TỪ VỰNG IELTS THEO CHỦ ĐỀ GIÚP TĂNG BAND SPEAKING 7+

Level: IELTS Fighter B

Skill: Speaking

Unit: 1

Topic: Friends, Dreams, Values

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Vocabularies
TOPIC: FRIENDS
close friend: a very good friend.
enjoy

each

other’s

company: to

like

spending

time

with

each

other.

| Steve and Noah are always together, they definitely enjoy each other’s company.
fair-weather friend: someone who is your friend only when you are cheerful and
successful.
| A lot of John’s friends turned out to be fair-weather friends. They were with him when
he was rich and left him when he went bankrupt.
friends are like second family: that is to say your friends love you and make you feel
comfortable.
get in touch with somebody: to contact somebody.
| I plan to get in touch with my friends when I return home.
near and dear to someone: very important to someone.
| Her parents are the only people who are near and dear to her.
shoulder to cry on: someone who is always ready to listen to your problems.
| I’m so glad my boyfriend is so kind and sympathetic, it’s good to always have a
shoulder to cry on.

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to be through thick and thin: to have some good times and difficult times together.
| Your parents are married for 15 years, they must have been through thick and thin
together.
to be well-matched: to be similar to somebody in interests.
| They are well-matched.
to break up: to end a relationship.
| It is hard to believe that Jacob and Sarah broke up. They were dating since high
school.
to drift apart: to become less close to someone.
| As years went by, school friends drifted apart.
to fall for someone (to fall in love with someone): to start loving somebody.

| They were childhood friends, and he fell for her!
to fall out with: to quarrel, to have a conflict.
| He left the party after falling out with his girlfriend.
to get on like a house on fire: people get on like a house on fire when they like each
other’s company and become friends very quickly.
| I like my new roommate! We have a lot of same interests and get on like a house on
fire.
to get on well with somebody: to have a good relationship with somebody.
| I’m an outgoing person and I easily get on well with new people.
to get to know someone: to become acquainted with someone.
| I thought Jenna was selfish until I got to know her and understood her real character.
to have a lot in common: to have similar interests.

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to have friends in high places: to have friends in powerful positions in business or
government.
| Joe owes his fast career growth to his friends in high places.
to hit it off with somebody: to quickly become close friends with somebody.
| I could not imagine that Laura will hit it off with Dylan! They are so different.
to keep in touch with someone: to maintain contact with someone.
| I keep in touch with my friends from high school, although we graduated five years
ago.
to lose touch with someone: to lose contact with someone.
| I lost touch with Mary since she moved to Canada.
to see eye to eye: to agree.
| I think it’s better to live in a big city, but my brother doesn’t see eye to eye with me
about it.
to strike up (a conversation, a relationship): to start.

| I feel awkward when I strike up a conversation with unknown people.
ups

and

downs:

a

mixture

of

good

and

bad

things

that

| We’re friends for almost 30 years! Surely we’ve had our ups and downs.

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happen.

TOPIC: DREAMS
Have no recollection of: to remember nothing
| I have no recollection of what happened in my dream.
Fragment: a single part of something; a part that is not complete
| I just can recall some disconnected fragments of last night’s dream.
Scare out of their mind: To shock or scare one very suddenly or severely
| Some are scared out of their mind by those horrible dreams.
Beg a question: If a statement or situation begs the question, it causes you to ask a
particular question.
| The new attendant’s investigation begs the question of what caused bribery in the
office
Look into: To examine the facts about a problem or situation
| Please look into the case before investigating it
Figure out: To discover
| “Could you please figure out the issue in my laptop?”
Have a sinking feeling: A feeling that something bad is going to happen
| “Do you get a sinking feeling?”
Put somebody in a bad mood: Sad; depressed; grouchy; with low spirits
| This song put me into a bad mood
To be through: To have finished something
| I really have to be through with my studies
Vivid dream: Any dream or nightmare which one remembers after awakening
| I had a vivid dream last night

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Every now and then: Sometimes
| She kept knocking on my door every now and then
Take a trip down memory lane: To reminisce over memories of past events, especially

happy ones.
| I took a trip down to the memory line and reminisced about my school days.
Living the dream: Do what you really want to do/achieve
| I’m really living my dream by working in this company
Chain store: A store that is part of a chain of similar stores selling the same type of
product, and that are all owned and controlled by the same organization
| “Look there ,I guess there is some chain store over there”
Fulfill one’s dream: Realize one’s dream
| I really want to fulfill my fathers’ dream
Come true: To materialize as expected or hoped
| My dream has come true.
Move forward: Make progress
| “Can you please move forward ?”
Out of reach: Unobtainable
| She is out of reach now
Haunt: (V) if something unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that
you cannot forget it
| A lot of people are haunted by their nightmares.

Haunt (N) – Haunting (Adj) – Haunted (Adj)

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Recall: (V) To remember something
| “Can you please recall the place where you kept the paper”

Recall (N) – Recallable (Adj)
Visualize: (V) To form a picture of somebody/something in your mind
| “Please visualize what happened last night.”

Visualization (N) – Visualized (Adj) – Visibly (Adv)

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TOPIC: VALUES
Posh labels: fashionable, and expensive brands
| When the children go to school they want to have posh labels on their jumpers or good
shoes.
Reasonable: not too expensive
| Tomatoes are very reasonable at this time of year.
A sign of status: an object meant to signify its owners' high social and economic
standing
| Property, or the house you own, and the possessions you have in it are also a sign of
status.
Preferential treatment: used to say that the way that someone is treated is better than
what other people receive
| In many cultures, if someone has high status, then they will be respected by others
and they may receive preferential treatment.
Intellectual achievements: a success that resulted from a person’s intelligence
| People with intellectual achievements and publicly perceived intelligence.
Exposure to media: the amount of public attention that someone or something
receives
| A top position in a well-known company, social influence and power and exposure to
media are a few other things that people often consider as symbols of high status.
Put emphasis on: place special or extra importance to an activity or to a part or aspect
of something
| We constantly compete with others and put too much emphasis on our status in
society.

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Predominant: (Adj) more noticeable or important, or larger in number, than others
| A person’s education level has a predominant role in determining one’s status.

Predominance (N) – Predominate (V) – Predominantly (Adv) – Predominately (Adv)
Decay: (N) the process of a society, an institution, a system, etc. being gradually
destroyed
| The decay in our "family bonding" and "patriotic feelings" are also making us more
materialistic.

Decay (V) – Decayed (Adj) – Decaying (Adj)
Conspicuous: (Adj) easy to see or notice; likely to attract attention
| Going back to the example of the car, driving around in a Mercedes is a very
conspicuous show of status.

Conspicuousness (N) – Conspicuously (Adv)

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