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Possible new words

• intriguing: interesting

• a piece of news: a brief, new information

• pandemic situation: the set of things that are happening and the conditions of a serious epidemic

• surge: a sudden and great increase

• give sb a hand: (idiom) to help someone

• let my hair down: (idiom) to relax

• surfing the internet: go from one page to another on the Internet, browsing for topics of interest

Possible new words

• depict: to represent or show something in a picture or story

• virus preventive approaches: solution to prevent the virus

• locality administration: the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization in a local area:

• departure ceremony: holding an event for sb who go to another place for work

• stimulate: encorage someone

• initiative: a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem:

• repel: to force away something unwanted

Possible new words

• community health: (collocation) the general health situation of a society

• social media: websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

• aforementioned: mentioned earlier

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Q: What's the information?

Today, I would love to share with you a very

information about community health in Thaibinh that I just read on social media.

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Q: What is the information?

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Q: What it was about?

It was a piece of news about the COVID-19 pandemic situation in my locality.

As you know, the epidemic had gone extremely complex in Bac Giang province recently with a clear surge in the number of positive cases. So, the support for the health system over there became very necessary.

Luckily, through my Facebook account, I just knew a local information that many doctors and medical students were trained and sent from Thaibinh to Bacgiang to give them a/an ....

• arm

• foot

• head

• hand

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Q: What it was about?

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Where/when you heard it?

After an extremely stressful day at the school preparing for the graduation test yesterday, I went home and let my hair down by ...the internet and having a light meal.

Then, on my phone, at the local news channel, the aforementioned information suddenly catched my eyes.

• seeing

• surfing

• making

• feeling

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Where/when you heard it?

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Who was involved?

As the news depicted, there were totally 70 doctors and students who were involved in the training session of the virus preventive ... a couple of days ago

After that, my locality administration organized a modest departure ceremony to stimulate them before they went on to do their volunteer mission.

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Who was involved?

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How you felt? Why it’s interesting?

Since I read the news, I have become much more optimistic and proud that a national problem would be solved partly thanks to my local government ... and people spirit.

The news also encourages people to believe that the pandemic would soon be prevented and there are so many people out there trying to repel it. So that’s why I suppose people are really into this information.

• ideas

• initiatives

• ways

• mentality

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How you felt? Why it’s interesting?

PART 3

HEALTH ARTICLE

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• get used to: become familiar with it or get to know st

• sedentary lifestyle:  type of lifestyle involving little or no physical activity

• balanced diet: diet that fulfills all of a person's nutritional needs

• spoil their appetite: reduce the feeling that you want to eat food

• home-cooked food: food that is cooked homely

• trustworthy: able to be trusted

• foolproof: so simple and easy to understand that it is unable to go wrong or be used wrongly

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• physical fitness activities: form of exercise or movement of the body that uses energy​ physically

• get into shape: To return someone or something into acceptable condition of body

• raise sb awareness: to educate about, to increase understanding of

• urban planning: concerns itself with both the development of open land (“​greenfields sites”) and the revitalization of existing parts of the city

• levy: an amount of money, such as a tax, that you have to pay to a government or organization:

• in order to: with the aim or purpose of doing something

• reliability: the quality of being able to be trusted or believed because of working or behaving well

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• wide genre of: many, a big number of

• cultural identity: st that make them different from others belongs to culture

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Q: Do you think people are healthier now than in the past?

From my perspective, I propose that people today are virtually having a less healthier way of life compare to in the past. Since almost nowadays inhabitants get used to a ....... lifestyle and do not follow a balanced diet. Most of the time people, especially the youth, work with computers for hours and usually choose ready meals and take-aways, which contain lots of toxic chemicals to spoil their appetite over home-cooked food.

• terrible

• lovely

• sedentary

• secondary

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Q: How can you tell whether a website is reliable or not?

There is a wide genre of solutions to check the reliability of a link. Among them, I think the most typical way is by checking the website's update or its contact information, and admins page maintaining the website. Good and

sites daily or weekly update their content and their contact numbers or emails are foolproof. Besides, well-known websites like google, pubmed... are also more truthful than the less popular ones.

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What activities can schools organize for children to keep fit?

Well, there're plenty of physical fitness activities that the educational system can apply to stimulate their students to get into shape, for instance, they can simply arrange more physical education lessons into students’ schedules, the school’s administration also can organize some sport teams which can professionally train and play. However, they also should raise students' ..... about the importance of keeping fit.

• awareness

• responsibility

• mentality

• belief

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Q: What can governments do to improve people’s health?

Basically, the state should put more green parks into urban planning, to elaborate it, citizens are inclined to stay still in their house mainly because they cannot find any spacious place for exercising or walking. Moreover, the other solution is levying a high tax

limit the toxic food supply on the market and the amount consumed by people.

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Q: Do you think people are healthier now than in the past?

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Q: How can you tell whether a website is reliable or not?

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Q: What activities can schools organize for children to keep fit?

