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IELTS Speaking Phần 1: Màu sắc
IELTS Speaking Part 1: Example
1. Were colors significant to you during your childhood?
Well yes, I’ve always loved colors but my favourite has always been blue. I had my mom buy me toys and clothes that were all blue. Up until now, blue is still my favourite color and it’s become a part of my identity.
- Have s.o do something: thuyết phục ai đó làm điều gì
- Up until now: cho đến bây giờ
- Identity (n): cá tính, đặc tính
2. Do certain colors hold special meanings in your country?
Yes, of course, red is the color that represents good luck. That’s why at Tet, our holiday during the Lunar New Year, you often see the elderly and parents hand red envelopes containing “lucky” money to their children and grandchildren.
- Represent (v): đại diện
- Hand (v): đưa cho (hiểu là cho/ tặng)
- Red envelopes: bao đỏ/bao lì xì
3. What colors would you select for painting your room's walls?
I’ve mentioned earlier that I absolutely love blue, so without a doubt, that’s my go-to color. I would also consider combining it with white since that’s my second favorite color.
- Go-to (adj): yêu thích
- Consider + v-ing: cân nhắc việc gì đó
IELTS Speaking Part 2: Depict a vividly colorful place from your memory
Model
IELTS Speaking Part 2: You are expected to:
- What it is
- Where it is
- How it looks like
And elucidate why it remains in your memory.
I’m going to describe a colorful place that is not an actual building, in fact, it’s not a construction at all. It’s the Cái Bè floating market in Tien Giang province. As its name suggests, the sellers and buyers of this market do not meet on land at all, rather, the merchants use wood-plank boats as both their transportation and their shop. Tourists and other customs also have to be on one of the boats to take part in this market. I had the opportunity to go to this unique market a couple of months ago.
The market session started really early in the morning. It was just past dawn and I already saw many boats floating on the water. The river water was brownish and almost coffee-like. The color it took from alluvial soils. Many boats, especially the larger ones had paintings of blue and white eyes on their hulls. This is a tradition dating back thousands of years.
While our boats were roaming around, I saw many colors from both the people and the good they were offering. Most easily recognisable were the fruits: green mangos, yellow pineapples, red dragon fruits, you name it. There were also colorful flowers and food on these boats. Most of the merchants themselves wore bà ba, one of the traditional garments of Vietnamese people. These are simple silk shirt in bright colors.
I spent my entire morning in this market, and it was truly an awe-inspiring manifestation of life's colors. This is the reason why it will stay etched in my mind forever.
Glossary
- As its name suggests: theo như tên gọi
- Market session (n): phiên chợ
- Coffee-like (adj): giống cà phê
- Alluvial soils (n): phù sa
- Hull (n): thân tàu
- Recognisable (adj): dễ nhận biết
- You name it : “vân vân” (quá nhiều không thể liệt kê hết)
- Garment (n): trang phục
→ To respond to this question, you can describe a specific place like a building, a tourist spot, or even a market. When describing, highlight the colors of the place's features. You can also describe the people present there. The suggested sequence for description is: from general to specific (overview → major features (related to shape, size) → minor features → surrounding activities).
IELTS Speaking Segment 3
IELTS Speaking segment 3: Example
1. What are the common colors used in the adornment of residential abodes?
To be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to how people decorate their houses. So, I’m gonna describe what I usually see in my friends’ places. Usually, the walls in their houses are painted with a neutral color like white or beige and my friends have decorated them with flowery or starry patterns. Some of my friends also use plants to help their homes to have more of a green feel to it.
- Neutral (adj): trung tính
- Beige (n): màu be
- Feel (n): cảm giác (khác với feeling: cảm xúc)
→ Describe the various ways in which people around you decorate homes using different colors
2. Can colors exert any impact on individuals and their emotional state?
Oh, definitely and I’ve read somewhere that warm colors like red and yellow can evoke strong emotions like anger and happiness, whereas cool colors like blue tend to make people feel calm, relaxed and sometimes sad. I think this is why many companies have their offices painted blue or green to help alleviate the stress that their workers face.
- Evoke (v): khơi gợi
- Warm colors: các màu nóng
- Whereas + Clause: trong khi đó (có tính tương phản)
- Cool colors: các màu lạnh
- Alleviate (v): giảm nhẹ
→ Kinh nghiệm cho thấy khi không biết nói gì, ta thường sử dụng màu nóng để tạo cảm giác khỏe mạnh và năng động, trong khi màu tối giúp tâm trạng bình tĩnh.
3. Khi mua sắm, màu sắc quan trọng như thế nào?
Speaking from experience, colors are excellent indicators of the condition of perishable products. I specially look for the “mouldy green” color when I buy food to make sure that it hasn’t gone spoilt.
- Indicator (n): dấu hiệu cho biết
- Perishable (adj): dễ phân hủy
- Moldy green (adj): màu xanh mốc
- Spoilt (adj): ôi thiu, hỏng (thức ăn)
→ Không chỉ áp dụng trong lĩnh vực thức ăn, màu sắc cũng ảnh hưởng đến các vật dụng như điện tử, quần áo, và thậm chí cả thời trang.
4. Màu sắc thực sự quan trọng trong quảng cáo không?
Yeah, especially for smaller brands trying to break into the market. I think that for a company brand recognition is as important as the quality of the products. What’s the use of having a good product without any buyers, right? So using a color scheme that makes your products attractive and fascinating among thousands of competitors is really a must.
- Break into the marker: thâm nhập thị trường
- Brand recognition: sự nhận diện thương hiệu
- As important as s.th: cũng quan trọng (giống) như
- Must (n): điều bắt buộc
→ Quảng cáo không chỉ liên quan đến việc nhận diện thương hiệu mà còn đến tầm quan trọng của màu sắc trong hình ảnh sản phẩm.
5. How crucial are images in educational materials?
Definitely! Illustrations in textbooks can help students tremendously. In natural science subjects like Physics, Biology or even Maths, diagrams can elucidate abstract concepts or natural processes such as life stages of species. And in Geography, it’s impossible to visualise the borders of countries based on words alone, so maps really play an important role here. Last but not least, in language learning, pictures can help the learners acquire vocabularies for objects much faster than wordy definitions.
- Abstract concepts: các khái niệm trừu tượng
- Natural processes: các quy trình tự nhiên
- Life stages: giai đoạn trong đời
- Visualise (v): trực quang hóa
- Play an important role: đóng vai trò quan trọng
- Acquire (v): học được (đối với kiên thức)
- Wordy (Adj): dài dòng
