Đề 1

FREE TIME

1. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

I like drinking coffee and browsing Internet for some local and international news after
daily working, sometimes I make traveling to somewhere if I have a long free time.

2. Why do you like doing these activities?

I usually do that because drinking coffee helps me reduce stress and recharge energy, in
addition, browsing Internet helps me knowing about something that happened around me
and communicating with partners and friends as well.

3. Who do you like spending your free time with? Why?

I enjoy spending leisure time with my colleagues because we can share knowledge and
experiences together

Task 2
Situation 1
Your friend is going to enter a university. There are three choices: a local university,
a free vocational college in the city, and an international university in the city. Which
one is the best choice for him/her?
Answer
Đề 2

CHILDHOOD

1. Who is the most important person in your childhood?

There are a lot of persons I like when I was a child, but grandmother is the most
important person for me, because she always helps me to overcome any mistakes that I
met.

2. What is a good place for children to grow up?

I think my hometown is a such place, there are a lot of places where kids can play, learn
and do outdoor activities as well. Additionally, there is a huge green field in there, my
friends and I used to visit there to play kite flying together in the childhood.

3. Is childhood now different from the time when you were a child?
Yes, I think they are quite different, while learning, do household chores, and play
outdoor games like football, swimming, kite flying, hide and seek are what all things kids
can do and enjoy in the past, children now have the chances to access a lot of modern
tools for learn, play and entertain thank to technology’s development, especially
information technology.

Task 2
Situation 2
Some of your friends and you are planning to do something on the weekend. There
are three choices: going fishing, visiting to the countryside, and having a BBQ party.
Which one is the best choice for all of you?
Outline:
select visiting to the countryside from going fishing, visiting to the countryside, and
having a BBQ part
reasons for choice: has sceneries of the roads to make ease and relaxing feelings that
others no have. meet and communicate with local people to exchange information, have
exciting experiences by engaging farming works,
Reason for others: BBQ parties  get healthy problem like overweight, increased
cholesterol, and other illness, wasting a lot of money. Go fishing is also a reasonable
activity, however, it has few benefits than visiting the countryside.
Đề 3

YOUR TOWN

1. Tell me something about your hometown.

Cao Lanh, hometown, is a small, and quiet city with a lot of fruits and beautiful
landscapes all the year, people are friendly, hospitable. The most famous product is
rice, my hometown’s symbol is red lotus and Cao Lanh is seen as capital of red lotus
land.

2. What do you dislike most about your hometown?

I love my city for everything except the public transportation system, most of the roads
here are small and seriously degraded. The public travel means are insignificant
roles, people chiefly use private vehicles.

3. What changes have taken place in your city in recent years?

Due to the industrialization process, my city has developed faster and more modernly,
but it has also started to face environmental pollution and population problems.
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CITIES AND COUNTRIES

1. Do you like to live in a city or country?

Absolutely, I enjoy living in a city, because there are a lot of conveniences and services
for dwellers that someone cannot access to those in the countryside.

2. How would you improve your city/town where you live?

In order to improve living environment in my town, I try to plant more trees in parks,
encourage people to raise their awareness of environmental protection such as not
littering in the roads and rivers, limiting to use private cars, refrain from wasting
energy,

3. Are there any interesting places in your country I can visit?

There are a lot of interesting places to visit in Vietnam, but I think Temple of literature is
the best choice for you. It was located in center of Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, It is
considered as a cultural and intellectual symbol of Vietnamese people.
Đề 5

INTERNET

1. Do you use the Internet much during the day?

Yes, I access to the Internet from 2 to 3 hours every day, because of my business
required.

2. What do you usually do on the Internet?

I chiefly search information about data mining and programing algorithms when
suffering the Internet. Sometimes I access into entertainment websites to listen to music
or watching movies

3. What are some advantages of the Internet?

There are a host of benefits that we can get when we accessed Internet, we can
communicate to everyone, receive updating news from anywhere immediately, search
and download documents and data we need, and so on.
Đề 6

FILMS

1. Do you enjoy watching movies?

Yes, I like films so much, especially those of documentary, I never overlook any new
these movies whenever I have a chance.

2. What’s your favorite film?

Documentary is my favorite kinds of movies, because they help enlightening me as to my

professional knowledge and updating new discoveries of science information.

3. What was the last film that you watched?

It is a newest movie that I have enjoyed is “planet earth”, a movie of BBC documentary
series, it is the best documentary I have even seen.
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TRANSPORT

1. How did you come here today?

I came here by bike, although I have a lot of option to choose such as motorbike or taxi, I
want to improve my health and protect environment.

