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Speaking
Part 1:
I going to talk about ...…
Question 1
Question 2
....
Part 2:
In this situation, topic, there are 3 option/ choices such as A,B,C.
CHON: from my point of view, .... is always my best choices because of
following reasons. It has a lot of positive effects that we can take action.
It is very easy to do and many good aspect. Besides, it is very suitable
with me and I think everyone that will choose like me.
KHONG CHON: as for ......., although it also has some benefits, i don’t
choose it because it is not suitable for everyone and it is not good as
CHON
KHONG CHON: as for ......., although it is also useful and some people
also choose it. I don’t choose it because it is inconvenient for everyone,
especially for me.
To sum up, from what I have mentioned above. ..... is always my best
choices.
Part 3:
MB:
doc lai topic. There are 3 main point of this topic that i discuss in my talk
such as A,B,C and y mik
TB:
To begin with, as for A, it/topic helps to A, that is because.....
Secondly, as for B, it helps to B , that is because.......
Another point to consider it that, as for C, it helps to C, that is because.....
Last but not least, from my point of view, it also helps to ...... that is
because.
KB:
To sum up, I believe that TOPIC and I agree/ disagree with topic - we
should/ shouldn’t .........
And now, I am going to talk about follow up question.
Question 1,2,3.....

RELAX: reduce stress, release stress, a mean of entertainment, fun

--> it helps to feel relaxed and comfortable. When we do enjoy it, we will
forget a lot of stress and sorrow/ unhappiness about our jobs and studies.
It helps to refresh our minds and provide energy.
HEATLTH/ SPORTS:exercise with pet
--> it help us stay healthy. It also helps us have a good shape and keep fit.
Especially it helps us avoid a lot of serious desease such as heart desease,
diabetes, obesity, ....
FRIENDS: best friends, interaction
--> it is a great chance to make a lot of new friends so we have a lot of
best friends and help us widen relationships. We can share many things
with their. Besides, it’s useful for our life as well as work.
SKILL: improving skill, manage time better, way to learn, share
knowledge, productivit
--> it helps us develop many useful skills such as soft skills, communication
skill, teamwork skill, leadership skill and so on, so it’s useful and great for
our major as well as our life. When We have useful skill, we can feel
more confident and use these skill to learn and work better.
KNOWLEDGE: improve concentration/focus, information, creativity
-->it helps us widen a lot of new things in the country. Moreover we can
discover many new things such as culture, traditions, economy, travel.
Besides, we can learn a lot of foreign laugauges so it helps us improve for
our studies and jobs.
save time: we needn’t spend time to travlling, prepare clothes, breathfast.
we don’t have problems such as traffic , air pollution,......
Writting
Email
Dear A,
How are you doing? I hope you are doing well. I was very happy when I
received your email. I am writting this email to tell you about .......
To begin with,
Secondly,
Thirdly,
Last but not least,
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes,
Cato.
Essay 1 2 3 4 7
1. Advantages/disadvantages,benefits/drawback,positive/negative,
pros/cons
2. Problem/solution
3. Cause,reason/solution
4. Cause/effects
7. 1 mat
MB:
In modern life, A is the most common concern in the general public,
especially,... there are a lot of main ..... as well as .... of this matter
discussed in the following essay.
TB1:
On the one hand, there are a lot of main .... of A including the following.
One of the most main... is that [Link]/ for example, for instance, to
show an example ,take s.o as an example/. Moreover, another main .... to
consider is that [Link].
TB2:
On the other hand, A also has a lot of ..... including this following. One of
the best .... is that [Link]. An additional point to discuss is that
[Link]
(It is very bad. These drawbacks should be solved soon)
It is very useful. These effective solutions should be taken soon.

KB:
To sum up, from what I have mentioned above, A has a lot of ... in our
life. It also brings many ...... From my point of view,
DE ESSAY:
Dạng 1: advantage/disadvantage
Learning online
1. helps us save a lot of time - more freetime - don’t need spend time to prepare
clothes to go to school - for example : have breakfast, do homeworks , feel
comfortable.
2. save a lot of money - most courses are cheap and convenient for student - can
share cost of courses with our friends in order to learn together - can save a lot
of money such as travelling expense, clothe expense, food expense and so on.
A. cannot focus on learning - take part in bad activities such as sleeping, watch
film, surfing social media - for instance: feel lonely and bored - fall asleep.
B. reduce their results in school
C. Affects our health - look at screen of laptop and smartphone a lot of time
everyday - can not take part in outdoor activities - can get many serious
deseases such as obesity, diabetes, eye desease, heart desease.
--> should control children ‘s online learning in order to learn more well.
Pros and cons of studying abroad
1. helps us know and learn a lot of useful knowledge - learn useful knowledges
and important information for ous majors - widen knowledges about tradition,
culture, traditional food and so on.
2. get good and high degrees when we graduate from university in a foreign
country - get good jobs - have earn a lot of money every month - get respected
of everyone
A. have to live in a new country - suffer the culture shock such as traffic, food,
language, life style and so on
B. have to live far from home when studying abroad - homesick - don’t talk
and meet our mother, father and young sister - lonely and unhappiness - no one
share with us.
--> should studying abroad because it brings a lot of advantages

