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Level: IELTS Fighter B Skill: Speaking Unit: Topic: Friends, Dreams, Values TÀI LIỆU BỔ TRỢ Vocabularies TOPIC: FRIENDS close friend: a very good friend enjoy each other’s company: to like spending time with each other | Steve and Noah are always together, they definitely enjoy each other’s company fair-weather friend: someone who is your friend only when you are cheerful and successful | A lot of John’s friends turned out to be fair-weather friends They were with him when he was rich and left him when he went bankrupt friends are like second family: that is to say your friends love you and make you feel comfortable get in touch with somebody: to contact somebody | I plan to get in touch with my friends when I return home near and dear to someone: very important to someone | Her parents are the only people who are near and dear to her shoulder to cry on: someone who is always ready to listen to your problems | I’m so glad my boyfriend is so kind and sympathetic, it’s good to always have a shoulder to cry on www.ielts-fighter.com | to be through thick and thin: to have some good times and difficult times together | Your parents are married for 15 years, they must have been through thick and thin together to be well-matched: to be similar to somebody in interests | They are well-matched to break up: to end a relationship | It is hard to believe that Jacob and Sarah broke up They were dating since high school to drift apart: to become less close to someone | As years went by, school friends drifted apart to fall for someone (to fall in love with someone): to start loving somebody | They were childhood friends, and he fell for her! to fall out with: to quarrel, to have a conflict | He left the party after falling out with his girlfriend to get on like a house on fire: people get on like a house on fire when they like each other’s company and become friends very quickly | I like my new roommate! We have a lot of same interests and get on like a house on fire to get on well with somebody: to have a good relationship with somebody | I’m an outgoing person and I easily get on well with new people to get to know someone: to become acquainted with someone | I thought Jenna was selfish until I got to know her and understood her real character to have a lot in common: to have similar interests www.ielts-fighter.com | to have friends in high places: to have friends in powerful positions in business or government | Joe owes his fast career growth to his friends in high places to hit it off with somebody: to quickly become close friends with somebody | I could not imagine that Laura will hit it off with Dylan! They are so different to keep in touch with someone: to maintain contact with someone | I keep in touch with my friends from high school, although we graduated five years ago to lose touch with someone: to lose contact with someone | I lost touch with Mary since she moved to Canada to see eye to eye: to agree | I think it’s better to live in a big city, but my brother doesn’t see eye to eye with me about it to strike up (a conversation, a relationship): to start | I feel awkward when I strike up a conversation with unknown people ups and downs: a mixture of good and bad things that | We’re friends for almost 30 years! Surely we’ve had our ups and downs www.ielts-fighter.com | happen TOPIC: DREAMS Have no recollection of: to remember nothing | I have no recollection of what happened in my dream Fragment: a single part of something; a part that is not complete | I just can recall some disconnected fragments of last night’s dream Scare out of their mind: To shock or scare one very suddenly or severely | Some are scared out of their mind by those horrible dreams Beg a question: If a statement or situation begs the question, it causes you to ask a particular question | The new attendant’s investigation begs the question of what caused bribery in the office Look into: To examine the facts about a problem or situation | Please look into the case before investigating it Figure out: To discover | “Could you please figure out the issue in my laptop?” Have a sinking feeling: A feeling that something bad is going to happen | “Do you get a sinking feeling?” Put somebody in a bad mood: Sad; depressed; grouchy; with low spirits | This song put me into a bad mood To be through: To have finished something | I really have to be through with my studies Vivid dream: Any dream or nightmare which one remembers after awakening | I had a vivid dream last night www.ielts-fighter.com | Every now and then: Sometimes | She kept knocking on my door every now and then Take a trip down memory lane: To reminisce over memories of past events, especially happy ones | I took a trip down to the memory line and reminisced about my school days Living the dream: Do what you really want to do/achieve | I’m really living my dream by working in this company Chain store: A store that is part of a chain of similar stores selling the same type of product, and that are all owned and controlled by the same organization | “Look there ,I guess there is some chain store over there” Fulfill one’s dream: Realize one’s dream | I really want to fulfill my fathers’ dream Come true: To materialize as expected or hoped | My dream has come true Move forward: Make progress | “Can you please move forward ?” Out of reach: Unobtainable | She is out of reach now Haunt: (V) if something unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it | A lot of people are haunted by their nightmares Haunt (N) – Haunting (Adj) – Haunted (Adj) www.ielts-fighter.com | Recall: (V) To remember something | “Can you please recall the place where you kept the paper” Recall (N) – Recallable (Adj) Visualize: (V) To form a picture of somebody/something in your mind | “Please visualize what happened last night.” Visualization (N) – Visualized (Adj) – Visibly (Adv) www.ielts-fighter.com | TOPIC: VALUES Posh labels: fashionable, and expensive brands | When the children go to school they want to have posh labels on their jumpers or good shoes Reasonable: not too expensive | Tomatoes are very reasonable at this time of year A sign of status: an object meant to signify its owners' high social and economic standing | Property, or the house you own, and the possessions you have in it are also a sign of status Preferential treatment: used to say that the way that someone is treated is better than what other people receive | In many cultures, if someone has high status, then they will be respected by others and they may receive preferential treatment Intellectual achievements: a success that resulted from a person’s intelligence | People with intellectual achievements and publicly perceived intelligence Exposure to media: the amount of public attention that someone or something receives | A top position in a well-known company, social influence and power and exposure to media are a few other things that people often consider as symbols of high status Put emphasis on: place special or extra importance to an activity or to a part or aspect of something | We constantly compete with others and put too much emphasis on our status in society www.ielts-fighter.com | Predominant: (Adj) more noticeable or important, or larger in number, than others | A person’s education level has a predominant role in determining one’s status Predominance (N) – Predominate (V) – Predominantly (Adv) – Predominately (Adv) Decay: (N) the process of a society, an institution, a system, etc being gradually destroyed | The decay in our "family bonding" and "patriotic feelings" are also making us more materialistic Decay (V) – Decayed (Adj) – Decaying (Adj) Conspicuous: (Adj) easy to see or notice; likely to attract attention | Going back to the example of the car, driving around in a Mercedes is a very conspicuous show of status Conspicuousness (N) – Conspicuously (Adv) www.ielts-fighter.com |