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Part 1 (201 questions)

Holiday

  1. What’s your favorite festival?
  2. Do you like making plans?
  3. What should be considered when making plans?
  4. Which one is your favorite?
  5. How is it celebrated?
  6. Why do you like the festival?
  7. Are there any changes in celebrating the festivals in your country?
  8. Do you think festivals are important?
  9. How do young people think of the traditional festivals?
  10. What kinds of places do you like to go in holidays?
  11. Who would you like to go on holiday with?

Shoes

  1. How many shoes do you have?
  2. Do you like shopping for shoes? Do you like shoes? Do you buy online?
  3. How often do you buy shoes?
  4. What kinds of shoes do you usually buy?
  5. Do you prefer comfortable shoes or good-looking shoes? Which do you prefer?
  6. Are people willing to buy expensive shoes?

Color

  1. What are your favorite colors? What color do you like?
  2. Do you think the different colors can show the different personalities of different people?
  3. What colors do VN people love? What do these colors mean to VN people?
  4. Do you like to wear bright colors? Do colors affect your mood? Can the color of your?
  5. Is the color of the car important?

Drawings And Paintings

  1. How often do you visit art gallaries?
  2. What kinds of things do you like to draw?
  3. Is it easy to learn how to draw?
  4. Do you like painting/drawing? Why?
  5. Do you think children should learn drawing?
  6. Why do primary schools have painting class?
  7. Why do people display art work at their homes?
  8. Have you ever bought any painting?
  9. Do you think painting is important for adults?
  10. Do you still draw those pictures that you did in your childhood?
  11. Is it important to hang picture at home?

Photos

  1. Do you like to take photographs?
  2. Do you prefer to take photos yourself or to have other people take photos?
  3. In what situations do you take photographs?
  4. Do you prefer to send postcards to people or to send photos that you took yourself?

Movies

  1. Do you like to watch films?
  2. What kinds of films are popular in your country?
  3. How often do you watch films?
  4. What’s the difference between watching a movie at home and watching it in a cinema?
  5. Do young VN people like to watch foreign films?
  6. How would you define a good movie?
  7. Do you prefer to watch a movie at home or in a cinema?

Sport

  1. Do you often do exercise?
  2. What kinds of exercise do you do?
  3. In the future, do you want to try some new ways of exercises?
  4. Do people around you do exercises? Do young people in your country often do?
  5. Why some people can’t do exercise?
  6. Should people do exercise?
  7. Did you like sport when you were a child?
  8. Do you think more people play sports nowadays than in the past?

Watches/Time

  1. Do you usually wear a watch?
  2. What was your first watch like?
  3. Do you think time is very important?
  4. Where did you get your watch?
  5. What kind of watches do you like to wear?
  6. Why do you think some people like to wear expensive watches?
  7. What do you use your watch for?
  8. Do you often look at your watch?
  9. Are you ever late for anything?
  10. How do you feel when you are late for an appointment?
  11. How do you feel when others are late?
  12. If you could go back in time, what would you do?

Public Garden

  1. Do you like going to parks and/or public gardens?
  2. Are public gardens very important in VN?
  3. Are there many public gardens in Vn?
  4. Do you think there are enough public gardens in your hometown?
  5. What do you think are the benefits of having garden in the city?
  6. Do you think governments should provide public garden for people to visit?
  7. Do you think the governments should spend more money on public gardens for the cities or?
  8. Do these gardens play the same role for old people and young people?
  9. Do you think these gardens are more important for oled people or young people?
  10. Do you think gardens have any value for children?
  11. Which do you think is more important, public gardens or private gardens?
  12. Do they prefer to grow flowers or vegetables?
  13. When was the last time you went to a parks?
  14. Do you think the parks and gardens where you live could be improve in any ways?

Season And Weather

  1. What is your favorite season?
  2. Which season don’t you like?
  3. What kind of weather do VN people like?
  4. In which season there are more fine days? Why?
  5. Do you think the weather now has changed greatly compared to the past?
  6. Do you prefer dry or wet weather?

Patience

  1. Is it important to be patient? Why?
  2. Is it easy to be patient? Why?
  3. How can people be patient?
  4. When do people need to be patient?
  5. What do you do when waiting for the bus or something else?
  6. Are people now less patient than people in the past? Why?