Teaching Eghlish in primary school

[Link] learn English easily and effectively - essay to understand and remember
lesson longer, faster than adults - have a lot of time to spend learn english.
2. have a good job in their future - can widen knowledge about a lot of fields
such as computer, economy, technology and so on - have chance to learn in
foreign school in order to get better degree
[Link] study abroad in a lot of country such as Korea, Canada, Australia,
America
A. other languages is also important to students - learning languages is hobby
of student so they can learn other languages such as Chinese, Japanese
ads and dis-ads of using public transportation.
1. save a lot of money - the cost of ticket public transportation is very cheap and
reasonable - suitable for ....
2. protect the environment and reduce traffic jams - reduce a lot of private
transport such as motorbikes, cars, trucks and so on - reduce amount of smoke
and dust in the air.
A. Spend a lot of time to use them, sometime, it makes us late - we have
to wait for bus so it take more than use private transport.
B. Make us uncomfortable, sometime it is also dangerous - there are a lot
of people on public transport so it is very hot and crowded - the public
transport also has some social evils - we can lose some private items
such as smartphone, ipad, money and so on.
Positive and negative effects of living in a nuclear
family >< extended family
1. Have / don’t hve a lot of more private spaces.
2. avoid / have some conflicts in the family as well as dissent among different
generations - the opinions of grandparents and our opinions are very different.
A. Lack / get the care and love of grandparents - live far from grandparents -
don’t meet and talk with them - cannot get a lot of life experience and useful
lessons of them
C. will feel/don’t feel very stressful and have more burdens of our life - no one
/ the member family helps us take care of babies - have to spend time to earn
money - don’t have time in other to take care of our family. - take my
family .....
Positive and negative effects of living in the big city
1. have a lot of job opportunities - have a lot of companies, factories, offices
and so on - can apply new jobs easily - earn a lot of money
2. Have a lot of kinds of entertainment - Take Can Tho city as an example -
there are a lot places for everyone in order to relaxafter school and relax after
hard-working days
the living
A. The living standard is higher than the countryside - more experience such as
food expense, travelling expense, school expense and so on - it is costly
B. the environment is polluted - a lot of people - a lot of public transport and
private transport - more smoke and dust in the air - feel uncomfortable - noisy
and crowded
Positive and negative effects of living in the
countryside
1. the living standard is lower than big city - more cheap than in big city such
as food expense, house expense, travelling expense and so on - it is not costly
2. The environment in countryside is not polluted - don’t have a lot of people
and transport - not noisy and crowded - the air is very fresh and clean - feel
relaxed and comfortable
A. not have a lot of job opportunities - not have a lot of companies, factories,
offices and so on - is difficult to apply new jobs - cannot earn a lot of money
B. not have a lot of entertainment - not have many relaxing service in the
countryside to relax after school and after work
Pros and cos of living far from home
1. can learn to live independently - no one helps us - have to take care of
ourselves
2. have a lot of freedom - do not control - do anything that we want such as
going out with our friends, staying up late, playing game and so on -
comfortable
A. Feel lonely and homesick - no one cares , takes care of and share with us -
don’t meet and talk with our parents and young sister - when we have problem
about our life and work, no one solves problem together - sad and inconvenient
B. very dangerous - no body takes care of us when we get sick - sometime we
can lose personal items such as laptop, iPad, smartphone, money and so on
Positive and negative effects of convenience food = fast
food = snacks
1. do not need to go to the market, buy many things such as … - take a lot of
time to prepare and cook - just go to restaurants or food stores and order fast
food - convenient
2. can enjoy a lot of delicious dishes
A. fast food is high in fat and calories - get serious disease such as obesity,
diabetes, heart disease, …. - fast food can be made from old and dirty
ingredients
B. do not have a lot of time with our family in order to share a lot of memories
together - don’t make member family loser and loser

