CÁC bài mẫu CHỦ đề THI nói CHỨNG CHỈ a và b TIẾNG ANH

CÁC BÀI MẪU CHỦ ĐỀ THI NÓI CHỨNG CHỈ A VÀ B TIẾNG ANH
PHẦN I: TOPICS FOR THE ORAL TEST OF LEVEL A

1. Do you like pets? What kind of pets do you like best? Why?
Among kinds of pets, I like dogs best because of the following reasons.
First, the dog is lovely. There are many dogs which have beautiful hair. Their
faces are often very expressive. Especially you will like having a dog when you
see a Japanese dog. It is very small and very cute. Second, the dog is loyal.
Dogs are really effective gatekeepers for you every night and when you are
away from home. Finally, the dog can bring you good luck. It is said that when
a strange dog comes to your house, you may win in the lottery. It is the
reasons above that I like dogs best.
2. If you were a billionaire, what would you do?
If I were a billionaire, I would build a vocational school for street children.
The following are the reasons of my decision. First of all, street children are
very poor. They have no job, no home, very little money. Their lives are
unstable in streets. In addition, street children are helpless. They are put aside
society. Their bad destinies are always in danger. Finally, street children are
the results of the mistakes of adults. They are innocent. Therefore, they are
worth of being helped to have a chance for a better life. It is the abovementioned things that I decide to build a vocational school for helping
street children when I become a billionaire.
3. How many seasons are there in the South of Vietnam? Which one do you
prefer? Why?
Southern Vietnam has two seasons: wet season and dry season. However, I
only like the dry season because of the reasons as follows. Firstly, in the dry
season, we can do many things very conveniently and comfortably such as
going to school, going on picnic, traveling whenever I like, while in the wet
season, rains day after day prevent us from doing many things. Secondly, the
dry season is always peaceful for our living. On the contrary, floods, storms,
thunders, landslides are deadly disasters which often come in the rainy season.
Last of all, the dry season is the ideal time for earning-for-living activities of

many people, especially the poor. In the mean time, bad phenomena of weather
usually happen in the wet season, causing the life of very many people meet
difficulties.
In summary, I prefer the dry season to the wet season because of the
convenient things that I have told you.
4. Do you think the computer is a useful tool? How is it useful?
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I think that computers are very useful for our life in many ways. First,
computers help us work conveniently and quickly. When we enter data and
orders into a computer, we can get expected results almost immediately. Next,
computers are useful for our study. Nowadays, with a computer connecting to
the internet, we can learn a lot of things all over the world. Moreover,
computers are also wonderful means of entertainment. With media soft-wares,
we can enjoy all kinds of films, plays and music. Last of all, computers can
serve as neat storages. On a computer we can store a lot of documents and
memorial photographs safely for a long time. In short, computers have been
improving our life and work better and better.
5. What’s your favorite means of transportation? Why do you like it?
My favorite means of transportation is the bicycle because of its
conveniences. First, bicycling helps you save money. To buy a car or a
motorbike, you must pay plenty of money, but you spend much less money to
buy a bicycle. Also, while you must pay for gasoline to use vehicles having
engines, a bicycle requires no money for gasoline at all. On the other hand,
bicycling is good for your health. You sit still as riding a motorbike, but with a
bicycle, you surely have chances to do body exercises regularly, keeping you
healthier and healthier. Last but not least, bicycles contribute to protect
environment. Smokes from engines pollute the air day after day; bicycling
produces no pollution, making our atmosphere fresh and clean. The abovementioned explain why I like bicycling most.

6. Do you have any problems in learning English? How do you overcome
them?
When I learn English, I meet many difficulties in speaking and listening.
As for speaking skill, I can not speak English well. My tongue is stiff. There
are so many English sounds that I can’t pronounce English correctly. Besides, I
have no English language environment. These obstacles prevent me from
speaking English well. As for listening skill, I can’t listen to English well,
either. Owing to my bad English pronunciation, I can’t understand much when
the others speak English to me. Furthermore, linking words is another
problem for me because I am not familiar with it. My bad ability of speaking
and listening to English makes me find it very terrible when I encounter
this subject.
However, I have got some ways to overcome difficulties in speaking and
listening to English. As for speaking, I will spend much more time to practise
with my friends and even with myself. I will drill my pronunciations and ask
for my English teacher’s advice. As for listening, I will increase my time for
listening to English as well as learn experience from other people. I am
optimistic that, my speaking and listening skills will be improved soon.
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7. Tell about how to keep healthy.
There are many ways to keep our health. First, we should eat nutritious food
moderately such as meat, eggs, and vegetables. Second, we should drink
nutritious beverage such as milk, wine. Moreover, we should do morning
exercises regularly. Thanks to doing body exercises every morning, we can
lower the level of cholesterol in our bodies and make the organs in our bodies
work well. In addition, we should also keep our mind relaxed since stressed
moods always negatively affect our health. At last, we should help other people
in need. The more we help the others, the more we want to be healthy to enjoy