Drinking Water

  1. Do you drink a lot of water?
  2. Do you like bottled water or tap water?
  3. Do you think bottled water is expensive?
  4. How much water do you drink every day?
  5. Why don’t you drink water from tap?

Morning Routines

  1. What would you do in the morning? What are your morning routines?
  2. What kinds of things do you do when you get up in the morning?
  3. What were your morning routines when you were little?
  4. Do you think breakfast is important?
  5. Do you want to change your daily routines in the future?
  6. Do you like to get up early in the morning?

Cooking

  1. Do you cook?
  2. Why some people love to cook?
  3. Do you usually eat at home or outside?
  4. On what occasions do people choose to eat outdoors and on what occasions do people?
  5. When was the last time you had a special meal at home?
  6. How often do VN people cook at home?
  7. Do schools have cooking classes in your country?
  8. Do you think we should teach children how to cook?

Sunglasses

  1. Do you like wearing sunglasseses? Do people in your country wear sunglasses ? when do?
  2. Have you ever lost your sunglasses ?
  3. Would you like to buy sunglasses to others as a gift? Do you send sunglasses to others?
  4. Where can you buy sunglasses ? is it expensive?

Transportation

  1. What is the most popular means of transportation in your hometown?
  2. How often do you take buses?
  3. Can you compare the advantages of planes and trains?
  4. Is driving to work popular in your country?
  5. Do you think people will drive more in the future?
  6. Would you ride bikes to work in the future?
  7. What do you think about trains, cars and bicycles? Which do you prefer?

Gifts

  1. What is your favourite gift?
  2. Have you ever received a gift that you didn’t like?
  3. Do you prefer receiving a gift or giving a gift?
  4. Do you think it’s difficult to choose what gift to give to people?
  5. What were the gifts you sent to others recently?
  6. Do you like giving gifts to your friends?
  7. Do you often give gifts to people?
  8. What was the last gift you received?
  9. When considering a present to give to someone, how do you select this gift?
  10. When do people in VN give gifts?
  11. What are some of the gift-giving customs in VN?
  12. In VN, is it necessary to bring a gift when you visit someone?

Music

  1. Do you listen to music while working?
  2. Do you change your favorite music in the future?
  3. What kind of natural sound do you love to listen to? And explain why?
  4. Do you love listening to music?
  5. What kinds of music do you love listening to?
  6. Where and when do you usually listen to music?
  7. Where would you prefer to listen to music, at home or in the concert hall?
  8. Which way would you prefer to listen to music, MP3 or Hi-Fi?
  9. Do you play any instrument? And what is it?
  10. How do you feel about the phenomenon that parents in VN are always forcing their?
  11. How do you feel about those kids who know how to plat lots of instruments?

Teachers

  1. Do you have a favorite teacher?
  2. What kinds of teachers do you like?

Rain

  1. What will you do if it is raining and you forget to bring an umbrella or a raincoat?
  2. Is there any part of your country where it doesn’t rain much?
  3. Does it rain a lot in your hometown?
  4. Do you choose an umbrella to bring or a raincoat?
  5. Can you remember anytime when it rained particularly heavily in your?
  6. Does rain ever affect transportation in your homwtown?

Letters

  1. Why do letters contain more emotions?
  2. Do you think emails are useful?
  3. Do you think it is good thing that some companies send out spam emails for the?
  4. Why do you usually write to and what do you write about?
  5. What do you think is the most difficult kind of letter to write?
  6. Do you prefer to write letters or emails?
  7. What are the differences between handwritten letters and emails?
  8. What kind(s) of letter/email do you think is (are) the hardest to write?
  9. How do you feel when you receive a letter or email?
  10. What kind(s) of emails (or letters) do you receive that make you feel happy?

Plants

  1. Do you like plants?
  2. Do you think plants can be a good gift?
  3. Can you grow plants? Do you know anything about growing a plant?
  4. Do you keep plants at home?
  5. Did you have plants when you are young?

Foreign Food

  1. When did you eat foreign food first time?
  2. Do you eat foreign food often?
  3. Do you think the foreign will be popular in VN?
  4. What foreign food have you eaten?
  5. What kind of foreign food do you like most?
  6. Is foreign food popular in VN?

