ chết
_ Well, to be honest
_ Actually
_ I guess I would say it depends
_ I suppose I have to sat that
_ Well, to be honest, I suppose I have to say that
4. Cách phát triển ý cho một số dạng câu hỏi phổ biến.
4.1 Do you like?
_ Trả lời thẳng vào câu hỏi(có hoặc không) bằng cách paraphrase lại câu hỏi chứ không nhắc lại y nguyên.
_ Sử dụng những từ đồng nghĩa thay cho "like" : be into, be a big fan of, be keen on, be fond of, be interested in, love, prefer...
Example : Do you like animals?
Don't : Yes, I like animals/No, I don't like animals.
Do : Well, to be quite honest. I'm not really into animals.
_ Đưa ra lý do cho câu trả lời (1-2 lý do), nếu bí ý thì nghĩ đến 2 lý do này :
+ Refresh, relax...
+ Educate people (enrich, enhance, better, accumulate, cultivate + skill knowledge, experience...)
4.2 How often/ What types of
It depends 
4.3 Solution
+ Individual level raise people's awareness, educate people
+ Government/ Authority level : have suitable and appropriate policies to improve/better/enhance/forster.
5. Ý tứ rõ ràng
Firstly, secondly, thirdly... 
6. Practice a lot
_ Do you think studying English is formed by the path of learning by heart or have to require the learners an extreme intelligence?
=> You definitely don't need to have extreme intelligence to study a foreign language. Yeah, admittedly cleverness can help but it only decides whether you can study it quickly or not. Studying a language not just English required much of hard work rather than talent. Look at me, I'm not smart, I'm not clever but now I can speak English quite well  enough to be understood others. And no offense but look at Indian people, not all of them have extreme intelligence but almost all of them can speak English really well. However, don't just learn by heart learn by your heart, urn it into to your passion otherwise you'll get bored and give yourself an excuse to give up.
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Tổng quan về Part 1 trong bài thi nói IELTS Speaking

_ Những câu chà hỏi ban đầu vẫn chưa tính là phần thi speaking.
_ Không cần hỏi thăm Examiner, cứ làm theo sự dẫn dắt của Examiner.
_ Phần thi speaking chỉ bắt đầu khi Examiner nói : "Now, in this first part. I would like to ask you few questions about yourself..."
_ Part 1: 4-5 minutes
+ Topic 1 : Personal background : Where do you live?, What do you study? Where do you work?...
+ Topic 2,3 : Hobbies, Interests, Routines, Habits...
_ There are 2-4 questions in one topic.
A
Admire          Animals       Apologize                 
B          
Birthdays 
C
Clothes  Colours     Computers        Cooking      
E 
Environment     
F    
Family  Famous person  Films   Food          Friends                 
H
Health Hobbies      Holiday          Holidays & Travelling 
M
Money     Music   
P
Public transportation         
R
Restaurants                                                                                                             
S                                                                                                           
School        Spend time       Sports                                                                                             
T
Technology      
W
Weather   Where you live  
Y                                                                                           

Your job   Your studies                                                                                                                 




Television

Reading
Email
Learning English
Writing


Primary school

Festival                                            
Meeting new people The sea
Collecting things
Dancing
Learning languages
Rain
Hotels
Relaxation
Outdoor activities
Memories
Childhood
Happiness
Shopping


 Weekends
Going out in the evening

Routines





Names


  

                                        


  
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Criteria in IELTS Speaking

1. Fluency and Coherence
_ Fluency :
. Speed of speech
. Length of answer
. Pausing correctly
_ Coherence :
. Expand your answer
. Answer the question directly
. Connect words (redundant words)
2. Lexical resource
+ Ability to use less common words about specific topics
+ Idiomatic Vocabs
Example : Do you like your job?
_ Admittedly I have to say no. Actually I just kind of stick to this job to accumulate more experience then I'll find another chance for a better one. There's no opportunities for promotion there and it's not challenging like I expected. It's kind of a dead end job, you know. 
+ Example of uncommon words
Example : Melbourne is a cosmopolitan city. I mean you can just go out and meet like people from all around the world here, from Asia, Europe to Africa.
3. Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Example : Where are you from?
_ I come from Nghe An. Nghe An is very big province. It is the largest province in Vietnam. It is located in the middle of Vietnam.
=> I come from Nghe An which is the largest province in Vietnam located in the middle of the country.
4. Pronunciation
+ Basic word pronunciation (Vowels)
Example : Cut
+ Word stress
Example : Important vs impotent
+ Sentence stress
Example : I used to like reading books but more recently I've been into watching romantic Korean movies.
+ Intonation
 

