Talk About Your Family – Bài mẫu Speaking IELTS chủ đề Gia Đình

Talk About Your Family – Describe your Family là một trong những topic không những xuất hiện nhiều lần trong bài thi Speaking IELTS mà còn là một chủ đề thông dụng trong tiếng Anh giao tiếp thường ngày.

Trong bài viết hôm nay, cùng điểm ngay các ý tưởng đắt giá, từ vựng hay về chủ đề gia đình, và một số bài mẫu IELTS Speaking Topic Talk About Your Family được biên soạn chi tiết bởi  đội ngũ The Forum gửi tới bạn đọc.

Câu hỏi thường gặp trong chủ đề Talk About Your Family – IELTS Speaking Part 1

Tell me about your Family or What is your family like?

Bài mẫu 1:

I come from a nuclear family. My parents worked for a technology company so they have little time for me. I am one of two siblings. My sister is 3 years younger than me. She is a sixth grader who loves photographing nature and saving the pictures in an album.

Bài mẫu 2:

Mine is a truly traditional Vietnamese family. I live under one roof with my grandparents, my parents, like others, and my older brother, an extended family. My mom and dad both have year-long experiences in the pedagogical field as our grandparents did. My mom is a Biological teacher while my dad works as a part of the Ministry of Education. We have our family rules that are passed down from generation to generation. I would say my brother and I grow with self-developed disciplines which I believe would prepare for anything in further steps in life.

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Are you close with your parent(s)?

Bài mẫu 1:

As I said, because of limited time, I don’t see much of them. Even so, I know that they sacrifice a lot for the happiness of the whole family. That’s the reason why they mean everything to me and I treasure every moment we are together.

Bài mẫu 2:

Though I used to be intimately attached with my mom as a kid, when mom got promoted followed by a piled up amount of work, I was taken after most of the time by my grandparents. We don’t spend time with one another that much anymore, as a result. Fortunately, until now, mom and I always manage to have a weekly date on Sunday when we go shopping and visit our favorite food stalls.

What do your family usually do together?

Bài mẫu 1:

Since it is quite unusual that we have our days off at the same time, when we do, we celebrate it by traveling, homely sized party. Last time on Tet holiday, we visited my parents’ hometown and 2 other cities in a couple of weeks, which seemed a bit rushed but I loved it.

Bài mẫu 2:

I love video games and so are my dad, though my mom and the little sister favor physical activities. Thus, when there is a family union, we would take part in family bike rides in the local park and have a game night station

Bài mẫu Speaking IELTS chủ đề Talk About Your Family – Part 2

Đề mẫu: Describe a time that you were in conflict with a family member. You should say

• Who was the family member?
• Why do that person and you argue
• How did you make up?
• What did you learn after that?

Bài mẫu Talk About Your Family band 8.0+ 

I would be lying if I say that I always get on well with my family. I did have countless bitter arguments with my older sister who I sometimes think I would never talk to again. I prefer to share with you one 3-week cold war that we had when I was in my teenage.

It was on a Saturday when we had our usual date at noon. I spent the whole morning with my newly-committed club, laying my bag aside to focus on the team building activities. The club event was supposed to end by 10 a.m. yet it turned out to run short of time and dragged on until no sooner than midnoon. Meanwhile, I was so immersed in fun that I took no notice of the clock.

Consequently, as it struck 11.30.a.m, my personal phone rang nearly a dozen times. I finally took the fifteenth call, buried in my sister’s outburst of anger delivered by unimaginable insulting words. I left the team, jumped on any possible bus with a racing heart, whimpering. I arrived one and a half hours later than I should have. As you might expect, my sister welcomed me with another rage before I could even utter a bit of apology.

She had gone too far just because she waited for me as I did for her several times before. It was not worth all those offenses, I assumed. We separated, right after which we fell out. We blocked, restricted, ignored, muted notifications of each other on any social platforms that we often contacted through. Our parents were even drawn into such an unpleasant situation when either meals or gatherings are doomed with deadly silence.