Positive and negative effects of Taking a part-time job

1. helps us earn money to pay for daily life and daily expenses - there are a lot
of part time jobs such as waiter, tutor, shipper and so on -have salary every
month - can receive about 3 to 5 million for a part-time job - use money to …..
2. Can learn a lot of new knowledge from worker, manager such as work
experience, manager skill, leadership skill, teamwork skill, communication
skill, soft skill and so on
A. it affects our health seriously - don’t have time to take care of ourselves - not
enough time in order to eating, sleeping, playing game and so on - make tired
and many disease - bot good for health
B. affects and reduces result in school - don’t balance time between study and
work
Positive and negative effects of constructing a
Highway/ sky-train above the city:
1. helps us to reduce traffic jams, especially, in rush hour- move more easily -
very convenient and saves us time
2. reduce traffic accidents - not many traffic tranport on the road
A. to build a highway, it is very complicated and requires a lot of
modern equipment, as well as a lot of workers.
B. Take a lot of time to build highway - very dificult and can cause serious
accidents
Positive and negative effects of e-books (sách điện tử)/
reading books online
1. can save money - not need to buy paper books - share money with friends -
very convenient
2. search and store the books (that) we like easily-do not need to go to the
library or bookstore to find books, we can find books at home and download
them - very useful
A. there are many good books that we cannot find online - very inconvenient
B. can affect health, especially the eyes - when we watch screen of laptop,
computer and smartphone for a long time , it is reason that cause a lot of eye
disease - very unhealthy

Positive and negative effects of changing jobs usually

of young people (nhảy việc) / to start business
1. will have many chances to learn a lot of new things - receive a lot of work
experience such as communication skill,….. from co-workers, managers
2. have more choices to find the most suitable job with them carefully - suitable
for time and have a more high salary - can pay their life and life expense
A. do not have many opportunities to get job promotions because they do not
work for a long time in the company so they will not have enough job
experience like other people
B. not stable - can have some problem - can not receive salary before we can
find to a news jobs - not enough money to pay daily life expense - get stress
and feel comfortable
 advantages outweigh disadvantages The population of
the world grows so fast
1. helps us have more workforce - helps a lot of companies have enough
workforce - can work more effective
2. helps us develop the economy of our country - have more a lot of companies,
factories, offices ,… it helps us increase personal income as well as economy
of our country
A. Make to lack food, house, transport, water - a lot of people so not enough
good food and house for everyone
B. the environment is polluted - there are a lot of people that use transport and
waste a lot of garbage into the enviroment - leads to a lot of kinds of pollution
such as air pollution, noise pollution, water pollution
positive and negative effects of to have a year off
between finishing high school and going to university –
gap year (nghỉ 1 năm giữa phổ thông và đại học)
1. have more free time after many hard-learning years - have more time in
order to do many things that we like - for example : travel , learn English,
spend more time for parent ,
2. prepare a lot of useful skill such as…. before we are going to university
A. can waste our time if we do not know how to manage time and use it
properly - for example : waste a lot of time to take part in harmful activities
such as playing game, smoking , using drugs , ….
B. can forget a lot of knowledge that they used to learn - don’t learn
continuously - have to spend time in order to review lesson again
Positive and negative effects of homeschooling on
children:
1. parents can decide the curriculum and learning ways/methods for their
children- can choose learning way that children like and suit best - learn
effectively - the suitable learning way helps children feel understand lessons
easily
2. parents will have more time for their children - family members will be loser
and loser - their children can ask their parent about lesson that they can not
understand. For example …
A. parents will have difficulties when teaching their children - their children
are bored easily and do not listen their parent-Their parent don not have patient
to teach for their children - they feel tired and uncomfortable
B. that parents must continuously learn and update new knowledge to teach their
children - take a lot of time and money to find news, books for teaching
children

Positive and negative effects of reading picture books:

1. can understand the content easily and quickly - is very beautiful and colorful
- helps us interesting and excited when we read picture books
2. makes us more exciting when we read books with pictures - not only provide
knowledge for us - also helps us relax
A. more expensive than normal books - have to pay many expense such as print
expense, design expense, paper expense and so on - not suitable for many
people
B. Make us do not focus in content - do not learn a lot of knowledge - It is very
inconvenient
Positive and negative effects of counterfeit goods (hàng
nhái) – real
helps us save a lot of money - buy an authentic bag : have to pay about 20
million VND - buy an counterfeit bag : just takes about 1 million - is suitable
for everyone, especially for students and workers
- can buy fake products/goods quickly and easily - buy real goods, it takes
much time to order from many famous stores in far places even in foreign
countries
are not durable - cannot use it for a long time
counterfeit goods are not as beautiful as the real products - not make it
carefully
Dạng 2: problem - solution
Deforestation caused by human activity is happening in
many parts of the world, with serious results=problems
for the environment. What do you think can be
done=solutions to solve this problem?
Results - problems:
 Have to face to floods, landfalls, acid rain, storms - affects people’s lives
and economy
 can cause the serious environmental pollution - are a lot of problems such
as the greenhouse effect, the climate change, global warming, air pollution
and so on - affects the health of humans as well as animals and causes
many diseases such as heart disease, lung disease, nose disease and so oo
Solution :
 ;Each people should aware of benefits of planting trees - can plant trees to
protect the environment - makes the air cooler and fresher - can plant trees
in public places such as the parks, schoolyards, gardens or mountainous
areas
 the government should pass the laws in order to protect the environment
and fine people who break the laws

Negative impacts - problems and solutions (to solve =

deal with) of air pollution:
Negative impacts - problems
 Air pollution can cause the serious environmental pollution such as the
greenhouse effect, the climate change, global warming and so on
 affect to life of people/ people’s lives as well as animals and the nature
 causes many diseases such as heart disease, nose diseases especially lung
disease when breathing a lot of dust and smoke so on
to solve = deal with
 ;Each people should aware of benefits of planting trees - can plant trees to
protect the environment - makes the air cooler and fresher - can plant trees
in public places such as the parks, schoolyards, gardens or mountainous
areas
 Should use public transport - reduce smoke and dust
 the government should pass the laws in order to protect the environment
and fine people who break the laws
What are the negative impacts of playing computer
games and what can be done to minimize the bad
effects
negative impacts - negative effects - problem
 children use Internet too early and this can affect their health if they use it
many hours a day - do not go out or take part in outdoor activities - cause
eyes disease, heart diseases, back diseases and so on
 wastes time if children abuse Internet - make us lack concentration on
studies - reduce result in school
Done to minimize - solution
 Parents should focus on controlling their children’s playing time - their
children do not understand benefits about playing game too much - it is
necessary
 parents should make their children to take part in outdoor activities and
healthy activities
----> parents should pay attention and spend more time with their children -
relax and balance learning and playing

Dạng 3: cause - solution

An increasing number of professionals, such as doctors
and teachers, are leaving their own poorer countries to
work in developed countries. What are the reasons
behind this trend? What solutions can you suggest to
deal with - sovle this situation?. Causes and solutions of
skilled and educated people leaving their country for
working in another country (Brain drain):
the reasons
 they want to have a better and more stable job - the work environment in
foreign country is better - there are a lot of modern equipment - have a high
salary - pay their daily life expense
 Learn many work experience and a lot of life skill such as ……..- useful,
necessary for their major - help them get jobs promotion
to deal with - solve
 The government should focus attention on creating a lot of job
opportunities, especialy young people who have just graduated - apply for a
new jobs easily
 The government should have a lot of polices to creating work environment,
buying more modern equipment - helps workers fell comfortable and happy
Causes and solutions of traffic jams (congestion) /
traffic accident
Cause/ reason
 There are a lot of private transport on the road, especialy rush hour - people
feel comfortable and faster when they use private transport - makes the
road crowded - very inconvenient and difficult to moving on the road
 the traffic system are in bad conditions -the government does not enough
funding to invest in the traffic system - the road is small, damaged - there
are a lot of holes - difficult to move on the road - leads to traffic jams
Solutions - to deal with
 people should use the public transport - when we use the public transport ,
we can reduce the private transport - necessary and helps us a lot of money
 The government should improve the transport system - build more big road
especialy highway - useful
Causes and solutions of stress:
Cause/ reason
 They have to face to pressure and problem in our life - they worry about
earning money to pay for life and need money in order to buy a lot of
things- they have to spend more time to earning money so they do not have
time in order to relax and take part in environment activities
 they take a lot of time in order to go to school or study - students need high
degrees and useful skills for their jobs in the future - they have to work and
also improve their career - cannot balance relaxing time and learning time -
feel stressful
solution
 they should balance time reasonably and take part in interesting activitiesn
- should relax and refresh their mind such as playing sport, travelling, ….
 take a lot of time for their family. When they have to face to pressure and
problem, they can share with family member, so it helps them feel more
comfortable - their friends can give a lot of solution to solve problem -
effective
Causes and solutions of children’s obesity = overweight
people/children:
Cause/reason
 children usually eat a lot of food which is not good for their health - for
example,children usually like eating fast food such as pizza, fried chicken,
soft drink and so on - contain a lot of calories and harmful fat as well as a
lot of sugar
 Children is lazy to take part in activities such as doing exercise, playing
sport, travelling … - spend a lot of time to watching TV, playing game,
sleeping, eating - not good for health
Solution
 we should encourage children in order to take part in outdoor and healthy
activities - spend more time to take care of children - very effective in order
to lose weight
 parent should focus attention children to controlling about eating of
children - encourage children eat good and healthy foods such as
vegetables, fruits
Dạng 4: cause / effect
Causes and effects(problems) of deforestation
Cause/ reason
 people want to take a lot of wood in order to do many things - have a lot of
money when they sell a lot of wood - For example, they can sell wood in
order to earn a lot of money, use wood in order to build houses, build
bridges, make paper, make drugs and so on
 Destroy the forests to have more land to building farm - if when they have
a lot of land, we can use it to plant rice, fruits, vegetable, flowers and so on
- have a lot of money to pay daily life
effects(problems)
 Have to face to floods, landfalls, acid rain, storms - affects people’s lives
and economy
 can cause the serious environmental pollution - are a lot of problems such
as the greenhouse effect, the climate change, global warming, air pollution
and so on - affects the health of humans as well as animals and causes
many diseases such as heart disease, lung disease, nose disease and so oo