Family

Adrian : "..."(Speak),
INTERVIEW
Part 1
"Knock the door"
Adrian : Yes, come on in
Interviewer : Hello
Adrian : Hi, good afternoon, please have a seat
Interviewer : Thank you
Adrian My name is Adrian, may I have your name please
Interviewer : My name is Mohammed
Adrian : OK, Hi Mohammed. So this is the speaking section of the IELTS exam. The interview will take about twelve to fifteen minutes, okay? 
Interviewer : okay. 
Adrian : I will ask you some questions. There will be three parts. I'll give you instructions for each part and I'm going to record this for marking purposes. Is that okay?
Interviewer : Yes
Adrian : All right. Okay, so Mohammed, may I see your passport please?
Interviewer : Sure
Adrian : Thank you. No problem...OK...All right. Here is your passport back.
Interviewer : Thank you.
Adrian : And now we will begin with part one. I'm going ask you some questions on a general topic. Are you ready to begin? 
Interviewer : Yes, I'm
Adrian : Okay, so Mohammed let's talk about your family. Do you have sisters and brothers? If so, how many?
Interviewer : Yes, I come from a big family, I have sis brothers and four sisters and I am the second youngest in the family.
Adrian : All right. (Yeah). What was it like growing up in your family?
Interviewer : I have a lot of fun growing up. Having many siblings means always having someone around to play with and so as a child I was almost never bored.
Adrian : Okay. Are your parents and grandparents from the same country as you? If not, where are they from?
Interviewer : Just like me, my grandparents were also born in Saudi Arabia. My mother was also born there. However, my father was born in the United States during a time in which his father was studying in a university there.
Adrian : Hmm, why do you think family is important?
Interviewer : My family is my foundation. Life has lot's of up's and down's but family is the one part that remains constant no matter what
Adrian : Okay. Is family life important in your country?
Interviewer : I think family life is important in every country. So yes, it is important in Saudi Arabia. We are taught to respect and honour the people older than us and to teach and encourage those younger than us.
Adrian : Okay, That's the end of part one. Now we will move to part two. For part two I'm going to give you a card. The card will have some questions on it about a specific topic. Okay? You're going to have one minute to prepare your answer. This is a paper in front of you and here is a pen. You can take some notes if you would like in the one minute. After your one minute preparation is over. I will give you ninety seconds to speak. I'll tell you when to tart and when to stop.Okay?
Interviewer : Okay
Adrian : So here is the card, please keep it face down.
Interviewer : Okay
Adrian : Are you ready to begin?
Interviewer : Yes, I am
Adrian : Okay, so your one minute begins now, so go ahead, turn over the card and prepare.
Part 2
A government worker is a person involved in the government of a district, city, state or country. Describe a government worker that you respect.
You should say :   
_ Who the person is
_ What his or her title and responsibilities are  
_ What makes him or her worthy of your respect
_ What can be learnt from this government worker
You will have one minute to talk about this topic
You will have one minute to prepare what you are going to say
You can make note if you wish
Adrian : Okay, Mohammed, so your one minute preparation time is up, please begin speaking
Interviewer : One government worker that I truly respect is Nelson Mandela. He was the president of South Africa for a number of years but his influence on South Africa and the world politics is so much greater than that. He, well one greater accomplishment of Mandela was bringing together two races in a country which had until then been totally separate. Achieving this unity took a lot of intelligence, determination and years of hard work. Nelson Mandela was jailed for many years for protesting against the government. So he was, he was jailed for protesting against his government but eventually, he's, he won is release and the after that the presidency of South Africa. He made South Africa a better country, so I think there is a lot to be learned from a man like Mandela. First the important of determination and second, and second the value of standing up for what one believes in. And third I believe Mandela taught the world that anything is possible, from standing up for what he believe in, to being jailed, to being freed and then leading a country to prosperity. So a man like Mandela is truly, a man like Mandela truly deserves everyone's respect.
Part 3
Adrian : Okay, very good. And the time is up so we will now go to part three and I'm going to ask you some questions related to this topic. Are you ready to begin part three?
Interviewer : Yes, I am
Adrian : Okay. Let's talk about government workers and respect. Do you believe government workers are as respected today as they were in the past? If not, what has changed to make them less respected?
Interviewer : That's an interesting question. Are you asking if today society respects politicians as previous generations did?

Adrian : Yes
Interviewer : Okay, well, I think politicians are under increased pressure now due to the internet and social media. We know more about the lives, we know more about the bad things they might have done. So I think this could lead to decreased respect levels. 
Adrian : Okay. Why do you think it is important for government workers to have the respect of society?
Interviewer : I think it's important because it ensures that the government and society run smoothly. If government workers such as politicians are not respected then the laws and the government might not be respected.
Adrian : Okay. Government workers can earn the respect of people in many different ways. What are two ways in which a government worker can earn respect?
Interviewer : Yes. I think there are different ways to earn respect. One is by being honest with the public. Second is by keeping election promises. If a government worker is dishonest or breaks, breaks election promises then it's hard to gain the public respect. 
Adrian : All right, I am going to ask you a few more questions for part three. Let's talk about being a government worker. Would you consider becoming a government worker? What factors contribute to your feeling?
Interviewer : That is an interesting question. Can I please have a moment to think about it?
Adrian : Sure
Interviewer : Thank you. I think being a government worker is very difficult, however it can also be very rewarding. So if I have the right education and I have spent sometime in the workforce then yes, I would consider becoming a government worker.
Adrian : All right. What do you think is the hardest part of being a government worker? Why do you think people choose to work for the government despite all the difficulty the job entails?
Interviewer : I think people choose to work in the government out of a sense of duty to their city or country. No matter how difficult it is. And the hardest part or the most difficult part about working in the government. I think would be being constantly in the public eye.
Adrian : All right. That's the end of part three and that concludes the speaking section of the IELTS exam. You will get your mark with the other sections with the official paper in about two or three weeks.
Interviewer : Okay
Adrian : Do you have any questions for me?
Interviewer : No, I don't
Adrian : Okay, then thank you very much Mohammed and I hope you have a great rest of your day.
Interviewer : Yes, thank you
Adrian : Okay, bye bye
Interviewer : See you