Not until a couple of weeks went by did my dad come to have some words with me on this. He asked me merely two questions: “Did she cry when she shouted at you?” and “Did she blame you for letting her wait?”. Half a month along with the urge for reconciliation inside me were enough for an immature me at the time to recollect the images of her when the problem happened.

In retrospect, I saw her tears and realized that she was yelling at me only wondering why I had not picked up the phone nor sent her a message. No need to give dad the response, it sprang to me that her overreaction was due to her worry about my safety. Immediately, I burst into tears of remorse. Afterwards, I repented of my foolishness and we got along again. I learned the life lesson of keeping my eyes on the phone and clock, but most importantly is to calmly put myself in the others’ shoes to understand their doings.

Câu trả lời mẫu Talk About Your Family band 7.0+

The long path in education has run in my family for ages, so my parents often play an influential role in my studying-related decisions. Having said that, I want to share with you about a heated argument that I had been involved in with my mother who is a Biology teacher a couple of years ago. At the time, I was a senior student, having to make up my mind what I should major in at university.

As I have always held the dream career of a tour-guide, I opted for tourism without hesitation. Sadly speaking, my mother expressed strong disapproval of it since she took it that it wasn’t a stable choice. Mom expected me to follow in her footsteps by attending the National University of Pedagogy instead. She convinced me that with her wide network of relationships, she could back me up once I graduated. Despite her persuasion, I plucked up the courage to go against her words, which I had never done before.

My strategy was to surround her with an endless list of major reasons why I wasn’t cut out for teaching. First things first, I took no interest in it. How can I survive in a highly demanding area with boredom and a passionless state of mind? On top of that, being a teacher requires patience, which I was quite the opposite. All things considered, I would definitely be defeated in the middle of the journey. Nevertheless, it was not that effortless to navigate my mom’s thoughts.

Our uneasy conversation lasted for months, which culminated in my mother’s punishment for me, the cold shoulder. I sought assistance from other family members: my dad and the older brother. They supported me by talking my mom into understanding my personal life decision. My perseverance paid off. After a few weeks of undying determination, I was finally able to receive encouragement from my mom to pursue my ambition.

Needless to say, I was so thrilled to bits at that moment that I gave her a big hug to thank her. Now looking back, I am filled with pride and contentment that I persisted with my option.

Talking About Your Family – Bài mẫu IELTS Speaking Part 3

Do friends or family play a more important role in your life?

SAMPLE 1

I guess I would never be able to give you an answer for this. Both my besties and my loved ones give me strength and motivation to keep me fulfilled. I believe that they are of the same significance in dissimilar ways.

My parents and my sister warm me with care, protection and intimacy while those close peers are more than reliable to share my innermost thoughts and secrets. They know my stories and we choose to stay accompanied by each other so that we can support one another in studying and school problems.

SAMPLE 2 

There is one saying: “Blood is thicker than water”, which indicates that a person’s kindred would deserve more trust because they are our families and no one else can understand and stand for us as unconditionally as families do. Although I am a typical extrovert at school, and a gregarious being in any outdoor commitment, I always place my blood-tied first. It might be because I am a sensitive girl.

I often unconsciously think over others’ unusual acts or saying for fear that I would make a mistake then everyone would hate me. Strange to say, I am under an illusion that the world outside is putting on their mask to readily let me down as soon as I take the wrong steps. So, I talk to my mom and my sister a lot. They are safe places, housing me with homely caring and consoling me with the gentlest gesture.

Is having sibling(s) beneficial or problematic as a child?

SAMPLE 1

As a child growing up with a sister, I firmly believe that having my sister is a sibling is a blessing. Usually, the relationships between brothers or sisters are more consequential than those with parents. Siblings closer in ages have a tendency to spend more time together than they do with their parents. Children with siblings are physically more active and less often obese as they have their accompanies in sports, art classes, and so on.

They are happier, too, because the siblings would sometimes do better the parents’ job when the child needs comforting or listening. There are secrets that a child cannot communicate with parents due to the generation gap. In simple words just like in a long flight if there are 2 pilots then there is this comfort factor in the minds of both pilots. The same is the case with a sibling when a child has a brother or sister they will feel the sense of security in the back of their mind.