the happiness and meaningfulness of our life. To sum up, there are many
ways to keep our health if we really pay attention to it
8. Where do you prefer living? city or countryside?
According to me, I prefer living to a city because it brings me many
advantages. First, big cities bring me many good educational opportunities
because educational institutions always locate in urban areas. In contrast, the
countryside gives me no chance to attend higher education. Similarly, it is
always easier to find a job in a city than in the countryside because industries
and services concentrate in urban areas and attract all kinds of laborers.
Meanwhile, labor markets in the countryside develops slowly and thus it is
very difficult to apply for a job there. Moreover, big cities still give us
conveniences of the modern life. On the contrary, rural areas are slow,
backward before the progress of human civilization. All in all, the reasons that
I have told you keeps me always loving to live in big cities.
9. What is your favorite food? Could you show how to make one kind of
dishes that you know?
To me, I like sour soup with dieu hong fish very much. That is a traditional dish
of Southern Vietnamese. It tastes very delicious and very easy to prepare.
Materials
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A dieu hong fish of about a kilo

10 tomatoes, each cut into four pieces
500 gram of bean sprouts
300 gram of okras, each cut into two
4 sprigs of mint cut into small long pieces
Two lemons squeezed into juice
Seasoning powder
Some salt
Some herbs

Steps
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Prepare half a pot of fresh water.
Scatter a bit of salt into the fresh water.
Heat the pot until the water in the pot boils.
Place the cleaned dieu hong fish into the pot of boiling water and wait
until it is well-cooked.
5. Place okras into the pot.
6. 3 minutes after that, place tomatoes and mint into the pot.
7. About 3 minutes after, drop bean sprouts into the pot.
8. Taste the soup into the pot with seasoning powder.
9. Prepare a big bowl of lemon juice.
10.Ladle the sour soup in the pot into this bowl of lemon juice and put
herbs on top.

11.This dish when served hot with fish sauce is very delicious.
10. Describe the room that you like best in your house. Why do you like it?
In my house, I like the living-room best because that is the place actively
influencing my family. First, the living-room is where my family get together
every evening to enjoy the cozy family atmosphere. At that moment, we often
watch TV, my parents give us advice, and we always chat with one another
very merrily. Also, the living-room is where we welcome visitors and guests. In
my house, it is the ideal place to receive everybody and they always feel happy
and comfortable to be in there. Moreover, the living-room is the best place to
relax. It is the place that is best equipped, so we always feel pleasant and
peaceful there when we have any mental problems. To sum up, the living
room is the place that always brings us positive things in our life.
11. Tell an experience that you never forget.
I never forget the moment that I received the news of my passing the
university entrance examination. When I saw my name on the list of
passers, I felt so happy that I was going to burst into tears. My parents were
also very glad. They gave me compliments, and showed me how they were
pleased about my examination result. My relatives and my friends offered me
congratulations. At that time, it seemed that I had been the apple in
everybody’s eyes. I felt very proud of my self and everybody felt proud of me,
too. That is the sweetest memory that I have experienced in my life so far.
12. Which places in Vietnam do you think are the most interesting for
visitors from other countries
In my view, two most interesting places that visitors should come in our
country are Ha Long Bay and Phu Tu Island. Ha Long Bay is a beautiful
landscape in Northern Vietnam. That is where there are thousands of strangeshaped islands and limestone grottoes of all sizes covering a large sea zone in
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the Gulf of Tonkin. The sea there is very calm while the sky above is often