Save Money

  1. What can parents do to teach children to save money?
  2. Why do young people tend to waste money?
  3. What kinds of things do people like to buy in your country?
  4. Do schools in VN teach anything about financial management?
  5. What is it necessary to teach teenagers to manage money?
  6. How do parents give pocket money in your country?

Boredom

  1. Do you ever feel bored?
  2. What do you do when you’re bored?
  3. When you were young, what would you do if you felt bored?
  4. What kinds of things are boring to you?
  5. Do you think young people are more likely to get bored?

Maps/Navigation

  1. When you used map for the first time?
  2. How often do you use map?
  3. Do you prefer to the electronic map or paper map? Which one is convenient for you?
  4. Have you asked someone for direction?
  5. Why do some people get lost easily but others don’t?
  6. Are digital maps important?
  7. Will people rely more on digital maps in the future?
  8. How do you find your way in an unfamiliar place?

Accomodation

  1. Where do you live? / In which part of town do you live?/ In which part of the country?
  2. Where do you live? Is the place you are living your birthplace?
  3. How far is your place from this place?
  4. What type of accommodation is it?
  5. Do you like it?
  6. Which is your favorite room in your place?
  7. Do you plan to continue living there in the future?
  8. What facilities are near your place?
  9. What is the neighborhood like?
  10. What do you like the most about it?

Part 2 & 3 (56 cue cards)

Cue card 1

Describe a language you want to learn (not English)

You should say: - What it is - How you would learn it - Where you would learn it - And what you want to learn the language

Part 3: 1. Why does everyone want to learn English? 2. How did you learn English? 3. What do you think of children learning a foreign language? 4. Why are some language classes boring? 5. Some students hate to learn foreign languages, what can teachers do to develop their? 6. Some people travel for learning a foreign language, what do you think? 7. What is the best way to learn a foreign language? 8. Why can some people learn languages fast while others learn slowly? 9. Does one’s age affect their language learning? 10. What can people do to learn a second language? 11. It is popular to learn English in your country?

Cue card 2

Describe a person who helps you to protect the environment

You should say: - Who this person is - How this person protects the environment - What difficulty this person has faced - And how you feel about this person

Part 3: 1. What kinds of pollution are serious in your country? 2. What can individuals do to protect our environment? 3. Do you think individuals should be responsible for pollution? 4. Why is there a need to involve government in environmental protection? 5. For VN people, how importance is protecting the environment? 6. In the future, what do you think will be some of the effects of global warming? 7. What is the importance of environmental education? 8. How to protect the environment?

Cue card 3

Describe a complaint that you made and you were satisfied with the result

You should say: - When it happened - Who you complained about - And why you were satisfied with the result

Part 3: 1. What do VN people complain about the most? 2. Is it important for a company to set up a complaint center? 3. Do you think complaining works? 4. What products or services do people in your country like to complain about? 5. Would you buy things in the shops which you have made complaints before? 6. Are there any disadvantages to set up customer service?

Cue card 4

Describe a game that you played in your childhood

You should say: - What the game was - When you played it - Who you played it with - How you felt about the game

Part 3: 1. Do VN people like to play indoor sports or outdoor sports? 2. What are the benefits for children to play outdoor games? 3. What kinds of games do children play these days? 4. Why do people play different kinds of games after they grow up? 5. Do you think winning is the most important goal for playing games? 6. Do parents in your country encourage children to play games?

Cue card 5

Describe a time that you took a medicine

You should say: - When it happened - Who gave it to you - Why you had it - How you felt about it

Part 3: 1. Are medicines safe? Some people think all drugs are poisonous to some degree, do you? 2. Will you buy medicines on the internet? 3. Why do some people not like to take medicine? 4. Are there fake medicines? 5. What do you think of buying medicine online? 6. What do you think of fake medicine?

Cue card 6

Describe a time when you received money as a present

You should say: - Who gave it - When you received it - What you did with it - How you felt about it

Part 3: 1. Do people prefer cash or credit card in your country? What are the benefits and? 2. weaknesses of credit card? 3. What can parents do to teach children to save money? 4. Why do young people tend to waste money? 5. What kinds of things do people like to buy in your country? 6. Do schools in VN teach anything about financial management? 7. What is it necessary to teach teenagers to manage money? 8. How do parents give pocket money in your country? 9. In your country, do parents give children money for doing housework?

