Writing 1

Quality cider (n) British drink

Switch off

Thesim (n) belief in god

Atheism (a- means without)

Pantheism (pan- means all, everywhere, throughout) (n) god is everywhere

Scientific theology

End in

Turn out to be

Is the antonym of

Is the opposite of

Obviously

Lack of pollution

Posh (upper class)

Embrarrassing

Global influence

Bizzard

Colloquial dialects

Cockney myming slang

Trouble and stripe

Dog and bone

Str. Single culture vs multi

Predominant vs mono

Identity

Stodgy vs light (not feel full)

Stick you inside (full)

Bland vs tasty

Cape style of eating and drinking in streets

Heat wave vs boiling hot

Speaking 1

How do you do? Where are you from? May I know your name? How old are you? What’s your job?
Can we swap (change) cards/details? I’d rather not say a contraction of “I would”.

On the tip of my tongue

Ter. Romantic

A bunch of flowers

Examiners show off

Poke lg.

Unprecedented (nhân duyên tiền định)

Where would you like to study abroad?

Study at university vs learn a subject

Do you enjoy studying English?

What do you do in your free time?

Do you plan to study abroad?

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

What’s your job?

Where do you live?

Follow-up questions:

Do you get on/along with them?

Are they younger/older than you?

How old are they?

Do you share anything/a lot of things in common?

What do they look like?

Do they look like you?

Do they resemble you?

Do you live with them?

Where do you live? (factual Q)

What sh do you live on? (cultural Q)

What’s the night life like?

Is it easy to get around?

Wrap something around (unwind)

Distress

Culture shock
Weather

How are you getting on with temperatuer here in Vietnam?

Language

Homesickness

Culture (communication)

Food

Time change/jet lag

Not on the same page (unable to communicate)

Small talk (not talk about serious things)

Weather (can’t take it, humility)

Sports (current events)

Fashion (pleasant/not intense)

Start its effects on (affect)

Come in waves

Ups and downs

Metaphor (She’s a peach.)

Adjust

Adapt

Assimilate

Open

Warm

Outgoing

Reserved

Laid-back (a) relaxed

Rushing around

Materialistic

Superficial

Beneficial

Enjoy company

Help assimilate to culture

Misunderstanding
Smash your car

Attend tutoring class

Law jargon for specific subjects

Elbow put on the table

Touch face while eating

Asking about age

Honking horn

Writing 2

Eat into sth ~ profit (advance into)

To (steadily) creep = to move forward slowly

Productive/fertile land (top soil) (stuff at the top)

Survey shows that…

Land in agricultural/industrial/commercial/residential use

Deteriorate (v) get/become worse; worsen

More severe (a) getting owrse/causing more problems

Take place (v) happen; occur

The line graph illustrates the proportion of UK households using four of the latest technologies.
Overall, the trend was an increase for all the kinds of technologies.

Units %, time

Sub # of people/households

Trend increase/decrease/fluctuate in general

Feature specific and show a downward/upward trend

Marginal

Soar

a) fluctuating with downward trend

The line graph fluctuated wildly with a downward trend

b) The LG decreases slighly/drops steadily/goes down slowly/declines marginally

c) The LG goes up/rises/increases gradually
d) The LG drops dramatically
e) The LG increases slightly and then soars
f) The LG decreases slightly/gently/steadily
g) The LG drops sharply and then levels off

Build up complex sentences to increase Ielts score

 Basic The ownership of CD players increased.
NP (adv) There was an overall steady increase in the ownership of CD players.
RC There was an overall steady increase in the ownership of CD players, which
started and finished in top position.
P. Perfect + By 2003, the CD player had maintained an overall steady increase in possession,
interesting starting and finishing in top position.
vocab;
synonyms

Paraphrase Q

Overall trend + exception

BP1 increase; BP decrease

Over the period of a year, the income for a Tea Room showed wild fluctuations with a sharp
downward trend, starting at 160 thousand dollars and finishing at about $50 thousand.