SAMPLE 2

Though having sibling(s) is multiple individuals’ wishes, I am on the other side. The biggest disadvantage of having a sibling is that there will always be comparisons between children, which, definitely, the mistake of adults as every individual is second to none. However, the fact is that parents sometimes unconsciously do this. This unhealthy competition between the children might result in their bearing grudges over one another.

The hatred can even deteriorate and the relationship might never be saved. Additionally, children must compromise when they have siblings. Everything they are supposed to receive is divided equally: attention, toys, spaces, and even chances.

When siblings don’t find their niches, their relationship can suffer. Just as the Dasslers competed in business: after one started Adidas, the other founded Puma. Also, sibling attachment seems to be a strong predictor of well-being — sometimes more important than paternal attachment. This also means that if one is bullying the other, it can affect them for life.

Cấu trúc câu trả lời mẫu cho bài Speaking: Describe Your Family

Trong phần IELTS Speaking, một phương pháp xây dựng cấu trúc bài nói nổi tiếng được áp dụng rộng rãi là Chronological Storytelling. Chronological Storytelling hay còn gọi là phương pháp kể chuyện đã giúp nhiều thí sinh đạt được mức điểm cao hơn.

Trước đây, thí sinh thi IELTS Speaking sẽ hoàn thành bài nói theo phong cách lắng nghe câu hỏi và trà lời trực tiếp để giải quyết câu hỏi đó. Điều này hoàn toàn hợp lý và không ai phủ nhận cách xử lý vấn đề đó đúng.

Tuy nhiên, nhiều người đánh giá cách trả lời này đã quá bão hòa, quá phổ biến và giáo viên chấm thi luôn tìm kiếm những cách để thể hiện câu chuyện sinh động hơn.

Chronological Storytelling là phương pháp được sử dụng để mang đến những câu trả lời tự nhiên và khác biệt. Phương pháp này mang đến cho bạn một dòng thời gian liên tục, có điểm bắt đầu, có sự phát triển, có nhấn mạnh các chi tiết quan trọng và cuối cùng đi đến những kết luận đầy thỏa đáng. Đây cũng là cấu trúc mẫu có thể áp dụng cho Part 1, 2, 3 của bài IELTS Speaking.

Ví dụ, với câu hỏi được đặt ra là “Describe a time when you felt proud of a family member”, bạn có thể triển khai theo cấu trúc sau:

• Who the person is (Người đó là ai):
• When it happened (Điều gì đã xảy ra): Những sự kiện đã xảy ra trong câu chuyện bạn muốn kể
• What the person did (Người đó đã làm gì): Đối với những sự kiện đã xảy ra, người trong gia đình bạn đã làm gì để phản ứng lại với sự việc đó.
• And explain why you felt proud of him/her (Giải thích tại sao bạn cảm thấy tự hào về người đó): Bạn đưa ra 2 lý do để giải thích cho sự tự hào của bản thân.

Từ vựng tiếng Anh hay chủ đề Gia đình

Dưới đây là một số từ vựng và cấu trúc để thể hiện các thành viên trong gia đình:

Từ vựng/ cấu trúc	Nghĩa	Từ vựng/ cấu trúc	Nghĩa
siblings	anh/chị/ em ruột	partner	bạn đời
an only child	con một	spouse	chồng
close family	gia đình ruột thịt	father/ dad	bố
immediate family	gia đình ruột thịt	mother/ mom	mẹ
extended family	gia đình mở rộng	stepmother/ stepmom	mẹ kế
wife	vợ	mother-in-law	mẹ chồng/ mẹ vợ
husband	chồng	father-in-law	ba chồng/ ba vợ
daughter	con gái	son	con trai
parent	phụ huynh	sister	em gái/ chị gái
child	con cái	sister-in-law	chị dâu
brother	anh trai/ em trai	cousin	anh chị em họ
brother-in-law	anh rể	relative	họ hàng
aunt	bác gái/ dì/ cô	uncle	bác trai/ cậu/ chú
nephew	cháu trai	granddaughter	cháu gái
niece	cháu gái	grandchild	cháu
grandmother	bà	grandparent	ông bà
grandfather	ông	grandson	cháu trai

