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UNIT 2 (VERSION 1.2)

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UNIT 2 (VERSION 1.2)

The document is a comprehensive guide for IELTS preparation, focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and personal information. It includes exercises for practicing sounds, past tenses, and reading numbers and dates. The content is structured into units with activities and examples to enhance understanding and application of English language skills.
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BASIC IELTS

- UNIT 2 -
Pronunciation
01 /ʊ/, /uː/

Table of
Contents 02 Vocabulary
Personal Information

03 Grammar
Past tenses
Pronunciatio
n
Theory Mouth movement

/ʊ/ /uː/
Word Phonetics Meaning
Food /fuːd/ Đồ ăn
Remove /rɪˈmuːv/ Loại bỏ
Music /ˈmjuːzɪk/ Âm nhạc
Cook /kʊk/ Nấu ăn
Foot /fʊt/ Bàn chân
Activity 1 Match the phonetics with the right picture

/fʊt/ /ˈwʊmən/ /bʊk/ /kʊk/ /fʊl/

/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”


Activity 2 Circle all the words containing /u:/ sound in the passage

Li had a busy day. In the morning, he had to buy presents to send to his
parents in China for the Lunar New Year. Then, he went to buy a new
bamboo flute for his daughter. In the afternoon, he took his son to the
pool. After that, he went to the supermarket to buy food. In the evening,
he checked his wise tooth before going home to cook dinner.

/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”


Sound and spelling

/ʊ/ is usually spelled “u”, “oo”

/uː/ is usually spelled “oo”, “ue”, ”ui”, “u”


Check-up Choose the right answer

/ʊ/ /u:/
Group X
Foot X
Food X
Should X
Sugar X
Tooth X
Blue X
Put X
Good X
Exercise 1. Odd one out

1. A. Too B. Food C. Push D. Two


2. A. Fruit B. Juice C. Good D. Choose
3. A. Goose B. Woman C. Blue D. Tooth
4. A. Pool B. Full C. Put D. Sugar
5. A. School B. Afternoon C. Cushion D. Soup
Exercise 2. Fill in the blank then practice
IELTS Speaking Sample part 1

1.When you buy shoes, do you prefer comfortable or nice ones?


look for shoes that are easy to wear. But I also
Of course, I will /lʊk/
consider the style /tuː/
too , because I want to choose
/tʃuːz/ shoes that match
the clothes I wear.
2.Do you think that children should be taught cookery at school?
Yes, that’s probably a /ɡʊd/
good idea. If all children knew how to /kʊk/
cook
a few basic, healthy meals, that would
/wʊd/ surely be a /ɡʊd/
good thing.
Exercise 3. Listen and fill in the blank (Track 1)

sugar
1. Do you take …………?
looking
Could you help me? I’m ………………for good cookery………….
book
2. ………… a ……………
Tuesday , the second of ……………….
3. It’s ……………… June
news
4. Let’s watch the ……………….
Room
5. ……………… two is over there.
………………
spoon soup
6. Here’s a ……………… for your ……………….
Vocabulary
Personal Information

• Phone number
• Date format
• Postcode
IELTS Listening Part 1 sample:

A: What’s your date of birth?


S: 10/10/(1)…………………………..
A: And your telephone number?
S: My phone number is (2) …………………….. and my home phone number is
01265 649 674.
A: Okay and could you tell me your (3) …………………….. please?
S: Sure. It’s SE1 2LP.
PHONE NUMBER

6203 452

Six two oh three, four five two


Personal Information
PHONE NUMBER

• Read numbers from the left to the right


• Read numbers one by one
PHONE NUMBER

What’s your phone number?


It’s …. 5709 1302
Five seven zero nine one three zero two.
Five seven oh nine one three oh two.

“Oh” is more common.

Zero (0) is usually pronounced as Oh


PHONE NUMBER

When numbers are together:


E.g. 6122 4183

Six one two two, four one eight three


Six one double two, four one eight three

Two numbers together are pronounced as DOUBLE …


Summary PHONE NUMBER

In English, we say each number individually or say in other ways:

Number Pronounced

Zero (0) Oh

Two numbers together Double + the number


Personal Information
PHONE NUMBER

• Read numbers from the left to the right


• Read numbers one by one
• 0 – oh/zero
• 2 consecutive numbers 🡪 double + number
E.g. 44 🡪 double four
DATE

When is your birthday?

A. The tenth of May


B. The ten of May
C. 10th May
Personal Information
PHONE NUMBER
• Read numbers from the left to the right
• Read numbers one by one
• 0 – oh/zero
• 2 consecutive numbers 🡪 double + number
E.g. 44 🡪 double four

DATE

• The + day (ordinal number) + of + month (Spoken English)


• Day (ordinal number) + month (Written English)
DATE

Twenty sixteen
2016
Two thousand and sixteen

1600 Sixteen hundred


DATE

LIST OF MONTHS
January Tháng 1
February Tháng 2
March Tháng 3
April Tháng 4
May Tháng 5
June Tháng 6
DATE

LIST OF MONTHS
July Tháng 7
August Tháng 8
September Tháng 9
October Tháng 10
November Tháng 11
December Tháng 12
Postcode

A : And the postcode?


B : It’s BS8 9PU.