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Q: What can governments do to improve people’s health?

PART 3

LOCAL NEWS

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• be acquainted with: know about st

• keep sb up to date: to update information regularly

• spree of burglaries: a series of crimes committed in quick succession

• refugee crisis: extremely difficult or dangerous point in a situation of people who leave from home or country to find safety

• sense of security: the fact that something is not likely to fail or be los

• carry weight: be influential or important.

• characteristic: a typical or noticeable quality of someone or something:

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• traits: a particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behaviour

• conservation purposes: aim to carefully use st in order to make certain that they will be available for as long a time as possible

• 
  

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Q: Do people read the newspaper where you live?

As far as I know, my countrymen read newspapers everyday. We’re

both printed and online newspapers. There are some prevalent ones I can list here: BBC, ABC... they keep us up to date We always approach the latest news in minutes thanks to them.

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Q: Do people prefer local or international news?

From my point of view, people certainly feel more connected to local news and find it more relevant to them than global ones. To elaborate it, depending on how necessary the news is, it's more likely to affect to readers or viewers. A traffic study or a spree of burglaries may not be as exciting as a refugee ...... throwing all of Europe into turmoil, but those things literally hit people where they live.

• belief

• war

• crisis

• conflict

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Q: Do you think it’s important to have a national identity?

That’s totally what I agree with. National identity makes a person feel he belongs to some groups that provide a sense of security which give an opportunity to build relationships with someone who share the same culture. As a result, national and cultural ...... always carry weight for a country, as it affects the stability and the cohesion between nationals.

• traits

• characters

• indentity

• hope

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Q: How can people develop their national identity?

There is a wide genre of solutions for people to maintain their own national identity. First of all, they should keep their cultural habits themselves, and try to apply good identity into their daily basis for ............. purposes instead of refusing or forgetting them. Secondly, people also should actively introduce their traditional characteristics to foreign visitors or others, by that, their traditional identity would become more popular and it’s absolutely easier for development

• economic

• conservation

• personal

• gender

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Q: Do people read the newspaper where you live?

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Q: Do people prefer local or international news?

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Q: Do you think it’s important to have a national identity?

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Q: How can people develop their national identity?

PART 3

SOCIAL MEDIA

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• plain as day: idiom very clearly.

• insight of: because of

• as a breeze as: be extremely easy

• go viral: become more popular

• center of attraction: A person, place, or thing that attracts the most attention among others

• engagement: the process of encouraging people to be interested in the work of an organization, etc

• distance working: work from distance by online tools

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• drawback: a disadvantage or the negative part of a situation

• privacy:someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret

• misinformation: wrong information, or the fact that people are misinformed

• hesitancy: the failure to do something immediately or quickly because you are nervous or not certain

• prime advantage: main, major advantage

• under quarantine: be isolated for some reason (now it's for medical context)

• assure: to tell someone confidently that something is true, especially so that they do not worry

POSSIBLE NEW WORDS

• cyber crimes: criminal activity that either targets or uses a computer, a computer network or a networked device

• a piece of cake: (idiom) very easy

• illegal activities: action that is deemed injurious to the public welfare and is legally prohibited

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Q: Why do people like to use social media?

It’s plain as day that these platforms allow people to stay in touch, chat and share information. Especially at this time, ........... of the COVID 19 pandemic, we are regularly under quarantine and cannot hang out easily as a breeze as in the old days. Consequently, online tools such as Fb, Insta or Twitter have gone viral because they help us to overcome geographical barricades to communicate.

• insight

• because

• afraid

• bored

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Q: What kinds of things are popular on social media?

Photography and videos about oneself has become the center of attraction of social media engagement because people can easily express their personality and opinion via the internet. Besides, some other conveniences are also provided like …... working, E-learning or updating and sharing new information as they find interesting. Nowadays, even businesses have started using social media to advertise their products and create a name for their brand.

• heavy

• online

• distance

• industral

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Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media?

The prime advantage of using social media is that it is very easy to access new information and communicate via social media. It lets people make friends and keep in touch with old friends very easily. On the other hand, the main

is the lack of privacy and reliable news. There are many instances where people have used social media to share false information. For example, recently people spread misinformation about the harmful effects of covid vaccination, which caused a lot of hesitancy among people about this ideal prevention

Multiple Choice

Q: What do you think of making friends on social networks?

I suppose it doesn’t assure safety for us to make friends on social media as the increase in the rate of cyber crimes, which has become a major issue these days. It’s as easy as a piece of ....... to fake one’s identity on social media and pretend to be someone else to cheat on others or to encourage them to do some illegal activities for bad purposes. Not to mention, the hacking that happens of social media accounts is also becoming a big threat to users and our society.

• duyenation

• news

• candy

• cake

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Q: Why do people like to use social media?

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Q: What kinds of things are popular on social media?

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Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media?

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Q: What do you think of making friends on social networks?

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Do you find this helpful for you?

• yes

• no

• maybe

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How can I improve this quizz?