Từ vựng/ ngữ pháp	Ý nghĩa
nuclear family	gia đình hạt nhân
single parents	ba/ mẹ đơn thân
bring up	nuôi
upbringing	sự nuôi dạy
divorce	sự ly hôn
childcare	sự chăm sóc con cái
adolescence	tuổi vị thành niên
formative year	những năm xây dựng tính cách
First date	buổi hẹn hò đầu tiên
Go out with someone	có mối quan hệ lãng mạn với ai đó
Break up	chia tay
Serious relationship	mối quan hệ nghiêm túc
Get to know	làm quen
Get engaged	đính hôn
A wedding	lễ cưới
wedding reception	tiệc cưới
Go on a honeymoon	đi tuần trăng mật
Get pregnant	mang thai
To start a family	có con

Các idiom phổ biến trong chủ đề Tell me about your family

Trong quá trình trình bày bài IELTS Speaking, các thành ngữ về gia đình là cụm từ không thể thiếu. Giáo viên sẽ đánh giá cao chất lượng bài nói của bạn nếu bạn cung cấp những thành ngữ hay và phù hợp. The Forum tổng hợp một số thành ngữ bạn có thể tham khảo:

• Flesh and blood: người trong nhà, máu mủ
• Chip off the old block: giống y chang cha mẹ
• Like two peas in the same pot: có nét y chang nhau
• Like father, like son/ The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Cha nào con nấy
• When the blood sheds, the heart aches / Blood is thicker than water: tình ruột thịt, máu mủ, chia sẻ, đùm bọc lẫn nhau

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Kinh nghiệm thi nói Speaking chủ đề Talk About Your Family

Để chuẩn bị tốt cho bài Speaking chủ đề Talk About Your Family cho IELTS Speaking Part 1, 2, 3, việc làm đầu tiên là bạn cần nắm vững được những từ vựng, ngữ pháp và thành ngữ có liên quan đến chủ đề gia đinh – Family.

Càng nhớ được nhiều Vocabulary, khả năng vận dụng của bạn khi nói càng trôi chảy.

Khi đã xây dựng được nội dung bài IELTS Speaking với topic Talk About Your Family, bạn cần luyện nói để nâng cao khả năng phát âm, phát triển ý tưởng và luyện tinh thần vững chãi khi đối mặt với thầy cô và không khí căng thẳng trong phòng thi.

Nên lưu ý rằng, khả năng sử dụng ngôn ngữ để thể hiện về một vấn đề, cách triển khai của bạn và những người khác có thể khác nhau tùy theo tư duy của mỗi người. Trong bài IELTS Speaking cho chủ đề về gia đình cũng vậy, một câu hỏi được đưa ra, bạn có nhiều cách để diễn giải vấn đề.

Dù sử dụng cách nào thì bạn cũng cần nhớ một vài điểm quan trọng trọng IELTS Speaking. Ngữ pháp là yếu tố quan trọng hàng đầu để giáo viên cho điểm. Ngữ pháp không chỉ thể hiện ở loại cấu trúc bạn sử dụng mà còn là số lượng câu sử dụng và cách sử dụng có đúng, có hợp hoàn cảnh hay không.

Ngoài ra, với các dạng câu hỏi Yes/No, dù bạn đồng ý hay không đồng ý về nhận định, bạn đều cần thêm 1 – 2 câu nói để diễn giải ý tưởng của mình.

Bạn nên trả lời theo hướng trang trọng, thể hiện sự tôn trọng của mình dành cho giám khảo chấm thi. Cách trả lời suồng sã như “yes/ no” không phù hợp với kỳ thi này, kể cả với IELTS Tổng quát và IELTS học thuật.

Trên đây là bài mẫu IELTS Speaking Part 1,2,3 chủ đề Talk About your family. Hy vọng với những chia sẻ trên của The Forum, bạn có thể xây dựng cho mình bài nói phù hợp.

Tất cả bài mẫu trên đều được biên soạn tâm huyết bởi các thầy cô giáo tại The Forum, nếu bạn đang có nhu cầu luyện thi IELTS, mời bạn đồng hành cùng các thầy cô trong khóa học IELTS tại The Forum nhé.