Lời giải ĐỀ THI IELTS 27/07/2019
Lời giải Task 1:
The table compares five different cities in terms of how much is charged for water and the average bill for each household.
Overall, it is clear that City E has the highest costs for water usage, whereas City B has the lowest household bills.
In all the cities, the usage charge for water is calculated at two rates – up to 125 kilolitres and over 125 kilolitres. Cities A and D have the lowest costs for water usage up to 125 kilolitres, each with a charge of $0.48. City C has a charge of $0.55, while Cities B and E charge the most, at $0.75 and $0.95 respectively. Over 125 kilolitres, the cost in City A falls to $0.42. By contrast, the charges rise slightly in City E. The costs remain the same in the other cities.
City B has the lowest water bills, with an average of $234 per household. Bills in the other cities are significantly higher, particularly in City E, where the average bill is almost $400 for each household.
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Lời giải Task 2:
It is true that many people believe that schools should only teach academic subjects and prepare students for formal exams. I disagree completely with this view, and I would argue that teaching practical life skills is essential.
Firstly, it is a mistake to tailor teaching strategies to the narrow focus of academic subjects and exam success. It is impossible for every student to pursue a successful career with fantastic job prospects in fields such as finance, medicine, law or education. All of these demand academic skills, but the job market for these professions is relatively small. Those who fail their exams will consider themselves as failures. Such negative feelings will inevitably shape a child’s personality and values during their formative years. Only a few students who are high-flyers will succeed and enjoy the material rewards of their academic success.
Secondly, while children need to acquire practical skills, there may be no family or friends to help them. Consider, for example, single-parent households, with no father to teach DIY skills, or households in which working mothers have no time to teach children to cook or sew. There are, too, many dysfunctional families in which, for whatever reasons, parental involvement in bringing up their offspring is almost completely absent. Yet children need to learn these domestic skills, and the only place for many of them to do this is in school. Otherwise, when they enter adult life, they will rely on expensive ready meals or on buying new clothes and furniture when all that is needed is a simple repair.
In conclusion, I totally disagree with an educational policy which focuses only on academic subjects and exam success. Schools must place equal value on life skills to ensure the full development of children.
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Vocabulary from education:
- a formal examination
Meaning: a test conducted under strict, regulated conditions
Example: Entrance to university usually involves achieving required grades in a formal examination, such as IELTS.
- to tailor teaching styles/ strategies
Meaning: to make or prepare teaching styles following particular instructions
Example: When faced with classes of students with different levels of ability, teachers should tailor their teaching strategies to deal with this challenge.
- a high-flyer
Meaning: someone who has the desire and ability to be very successful in their studies
Example: The problem with our teacher is that she explains things too quickly for most of the students and she pays most attention only to the academic high-flyers in the class.
Vocabulary from work:
- to pursue a successful career
Meaning: to have a series of jobs in a particular area of work, with more responsibility as time passes
Example:While many people wish to pursue a successful career, for others it is more important to find work which is interesting and enjoyable.
- job prospects
Meaning: the chances of being successful and having more opportunities at work
Example: People with qualifications and experience usually have the best job prospects.
- to acquire experience/knowledge/skill:
Meaning: to gain experience/knowledge/skill by your own efforts or behavior
Example: Some school leavers prefer to acquire experience working in a chosen profession rather than entering university.
- working mothers
Meaning: Mothers who have to go out to work as well as to look after children
Example: Workplace practices such as job-sharing and flexible working hours have made life easier for working mothers.
Vocabulary from family and children:
- to shape a child’s personality/ values
Meaning: to decide or influence the form of a child’s personality
Example: Parents are very influential in shaping their children’s personality through the example that they set.
- formative years
Meaning: A period of a person’s life, usually childhood, that has a big influence on the person they become later in life
Example: UNICEF states that the early childhood years from birth through age 8 are formative years in terms of intelligence, personality and social behavior.
- a single parent household
Meaning: a family in which one person takes care of their child or children without a husband, wife or partner
Example: As a result of changes in society, single parent households are no longer considered unusual.
- a dysfunctional family
Meaning: a family in which the relationships are bad or unhealthy
Example: Children who come from a dysfunctional family often exhibit behavioral problems at school.
- parental involvement
Meaning: the act or process of parents when taking part in their children’s activities.
Example: Parental involvement allows parents to monitor school and classroom activities, and to coordinate their efforts with teachers to encourage acceptable classroom behavior and ensure that the child completes schoolwork.
- to bring up their offspring
Meaning: to bring up means to raise; this is what you do as a parent with your children; you educate them, nurture them, etc.; offspring refers to your children
Example: They are bringing up their offspring in a very strict household.
- to enter adult life
Meaning:the stage when adolescents are almost old enough to be legally independent of their parents
Example: Parents who have devoted time and thought to raising and educating their children have given them a good prepartion to enter adult life.
Other vocabulary:
- the job market [noun]:
Meaning: the market in which employers search for employees, and employees search for employers
Example: About 25,000 people entered the job market in the UK last month.
- DIY [noun]:
Meaning: = ‘do it yourself’: the activity of making, repairing or decorating things in the home yourself, rather than paying someone to do it
Example: My sister likes DIY in the home: she is always repairing things which are broken or no longer work.
- otherwise [adverb]:
Meaning: used to state what the result would be if something did not happen or the situation was different
Example: My parents lent me some money. Otherwise, I could never have afforded the trip.