clear and bright, making the whole panorama of Ha Long Bay strangely
attractive and full of poetry. Similarly, Phu Tu Island is really a beautiful
scenery of Southern Vietnam. It locates in Hon Chong area of Kien Giang
Province. There, you will see a wonder of nature: two high masses of stone, a
big one and a small one, growing from a natural pedestal on the sea surface like
a father and a son watching over the sea day and night. Phu Tu Island is the
emblem of Kien Giang Province. However, the Island of Phu has been
collapsed recently due to a sudden weather incident and the authorities of Kien
Giang Province are planning to restore it as it used to be. Subjectively
speaking, the two sites that I have told you are the best to visit in this
country.
13. How do you spend your weekends?
At weekends, I often spend time for my favorite activities. On Saturday
evening, I often go watching films in a café alone or with some of my friends.
If I don’t watch films, I play cards with my roommates and chat about all things
that we can imagine and go to bed very late. On Sunday morning, I also get up
late to relax since my busy study from Monday through Friday always makes
me tired. Besides, at weekends, I often buy delicious food to enjoy and to
nourish my body. On Sunday afternoon, I do nothing but relax and listen to
music or watch TV. Every once a month, I return to my homeland to visit my
parents, my brothers and sisters, my relatives and to ask my parents for money
as well. As these routines happen repeatedly, I am always happy and
pleased with weekends I have enjoyed so far.
14. Talk about your daily routine. What are you activities in a normal day?
My days are always busy and the same. My day begins very early in the
morning. I usually get up a 4.30 am. After having got up, I clear my bed, clean
my face, brush my teeth and do morning exercises. At about 5.30, I wash my
dirty clothes and take a bath. I often have breakfast at 6.30. After having had
breakfast, I prepare my books and notebooks, and go to school. I study at
school from 7.00 am to 11.00 am. At noon, I get home at 11.00 and prepare for

lunch. I usually finish my lunch at 11.50 and then I rest and take a nap. In the
afternoon, I often learn in the library from 1.30 pm till 4.30 pm. After that I go
to market to buy food for dinner. I usually finish cooking for dinner at about
5.30 and have dinner until 6.00 pm. In the evening, from 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm, I
often take a rest, read newspapers, and listen to music. From 7.00 pm to 9.30
pm, I am self-taught in the school library. I usually get to my living-place at
about 9.45. After that, I go to bed. I often sleep until 4.30 am of the next
morning when a new day of mine begins. Although my daily routine is busy,
I am very pleased with it. That’s all.

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15. What do you like and dislike?
I like helping my friends because when I do something good for the others,
I receive new exhilaration, making me feel more interested and happier.
First, each help that I have given to a friend brings me a lovely memory. The
friend receiving my help often offers me a special attention in our friendship.
Second, helping my friends makes my life meaningful. The more I do good
things for everybody, the more I feel proud of my existence in this life.
Moreover, helping friends also means helping yourself. Everybody sees your
good heart and thus it is sure that they will not forsake you when you fall in
difficulties. It is the immediate benefits that I have told you make me fond
of helping my friends.
I hate telling a lie because it brings many dangers. Firstly, telling a lie make
everybody not respect us. We know that telling a lie is not good. When we do
so, it means that we do not respect ourselves and thus other people also do not
respect us. Secondly, telling a lie negatively affects our jobs. When everybody
doesn’t trust us, it is really difficult for us to deal with partners in our business.
Thirdly, telling a lie unintentionally hurts our kin people. They are surely very

shameful when other people know that they are kin to liars like us. It is the bad
effects in such a chain that I do not like telling a lie at all.
16. Talk about your last holiday. When? Where? What? And how?
My most recent holiday is the trip to Hon Chong two months ago. That trip
was at weekends. On that Saturday morning, my friends and I departed very
early by motorbike. We rode non-stop from Long Xuyen to Rach Gia city
where we stopped for 30 minutes to relax. We spent approximately one hour to
go around Rach Gia city. At about 11.00 am, we began to head to Hon Chong.
We arrived at Hon Chong at about 3.30. On that afternoon, we rent a room in
a hotel in Hon Chong to stay overnight. From 4.30 pm to 5.30 on that same day,
we went taking a sea bath. After that, we went back to our hotel to take a bath
with fresh water and have dinner. In the evening, we ate seafood in a small
restaurant by the sea and enjoyed the romantic nightfall scenery for 2 hours. We
went to bed at 10.30 pm in that night. When the dawn of the next day came,
we visited Hang Pagoda, Tu Island (which used to be named Phu Tu Island but
the Phu Island has collapsed recently due to a natural incident). At 9.30 on
Sunday morning, we left Hon Chong for home. We got back to Long
Xuyen at 4.00 pm via Vam Ray Ferry, and Tri Ton’s roads.
17. Tell about one kind of sports that you like.
I like playing badminton best because this sport is not only easy to play but
also good for health. Badminton is simple to play. You only need to have a
racket of about 60.000 dong. In a game, there are two players. These players
will beat the shuttlecock toward each other. The loser is the one that misses
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shuttlecock at the last turn. On the other hand, your health can be improved
from playing badminton. This kind of sport makes our body always have to
move with high frequency. Therefore, it is very effective for you when you
want to do physical exercises. It is these two reasons that I like playing

