Session 7: Reading & Speaking

Session 7:
Reading & Speaking

Exam focus: Completing tables and diagrams
Skills:
- Working out the meanings of words
- Scanning a text for information

- Recognising synonyms and antonyms in a text

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​Reading
Unit 2: Healthcare

a bandage /ˈbæn.dɪdʒ/: bông băng (để băng vết thương)
capsules /ˈkæp.sjuːl/: thuốc viên con nhộng
cream /kriːm/: Kem bôi
​a plaster /ˈplɑː.stər/: băng cá nhân (urgo)
syrup /ˈsɪr.əp/: si-rô
tablets /ˈtæb.lət/: viên thuốc (cứng)

Test your vocabulary

Fill in the Blanks

Look at the picture and fill in the space with the correct word

Fill in the Blanks

Look at the picture and fill in the space with the correct word

Fill in the Blanks

Look at the picture and fill in the space with the correct word

Fill in the Blanks

Look at the picture and fill in the space with the correct word

a cuff /kʌf/: dải bơm hơi quấn quanh tay (để đo huyết áp)
a jab /dʒæb/: mũi tiêm (= an injection)
a stethoscope /ˈsteθ.ə.skəʊp/: ống nghe (để khám bệnh)
​a syringe /sɪˈrɪndʒ/: kim tiêm
a thermometer /θəˈmɒm.ɪ.tər/: nhiệt kế
an inhaler /ɪnˈheɪ.lər/: ống hít

Test your vocabulary

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "an instrument that a doctor uses to listen to your heart and breathing"

• a syringe

• an inhaler

• a stethoscope

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "a small device that helps you to breathe more easily if you have asthma or a bad cold. You put it in your mouth and breathe in deeply, and it sends a small amount of a drug into your lungs."

• a syringe

• an inhaler

• a jab

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "a small tube with a thin hollow needle at the end, used for injecting drugs or for taking blood from someone’s body."

• a syringe

• an inhaler

• a jab

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "an instrument for measuring temperature."

• a thermometer

• an inhaler

• a stethoscope

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "an injection of something into your blood to prevent illness."

• a syringe

• a jab

• a stethoscope

Multiple Choice

Read the definition and choose the matching word.

• "a device used for measuring blood pressure."

• a cuff

• a jab

• a stethoscope

1. Examine the immediate context of the word
- the sentence in which the word appears
- words that come before and after
- linking words (to check the relation between sentences)

Task: Can you guess the meaning of the word "scald" in this context?
- Many parents would not know what to do if their child fell and banged their head, choked on a small toy or scalded themselves on a hot iron, research shows.

Exam tips:
How to tackle unfamiliar words?

Exam tips:
How to tackle unfamiliar words?

2. Look at the structure of the word
- prefix (tiền tố): to predict the meaning
- suffix (hậu tố): to predict the formation of the word

You can search the meaning of some common prefixes here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/prefixes
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/suffixes?q=Suffixes

Reading: Completion Tasks
Dạng bài điền từ

- Đề bài yêu cầu thí sinh đọc và điền thông tin vào bảng, biểu đổ hoặc một hình ảnh
- Dạng bài này kiểm tra kỹ năng đọc hiểu thông tin chi tiết trong đoạn
- Thông tin cần điền có thể nằm rải rác trong các đoạn khác nhau, không theo trình tự câu hỏi
- Chú ý đến yêu cầu điền từ (e.g. no more than two words/three words)
- Các từ gạch nối được tính là 1 từ (e.g. state-of-the-art)

​Scanning: kỹ năng đọc lướt nhanh chóng để tìm chi tiết cụ thể (mà không cần hiểu nội dung bài đọc)
Các bước thực hiện Scanning:
- Xác định thông tin cần tìm (tên riêng, số liệu hay thời gian)
- Nhìn lướt qua bài đọc để xác định câu chứa thông tin
- Đọc lại câu trước và sau để xác định lại ngữ cảnh của câu, kiểm tra xem đây có đúng là thông tin cần tìm

Reading skills: Scanning

Open Ended

Write down the missing info

Date of report:_______

The subject of the report: _______

The total number of obstacles to progress:___

List out the obstacles to progress:____

The meaning of "Squalor":_____

The reason the report was commissioned: _______

Part 2: Describe your dream job
- Learn how to speculate an answer
- Pronunciation: Word stree

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SPEAKING

Read this Part 2 question.
Give yourself one minute to plan your answer, making notes if you wish.
Then talk for one to two minutes.

​​Speaking Part 2

Describe your dream job. You should say:
- what qualifications or experience you would need

- what the job would involve

- what you think the most difficult thing about the job would be and explain why it is your dream job.

Audio Response

Describe your dream job. You should say:
- what qualifications or experience you would need

- what the job would involve

- what you think the most difficult thing about the job would be and explain why it is your dream job.

