🔁 1. Ôn tập – 10 phút
🔁 Ôn thẻ từ vựng đến hạn
🧠 Nhớ lại buổi trước (không xem tài liệu)
- Buổi 98: hai hình liên quan – tổng quan nối thế nào?
- Buổi 103: “six times as likely as” – dùng khi nào?
- Thư tiến cử khác thư giới thiệu bản thân ở đâu?
Trả lời to hoặc viết ra giấy, rồi mới mở lại buổi trước để kiểm tra.
🥧 2. Đầu vào – 25 phút
Nhánh Academic
How employees at Company Z spend their working week, all staff (%), 2026 – số liệu giả định
Average hours per week spent on each activity, managers vs other staff, Company Z, 2026 (số liệu giả định; quản lý chiếm khoảng 20% nhân sự)
| Activity | Managers | Other staff |
|---|---|---|
| Core tasks | 8 | 22 |
| Emails & messages | 10 | 8 |
| Meetings | 16 | 6 |
| Administration | 4 | 3 |
| Training | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 40 | 40 |
So sánh hai nhóm
- Other staff spent nearly three times as time on core tasks as managers.
- For managers, meetings took up the largest share of the week; for other staff, the was true.
- Time spent on administration was roughly for the two groups.
- Core tasks accounted for just under of all working hours.
📝 Viết bài – Academic
The pie chart shows how all employees at Company Z spent their working week in 2026. The table compares the average number of hours that managers and other staff spent on the same activities.
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 185 từ. Số liệu giả định.
The pie chart illustrates how the working week of all employees at Company Z was divided between five activities in 2026, while the table compares the average weekly hours that managers and other staff spent on each activity.
Overall, core tasks took up the largest share of working time across the company. However, managers and other staff allocated their time very differently, with managers spending most of their week in meetings and other staff devoting the majority of theirs to core tasks.
Across the company, core tasks accounted for just under half of all working hours, at 48%. Emails and messages and meetings each took up roughly a fifth of the week, at 21% and 20% respectively, while administration and training accounted for only 8% and 3%.
The table reveals a sharp contrast between the two groups. Managers spent 16 hours a week in meetings, more than twice as long as other staff, who spent only 6. The reverse was true for core tasks: other staff spent 22 hours on these, nearly three times as much as managers. By contrast, the time devoted to emails, administration and training was broadly similar for both groups.
🔬 Phân tích bài mẫu
- Tổng quan nối hai hình: công việc chuyên môn lớn nhất (tròn) + phân bổ trái ngược (bảng).
- Thân 1 – tròn: phân số (just under half, roughly a fifth) + số trong ngoặc ý.
- Thân 2 – bảng: chỉ chọn hai tương phản lớn, gộp phần còn lại broadly similar.
- So sánh chính xác: more than twice as long as, nearly three times as much, The reverse was true.
- Không đánh giá hiệu quả làm việc.
⚠️ Lỗi hay gặp ở band 6.5: mô tả tròn và bảng tách rời, không có tổng quan chung; liệt kê cả 10 ô của bảng; viết managers waste too much time.
Nhánh General Training – thư tiến cử đồng nghiệp
| Phần | Câu mẫu (thuyết phục, có bằng chứng) |
|---|---|
| Mục đích | I would like to nominate… for… |
| Quan hệ & thời gian biết nhau | I have worked alongside… for… as… |
| Ví dụ cụ thể 1 | One example of… is… |
| Ví dụ cụ thể 2 + kết quả | Thanks to…, the team was able to… |
| Phẩm chất & kết luận | …combines… with… I believe… would be a deserving… |
📝 Viết bài – General Training
Your company has an annual award for an employee who has made an outstanding contribution, and you would like to nominate a colleague.
Write a letter to the award committee. In your letter:
• explain how you know this colleague
• describe what they have done
• say why they deserve the award
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 200 từ. Công ty, giải thưởng và nhân vật là giả định.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to nominate my colleague Vu Thi Lan for this year's Outstanding Contribution Award.
I have worked alongside Lan in the customer services department for three years, and since March she has led our team of eight while our manager has been on extended leave.
One example of her contribution is the way she handled the introduction of our new booking system in the summer. Many customers found it confusing at first, and complaints rose sharply. Rather than simply passing them on, Lan produced a short guide for customers and ran two training sessions for the team. Within six weeks, complaints had fallen back to their previous level.
She has also made a real difference to the team itself. She makes a point of asking quieter members for their views and shares credit generously when things go well. As a result, morale has remained high during what could have been a very difficult year.
Lan combines practical problem-solving with genuine care for her colleagues. I believe she would be a deserving winner of the award.
Yours faithfully, Pham Duc Anh
🧩 3. Ngôn ngữ trọng tâm – 10 phút
- Academic: was divided between, took up the largest share, allocated their time very differently, devoting the majority of theirs to, just under half, roughly a fifth, reveals a sharp contrast, The reverse was true, broadly similar.
- GT: I would like to nominate… for…, I have worked alongside…, One example of her contribution is…, Rather than simply…, she…, made a real difference to, makes a point of…, shares credit generously, a deserving winner.
✍️ 4. Thực hành – 20 phút
Viết bài nhánh của bạn (20 phút), chưa xem bài mẫu. Academic: tổng quan nối cả hai hình? Bảng chỉ chọn tương phản chính? GT: có hai ví dụ cụ thể với kết quả, không chỉ tính từ khen?
💼 Dùng ngay – ghi nhận đóng góp của đồng nghiệp trong email nhóm (thêm 5 phút)
Viết 3 câu ghi nhận công khai: việc cụ thể → kết quả → cảm ơn. Ví dụ: I’d like to thank Lan for the customer guide she produced last month – complaints have already fallen back to normal levels.
📚 Từ vựng của buổi
- working week – tuần làm việc
Meetings took up a fifth of the working week.
- allocate time – phân bổ thời gian
Managers allocate their time differently.
- core tasks – công việc chuyên môn chính
Core tasks took 48% of all hours.
- administration – công việc hành chính
Administration took about 8% of the week.
- the reverse was true – điều ngược lại đúng
For other staff, the reverse was true.
- nearly three times as much – gần gấp ba
Staff spent nearly three times as much time on core tasks.
- roughly equal – xấp xỉ bằng nhau
Training time was roughly equal.
- nominate – đề cử
I'd like to nominate Lan for the award.
- commitment – sự tận tâm
Her commitment to the team is remarkable.
- outstanding – xuất sắc
She has made an outstanding contribution.
✅ 5. Tự kiểm tra – 10 phút
✅ Tự kiểm tra
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