badminton very much.
18. What are your hobbies?
I like traveling very much because it not only relaxes my mind, widens my
knowledge, but also brings me many new friends. First, I always feel happy
when traveling. Enjoying beautiful scenery everywhere, though natural or manmade, is the most effective pill to heal my mental diseases. Besides, I can learn
many interesting things from traveling. The more we travel, the more we know
about the world around us, which considerably contributes to our
understandings. In addition, we can have interesting relationships when we
travel to somewhere. Sudden friendships coming with us in our trips brings us
sweet memories and warm feelings everywhere, making us not feel lonely or
strange anywhere we come and visit. Briefly speaking, traveling is important
and essential part of my life.
19. Introduce yourself and your background.
My family is an extended family, consisting of my parents, my brothers,
my sisters and me. My father is 65 years old. He used to be a teacher of
mathematics in Long Xuyen High School. At present, he has retired. My
mother is two years younger than my father. She is a housewife. My eldest
brother is 39 years old. He is a teacher in Hoa Binh Secondary School. He is
married and has a little daughter. His wife teaches in the same school as he. My
elder sister is 37 years old. She is also a teacher. She teaches in Hung Vuong
Secondary School. She is married and has got two boys. Her husband teaches in
her same school, too. My youngest sister is 28 years old. She is an accountant.
She is still single. As for me, I am 32 years old. I am a teacher of English in An
Giang University. I am married but I haven’t got any children. My wife is a
teacher of Huong Duong Kindergarten. Although there are so many members
living under the same roof, we feel very comfortable and very happy.
CÁC ĐOẠN VĂN MẪU VIẾT THEO
CÁC CHỦ ĐỀ THI NÓI CHỨNG CHỈ B
TIẾNG ANH
1. Why do you learn English? What are the benefits of learning English

well?
I like learning English because it brings me many benefits. Firstly, it is a
compulsory requirement in Angiang University. I need to get a Level-B
certificate of English to be delivered my university degree. Secondly, it helps
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me be able to read materials in English. It is the knowledge of English that
enables me to learn how to use computer easily and collect much useful
information on the internet. Thirdly, My English ability makes me able to
communicate with foreigners in necessary cases, giving me good conditions
when applying for jobs. Moreover, English helps me know further about
another culture. It is English that widens my understanding about the world
outside. In summary, I like learning English because it is very necessary for
my study, my job, and my knowledge-widening.
2. What do you need in order to get a good job?
To get a good job, we must meet all working criteria that the employers
require. Technically, we must have enough ability to do the job effectively.
We should have working experience and know how to tackle all situations
generating during the process of working. Communicatively, we should have
good communicative skills. We should know what our employers need and
know how to please them. Also, we should be popular and friendly to our
colleagues. Sentimentally, we should show the employers our love for the job.
We should make them understand that we apply for the job because we love it
and really want to do it. It is this love that enables us work effectively and
attach with them for a long time. In short, to get a good job, we must have
good professional knowledge, good communicative skills, and the love for
it.
3. How is computer useful for your work or your study?
Computer currently helps me much in my study. First of all, it helps me