Cue card 7

Describe an activity you would do when you are alone in your free time

You should say: - What the activity is - How often you do it - Where you do it - How you do it - And explain why you would like to do this activity

Part 3: 1. What is the difference between current and past entertainment? 2. In your country, how do people usually spend their free time? = how do people in your? 3. country spend their leisure time, for example, after school, work? 4. What are the things the old and the young like doing in their free time? 5. In general, who do you think has more leisure time, men or women? 6. Do you think that people today have more leisure time than people in the past? 7. Do many people in your country often work overtime? 8. What do you usually do in your free time? 9. Do young people prefer to do things alone or in a group? 10. How much effect does the leisure and entertainment industry have on the economy? 11. Are there any differences in the way people relax today compared to the past? 12. So why are people spending more time on the computer? 13. Why do you think some people find it hard to relax? Would you say that people have? 14. enough leisure time today? 15. Are there any differences in the way people relax today compared to the past? How do? 16. you think science and technology has changed people’s lives in VN in the past few years?

Cue card 8

Describe an important plant in your country

You should say: - What the plant is - How you know it - Why it is important - And explain how much you like the plant

Part 3: 1. Do people in your country like to grow plants at home? 2. Do old people grow plants? 3. How do schools teach students to grow plants? 4. What is the main plant in your country?

Cue card 9

Describe a time you were scared

You should say: - When it happened - Where it happened - Why you were scared - How you felt about it

Part 3: 1. How to scare others? 2. Are VN people easily scared? 3. Do kids like to scare others? 4. Why some people more likely to be scared? 5. What can we do when we are scared? 6. Is it OK to frighten others?

Cue card 10

Describe a dream you have had

You should say: - When you had this dream - What you saw in the dream - What you did or said in the dream - And explain why you had a dream like that

Part 3: 1. What’s the difference between dream and goal? 2. Would you separate dream from reality? 3. How do you achieve your goal? 4. What kinds of goals do young people usually have? 5. What will be the most popular jobs in the future?

Cue card 11

Describe a time you looked information from the internet

You should say: - When you did that - What information you searched - Why you searched that information

Part 3: 1. Do you think information on the internet is very reliable? 2. What other ways can people use to look for information? 3. Is TV a good media for information? 4. Can people find everything on the internet? 5. Can you trust everything on the internet? How can you tell the real information from the? 6. fake ones? 7. What ways can people get information these days?

Cue card 12

Describe something give to you really need

You should say: - What it is - Who gave it to you - Why you need it - And how you felt about it

Part 3: 1. What kinds of things do young people usually buy? 2. Why do people buy things they never use? 3. If a kid asks his parents to buy something because his classmates have it, what should the? 4. parent do? 5. Should the government encourage people to spend money? Is consumption important to a?

Cue card 13

Describe a family business you know

You should say: - What the business it - How you know it - What products it sells - Who the customers are - And how you like it

Part 3: 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of family business? 2. Are family businesses more likely to succeed? 3. Do most start-up tend to fail in the first year? 4. Are employees important? 5. Why do seniors receive high wages? 6. How do big companies benefit the public? 7. Differences between big companies and small companies? 8. Are there many big companies in your country? 9. What are the good things about working for a big company? 10. Should big companies be punished more seriously if they break the law?

Cue card 14

Describe something you made that you gave to other people

You should say: - What it was - What it was like - Who you gave it to - And how you felt about it

Part 3: 1. Have you received any handmade gifts? 2. Do you prefer store bought gifts or handmade? 3. Who are better at making handicraft, boys or girls? 4. What kinds of traditional handicrafts are there in your country? 5. What are the differences between handicrafts and products made by machines? 6. Will handicrafts disappear or be replaced by machine made products in the future? 7. Have you received anything that was made by the giver?

Cue card 15

Describe an indoor or outdoor place where it was easy for you to study

You should say: - Where it is - When you go there - What you study there - Who you go with - Why you would study in this place

Part 3: 1. Do you prefer studying by yourself or with a group? 2. Do you prefer staying at home or outside? 3. What are the differences between learning from a teacher and learning by oneself? 4. Which is more important school diploma or work experience? 5. Do young people prefer to do things alone or in a group?

