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Chủ đề describe a person you admire là chủ đề khá quen thuộc trong IELTS Speaking part 2. Với đề bài này, bạn có thể nói về người mà bạn ngưỡng mộ như ca sĩ, diễn viên nổi tiếng hoặc một người thân trong gia đình. Bài viết sau đây xin chia sẻ đến bạn vốn từ vựng, ý tưởng, và cấu trúc bài nói một cách hiệu quả để ghi được điểm cao.
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Bạn không nên học thuộc lòng câu mẫu nào đó vì nó mang lại cảm giác không tự nhiên, và ban giám khảo có thể nhận ra điều này. Thay vì vậy, bạn nên hình dung được cấu trúc bài nói như thế nào, nên nói những gì là quan trọng hơn hết. Thông thường cấu trúc bài nói được mô phỏng như sau:
Introduction | |
Body | |
Question 1 | Direct answer Detail 1 Detail 2 |
Question 2 | Direct answer Detail 1 Detail 2 |
Question 3 | Direct answer Detail 1 Detail 2 |
Question 4 | Direct answer Detail 1 Detail 2 |
Conclusion |
Trong 1 phút chuẩn bị, bạn hãy cố gắng lên ý tưởng bằng cách ghi ra các từ khóa chính. Trong phần thân bài, bạn sẽ dùng các câu hỏi dẫn dắt trong cue card làm ý chính, bạn sẽ trả lời xoay quanh các câu hỏi đó, diễn giải và liên kết chặt chẽ các ý với nhau.
Ví dụ thẻ bài mẫu:
Describe a person you admire
You should say:
Who is he or she? A family member (dad, mom)/a friend of yours/a famous person
What does he or she do for a living? student/doctor/marketing
What characteristics does this person have? kind/mature/communicative
Explain why you admire this person? you are inspired/ you are motivated
Dưới đây là một số ví dụ cấu trúc hay bày tỏ sự ngưỡng mộ trong bài Describe about a person you admire.
Cấu trúc | Ý nghĩa |
S + admire + somebody + for + something | Bày tỏ ngưỡng mộ ai khác về điều gì. Ví dụ: I admired her for her determination |
(be) impressed + with + something | Bày tỏ sự ấn tượng. Ví dụ: I’m impressed with her positive attitude toward work. |
(be) proud + of + something | Bày tỏ sự tự hào. Ví dụ: We're particularly proud of our sons. |
to be good at + N/V-ing | Giỏi, thuần thục, làm tốt một điều gì đó. Ví dụ: Linda is good at dancing. |
Whenever I feel…, I turn to him/her for advice/comfort/help | Mỗi khi tôi cảm thấy…, tôi tìm đến anh ấy/ cô ấy để có lời khuyên/ sự giúp đỡ/ sự vỗ về. |
What I learned from someone is that… | Điều mà tôi học được từ ai đó là… |
Bạn có thể sử dụng một số cấu trúc lời khen đến người mà bạn ngưỡng mộ.
Cấu trúc | Ý nghĩa |
Noun Phrase + is/look + (really) + Adjective | Khen ngợi ai đó về ngoại hình, một đồ vật hay một kỹ năng đặc biệt nào đó họ sở hữu. Ví dụ: She looks wonderful in that new dress. |
I + (really) + like/love + Noun Phrase | Thể hiện bạn cực kỳ yêu thích về điều gì đó của họ. Ví dụ: I really like the way she focuses on studying. |
You + Verb + (a/an) + (really) + Adjective + Noun Phrase | Khen ngợi thành tích của ai đó trong công việc hay kỹ năng nào đó. Ví dụ: He cooked a really great dinner. |
You have + (a/an) + (really) + Adjective + Noun Phrase | Khen ngợi ai đó về ngoại hình. Ví dụ: She has a really bright smile. |
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Bên cạnh đó, để các ý liên kết chặt chẽ giúp bài nói thêm rõ ràng, mạch lạc, bạn có thể sử dụng các cụm từ sau:
Các từ nối thông tin:
First, second, third,…: thứ nhất, thứ hai, thứ ba,…
In addition: thêm vào đó
To begin with: bắt đầu với
Next: tiếp theo là
Finally: cuối cùng là
Furthermore: xa hơn nữa
Moreover: thêm vào đó
Các cụm về mốc thời gian kể chuyện:
At that time: tại thời điểm đó Afterward: về sau At the same time: cùng thời điểm Currently: hiện tại Earlier: sớm hơn Later: muộn hơn Formerly: trước đó Immediately: ngay lập tức | In the future: trong tương lai In the meantime: trong khi chờ đợi In the past: trong quá khứ Meanwhile: trong khi đó Previously: trước đó Simultaneously: đồng thời Subsequently/ then: sau đó Until now: cho đến bây giờ |
