Describe a thing you did to learn another language | Bài mẫu + Từ vựng IELTS Speaking Part 2

Từ vựng 

• dummy (n) /ˈdʌm.i/ : người ngu ngốc

I'm the only English dummy in the class

• make heads nor tails (idiom) : không hiểu điều gì đó

I can't make heads nor tails of what my mom has been yelling at me

• D-day (n)  /ˈdiː.deɪ/ : ngày quan trọng mà sự kiện gì đó xảy ra

I get nervous as D-day is coming

• cram (v) /kræm/ : học nhồi nhét

I had to cram 10 pages of history lessons for the test last week

•  a life saver : vị cứu tinh

My mom was a true lifesaver when I learnt how to cook

• pass the test with flying colors (idiom) : đạt kết quả tốt trong kì thi

My sister passed the test with flying colors thanks to her hard work

Bài mẫu 2

Bài mẫu

I’m going to share a tip that has helped me to acquire vocabulary effectively, and that is to make your own set of flashcards and use it for a variety of activities. 

I’m sure everyone knows how to make a flash card. You just need to take a piece of rectangular paper, a small one, enough to fit in your palm. You then write the word that you want to learn on one side and its definition on the other. If you’re feeling fancy, you can even laminate the pieces. But it’s really time-consuming and I generally don’t do this.

I realised most of my friends who were making flashcards would stop at this stage and only used their cards like reminders. I thought this was a waste of potential. So, I figured out a few activities and games that I could utilize the cards to the fullest. My favourite game is guessing the word from miming. To play this, I need to hold a card on my forehead, showing my friend the word in the card. My friend has to act out the word and I need to guess the word from those actions. Next, it’s my turn to act. 

Activities like this have helped me tremendously when it comes to remembering new words. I used to think learning vocabulary is repetitive and boring but with this technique I can sail through a whole day of learning without breaking a sweat. 

Từ vựng

• To acquire (v): học thêm, có thêm, lấy thêm
• To laminate (v): ép dẻo, ép plastic
• Potential (n): tiềm năng
• To utilise (v): sử dụng, tận dụng
• Miming (n): diễn đạt hình thể không dùng lời nói
• Act out (v): diễn
• Tremendously (adv): một cách đáng kể
• Repetitive (adj): lặp đi lặp lại
• To sail through (idiom): nghĩa bóng: lướt qua một cách nhẹ nhàng
• To break sweat (idiom): mệt

IELTS Speaking Part 3

1. What difficulties do people face when learning a language?

Maybe it's how to pronounce the language exactly. For example, while English has voiced and unvoiced sounds, Vietnamese doesn't so it is a challenge for beginners to “make" sounds that don't exist in their mother tongue. Other than that, learning grammar also takes lots of time.

• mother tongue : ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ

She can speak English but her mother tongue is Chinese

2. Do you think language learning is important? Why?

Definitely. Language is key to building relationships so the more languages you know, the more power you hold. Besides, learning a language  can improve memory, concentration and even your confidence, because you have to practice speaking the language.

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