IELTS SPEAKING TEST REVISION

FOOD
1. What are pros and cons of fast food?
Pros
- Convenient
- Diverse
- Quick/time-saving
- Suspicious: nghi ngo= doubted
Cons
- Harmful
- Expensive /money consuming
- Hardly develop relationship between members

2. Compare and contrast between home food and
restaurant food?
Home food
- Well-cooked+ nutritious
- Love and emotion from family members
- Safe and cheap
Restaurant food
- Romantic setting/place
- Diverse
- Gathering with friends and convenient

3. What is about genetically modified food?
Pros
- Diverse
- Nutritious
- Modern
Cons
- Detrimental to health ( co hai suc khoe)
- Money consuming
- Affect genetic systems of human body
HISTORY
Should children learn history at school?
Pros
- Cultivate their patriotism ( long yeu nuoc)
- Widen their knowledge about the world
- Promote cultural identity
- Become historians to make excellent history
movies like titanic and others
Cons
- Be a waste of time
- Has little relation with the real life
- Be misled if history is distorted ( bi hieu sai neu
lich su bi bop meo)
Should governments preserve old/historical
buildings ( bao ton can nha co)
Pros
- Promote cultural identity
- Attract tourists around the world
- Generate profit and create jobs
- Nurture patriotism among young people in the
modern world
Cons
- Be dangerous and narrow
- Affect economic opportunities and urban sprawl
( mo rong do thi)
- Make people obsessed with the past and
distracted from real life
HEALTH
1. What makes people strong?
- Stay away from bad habits like smoking,
drinking
- Do physical exercises everyday
- Lead a pure mental life and think of positive
things in life
- Meditation: thien
- Eat less meat and enjoy more vegetables
- Be optimistic
- Be helpful to others and make life more
meaningful by doing charity
- Be passionate for the career and make
contributions
2. What should governments do to ensure a
healthy nation?
- Introduce immunization and vaccination
programs to help children away from diseases
- Raise continuous campaigns
- Encourage people to buy less meat, but eat
more vegetables
- Pour more money into health care plans for the
old and the young
- Provide cheaper and even free health insurance
CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
1. How to preserve a language of a nation?
- Introduce language nests to bathe children and
youngsters in language environment
- Pour more money into documenting their native
languages
- Raise campaigns to learn their native language
- Gain political independence
- Cultivate fresh and positive attitude about its
own language
- Limit international funding and cultural
immersion programs
2. Should children learn a foreign language at
school?
- Widen knowledge about other cultures
- Become more intelligent, active and open-
minded
- Be well prepared for future to work in
multinational companies
Cons
- May put their own language and culture in
danger
- Be exposed to unsuitable culture and lifestyle of
western people
- Be a huge waste of money and stressful for
children
SPORTS
1. Violent sports should be banned?
Yes
- Imbue children with negative thinking
- Imitate violent actions
- Physically hurt people
- Adversely affect the image of nations
- Violate human rights
No
- Be profit making
- Be entertaining
- Practice bravery, patience and physical strength
- Attract viewers
2. Should governments organize international
sports events?
Yes
- Promote cultural identity
- Entice more tourists from all walks of life
- Generate huge profit and create jobs for local
people
- Entertain people
- Cement political relationship between people
No
- Lead to a huge waste of money
- Make people distracted from work
- Trigger terrorism, hooliganism
MUSIC
1. Should children learn music and arts?
Yes
- Health our soul
- Enrich our imagination and creativity
- Entertain after assiduous days at work
No
- Be time-consuming
- Make children overloaded with heavy programs
- Prove impractical
- Waste money on facility investment
TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
1. Can teachers be replaced by technology?
Yes
- Provide students with visual aid to make
lessons illustrative
- Enrich knowledge about the world
- Store a huge amount of information and
knowledge
No
- Give students direct feedback on learning
- Create interactive environment to study
- Develop other skills from communication to
presentation
2. How does technology change the way of
teaching?
Positive
- Quicken students understanding with visual aid
- Support students to access a wider range of
information
- Receive more feedback online and offline from
teachers
- Approach online courses instead of suffering
traffic congestion
Negative
- Hardly provide direct feedback
- Lack interaction between teachers and
students
- Hardly develop soft-skills for students
- Be quite expensive in remote areas

THE OLD AND THE YOUNG
The old learn from the young
- Active thinking, creativity
- Knowledge about technology
- Open-mindedness
- Competitive spirit
The young learn from the old
- Experience and knowledge
- Foresightedness, vision, patience and caution
- Appreciate their past contributions to social
development