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Appearance | Height | Weight and Build |
attractive good-looking beautiful handsome lovely pretty cute nice well-dressed elegant fashionable neat clean tidy intelligent | tall very tall quite tall six feet tall not very tall short average height medium height middle height | thin quite thin slim slender skinny underweight plump chubby stout overweight obese fat delicate constitution strong muscular athletic weak feeble |
Hair | Eyes | Age |
dark black brown chestnut red auburn blond light fair white gray (grey) long short medium-length shoulder-length straight curly wavy thick thinning bald | blue gray (grey) green brown dark light-blue dark-gray grayish-blue big eyes large eyes bright eyes expressive eyes sharp eyes eyebrows eyelashes thick eyebrows nearsighted blind | young middle-aged elderly old grown-up adult a child a kid a little boy a little girl a five-year-old girl a teenager a teenage boy a teenage girl a young boy a young girl a young man a young woman a middle-aged man an old man |
Character, personality, nature | Mind | Strong, honest, reliable, hardworking, active | Friendly, kind, polite, patient, humorous |
good excellent fine strong firm weak bad terrible evil pleasant friendly interesting charismatic soft-hearted | intelligent wise clever smart sharp keen bright quick agile broad-minded open-minded narrow-minded small-minded absent-minded foolish silly stupid dumb dull slow crazy insane mad | strong tough hardy mature independent weak immature strong-minded strong-willed hard-headed determined resolute honest sincere truthful decent scrupulous dishonest insincere dependable reliable trustworthy faithful loyal devoted | good-natured good-tempered easygoing bad-tempered ill-natured malevolent mean friendly amiable amicable sociable outgoing unfriendly hostile unsociable generous noble kind kind-hearted soft-hearted unselfish helpful gentle strict severe hard-hearted |
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Ví dụ thẻ bài mẫu:
Describe a person you love/like/admire
You should say
who that person is
what you usually do with this person
how often you see this person
and explain why you love/like/admire this person.
Bài mẫu:
“More often than not, if people are asked this question, their answer would either be a celebrity like an actor or a singer, a politician, or someone who is famous. But for me, I would have to say that the person I most admire is a family member.
For everyone, ‘family’ is the most valuable asset. One cannot exist without a family, and a family is a place where everyone may expect to get anything without expecting anything in return. That is why the person I look up to the most is my father. He keeps our family together. In my life, he is my hero. For his exceptional abilities, my father is extremely admirable.
He has led me along the right route so that I can excel in both my professional and personal lives. He aided me in every way imaginable while I was a child, and as I grew older, he showed me how to make decisions. The most essential thing is that he never compels me to do or perform something against my choice. He always gives me the benefit of the doubt, presents me the options, and leads me to choose the best path. I am now a well-known photographer in our city, thanks to his guidance. When he learned that I wanted to be a photographer, he lowered his costs in half and purchased me the first camera of my life.
Dưới đây là một số từ vựng trong câu trả lời mẫu trên để bạn tham khảo.