Causes and effects of having children late after 35

years old (get married late after 35
years old):
Cause/ reason
 they want to spend time in order to work for a better life - work a lot of
hours every day to get a higher salary -They want to earn more money to
make their life comfortable
 want to have a free life - they want more time to enjoy their life - they can
hang out, travling …..
Effects
 more difficult for them to have babies like young people their health is not
still as good as other people so it makes them difficult when they want to
have babies
 can affect to the mother's and children's health - children can get serious
disease especially Down. The important effects is that the mother can die -
very dangerous for children as well as mother --- turner, klinefelter
Causes and effects of changing jobs among young
people. Positive and negative effects of changing jobs
among young people . Do you think it will be positive or
negative trend
Cause
 will have many chances to learn a lot of new things - receive a lot of work
experience such as communication skill,….. from co-workers, managers
 have more choices to find the most suitable job with them carefully -
suitable for time and have a more high salary - can pay their life and life
expense
Effects
 do not have many opportunities to get job promotions because they do not
work for a long time in the company so they will not have enough job
experience like other people
 not stable - can have some problem - can not receive salary before we can
find to a news jobs - not enough money to pay daily life expense - get
stress and feel comfortable
DẠNG 5 : 2 option
In the modern life, Some people prefer AAA, while other people like BBB. I
believe AAA that is the best choice for me because of some following reasons.
I will discuss both point of views in the following essay
The most important reason why AAA is the best choice for me is that
[Link]. Another popular reason is that [Link]
Besides, it cannot be denied that there are some advantages of ….. . first of all,
….. secondly,…. however it í not my choice
To sum up, from what I have mentioned a bove, AAA is ….., while BBBB is
very … from my point of view
Some people prefer joining tours, others like planning
on their own when travelling – write an essay to discuss
both points of view and which one do you prefer?
 joining tours
- can save a lot of money and do not need to spend more time to prepare many
things such as the hotel that we will stay or the food stores that we will eat.
- The total cost of the trip in a tour is cheaper than you go alone
- we also have many new relationships and make a lot of friends
- the tour guides will introduce about the culture, traditions or many delicious
foods - wide knowleged
 planning on their own
- helps us feel very comfortable and free - go everywhere and whenever that we
want - do not need to wait for other or depend on time's others
- improve our life skills by planning for our trip such as communication skill,
problem - solving skill, manager skill and so on - have to find stay place and
book plane tickets - become more mature and independent
Eating has become one of kinds of culture for centuries.
Today people are interested in not only what and how
they eat but also where they eat. Some people prefer to
eat at food stands or restaurants. Other people like
preparing and eating at home. Write an essay to
educated reader to give your opinions about each
choice and which one do you prefer?
DẠNG 6:
MB: in modern life, AAA is the most common concern in the general public .
There are many reasons why I totally / strongly – agree / disagree with this
matter discussed in the following essay.
TB1: on the one hand, there are many main reasons why I agree that AAA. One
of the most important reasons is that SVO – GT/VD
TB2: Another major reason that I am in agreement/disagreement with this topic
is that SVO (another major reason to discuss is that SVO)
TB3: It cannot be denied by somebody that
KB: To sum up, from what I have discussed above, these are key reasons why I
am agree with this topic/statement and I strongly/completely agree/disagree.
From my point of view,

In my opinion