format my lessons effectively. I often type my lessons on the computer and
format them to make them attractive to eyes so that I may learn them by heart
quickly and review them conveniently. Next, computer helps me keep my
materials safely for future use. Today, beside the hard drive, I often bring my
USB’s with me and use them to save all what I want at any time and place.
Moreover, I often update my materials on the screen. This enables me to create
clear and tidy versions of materials and save up much time for other activities.
On the other hand, computer is the most helpful friend helping me learn
information and knowledge on the internet. Thanks to computer, I often access
the internet and learn many things. Computer has made my understanding
better day by day and become indispensable for my study.
4. Why do many people want to study abroad? What do we have to
prepare to study abroad?
Studying abroad has many advantages. First, you are better trained because
the education in developed countries is better than that of our country. Second,
we can widen our understanding about another culture. Living abroad is a
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wonderful opportunity for us to learn about the customs there. Moreover,
studying abroad improves our professional prestige, keeping us easy to find a
well-paid job and to gain prestige in our working place. However, to study
abroad smoothly, we must carefully prepare some necessary things in
advance. English is the first thing for us to master. Without it, you can’t
understand anything and your study surely becomes a nightmare. Next is
cultural knowledge which enables you to adapt yourself to foreign communities
and avoid cultural shocks. In addition, you should prepare psychology against
homesickness because you can not return to your homeland right away when
you want. In summary, studying abroad successfully requires you to know
about its positive points and how to deal with difficulties abroad.

5. What is your plan for the future?
I plan to become an accountant because it is an interesting career for
several reasons. First, I am trained to do this job at the university. I take many
subjects relating to my future job. The examinations I have passed show that I'll
have enough ability to do the job well. Second, it can train me to become a very
careful person in my life. I won't be allowed to make any mistakes because
every mistake can lead to the losing of a big sum of money. Third, with this
job, I hope I can help the poor or farmers to borrow money from banks to invest
in their rice fields or do small business. Fourth, with this job, I can work
indoors. I needn't face the sunlight or dew like my parents working in the field.
Especially, I can earn enough for myself and support my family, I hope so. The
above things are the reasons why I plan to be an accountant in the future.
6. The advantages and disadvantages of watching TV
Everything is two-faced like the two faces of a coin, and so is watching TV.
Watching TV has advantages. First, it widens our knowledge. Information
on TV is diverse, letting the viewers know up-to-date news from all fields of
life such as news about politics, socio-economy, scientific-technology, etc…
Second, TV serves us as a means of relaxation. Films, plays, music shows on
TV are available all day. We can enjoy these programs at home whenever we
like. Third, it is a good friend helping us kill time. Whenever we feel bored
or do not know what to do. Simply turn on your TV set and you will surely feel
OK soon. On the other hand, watching TV also has some disadvantages.
Bad contents such as violent films, sexual exposures on the screen, and other
sensitive topics may dangerously affect children. In addition, Watching TV
too much or regularly also takes us much time and badly affects our health,
especially our eyes. Finally, we have to pay some extra money for electricity
consumption, too. In short, watching TV, which may be good or bad,
depends on the way we use TV to serve our life.
7. How do you spend your summer vacation?
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As a student, I don’t have much free time beside those I love, so my
summer vacation is the duration during which I often busy myself with
many things at home all day. In the day time, I often do sundry things for my
grandmother and help my parents to do housework. In the evening, I go out
with some of my old friends. We often chat with each other in a cafe. Usually,
when I am free from doing housework, I go and visit close relatives in my
neighborhood and ask them about their life and business. In the late evening, I
watch films on TV or read novels or books to widen my understanding. I often
go to bed very late. In my mind, I always want my short summer vacations
to be not only comfortable for me but also useful for my beloved people.
8. Describe your daily routine, how do you spend your free time?
My routine is almost the same everyday. In the morning, I get up early at
about 5:00 o’clock. After having washed my face, brushed my teeth, I do
morning physical exercises. Then, I have a bath and wash my clothes. I have
breakfast at six o'clock. After breakfast, I get dressed and go to school at ten to
seven. I study in the school from seven to ten past eleven. When my classes are
over, I have lunch in a cafe. Then, I go back to my boarding-house and take a
nap. In the afternoon, I review my lessons, play sports with my friends in
Campus A. At 5:30pm, I have a bath. After that, I have dinner in the university
canteen. I have free time in the evening. In my free time, I go out with my
roommates. We go around the city, spend our time in a coffee shop or go
shopping. I am always pleased with my daily activities and love my routine.
9. If you have a one-week holiday, how will you spend it?
If I have a one-week holiday, I will return to my homeland. Spending a short
holiday at home benefits me on many things. I can enjoy my free time beside
my close relatives whom I have seldom seen since I began my study at Angiang
University. In addition, I can help my parents to do housework and go out with
my old friends. Moreover, staying home doesn’t cost me any money but I can

