PHẦN 4: NÓI – VSTEP

Thời gian: 12 phút

Số câu hỏi: 3

Part 1: Social Interaction (3’) 1

Let’s talk about shopping
- Do you enjoy shopping?
- Do you like shopping on the Internet?
- Which is the most popular place to shop in your hometown?

Let’s talk about hobbies

- Do you feel you have enough free time for hobbies? (Why/ Why not?)
- How important is it for people to have hobbies at different ages?
- What are some of advantages of having a hobby?

Part 2: Solution Discussion (4’)

Situation: Your family, including your parents, you, and your 19-year-old sister, is now living in Ho Chi
Minh City. You have to plan a vacation for 3 days in June for the whole family. There are three options
of holiday destinations suggested: the beach, the mountain and the countryside. Which do you think is
the best choice?

Part 3: Topic Development (5’)

Topic: Let’s talk about ways to reduce stress

Listen to music

Play sports Stress Release

[your own ideas]

Set attainable aims

- Do you think people are getting stressed these days?

- Do you think modern life brings people more disadvantages like stress than advantages?
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Thời gian: 12 phút

Số câu hỏi: 3

Part 1: Social Interaction (3’)

Let’s talk about cellphones 2

- How much time a day do you spend using cellphones?
- What do you usually do with your cell phone?
- At what age do you think a person should possess a cell phone?

Let’s talk about health

- What sorts of things do you do to keep healthy?
- What sorts of exercise don’t you like doing?
- Do you think playing sports is good for our health?

Part 2: Solution Discussion (4’)

Situation: Your close friend, a sociable 25-year-old girl, loves listening to music and collecting CDs. She
enjoys giving parties, too. She is having her birthday party next weekend. You want to buy her a music
CD. Here are three kinds suggested: a CD of rock, a CD of folk, and a jazz one. Which do you think is the
best choice?

Part 3: Topic Development (5’)

Topic: The Internet may have some negative impacts on people in modern life.

supplies bad websites

provides violent
online games
The Internet [your own ideas]

causes loss of family

communication

- What are some advantages of the Internet?

- Do you think that governments should support free wi-fi for all people?
- In what ways can parents control their children’s using the Internet?
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Thời gian: 12 phút
Số câu hỏi: 3

Part 1: Social Interaction (3’) 3

Let’s talk about reading
- Do you enjoy shopping?
- What are some popular sorts of things that people read?
- Tell about your favorite thing that you read

Let’s talk about sports

- Do you like watching or playing sports?
- Have you ever participated in any sport competition? Tell about what it is, when it took place
and how you performed.
- Do you think sports can bring people together?

Part 2: Solution Discussion (4’)

Situation: Your family plans to set up a new company in food trade in Ho Chi Minh City. There are three
options of advertisements suggested: the brochure, online advertising and advertisements in local
newspapers. Which do you think is the best choice?

Part 3: Topic Development (5’)

Topic: Let’s talk about ways to protect the environment

more education programs in

schools

Heavy fines Environment

protection [your own ideas]

TV programs

- Which kind of environment pollution is the urgent problem to be solved now in Ho Chi Minh city?
- Do you think modern lifestyle is the main cause of pollution problems?
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Thời gian: 12 phút
Số câu hỏi: 3

Part 1: Social Interaction (3’) 4

Let’s talk about free time
- What do you usually do in your free time?
- Why do you like doing these activities?
- Do you think people are getting less free time nowadays?

Let’s talk about the Internet

- How much time do you spend using the Internet?
- What do you usually do on the Internet?
- Do teenagers in Vietnam use the Internet as a means of communication?

Part 2: Solution Discussion (4’)

Situation: A friend of yours plans to take up a sport in her free time. She doesn’t like individual sports.
There are three options of advertisements suggested: yoga, tennis and judo. Which do you think is the
best choice?

Part 3: Topic Development (5’)

Topic: Social networks are useful

Easy contact

Information Social
networks [your own ideas]

Social interaction and

connections

- Do you think all networking sites are useful to teenagers?

- Do you think we are all safe on using so many social networks?
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Thời gian: 12 phút
Số câu hỏi: 3

Part 1: Social Interaction (3’) 5

Let’s talk about music
- Do you enjoy listening to music?
- What kinds of music do you often listen to?
- Have you ever joined in a live music show?

Let’s talk about travel

- Do you often travel?
- What city is your favorite place?
- Do you like package tours?

Part 2: Solution Discussion (4’)

Situation: Imagine you were a consultant who is invited to talk to teenagers in a secondary school in a
rural area on free time activities. There are three options suggested: watching TV, playing sports and
working for a charity organization as volunteers. Which do you think will you recommend them?

Part 3: Topic Development (5’)

Topic: Teenagers should be trained life skills.

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills Skills a teenager

to be trained [your own ideas]

Adaptation skills

- How skilled are the teenagers now and their counterparts a decade ago?
- Do you think a teenager should be trained how to work under pressure?