Cue card 16

Describe someone you haven’t seen before but you would like to know more

You should say: - Who this person is - How you know about the person - Why you would like to know this person more - Kết hợp đề này vào nữa

Cue card 17

Describe an interesting person you would like to meet

You should say: - Who this person is - What this person does - Why you think this person is interesting - And what you want to do with this person

Part 3: 1. Who is more important to you, friends or family? 2. Do you have any foreign friends? 3. How do people in your country make friends these days? Does technology help you a lot? 4. in making friends? 5. Do you trust friends that you meet on the internet? 6. How do you get along with people you don’t like? 7. Why is it hard to maintain friendships for some people? 8. Would you only make friends with people who are similar to you? 9. Do you like to have many friends? 10. Do you think it is possible to be friends with someone if you never meet them in person? 11. What kinds of people do you like to be friends with?

Cue card 18

Describe a time you borrowed something from your family or friend

You should say: - What you borrowed - Who you borrowed it from - What you borrowed it for - And explain why it was useful to you

Part 3: 1. Do people feel embarrassed when they request the things back from friends? 2. What do people usually borrow from others? 3. Do others often borrow things from you? 4. Are you willing to lend something to others? 5. What will you do if others want to borrow something that you also need? 6. What are the drawbacks when you lending something from others? 7. Will borrow things make people uncomfortable? 8. Why do people dislike lending valuable items? 9. What would you do if your friends didn’t give back what they borrowed from you?

Cue card 19

Describe a good law in your country

You should say: - What the law is - How you first learned about this law - Who benefits from this law - And explain why you think this is a good law

Part 3: 1. How successful do you think the laws are in your country? 2. What kinds of people can become police officers? Why are there more policemen than? 3. policewomen? 4. Do police officers receive high salaries? 5. What are some ways that people can be encouraged to obey the law? 6. Why is it important to obey law? 7. Is it a good thing to break rules sometimes? When will people break the law? 8. Do people in VN like the police? 9. What are the working conditions of the police like?

Cue card 20

Describe a film or TV program that made you laugh

You should say: - What the program is - When you watched it with - Who you watched it with - Why it made you laughed

Cue card 21

describe something happened recently make you happy

You should say: - What it is - Where it happened - With whom - And explain why you feel happy

Part 3: 1. What are benefits or laughing? 2. Why do kids always laugh? Some people believe that the school time is the happiest time? 3. in their life? 4. Why do people smile? 5. When do people smile? 6. What kinds of TV programs are popular in VN? 7. What’s the most interesting comedy shows that you have ever watched? 8. Why do children feel happy easily? 9. How would you define happiness? 10. Do VN people like to watch comedy? 11. What do you do when you feel unhappy? 12. Are VN people happier than they were 30 years old? 13. Some people believe that the school time is the happiest time in their life-what do you? 14. Is it possible to be happy during whole life? 15. Can people be happy after a retirement?

Cue card 22

Describe a skill you need long time to learn

You should say: - What it is - Where you can learn it - How to learn it - And explain why you need long time to learn it

Part 3: 1. What age will make it difficult for a person to learn a skill? 2. Will the age of 5 or 20 be better? 3. Who will you learn a skill form, friends, teachers or parents? 4. What’s the difference between children learning what they like and learning what they? 5. have to learn?

Cue card 23

Describe a book that you read recently/ the last book you nread

You should say: - What the book was about - Why you read it in the first place - What you learned from the book - And explain why you read it

Part 3: 1. How do kids read? What kinds of stories do children like to learn/? 2. How often do people in your country read novels? 3. What kinds of books that old people to like to read? 4. What are the benefits of listening to stories or reading novels? 5. Are you a good storyteller? 6. How do you think people will read in the future? 7. Should parents let robot read stories for their kids? 8. Do you think books will disappear in the future? 9. Are there any reason why books will not disappear in the future?

Cue card 24

Describe a place away from home where you stayed

You should say: - Where it was - When you stayed there - What you did there - And explain how you felt when you left it

Cue card 25

Describe a place you plan to travel to that is far away from your home

You should say: - Where it would be - How you would like to go there - What you would do there - And explain why you would like to go there

Cue card 26

Describe a city that you have visited that left an impression on you/a beautiful city

You should say: - Where the city is - When you went there - What you liked and disliked about the city - And explain why this city left an impression on you

Part 3: 1. Where do most of the people go in your country? 2. What are the differences between travelling to other countries and living there? 3. Do you think we need to respect the region and culture when you go to other countries? 4. What are the effects of globalization? 5. What are the advantages of travelling? 6. What are the advantages and disadvantages brought by travelling to a country? 7. What are the advantages for travelling alone? 8. Will you choose to travel abroad or take a nationwide travel? 9. What are the disadvantages for a nationwide travel? How to solve this problem? 10. Will you choose to have the service of travel agent? 11. Travelling to which countries is cheaper? 12. Will you take a travel to Africa? 13. What advice would you give to the foreigners travelling to your country?