do things after my hobby such as watching films, listening to music, play
badminton, etc... One-week holiday is not a long time for me, so I want to
use it for both myself and my close family members.
10. How do you like to travel in your daily life? What are advantages and
disadvantages of traveling this way?
Bicycle is the best friend in my student life. I always ride my bike to go to
school or around Long Xuyen City. Riding a bicycle has some advantages.
First, bicycles are easy to repair. When it is damaged, you can repair it yourself
or have it repaired with low cost. Next, you don’t have to pay for gasoline
because bicycles don’t need gasoline. Moreover, riding a bike helps you do
body exercises and does not cause environmental pollution. On the other hand,
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using bicycles also have some disadvantages. You can’t ride it to work over
long distances. You can’t ride it as quickly as a motorbike in emergency cases.
You also can’t take a rest on it when you are tired because bicycles move with
your own strength. However, no matter what strong points and weak points
does a bicycle have, I always consider it my favorite means of traveling.
11. If you are asked to recommend to foreign tourists the sights worth
seeing in Angiang Province, which would you recommend?
If I am asked to recommend to foreign tourists the sights worth seeing in
Angiang Province, I will recommend two places: Uncle Ton’s Temple and
Lam Vien sightseeing zone because of their historical meanings and
natural beauty. Visiting Uncle Ton’s Temple, foreign tourists can learn much
about this great person along with a stage of heroic history of Angiang
homeland in the two recent resistance wars against foreign invaders and
understand more about Angiang’s people and culture. Visiting Lam Vien
sightseeing zone, tourists can enjoy the beauty of the nature in Cam Mountains
and specific daily activities of the locals there and their religious customs as

well as local handicraft products. Through such a visit, foreign tourist will
have strong impression and sufficiently understand about Angiang
homeland and its people.
12. Do you like to live in the city or in the countryside? Why?
I like living in the countryside because of some reasons. Environmentally
speaking, it is a peaceful place. The air is fresh. The space is quiet. We can
enjoy healthy natural conditions without worrying much about environmental
pollution. As for social security, the countryside is a safer place than a city.
While urban security situation is always complicated with all kinds of crimes,
rural areas are much more secure because most of countrymen are friendly and
ready to help one another. Moreover, rural life is also easier that in cities.
People in cities are easy to get stressed because of pollution, job pressures,
competitions, etc ... On the contrary, those bad things are very rare in the
countryside. To sum up, except income matters, the countryside is a better
residence than cities.
13. Talk about one of your closest friends. Why do you enjoy making
friends with him/her?
Of all my friends, Thanh is my best friend. He is 21 years old and is an
informatics-majoring student of the faculty of science, technology and
environment. Physically, he is not very handsome with nothing special. He is
tall and thin. His skin is brown. His eyes are bright and his hair is wavy.
Mentally speaking, he is very intelligent. Since I knew about this class-mate,
he has been a good student with high marks in examinations. He has never
retaken examination for any subjects. To everyone, he is friendly and helpful.
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He is always available to tell all his friends what he knows and helps them
heartily in need. Especially, to me, we have many things in common. We go
out and share joys and sorrows with each other in free time. We respect each

other and help each other much in study and life. We have got many beautiful
memories so far. Those are something about my closest friend and the
reasons why we are very close to each other.
14. What do you like and dislike about living in your neighborhood?
My neighborhood has given me many joys and sorrows, too. I like my
neighborhood because of some reasons as follows. That is a place of peace with
good social security. There is almost no burglary, and crimes. Everyone pays
attention to one another and ready to help each other. Space is quiet. There is
no noise. Environment pollution is inconsiderable. However, my neighborhood
is not a perfect living place. Sometimes, I feel my privacy interfered because
some neighbors pay exorbitant attention to me. Some neighbors live in selfcontained houses, making contacts with them in emergency cases difficult.
Moreover, chances for creating income are not many because there are no
factories in my neighborhood. In summary, although I don’t like my
neighborhood in some respects, I still wish to live there because of my
friendly neighbors and some good living conditions that I have enjoyed so
far.
15. Do you like to live in a nuclear family or an extended family? Why?
I like living in an extended family because this family pattern has many
noble values. First, extended families bring children close relationship from
both their parents and their grandparents. Children enjoy full love and care
from the elderly members in their family. Second, children can inherit family
heritage of their ancestors. Familial property and keepsakes can be kept and
passed from generation to generation, making ties between familial members
become firmer. Moreover, in an extended family, its tradition, rituals, and
customs can be taught carefully to the latter generation, making children realize
familial tradition and know how to behave well with everybody right from early
lifetime. In summary, the positive values of an extended family, which are
real and undeniable, make me like it very much.
16. Describe your house.
My house is small, but it has enough space for my things. It is in Cho Moi