2. What is your favorite means of transport?

It is demand kinds of journeys, I like airlines for very long-distance trips, motorbikes or
cars for long-distance, and bike for otherwise.

3. Should people use public transport more? Why (not)?

Yes, they need to use public transportation frequently, by this way, people will contribute
to reduce traffic congestion, limit air pollution, and enjoy safety and ease feeling during
travel as well.
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SPORTS AND GAMES

1. Do you like watching or playing sports?

I am good at no sport subjects, so I only enjoy watching sport matches and encouraging
my favorite teams.

2. When and where do you play sports?

I rarely play sports, except for the movement of my company on important occasions of
the year like Independence Day, or donation activities.

3. Why is playing sports good for us?

It is a common true that playing sports brings a lot of benefits to player’s health, because
it helps people healthier both physical and mental.
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FRIENDS

1. Do you have many friends? Why/Why not?

Yes, I have a lot of friends. I am a member of a computer programming community. We
frequently make meeting to exchange experiences and skills about application coding.

2. How often do you go out with friends? Why/Why not?

Not frequently, when a football matches comes out, we go to the stadium together. Since
we are big fan of football. Sometimes, we go to a coffee shop and chat about our favorite
football team.

3. Which is more important to you, friends or family? Why?

I would say that family comes before friends. While my friends are very dear to me, they
are simply not as important as the people who raise me. After all, I have known my
family since I was born.
Đề 10

FOOD AND RESTAURANTS

1. What sorts of food do you like eating most? Why?

I love to eat fishes and seafoods. whenever I start eating them, I usually cannot stop until
they are gone, especially, seafood that was made by my wife is my tastes. Also, eating
fishes help my health better

2. Who normally does the cooking in your home?

Normally, my wife is the one who cooks for the family. She usually makes main meal with
rice, soup and various side dishes. Sometimes I should prepare the meal myself when
she’s not around.

3. In general, do you prefer eating out or eating at home? Why?

I prefer eating at home, because this helps me feel healthful, safety, delicious and enjoy
familiar atmospheres feeling. Also, it is cheaper than eating out.
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BOOKS

1. What kind of book do you like to read?

My hobby is reading. My favorite reading is information technology book, because I am

a computer science engineer.

2. How often do you read a book?

My hobby is reading, especially IT books, I don’t sure that how much time I spent for it,
but I always reading book when I studied, learned or whenever I have free time.

3. What do you like most about the books you read?

My hobby is reading, I read a lot of information technology books, Cookbook series is my

favorite kinds, because they were written legibly, The content is compiled in a style that
combines theory and practice with many easy-to-understand illustrative examples.
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HOBBIES

1. Do you have any hobbies?

Yes, I do, collect coins from different countries is my hobby. I have collected coins from
several Europe and Asian countries, including France, Italy, Thailand, China and
Singapore.

2. What are some of your hobbies?

I have several hobbies, some of them are reading and, coins and books collecting. I
collected so much coins and books, especially old coins and IT books.

3. How much time do you spend on your hobby?

My hobby is reading, especially IT books, I don’t sure that how much time I spent for it,
but I always reading book when I studied, learned or whenever I have free time.
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HOUSEWORK

1. How is the housework shared in your family?

In my family, typically, cooking and washing was been done by my wife, my
responsibilities is arrangement and repairing furniture, water and electric systems,
sometimes my children also engaged to household chores like clean house, prepare
meals for practicing housework skills and expressing their responsibility to family.

2. What do you think is the most important household task?

I don’t sure, but I guest cooking is the most important household task, because it is a
vital task, cooker’s noble duty is to brings people delicious and healthy meals, so she or
he was required well-cook skills and big responsibilities

3. Do you enjoy doing housework?

Yes, I do, housework is very interesting for me. I often prepare breakfast for my children
in the mornings. Cooking is both exciting work and relaxing activity for me.
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HOLIDAYS

1. What do you do when you have a holiday?

It depends on a holiday; I usually go to travel some my favorite places with family or

friends for long vacations and go to coffee with my buddies for otherwise.

2. Who do you usually spend holiday with?

Absolutely, it is my family, spending holiday with all members of family is a great chance
for us to enjoy wonderful time together and share .

3. Where do you like to spend your holidays? Why?

Coastal areas like Vung Tau, Nha Trang are my favorite places for my spending holiday
trips. Because my children want to enjoy swimming in cool and clear water, also, we love
having majority of delicious seafoods there.