Word | Part of Speech | Meaning/Definition | Example usage of the word in a sentence |
adore | Verb | To respect and love someone deeply | “I simply adore how you pull off that dress.” |
appeal | Verb | To be interesting or attractive | “Abstract painting appeals to a lot of people.” |
the benefit of the doubt | Idiom | An admission that a person or statement must be viewed as correct or justifiable if the opposite is not proven | “Her teacher is going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she did the homework by herself.” |
celebrity | Noun | A famous person | “He had turned into a celebrity overnight after the news broke that he had won the lottery.” |
compassion | Noun | An empathetic pity and concern for other people’s hardships or misfortunes | “She was taken aback by the compassion in his voice, and she looked up at his solemn expression, tears streaming down her face.” |
compel | Verb | To force someone to do something | “I sometimes have to compel my daughter into performing her tasks by threatening her that she would be grounded if she doesn’t.” |
dedication | Noun | The state of being committed to an activity or objective | “He admired my dedication in ensuring all of the details were accurate.” |
emulate | Verb | To imitate | “She attempted to emulate my recent accomplishment.” |
exceptional | Adjective | Unusually good, outstanding | “My younger brother has an exceptional talent in memorizing the capital city of each and every country.” |
impact | Noun | A person’s, thing’s, or action’s effect or influence on another | “Her speech had a big impact on a lot of individuals.” |
influence | Noun | The ability to influence someone’s or something’s character, growth, or conduct, or the effect itself | “His parents still have a significant influence of power over him.” |
integrity | Noun | Moral uprightness; the trait of being honest and possessing strong moral principles | “What I respect about my dad the most is his integrity.” |
look up to | Phrasal Verb | To have a great degree of respect for someone | “The players look up to their coach because of his passion for football.” |
modest | Adjective | Humble and unassuming | “Despite everything she had accomplished, she remained modest.” |
neglect | Verb | To fail to care for properly | “In order to have a tidy kitchen, do not neglect to wash the dishes.” |
obligation | Noun | An activity or course of action that a person is ethically or legally bound to do; a responsibility or commitment | “He strongly believes that each and every human being has a moral obligation to protect human rights.” |
reminisce | Verb | To delight in pleasurable reminiscences of the past | “I figured that once it was all over, we’d be able to reminisce on what we’d accomplished and perhaps rejoice in all the good we’d done.” |
technique | Noun | A method of carrying out a specific task | “She solved the problem in a different technique than her brother, but the result was the same.” |
valuable | Adjective | Of extreme importance and worth | “My grandmother always gives me valuable pieces of advice.” |
warm-hearted | Adjective | Kind and sympathetic | “She has a sympathetic look, I believe she is warm-hearted.” |
Ví dụ thẻ bài mẫu:
Describe a person you admire.
You should say:
who he/ she is
how you know him/ her
what characteristics this person has
and explain why you admire this person.
Bài mẫu:
Admiration to any individual comes from the heart and requires lots of endeavours as well. I admire a man in my family from my teenage for his extraordinary qualities.
He is the uncle of mine, the husband of my maternal aunt. Looks like a Hollywood hero with a height of 6’1”. He loves me very much and is always with our family in both our happiness and sorrows. He is a man of special qualities and is a very good teacher too. I mostly like him for his outstanding ability to teach mathematics and he makes the lessons easy and clearer. Moreover, he can sing very well and his paintings are superb. When I used to learn mathematics from him, he made all the logic and complexities clear to me within the shortest time and I had a good score on that final exam.
I was a kid of nine or ten when my aunt Sofia was married to Mr Alexander Cumberland. As I was highly busy with my studies, I did not have enough chance to meet him frequently. When he came to our apartment, I did not have much interaction with him. But gradually I started realising that he is a man of skill and special qualities. One night, he started singing a melodious song at a party in our apartment to entertain the visitors, and he presented me a very nice painting on my 13th birthday that I later came to know was painted by him. But I came to his close contact when I needed to complete the complex mathematics for my final exam in my sixth grade.
Although in the beginning, I failed to manage time to spend with my uncle, I managed it later when the exams were over. I passed few weeks with him and found that he is a great man. He is sincere, likes to talk straight, punctual, and sympathetic to others; and filled with other special qualities which are absent among the common people. He is kind and helps the poor based on his ability, never ill-treats anyone and always busy with his own activities. I have not seen him getting engaged in a gossip which is another cause for me to admire him. He is softhearted giant and never hurts people. He is punctual and I have never seen him missing appointments.
Earlier, I told that I had less chance to meet him, but now I regularly meet him (at least twice a week) for different purposes and I find a different taste in passing times with him. When he paints, he keeps me with him to discuss different issues and he invents ideas for painting during the conversation, according to him. Besides, when my father is out of the state, he takes care of my family like his own. He never allows us to feel alone and he is a must for any of the familiar occasions in our family. He cheers up the participants and creates a pleasant noise there which increases the beauty of the events. For all these reasons, I admire him most.
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