Cue card 27

Describe a teenager you know

You should say: - Who this teenager is - How you know this teenager - What this teenager likes to do - And how you feel about this teenager?

Part 3: 1. What are the differences between a teenager and a child? 2. What is teenagers’ attitude towards old people in your country? 3. Do you think young people’s lives are better now than that of 30 years ago?

Cue card 28

Describe an important decision made with the help of other people

You should say: - When it happened - Who helped you to make the decision - What the decision was - And how you felt about it

Part 3: 1. What skills are necessary when making decisions? 2. How can people improve their decision-making skills? 3. Who affects the decisions you make? 4. How do you think computers will change the way people make decisions? 5. Do parents in VN allow their children to make important decisions about the future? 6. Do you think that parents should make important decisions for their children? 7. Do you think that teachers should help students make decisions? 8. How can older people help young people make their own decisions wisely? 9. What do you think are the qualities of a good leaders?

Cue card 29

Describe an interesting part your country

You should say: - Where it is - How you got to know about it - What it is famour for - And explain why you think it is interesting

Part 3: 1. What are the benefit of living in rural areas? 2. What kinds of home do most people in your country live in? 3. What are the differences between living in the countryside and living in a city?

Cue card 30

describe something you own that you want to replace

You should say: - What the equipment was - When the problem was - What you did after it was broken - And how you felt about it

Part 3: 1. Do you think high-tech products such as computers are naturally more useful in your? 2. daily life? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology? 4. What are the negative sides of modern household appliances? 5. How can people benefit form modern technology in doing housework? 6. How has technology changed in VN over the last few years? 7. What general trends might affect the future of technology and its standard? 8. What is your opinion on the problem of energy?

Cue card 31

Describe an interesting talk or speech you heard recently

You should say: - When and where you heard it - What the talk or speech was about - Who gave the talk or speech - And explain why you think it was interesting

Part 3: 1. Who will be invited to lecture? 2. What are benefits of publish speaking? 3. Do you think college or high school should ask some celebrities to communicate with the?

Cue card 32

Describe a competition (talent show, etc) you would like to take part in

You should say: - What the competition is - Where you take part in - Who won it before - And what do you think about it

Part 3: 1. Why do you think some school teachers use competitions as class activities? 2. Is it a good thing to give prizes to children who do well at school? Why? 3. Would you say that schools for young children have become more or less? 4. competitive since you were that age? Why?

Cue card 33

Describe some useful skills you learned in a math class from your primary/ high

You should say: - What the skill was - How you learned it - Who taught you Why it was useful to you

Part 3: 1. Can computers help us in math areas? 2. What is the first subject learned by children in childhood? 3. What methods can be applied to make math class more interesting? 4. How do schools teach math in VN? 5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using calculator? 6. When do kids in VN start to learn math?

Cue card 34

Describe a time you were shopping in a street market

You should say: - When it was - Where it was - What you bought - How you felt about the shopping experience

Part 3: 1. What type(s) of shop would you recommend a visitor to your country should go to? 2. How has technology changed the way you do shopping in your country? 3. What do you think are the advantages of buying things on the internet? 4. In your country, how has shopping changed in the past few decades?

Cue card 35

Describe a time that you wore a type of clothes for a special occasion

You should say: - What the occasion was - What you wore - Where you bought the clothes - What other people at the occasion thought of your clothes

Part 3: 1. What kinds of clothes do people wear after work? 2. What kinds of clothes should people wear at work? 3. Do you think it is necessary for children to wear school uniform? 4. Where do VN people buy clothes? 5. When do people wear formal clothes? 6. Do people wear formal clothes more often or less often than the past?