Open Audio Recorder

​​Speaking Part 2

Tasks:
(Audio 17) Listen to the sample answer and then read the script for Audio 17. Underline the language the candidate uses to speculate about the job.
(speculate - tự biện = to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain)

Candidate:
- My dream job would be to teach children to sail. I have some qualifications, in skippering, for example, but it's very likely I would need more, such as a teaching certificate from the Yachting Association. I have some of the right experience in that I've been sailing a long time.
- I'm confident in handling a yacht and I've dealt with many minor crises in my time, like getting trapped in storms and saving someone who'd fallen overboard. It's true that I've never taught anyone but I don't think that would be a problem, provided I was given adequate training
- I'm quite good with people and can explain things clearly. I imagine the job would involve encouraging youngsters to try sailing for the first time; and also teaching them that by working together as a team they could discover they have hidden strengths. The most difficult thing would be having sufficient patience when the children didn't do as they were told. I suspect it would be frustrating if they didn't realise that the rules were there for their own safety.
- Why is it my dream job? It's my dream job because I love sailing - it's been my hobby for decades. And I'd like to work in a nice, warm climate where all I'd need to worry about was making sure I had suntan lotion on and enough to drink.

Candidate:
- My dream job would be to teach children to sail. I have some qualifications, in skippering, for example, but it's very likely I would need more, such as a teaching certificate from the Yachting Association. I have some of the right experience in that I've been sailing a long time.
- I'm confident in handling a yacht and I've dealt with many minor crises in my time, like getting trapped in storms and saving someone who'd fallen overboard. It's true that I've never taught anyone but I don't think that would be a problem, provided I was given adequate training
- I'm quite good with people and can explain things clearly. I imagine the job would involve encouraging youngsters to try sailing for the first time; and also teaching them that by working together as a team they could discover they have hidden strengths. The most difficult thing would be having sufficient patience when the children didn't do as they were told. I suspect it would be frustrating if they didn't realise that the rules were there for their own safety.
- Why is it my dream job? It's my dream job because I love sailing - it's been my hobby for decades. And I'd like to work in a nice, warm climate where all I'd need to worry about was making sure I had suntan lotion on and enough to drink.

- Sử dụng trạng từ maybe, perhaps:
E.g. Perhaps/Maybe I need to get a certificate before I can do the job
- Sử dụng Modal Verbs
must + inf: Being a teacher must require a lot of patience
can't + inf: It can't be easy to be an astronaut

​​Useful language for speculating

- Sử dụng likely/unlikely với trạng từ chỉ mức độ
It is fairly/quite/very/extremely (un)likely (that)...
(Nó khá là/rất/cực kỳ có thể/không thể rằng...)
E.g. It is fairly likely I would need more qualifications.
It is extremely unlikely that I would ever get such a job.
- Sử dụng động từ imagine hoặc suspect

I imagine/suspect (that)...: Tôi tưởng tượng/cho rằng
E.g. I suspect that to be a professional musician, I would need to learn how to play an instrument at a young age.

- Sử dụng danh từ 'a guess"
I'd hazard/make a guess that...
E.g. I‘m not sure, but I‘d hazard a guess that it‘s not as well-paid as being an accountant.
- Sử dụng tính từ "possible"
It's quite possible that...: Nó rất có khả năng là...
E.g. It is quite possible that managers often wish they didn’t have so much responsibility.

​​Useful language for speculating

- Tasks: Speculating about the jobs below while using the phrases you've just learnt

E.g. Being a politician must be difficult because there’s always somebody who disagrees with you.

I‘d hazard a guess that a chef works longer hours than a clown

1. a solider
2. a university lecturer
3. an astronaut
4. a chef
5. a musician

Một trong các tiêu chí mà người chấm thi đánh giá bài nói của thí sinh là sự truyền tải thông tin có dễ dàng cho người nghe hay không.

Các yếu tố gây ảnh hưởng:
- độ trôi chảy (có quá nhiều chỗ ngừng)
- nói quá nhỏ
- phát âm không chính xác

​​Exam tips

​Cải thiện trọng âm giúp thí sinh phát âm chính xác hơn. Nếu thí sinh nhấn trọng âm sai, người nghe có thể sẽ không hiểu được nội dung bài nói.

Practice pronunication

Tasks: Underline the syllable that is stressed in words 1-4.
Check your answers in a dictionary.
1. leader 2. hotel 3. production 4. desert (verb)

Tasks: (Audio 19) Now listen to the words and practise pronouncing them correctly. The stressed syllable is generally louder and longer.

Audio Response

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Quy tắc trọng âm

1.Danh từ 2 âm tiết và tính từ thường có trọng âm đầu
Ví dụ: leader, public, access
careful, peaceful, thoughtful
2. Đối với những từ vừa là danh từ/tính từ vừa là động từ. Nếu chúng đọc giống nhau, vậy danh từ/tính từ sẽ có trọng âm đầu, động từ sẽ có trọng âm thứ hai.
Ví dụ: desert, present
3. Các danh từ kết thúc bằng đuôi -sion hay -tion, trọng âm thường rơi ở âm tiết đằng trước.
Ví dụ: production, pension

Tasks: Decide if the words are nouns, adjectives or verbs and underline the stressed syllable.
Then practise pronouncing them correctly in the sentences.

Practice pronunciation

Audio Response

Listen and check your answers. Use a dictionary if you are still not sure which syllables are stressed.

Now practise saying the words.

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