Part 1 — IntroductionQ3/2026Difficulty 2/5

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Questions

Question 145s to speak

Do you live in a house or a flat?

Question 245s to speak

Which room do you spend most time in?

Question 345s to speak

What would you like to change about your home?

Question 445s to speak

Do you plan to move in the next few years?

Model answer

Written by 8020 teachers. Do not memorise it — take the structure and the way ideas are developed, then speak about your own life.

Do you live in a house or a flat? A flat — seventh floor, two bedrooms, shared with a flatmate. I've been there about three years. Which room do you spend most time in? The kitchen, oddly, because that's where the table is. I work at the kitchen table even though there's a desk in my room, which makes no sense but there we are. What would you like to change about your home? Storage. There's nowhere to put anything, so things end up in stacks, and I'm tidier than my flat suggests. Do you plan to move in the next few years? Probably, yes. The rent has gone up twice since I moved in, and at some point buying somewhere smaller starts to make more sense than renting somewhere bigger.

Vocabulary you can use today

shared with a flatmate
ở chung với người bạn cùng nhà
oddly
lạ là — cụm chuyển ý một từ, rất tự nhiên
which makes no sense but there we are
nghe vô lý nhưng nó là vậy
things end up in stacks
đồ đạc cuối cùng bị xếp thành đống
I'm tidier than my flat suggests
tôi gọn gàng hơn cái nhà tôi trông vậy
starts to make more sense than...
bắt đầu hợp lý hơn là...

Common traps for Vietnamese speakers

Đề về nhà rất dễ nói cụt. Cách chữa: mỗi câu thêm một chi tiết nhỏ hơi bất ngờ — làm việc ở bàn ăn dù có bàn học, gọn gàng hơn cái nhà trông vậy. Cụm "which makes no sense but there we are" là mẫu tự trêu rất tự nhiên, dùng được ở nhiều đề Part 1. Nó cho thấy bạn nói tiếng Anh chứ không dịch. Ở câu về dự định, nêu một LÝ DO kinh tế cụ thể (tiền thuê tăng hai lần). Lý do cụ thể mở đường cho giám khảo hỏi tiếp, mà bị hỏi tiếp là dấu hiệu tốt.

âm cuối /θ/ trong seventh, three, monthâm cuối /t/ trong flat, flatmate, rentâm cuối /z/ trong bedrooms, stacks/s/, things/z//ʃ/ trong shared, storage→/s/

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