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Describe something you own that you want to replace it

You should say: - What it is - When you had it - How you got it - And explain why you want to replace it

Part 3: 1. What do you usually need to replace at home? 2. Do you prefer fixing things or replacing things? 3. Which do you think are better, old things or new things? 4. As well as family photographs, what are some other things that people keep in their? 5. family for a long timg? 6. In your culture, what sorts of things do people often pass down from generation to? 7. generation?

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Describe a time you spend with your friend in your childhood

You should say: - Who is this friend - How did you know about each other - Explain why you

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Describe something that can help you concentrate on work/study

You should say: - What it is - How it helps you - What you think about it

Part 3: 1. Is it important to keep concentrating on something?? 2. How can employers make their employees concentrate on their work?? 3. What kinds of jobs need higher levels of concentration? 4. Why is it hard some people to concentrate?? 5. Can technology help you concentrate?? 6. Do you need to concentrate when you do sports??

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Describe something interesting that your friend has done but youhaven’t done

You should say: - What it is - When did your friend do it - Explain why you want to do it

Part 3: 1. Are people influenced more by their friends or parents?? 2. Are people influenced by famous people?? 3. Why are some people self-centered?? 4. Is it good for people to try new things??

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Describe a sport (you watched on TV) and you would like to try for the first time

You should say: - What it is - How would learn it - What equipment would you need to plat this sport? - And expain why you want to learn this sport

Part 3: 1. Do you play an sports at night?? 2. What are the benefits of playing sports?? 3. What’s the difference between playing sports on your own and playing sports in a? 4. Do children need to exercise?? 5. Why do people need to play sports??

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Describe a magazine you enjoy watching

You should say: - What it is - How often do you watch it - What do you learn from it - Why do you like it

Part 3: 1. What kinds of magazines are popular? 2. Which is more important: fashionable or advertising news?? 3. Do you think the government has the right to censor the magazines?? 4. Do you think everything we read on the magazines is true??

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Describe someone who is talkative

You should say: - Who this person is - How you know this person - What this person likes to talk about

Part 3: 1. Which occupations need to be talkative?? 2. What are the characteristics of talkative people?? 3. Are you a talkative person?? 4. Why do some kids like talking so much and other kids always so quite?? 5. When you give your speech you encounter any problems? Do you think some adults? 6. feel tension when they are giving a speech?? 7. What is public speaking?? 8. What are the benefits of public speaking??

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Describe a time when you received your first cellphone

You should say: - When it was - Where you were - Who gave you the cellphone - What it was like - How you felt about it

Part 3: 1. When do you need mobile phone most?? 2. How old can a child in your country have a mobile phone?? 3. What are the differences between young and old people who use mobile phones? Do? 4. young people and the old use cell phones in the same way? ? 5. When do you use it? How often you use it?? 6. What feature of your cell phones do you like the best??

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Describe something important that you lost

You should say: - What is it - Why it is important - How did you lose it - How did you do after you lost it

Part 3: 1. Why a lot of people often thrown things?? 2. In general, what kinds of things do people most often lose?? 3. What would you do if you found something that someone had lost?? 4. How do people find what’s missing??

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Describe a party that you joined

You should say: - When it took place - Where it was - Whose party it was - What you did there - How you felt about the party

Part 3: 1. What types of party do people have?? 2. Why are parties important?? 3. Do you think parties will become more popular in the future?? 4. Do people spend a lot of money on these parties in your country??

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Describe an interesting job that you want to have in the future

You should say: - What it is - How you can find this job - What qualities it requires - Explain why it is a well-paid job - Why you think you will be good at it

Part 3: 1. Do you think job satisfaction is more important than salary when choosing a job?? 2. What skills do you think are needed to get a job nowadays?? 3. Do you think women should be able to do all the same jobs that men do?? 4. How has technology changed the way we work?? 5. What is the difference between white collar and blue collar jobs??

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Describe a building you like

You should say: - Where it is - What it is used for - What it looks like - Explain why you like or dislike it

Part 3: 1. Are there many tall buildings where you live?? 2. Why are there tell buildings in so many places?? 3. How much is architecture influenced by the local climate?? 4. What role do you think old buildings play in society?? 5. Do you think it necessary to protect old buildings?? 6. How important are traditions and cultural relics??

