🔁 1. Ôn tập – 10 phút
🔁 Ôn thẻ từ vựng đến hạn
🧠 Nhớ lại buổi trước (không xem tài liệu)
- Biểu đồ tròn + cột (buổi 13): tổng quan nêu gì?
- “percentage point” khác “percent” thế nào?
- Thư khiếu nại hoàn tiền (buổi 13): bố cục 4 phần là gì?
Trả lời to hoặc viết ra giấy, rồi mới mở lại buổi trước để kiểm tra.
🥧 2. Đầu vào – 25 phút
Nhánh Academic
Average household spending in Country M, by category (%), 2006, 2016 and 2026 – số liệu giả định
Tỷ lệ & điểm phần trăm
- Housing food as the largest category by 2016.
- The share spent on food from over a third to just over a fifth.
- Leisure spending nearly , from 10% to 18%.
- Food fell by 13 percentage over the period.
📝 Viết bài – Academic
The pie charts show how the average household in Country M divided its spending between five categories in 2006, 2016 and 2026.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
👀 Xem bài mẫu tham khảo (sau khi đã viết xong)
Bài mẫu tham khảo do khóa học viết, khoảng 180 từ. Số liệu giả định.
The three pie charts illustrate how the average household budget in Country M was divided between housing, food, transport, leisure and other items in 2006, 2016 and 2026.
Overall, the proportion spent on housing and leisure increased over the twenty-year period, while the share devoted to food fell considerably. As a result, housing replaced food as the largest single category. Spending on transport and other items remained relatively stable.
In 2006, food accounted for more than a third of household spending, at 35%, compared with a quarter for housing. By 2016, however, housing had overtaken food, rising to 30% while food dropped to 28%. This trend continued over the following decade, so that by 2026 housing made up just over a third of the budget and food just over a fifth, a fall of 13 percentage points.
Leisure, meanwhile, grew steadily from 10% to 18%, nearly doubling its share. By contrast, transport stayed at 15% before dipping slightly to 13%, and the share for other items changed little, falling from 15% to 13%.
🔬 Phân tích bài mẫu
- Theo dõi hạng mục: thân 1 = nhà ở vs thực phẩm (cặp “giao cắt”); thân 2 = giải trí tăng + hai hạng mục ổn định.
- Giao cắt có mốc: By 2016, however, housing had overtaken food.
- Phân số thay số: more than a third, a quarter, just over a third, just over a fifth – đa dạng mà vẫn chính xác.
- Percentage points dùng đúng; nearly doubling its share cho 10 → 18.
- Không đoán nguyên nhân (giá nhà tăng…) – biểu đồ không nói.
⚠️ Lỗi hay gặp ở band 6.5: ba đoạn cho ba năm; viết food decreased by 13%; dùng the number of money thay vì the proportion of spending.
Nhánh General Training – thư khiếu nại quảng cáo gây hiểu lầm
| Phần | Câu mẫu (cứng rắn, dựa trên sự kiện) |
|---|---|
| Mục đích | I am writing to complain about an advertisement for… which I believe is misleading. |
| Quảng cáo nói gì | The advertisement states that… |
| Thực tế | However, when I…, I found that… |
| Hậu quả | As a result, I… |
| Yêu cầu cụ thể | I would therefore ask you to… and to… within… |
📝 Viết bài – General Training
You recently bought something after seeing an advertisement, but you later found that the advertisement was misleading.
Write a letter to the company. In your letter:
• describe the advertisement
• explain how it was misleading
• say what you would like the company to do
Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write any addresses. Begin your letter as follows: Dear Sir or Madam,
👀 Xem bài mẫu tham khảo (sau khi đã viết xong)
Bài mẫu tham khảo do khóa học viết, khoảng 195 từ. Cửa hàng, sản phẩm và nhân vật là giả định.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to complain about an advertisement for your HomeAir 300 air purifier, which I believe is misleading.
The advertisement, which appeared on your website and in several online videos in October, states that the purifier "cleans a whole apartment in 20 minutes" and is "whisper-quiet". On the basis of these claims, I bought one from your store on Tran Phu Street on 2 November for 4,500,000 dong.
However, the instruction booklet explains that the 20-minute figure applies only to a single room of up to 15 square metres. My apartment is over 60 square metres, so the claim is clearly not accurate for a typical home. In addition, on its highest setting, which is required for larger rooms, the machine is loud enough to make conversation difficult.
I feel that I was persuaded to buy a product that does not do what the advertisement suggests. I would therefore ask you to provide a full refund when I return the purifier, and to change the wording of the advertisement so that other customers are not misled in the same way.
I look forward to your response within fourteen days.
Yours faithfully, Vo Thanh Tam
🧩 3. Ngôn ngữ trọng tâm – 10 phút
- Academic: was divided between, the share devoted to, replaced… as the largest single category, accounted for more than a third, had overtaken, This trend continued over the following decade, a fall of 13 percentage points, nearly doubling its share, dipping slightly to.
- GT: which I believe is misleading, states that…, On the basis of these claims, …, applies only to…, is clearly not accurate for, loud enough to…, so that other customers are not misled.
✍️ 4. Thực hành – 20 phút
Viết bài nhánh của bạn (20 phút), chưa xem bài mẫu. Academic: đoạn thân có theo hạng mục không? Có dùng percentage points? GT: có trích chính xác lời quảng cáo, đối chiếu thực tế bằng sự kiện, và yêu cầu kép (hoàn tiền + sửa quảng cáo)?
💼 Dùng ngay – soát lại tài liệu giới thiệu dịch vụ (thêm 5 phút)
Lấy một câu quảng bá bạn từng thấy ở nơi làm việc (hoặc tự đặt). Viết lại cho chính xác và trung thực: thêm phạm vi áp dụng, điều kiện, và bằng chứng. Ví dụ: cuts costs by half → reduced costs by around 40% at one pilot site.
📚 Từ vựng của buổi
- household spending – chi tiêu hộ gia đình
Household spending on food fell.
- budget – ngân sách
Housing takes up a third of the budget.
- share – tỷ phần
The share spent on leisure rose.
- percentage point – điểm phần trăm
Food fell by 13 percentage points.
- overtake – vượt
Housing overtook food by 2016.
- shrink – co lại
The food share shrank steadily.
- nearly double – gần gấp đôi
Leisure spending nearly doubled.
- remain constant – giữ nguyên
Transport remained constant at 15%.
- misleading claim – tuyên bố gây hiểu lầm
The advert contained a misleading claim.
- refund – hoàn tiền
I would like a full refund.
✅ 5. Tự kiểm tra – 10 phút
✅ Tự kiểm tra
Nghe lại bản ghi của mình và tích những điểm bạn đã làm được. Ô tích chỉ lưu trên máy này.