Internet express’ sales declined gradually in the first half of the year, hit a low of just under $80
thousand, then saw a sharp increase, and finally reached a peak of around $130 thousandm which
had started a high/low of [number] in Jan, ended significantly higher/lower| at a low/high of N in…;
fluctuated widly; increased/decreased steadily/slowly/rapidly; before ending at a high/low of N
in…at the end of the motnh; hitting a low/high of

Line graph illustrates/witnesses income/earnings/sales/profit last year

From Jan to Dec (a 12-month period; last year)

Net/gross income

The line graph illustrates the percentage of elderly people at the age of 65 or over in the 1940-2040
period in the USA, Japan and Sweden.

Extend lifespan/expectancy

1940-1980: There saw a slight increase in number of elderly citizens at 65 years old or older in two
Western countries about 8% and just almost 10% and hit their first high of apprx. 15% and 15%,
respectively. The period of 1980-2020 has seen a level-off at just below 15% of 65+ year-olds in
Sweden. No Sweden elderly people increased rapidly, then is forecast to go down and then up again
suddenly.

Vocabulary: causes – effects – solutions

Shanghai is a populated city.

Most/least densely/sparsely populated city

Urban planning administration bureau

Urban planners

Inner suburban

Central Shanghai
The outskirts of Shanghai is turned into an industrial zone.

Urban, suburban, rural areas

To deal with a problem

To establish a plan

Result in

This is just one of the many reasons why

To halt (stop, end)

Causes (a serious lack/dearth of greenery; serious pollution; inadequate p. tr infrastructure;

overcrowding on streets)

Solutions (a metro system; a huge motorway network; a massive greening of the/an area making S.
green and pleasant; a greenbelt)

Ill-co; urban pl.

Make it attractive for people to move to new cities/urban areas

Design a city from scratch

Satellite cities/towns

T2: urban; overpopulation; pollution; traffic congestion; urban/rural environment

4 circles (c, I, s, r) and three circles (zone)

Sub. Agr. Practices/eco habitats

Motorway links; mass transit systems; urban/sub/infrastructure; sat. towns

To model sth (infrastructure), which would be useful in planning for future sth (urban zones)

Pro. Inf. To help ev. To work out the solutions

C E S
Immigration alk of jobs in rural Overpopulation Improve the infrastructure and
areas A polluted environment p.s. in rural areas
Study Traffic congestion Build s.c.
Better living conditions (ent, Increased crime levels Establish factories, industries
hc, fac) Increased competition for jobs Uni (education establisments)
Poor quality of p.s. in rural Increased unemployment in s.c. and rural areas
areas Lack of housing/housing Tax breaks
shortages

There are two main causes of urbanisation; a lack of jobs in the countrysides and better living
conditions in the cities.

The most significant problem is job scarcity (shortage of job opportunities) in the rural areas, which
is caused by the insufficiency of factories there; this results in overpopulation and leads to
competitions for jobs and the increase in unemployment rate. For example, …
The second key problem is the positive changes in living conditions.

These changes, such as the availability of better facilities, entertainments and healthcare systems in
the…

Homework

Cause and effect

V-T (3.1-3.3)

P9-11

P12 (plan & write)

P13 (task 2, BP1 only; causes – focus on structure more than ideas)

Sp bit by bit

Mininova.org

Gutenberg.com

1. What was the topic?

2. When I meet my friends, we tell each other a lot of stories.
3. Next day I’m going to take an exam so I can’t go to the cinema.
4. He doesn’t know how to deal with some of his financial problems. You can offer/provide
some solutions; type on computer.
5. Biology teacher (teach biology in English/international university/HN lecturer/large number
of students/audience); have higher education of analysis

I want to be a biology teacher. When I was at secondary school, I realized I was in love with this
subject not at the first glance but after I had been given a zero mark for the very first 15-minute
exam.