 PART 1 – DIFFICULT QUESTIONS

 PART 2 – SUGGESTIONS & SAMPLES

Speaking Module

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 PART 1 - FOOD
• Describe a famous • How can we
dish of VN introduce the
traditional food to
(use VNese first, right foreigners?
after that translate or + Through the
explain the word in systems of
English.) restaurants inside
e.g: “Pho” – a kind of hot and outside the
countries.
noodle soup cooked
with beef. + Through the
cultural events we
Or “Banh xeo” which hold. (festival)
can be called
Vietnamese pancake.)
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+ What dish is your country
famous for?
There are a lot of wonderful dishes
(such as…) but the one that can
represent Vietnam must be “Pho”. It is
a kind of noodle soup cooked with beef
and served hot in a bowl. Vietnamese
people can eat this healthy dish at
anytime in a day and many foreigners
love its flavor / taste too.
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+ How have eating habits changed

in your country in the past few
decades?
• What to eat (foreign food, fast food,
frozen food, canned food…)
• Where to eat (restaurant, office)
• How to eat (quickly, alone, not as many
family meals as it used to be)
 PART 1 - FESTIVALS
 Tet holiday = Spring Festival = Lunar New
Year is highly recommended.

 How do Vietnamese people celebrate

festivals?
(Be specific, take Tet as an example)
+ Lots of preparation (cleaning up, buying new
things, cooking…)
+ Spending time on family activities (visiting
relatives, having family meals, joining fairs…)
 PART 1 - FESTIVALS
 Tet holiday = Spring Festival = Lunar New
Year is highly recommended.

 Has it changed over time?

Slightly.
+ More social activities.
+ More sophisticated/ costly in enjoyment.
+ New habits formed (e.g.: travel during
holidays, …)
 PART 1 - FLOWERS
List of some familiar kinds of flowers:
 Rose
 Daisy
 Orchid
 Peach blossom
 Apricot
 Lotus
 Lily
 Marigold (vạn thọ)
 PART 1 - FLOWERS
Meanings of the flowers
Associate each type of flowers to some of
the features as follows:
+ Love / Loyalty
+ Nobility
+ Purity
+ Simplicity
+ Natural
+ Religiousness …
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Customs or habits of giving flowers

• Occasions
Colorful >< single color flowers (white,
purple)
• People (young >< old)
 PART 1 - NUMBERS

 Important numbers to remember:

+ Numbers related to our personal
profile such as ID no., candidate’s
no., student no., password, account
number…
+ Numbers related to others:
birthdays, telephone no., address…

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 Is it easier to remember numbers or

images / names?
+ Numbers: meaningless, contain
may digits (for quantity and security
reasons), repetitive.
+ Images: contain shapes, figures,
colors which can easily be associated
with things or people.
+ Names: have meanings, can be
easily associated with a certain
character of a person.
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 Some techniques to remember

numbers
+ Mechanical technique: repeat the
number several times / write it out.
+ Mathematical technique: divide it
into groups of 2-3 digit number,
associate each group with something
we are familiar

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 PART 1 - BIRDS
 Some kinds of birds in Vietnam:
(both wild and domestic, such as:
storks, eagles, seagulls, sparrows,
swallows, swans, pigeons, nightingales,
parrots, canaries, quails, ostriches, …)
 Their roles:
+ Provide food (meat, eggs)
+ Kill the harmful insects
+ Entertain people (pets, circus birds…)
+ Maintain the balance of the ecology.
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Ex: In Vietnam, many kinds of birds can be

found in the wild as well as in farms or
households. They are the storks, …..
Their roles:
The birds themselves play an indisputable
part to the nature and the lives of people in
Vietnam. First, they can kill the harmful
bugs, which is very beneficial for the crops
and the farmers. Second, they are also a
source of food in forms of meat and
eggs…
PART 1 - WEATHER

Tell the difference between climate and

weather
 Climate (unchanged): tropical, hot and
humid
 Weather (changeable): cooler or hotter,
temperature, rainy or sunny.
 PART 1 - WEATHER
What kind of weather do you like most?
Weather means: hot or cold, sunny or
rainy, the temperature…
Ex: Perhaps, I am a bit romantic when
saying that I like rainy days. But on
those days, the temperature is down
and it is really comfortable.
How important is weather?
Very important to:
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+ People’s health
+ The crops and plants
+ People’s activities
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PART 1 - WEATHER
 Naturaldisasters frequently happen in VN
+ floods (the South and North)
+ droughts (the Central)
+ hurricanes (the Central and North)

Ex: Located in the Eastern South of Pacific

with a long coastline, Vietnam has to face
hurricanes and tropical storms very often,
especially to the Central of the country.
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 Impacts and consequences
(immediate impacts):
+ loss of human lives, esp. fishermen
+ damages to crops, livestock and
household property.
+ destruction of the infrastructure
(related impacts)
+ food supply shortages
+ Problems of sanitation and epidemic
+ Soil quality change
 PART 1 - COLLECTION

 Something that people usually collect:

+ Stamps & coins & watches (typical)
+ Posters, CDs, DVDs, Toys,… (more
recent)
+ Paintings, antiques, wine, cars…
(more luxurious)
 Reasons for collecting
+ Hobby
+ Memory (e.g. of the childhood)
+ Status showing
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 PART 1 - COLLECTION

Ex: Keeping a collection is a popular

hobby and people can collect many
different things from the most typical
like stamps or coins to a more recent
like posters, DVDs, toys. The rich can
also collect cars, paintings or antiques.
What do you collect?
- Pick something popular. If not,
bring to the past, talk about the
collection you had in your childhood.
(shells, dolls, toy cars, pens…)
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 PART 2 – TWO PERSONS IN A
FAMILY

 Pick those who can have both

similarities and differences
+ Twins
+ Siblings
+ Father and son
+ Mother and daughter

 Show the similarities and differences

in: appearance, personalities,
hobbies, habits…
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FAMILY
Ex:
The two people that I want to describe in
my talk today are a friend of mine, T and
his father. He was my classmate in
university and I used to stay at his house
for the group work.
I heard about T’s father from him. He
seemed unhappy with his father as the
father forced him to follow engineering
while his interest was arts. And in my
thought, his father must have been a strict
and unapproachable person. However, on
seeing him, I realized that T was actually
his father’s copy. They not only looked
similar but also as persistent and hard-
headed as each other….
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PART 2 - CLOTHES
Describe a piece of clothing that you
have bought recently
You should say:
• What it is
• When and where you bought it
• How it looks like
and explain why you like it
PART 2 - CLOTHES
Vocabulary preparation
T-shirt
Polo shirt
Plain Shirt Skirt
Checked Shorts
Striped Jeans

Gem/ ribbon Jacket

Embroidered CLOTHES Scarf
Drawn Tie

Classic V-neck
Narrow / Crew neck
Wide legs Long sleeves With collar
Short sleeves
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PART 2 – CLOTHES (examples)

…That was a polo shirt with short sleeves.

The navy blue of it was nothing special
but what I like most was the two stripes
of sky blue and white on the collar and
around the sleeves.
…That pair of shorts was about knee-
length with medium legs. I chose the blue
denim because it is not only long-lasting
but also fashionable. The only decoration
was the embroidered patterns on the two
back pockets. They….
Practice

1. Could you tell me the differences

between the clothes of men and women?
2. How do young people in your country
spend their money on buying clothes?
3. Why do many people like to buy clothes
of famous brand?
4. Do you think that there are relationships
between shopping and globalisation?