[SAMPLE SPEAKING] Describe a performance you recently watched

Describe a performance you recently watched – một chủ đề không quá mới mẻ trong IELTS Speaking nhưng vẫn cần chuẩn bị kỹ càng mới “ghi điểm” mạnh đúng không nào? Với mong muốn giúp các thí sinh tự tin trả lời các câu hỏi giám khảo đưa ra và chiếm trọn band điểm cao, dưới đây là ý tưởng, bài mẫu IELTS Describe a performance you recently watched và giải nghĩa chi tiết từ vựng band cao từ các thầy cô của IPP.

Describe a performance you recently watched
You should say:
– What it was?
– When you watched it?
– Who you were with?
– Why you watched it
and explain how you felt about it?

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Bài mẫu Describe a performance you recently watched

To be honest, I am nowhere near an art lover but there is one performance I watched recently that really blew my mind. It is the 25th-anniversary performance of the all-time best musical – “The Phantom of The Opera”. Actually, it was not a live performance but just a recorded version premiered on Youtube. This epic production was made available for free streaming in 2 days as a gift to all the audience at home during the COVID-19 quarantine. I came across the video while glancing through my Youtube feed on a late Sunday night, and decided to give it a try since I didn’t have anything else to do. The story based on the French novel by Gaston Leroux tells the tale of an Opera house in Paris that is haunted by a mysterious masked man calling himself “The Phantom”. He secretly gives voice lessons to a young woman named Christine and consequently falls in love with her, as everyone can tell with this familiar motif. At first, I thought it would just be another love story, but it turned out to be more than that. The moral of this story is about the beauty underneath the ugliness, and the power of compassion and empathy. This is a sentiment shared in many stories of French classical literature.

I did not expect anything from this complete random choice, yet it gave me an out of this world experience. The show was a perfectly crafted musical theater with all elements in a consistently brilliant accord. The theme, the incredible music, the ravishing costumes, and marvelous staging effects all combined create a classic masterpiece but still very approachable for the mass audience, even for people with little enthusiasm in art like me. After three hours straight with my eyes glued to the screen, I finally understood the reason why this musical has become such a cultural phenomenon. Although having a seemingly old-fashioned plot – a love story, “The Phantom of The Opera” has proven why it stands the test of time for the values and the lessons it delivers.

Từ vựng band cao từ bài mẫu Describe a performance you recently watched

– nowhere near = chắn chắn không phải một chút nào
– blow one’s mind = khiến ai đó cực kỳ ấn tượng, phấn khích
– give smt a try = thử làm gì đó xem thế nào
– familiar motif (n) = mô típ quen thuộc, thường thấy
– turn out = cuối cùng lại trở thành
– moral (n) = bài học đạo đức, nhân văn
– sentiment (n) = ẩn ý, ngụ ý
– out of this world (adj) = tuyệt vời, không còn lời nào để diễn tả
– staging effect (n) = hiệu ứng sân khấu
– eyes glued to smt = dán mắt, chăm chú xem gì đó
– old-fashioned plot (n) = cốt truyện cũ, lỗi thời
– stand the test of time = trường tồn theo năm tháng

Trên đây là bài mẫu IELTS Describe a performance you recently watched và giải nghĩa chi tiết từ vựng và cấu trúc band cao. Chúc bạn học luyện thi IELTS hiệu quả với kho đề Speaking của IPP và chinh phục được điểm số thật cao trong phòng thi thực chiến nhé!