Đây được coi là một trong những chủ đề vừa “trừu tượng”, vừa “khó đỡ” nhất trong bộ đề dự đoán IELTS Speaking quý 1 và 2 của năm 2021.
Nhưng cái khó ló cái khôn – theo kinh nghiệm của các thầy cô và mentor tại IPP thì với đề này, các bạn chỉ cần nghĩ thật đơn giản là được! Câu trả lời có thể xuất hiện ở mọi lúc mọi nơi, ví dụ như “”hôm qua trước khi vào học thầy Tú em đang đói muốn chớt (cụm này có collocation nè), rất cần một chiếc xúc xích nhưng Circle K lại vô cùng đông”” chẳng hạn.
Bài mẫu của Mentor Phương Anh 9.0 Speaking dưới đây, sẽ nói về việc cô bạn cùng anh trai của mình đã phải xếp hàng dài vào hôm 1 thương hiệu cà phê nổi tiếng mở cửa hàng đầu tiên tại TP. HCM. Hãy cùng IPP đến với bài mẫu để xem cô bạn đã xử lý đề này như thế nào nhé!”
Sample Speaking:
I want to express that I usually hate crowds, so hardly do I find myself in a situation where I have to wait in line. But one time that is really memorable was when I had to wait half an hour to get just a cup of coffee. It was around February of 2013. I have such vivid memory of the time because it was not only my birth month but also a pretty special year to me. Coincidentally, it was the time when Starbucks opened its first shop in Vietnam as well. I was in HCM City at that time on a vacation with my family, and when our relatives told us of the famous brand opening, my older brother insisted on coming there to see and buy a cup of coffee. Just to have a taste of what foreign coffee is like – he said. As unwilling as I was, I let myself be pulled along with him to the new Starbucks. We were so sure that we had come on a working day and not during the usual rush hours of coffee stores, so we would not have to wait. How wrong we were. In front of the shop, there was this long line of people standing, swearing, anxiously waiting just for a cup of coffee like us. There must have been like 20-30 of them. I felt almost nauseous at the sight. However, in the end, we still accepted our fate and joined in the line, since my brother said it would be a waste if we came back home empty-handed. Half an hour passed in boredom and agony for me because as I have mentioned, I hate crowds and am not even that much of a fan of coffee. We managed to get a cup in the end, and sadly, or served my brother right, it didn’t even taste that good according to him.
Vocabulary highlights:
- vivid (adj): sống động
- vivid memory (n.phrase): nhớ như in
- swear (v): chửi thề
- nauseous (adj): buồn nôn
- empty-handed (adj): tay trắng
- boredom (n): chán nản
- agony (n): đau đớn
