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UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature Advanced
Listening and Speaking C1 Unit 1. Free therapy
Coach: Lê Tấn Cường
Master in Teaching English
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
PhD student in Education Management
University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Cellphone: 096.331.8588
Email: cuonglt@hcmussh.edu.vn lOMoAR cPSD| 41487147 Listening practice
1. https://mini-ielts.com/678/listening/benefits- of-student-work-placements
2. https://mini-ielts.com/1149/result/listening/planning- for-a-
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• What might be the differences between the two girls?
• How may the girls’ mood and lifestyles affect their entire lives?
• What would you recommend the girl on the left to do better her life? lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 1. Do we need these sculptures? 2. In what way do we benefit from it? lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 What to note? 1.Upgrade your life 2. Typically think
3. I’m going to be talking about how… 4. Meet three fundamental criteria 5. I won’t suggest anything that… 6. Don’t need a big time commitment lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 Answer keys 1. C 2. G 3. E 4. A 5. I 6. D 7. J 8. H 9. F 10. B lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoAR cPSD| 41487147 Speaking project
• Do some reading about how we can actually upgrade one’s life
• Make a list of ideas/ activities we would recommend our friends to do so that they can go on the right track.
Some questions to think about ✓ What to upgrade? ✓ Why to do it? ✓ How to make it happen?
• Share your ideas on Zalo group
• Check out some great videos from your friends and jot down some interesting
words/ phrases you want to take away in your upcoming journey lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 What to note? 1.Upgrade your life 2. Typically think
3. I’m going to be talking about how… 4. Meet three fundamental criteria 5. I won’t suggest anything that… 6. Don’t need a big time commitment lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 What to note? 1.Improve your life by adopting simple habits 2.lower your blood pressure 3. Reduce your risk of getting diabetes
4. That’s all you need to do to get all of … 5. Now as i said…
6. I’ve definitely felt better and healthier since then
7. It was hard to make time to walk every day
8. I simply get off the bus a few stops early lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 What to note?
1. Walking for an hour leads to enhanced fitness.
2. The video is visually interesting 3. I highly recommend watching it
4. People who regularly spend time outdoors are less anxious and less likely to be depressed.
5. If you do your 30-minute
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IELTS Speaking part 2 (Sample)
1. A really important decision I’ve made recently is to study
abroad, which is the reason I’m here talking to you now. Describe a major
2. No-one from my family has ever had the chance to study
abroad before. My parents were actually hoping I’d start decision you have taken
working for our family textile business as soon as I graduate. in your life. You should say: –
3. I think it’s too soon to join the family business though. I What the decision was
really want to study marketing – especially fashion marketing – – What other choices
and English so I can sell our company products to buyers all were available to you
over the world. If I study fashion marketing in the UK, I can – Why you made the
learn how to do business in the fashion industry, which is of decision you did
course very competitive and fast-moving. And explain if you think
the decision was a good 4. As for whether it was the right decision, I’m pretty confident one.
it was and I can’t change my mind now anyway because I
borrowed money from my parents to pay for my tuition. I’m
going to do my best to finish my course and I will go back to
my country with new ideas that will help expand our business.
All I need now is to get a good score in IELTS. So, anyway,
that’s an important decision in my life. lOMoAR cPSD| 41487147 Comments from examiners
This IELTS candidate scores highly by:
✓ Getting straight to the point and saying what the decision was in the very first sentence
✓ Paraphrasing the topic: A really important decision
✓ Using a range of tenses – past simple, present simple and present perfect – with great accuracy
✓ Using a wide range of grammatical forms such as a conditional sentence (If
I…) and a cleft sentence (All I need now is…)
✓ Signaling parts of the question: As for whether it was the right decision…
✓ Avoiding over-formality and using expressions such
as actually and pretty that are appropriate to conversational style
✓ Providing a summarizing sentence to wrap up the response lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoARcPSD|414 871 47 lOMoAR cPSD| 41487147 Speaking practice
Describe an activity you intend to do to fully experience your student life. You should say: • What the activity is
• How it can help improve your student life
• And explain why choose to do it.