Dạng câu hỏi này là dạng hay xuất hiện trong đề thi Part I – Ielts speaking. Một số câu hỏi tượng tự dạng chủ đề này:

Tell me about your hometown/street/apartment.

What do you like about your house?

What do you like about your hometown/street/apartment?

Tell me good things about your house.

Is there anything you don’t like about it?

Would you like to move to another city/house/apartment?

What would you change about your city?

Would you recommend your area/street as a good place to live?

Với những câu hỏi này, các bạn nên chuẩn bị những lượng từ vựng sau:

Nouns

 

Winding street                                 

The locals =peole 

Residential area

Apartment complex

Suburb

Local cuisine

Estate

Capital

Architecture

Shopping

Neighborhood

District

Adjectives

 

Sprawling

Unique

Industrial

Regionally important

Distinctive

Provincial

Commercial

Built-up

Powerful

 

 

 

 

Idioms:

Run down = in bad condition                      some areas are run-down

Up-market/fashionable                                                some neighborhoods are becoming very up-market/chic

Dưới đây là bài gợi ý cho các bạn để trả lời những loại câu hỏi liên quan đến dạn bài “Where you live?”

Q: Do you live in a house or an apartment?
A: Actually I live on campus … in a single room in halls of residence … all first year students are encouraged to do that as they’re close to the university … next year I plan to move into student digs in town …

Q: Tell me about where you live.
A: I live with my parents in the suburbs of Madrid … we only moved in recently … in fact we had a house-warming party just a few weeks ago …

Q: What kind of accommodation do most people live in in your city?
A: In the city itself the majority of people live in apartment blocks … that’s what surprised me about England … most people seem to live in terraced houses with lovely back gardens …