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Describe your favorite song

You should say: - What this song is about - When you listened to this song for the first time - How often you listen to this song And explain why you think it is your favorite

Part 3: 1. Why do you think that some local singers or musicians aren’t as successful as some? 2. from other countries? 3. Do you think that the language of the song matters? 4. Why do you think that? 5. Do you think the Internet has affected the music industry? 6. In what ways? 7. Do you think there will be further changes in the music industry in the future? 8. Do you think the music young people listen to in your country is becoming more? 9. globalized? Why/Why not?

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Describe a time that you had to change your plan/ changed your mind

You should say: - When this happened - What made you change the plan - What the new plan was - How you felt about the change

Part 3: 1. When do people usually change their mind?? 2. Is it hard for old people to change their mind?? 3. What about young people?? 4. Do people always change their plans?? 5. How do you explain to your friends when you have to change the plan because of your? 6. personal reasons??

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Describe a (prefect) holiday/vacation (from home) you want to go on in the

You should say: - Where you want to go - When you would like to go - What you can do for the holiday - Who you would like to go with - And explain why you want to have this holiday

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Describe a trip by public transport

You should say: - What the transport is - Where you went - Why you chose this transportation - How you felt about it

Part 3: 1. How easy is it to travel around your country?? 2. Which method of travel do you consider safest? Why?? 3. Has travel become safer in recent years than that was in the past?? 4. What are the pros and cons of low-cost air travel?? 5. How do you think people will travel in the future?? 6. Should the government in a country focus more on rail transports orroad? 7. transports? Why??

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Describe a website you like to visit

You should say: - When you found it - What is it about - How often you visit it - Why you like this website

Part 3: 1. What types of websites are popular among your generation?? 2. Is using the internet a social or solitary activity?? 3. How has the internet changed social behaviour?? 4. How has the internet changed the way we work and study??

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Describe a popular comic actor/ actress you know

You should say: - Who he/she is - How you knew him/ her - What comedies have he/she performed - Explain why he/she is popular

Part 3: 1. How (or why) do some actors/some comedians become famous?? 2. Do VN people want to be stars?? 3. The benefits of being famous? 4. The drawbacks of being famous? 5. Do many young people (or, children) try to imitate film stars (e.g., imitate their? 6. lifestyle, clothes, etc)? (If yes, how, why?)? 7. What forms of entertainment are most popular in your country?? 8. Do you think to be famous, a person needs to have some special talent?? 9. Compare how people become celebrities today with how people became celebrities years?

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Describe an interesting animal

You should say: - What it looks like - When you saw/ knew it for the first time - Where it lives - Explain why it is interesting

Part 3: 1. Do you keep a pet? 2. What is your favorite animal?=did you have any pets when you were a child? 3. Do you like watching animals in the zoo? 4. Is it important to let children know about animals? 5. What kinds of animals as a pet do people have in your country? = what kind of? 6. animals do people have in their home? 7. Do you think cities are suitable places for keeping a pet? 8. What do you think are the benefits of having a pet? = why do people like to keep? 9. Do you think it fun to keep a pet? 10. What’s your favorite wild animal? 11. What’s the role of animals in your country? 12. What are the people’s attitudes to animals in your country? 13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of wildlife parks?

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Describe a situation when you helped someone

You should say: - What it was - Who the person was - How you helped them - And explain how you felt after helping them

Part 3: 1. Do you like helping others? How can we encourage children to help others? 2. Do you think people are less willing to help others these days, compared to the past? 3. Do people today trust others as much as they used to in the past? 4. How do people in your community help one another? 5. How do students, such as high school students, help each other? 6. How can charitable organization help people? 7. What are some examples of such organizations in your country? 8. What do you think are the benefits of having unpaid volunteer workers?

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Describe a quite place you visited

You should say: - Where it was - When you went where - What you did there - And explain why you think it was quite

Part 3: 1. Do you like to go to the places where there are many people? 2. What would you do if your neighbors were noisy all the time? 3. Do you think that cities will become noisier in the future? 4. Do you think there is more noise in people’s lives today than in the past? 5. Where can you hear loud noise? 6. What places, in your oninion, can be considered as peaceful places? 7. Why is it sometimes important for people to be alone? Do you people feel comfortable in? 8. quite places? 9. What kinds of places do people want to go to when they want to be alone? 10. How might the level of urban noise be reduced? 11. Would you like to work in a noisy place? 12. What are some of the advantages of quite places?