district, about 45 kilometers from Long Xuyen City. There are four rooms in
my house: a living room, two bedrooms, and a kitchen. The living room is
not very big. There is a table in the middle with four chairs, a television on the
left back corner, and a display cabinet. All of the curtains are pink. There is a
vase of flowers on the table. In the bedrooms there are mats, pillows, mosquito
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nets and blankets. We have one alarm clock in each bedroom. The kitchen
seems narrow with a lot of kitchenware, a table, six chairs, and a fridge. The
house is surrounded by a garden with a lot of flowers in spring. Our gate is
green. I love my house very much because it is the place I was born and
grew up.
17. Should people retire at the age of sixty?
In my opinion, people should retire at the age of sixty because of physical
and mental problems and longevity. Physically, at the age of sixty, our health
comes down gradually. We no longer have much strength. Bone structures get
weak. We easily get sick or break our bones. Such a physical status is not ideal
for working any more. Mentally, physical come-down makes the brain weak
and hurt easily. Our senses are not good as before. Elderly people are usually
absent-minded with bad eyesight and low flexibility. For longevity, the age of
sixty is the last duration of life, people should withdraw from business, transfer
their precious experience to their children to enjoy their free time, keep health
in order to lengthen their longevity with their children. In summary, people
should retire at the age of sixty to keep health and good mind and live long
with their children.
18. How does the food you eat affect your health? Tell some food that you
think is healthy.
Food is the very important source of nutrition that brings us health in
many ways. Animal meat such as pork, chicken, fish gives us animal protein

which is very necessary for body cell creation. Vegetables such as salad,
pumpkins, tomatoes, carrots, etc... give us essential vitamins and minerals.
Fruit, such as papayas, mangoes, guavas, jackfruits, etc..., is the main source
providing us many kinds of vitamins and carotene. Cereals such as rice, wheat,
corn, beans, cassava give us starch and glucose. According to some scientific
research achievements, in our meals, we should eat much food of vegetable
origins, little animal meat to be healthy because much animal meat intake is the
cause of many kinds of human diseases. All kinds of food are necessary for
us but to be healthy, we should have sufficient knowledge about nutrition.
19. Talk about some effects of smoking. Give some advice to give up
smoking.
Smoking shortens your longevity. According some scientific studies, much
cigarette intake regularly damages your lung, causing pneumonia, tuberculosis,
and even lung cancer. As for heavy smokers, they may get addicted with drug,
a kind of refined tobacco or opium, making them loose laboring ability, mental
consciousness, and die gradually. To give up smoking is not easy. It requires
us to have self-consciousness and high determination. We must not think about
it in any situation. We must avoid contacting with all processed forms of
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tobacco, and addicted friends. We also must follow doctor advice and find
some healthy pastimes for ourselves. To quit smoking successfully, we must
sufficiently know its harmful effect, and have strong energy to say goodbye to it.
20. Talk about the causes and effects of one kind of the environmental
pollution.
Today, air, noise, and water are polluted everywhere for many causes, but
water pollution is, in my opinion, the most serious. The immediate cause is
human garbage-littering. Many inhabitants of poor consciousness of hygiene
throw all kinds of garbage everywhere, especially into rivers. Most of properlyuntreated industrial waste disposals are also poured into rivers. In agricultural

production, water in fields containing all kinds of chemicals from insecticides
and fertilizers finally flow into rivers, too. The result is that water resources
are seriously polluted. For human beings, the use of polluted water without
being carefully filtered or boiled causes various diseases. For aquatic animals,
such as fish, shrimps, crabs, frogs, etc..., they can’t lay eggs or grow naturally
as formerly; some species even become extinct. For aquatic plants, they can die
or become contaminated with harmful substances and become dangers for
creatures that eat them. The above-mentioned are just some causes and
effects of water pollution that we can easily see everywhere today.

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