Đề Speaking ngày 24/8/2013

Part 2: Talk about one helpful thing that you have learned from Mathematics or a Maths lesson.

Part 3: 
- What is the appropriate age at which children can start to learn Maths?
- Why is studying Maths important? Talk about how Maths is educated in Vietnam.

Bài mẫu:

Part 2:

Well, from my personal point of view, mathematics acts as one of the most crucial subjects to one's education. Not only does it have the theoretical importance to scientific projects but it also has practical applications in real life. I still remember the time when I was in 12th grade - that was the time when i had a chance to learn how to solve problems involving probabilities. To me this is the most interesting part of practical maths. You can witness the existence of probability everywhere, from daily life affairs such as gambling to much more academic use of it. Take traffic for instance, in order to prevent road congestion, and even accidents, specialists may use probability to predict chances of those unwanted accidents and produce precautions to road users. This wonderful use of probability has, in fact, saved thousands of lives of the innocent commuters. If you ask me, then I would say it's definitely useful for me as well since I am a gambler that is in desperate need of calculations. In the past, I have won numerous games with the aid of the maths I learned from 12th grade. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize the undeniably important contribution that maths has been making.

Part 3:

- Honestly I think that the appropriate age at which maths are taught to children would vary, largely depending on each individual. as you might know, different person has different developmental progress, some might show mathematics talents earlier than the others - which would be well improved if spotted by parents or teachers. Apart from those obvious exceptions, I think most of other children can start learning maths at the age of 5 or 6.

- Many people suppose that maths is important while others do not agree with this view. I have to say that I agree with the former statement. The main reasons would be that maths can improve one's mental development since he/ she is put under pressure to find solution to a question. That, obviously, is beneficial to us all.

List từ mới: 

- crucial (adj): very important (academic word - highly recommended)

- theoretical (adj): belonging to theories (mang tính lý thuyết)

- precaution (n): sự đề phòng

- road congestion (phr.): tắc đường = traffic jam (good collocation to use)

- existence (n): sự tồn tại

- to witness (v) = experience (có thể dùng trong writing task 1)

- specialist (n) = authority: chuyên gia

- emphasize (v): nhấn mạnh

- probabilities and statistics: môn xác suất thống kê

- desperate (adj): tuyệt vọng (ở đây có ý nhấn mạnh sự cần thiết của mathematics)

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