Postcode: Capital letters + numbers


Personal Information
PHONE NUMBER

• Read numbers from the left to the right


• Read numbers one by one
• 0 – oh/zero
• 2 consecutive numbers 🡪 double + number
E.g. 44 🡪 double four

DATE POSTCODE

• The + date (ordinal number) + of + month Include capitals letters and


• Date (ordinal number) + month numbers
Check-up Choose the right answer

DATE POSTCODE PHONE NUMBER


AE348N1 X
2nd August X
934 0823 X
DA02M X
May, 2020 X
4028 722 X
Exercise 4 A. Circle postcodes in the table and read

2020 Flat 6 WE58GF


19th June, 2001 DBR29 1998
0332 8992 05.10.2010 BS89PU
PA57GJ 3 Oak Street 2389 9222
Exercise 4. B. Circle dates in the table and read

2020 AS0239 in the morning


19th June, 2001 05:00 1998
3217 5896 05.10.2010 November
VTV3 FM09 3rd floor
Exercise 5. Listen and choose the correct option (Track 2)

1. What’s your telephone number?


A. 433 2139
B. 433 2539
C. 833 2029
2. What’s your birthday? 3. What about the postcode?
A. 3rd of July A. BA209N
B. 3rd of June B. BE209M
C. 5th of June C. PA209M
Exercise 6 Listen and fill in the blank (Track 3)

Travel Safe
INSURANCE PLC
Department: Motor Insurance
Client details:

Name: Elisabeth Ricard


Date of birth: …………………………
Address: 60 Forest Road, Callington
8th October, 1975 (town)
Policy number:…......................

CZ8809
Grammar
Past simple

IELTS Speaking Part 2


Describe a device that you can’t live without

I /bɔːt/
bought my cell phone 2 years ago.
PAST SIMPLE USES

Talk about events in the past


PAST SIMPLE Form

I bought my cell phone 2 years ago.

S Ved

S did not V

? Did S V
PAST SIMPLE TIME EXPRESSIONS

• yesterday
• last night/ last week/ last month/ last year
• last + noun
• two weeks/three months/one year ago
• in 1990
Check up

did
1. When we were seniors in our university, we (do) …………… many presentations
that were related to our major.
were not popular fifteen years ago.
2. Smartphones (be) ………….
went
3. Last year, I (go) ……….… on a trip to Ho Chi Minh City in my summer vacation and
that trip is the most memorable one that I have ever had.
used to be a very famous actor in the 1990s.
4. He (use) ……….….
5. One of the most terrible natural disasters is the earthquake and tsunami that
happened in Japan in 2011.
(happen) ………………
Past continuous Choose the right answer

He ___________ his homework in his bedroom when the burglar


came into the house.
A. is doing B. did C. was doing

Provide the background scene to an action or event (usually in the


past simple)

Often use with: when, while, as


Past continuous

Provide the background scene to an action or


event (usually in the past simple)
Past continuous Choose the right answer

My father was cleaning the house while my mother (was making/made)


dinner.

More than one action happening at the same time in the past
Past continuous

Provide the background scene to an action or event


(usually in the past simple)

More than one action happening at the same time in


the past
PAST CONTINUOUS Form

Affirmative (+)
Subject + was/were +V-ing
Negative (-)
Subject + was/were (not) + V-ing
Interrogative
(WH-Qs) was/were + subject + V-ing?
Past perfect

gone when I arrived.


He had /ɡɔːn/

Talk about something that happened before an event in the past

With words like when, as soon as, by the time, after to show the
order of events
Past perfect

Talk about something that happened before an event in the past

With words like when, as soon as, by the time, after to show the
order of events
Past perfect – Verb form

When Jane’s mom got home, she had finished her homework.

S had Vpp

S had not Vpp

? Had S Vpp
Check-up Give the correct forms of the verbs

1. rose (rise) to 20% in 2010.


The percentage of men who work at night ………..

2. By 2000, smart phone had not become (not become) popular in Vietnam.
………………………….

3. increased
In 1998, the number of fast food consumers in America ………………………….(increase)
dramatically.

4. had dropped (drop) by roughly $90.


By the beginning of 2009 the price of oil ……………………

5. had risen
By 2007, the average computer price………………….(rise) by almost £19,000.
Exercise 7 Write the past perfect tense

Infinitive Past simple Past perfect


Go went had gone
Learn learned/learnt had learned/learnt
Play played
had played
Eat ate
Have had had eaten
Do did had had
had done
Exercise 8 Fill in the blank with the correct form of past tenses

IELTS Speaking part 1 sample


How long have you lived in your house with your family?

was
Well, I have lived with my parents since I (1) ……………… (be) a little girl.
graduated
After I (2) ………………..…… (graduate) my high school in the hometown , I
moved
(3) ……………… (move) to Hanoi to enter my university where I (4)
lived
……………… (live) in a small flat with my older brother.
Exercise 8 Fill in the blank with the correct form of past tenses

IELTS Speaking Part 1. When was your first flight?

was was (be) a


Actually, it (1)……………… (be) around 12 years ago, when I (2) ………………
traveled (travel) with my family to
student in my secondary school. I (3) ………………..……
was
Thailand. It (4) ……………… (be) a memorable trip because while I (5)
was sitting saw
……………….….. (sit) in the airplane , I (6)…………….. (see) the most beautiful
rainbow ever.
Exercise 9 Put the verbs into the simple past
IELTS Speaking Part 2. Tell me about one of your holidays
went
1. Last year I (go) ………………………to England on holiday.
was
2. It (be) …………………..fantastic.
visited was
3. I (visit) ………………….lots of interesting places. I (be) …………………..with two friends of
mine.
walked
4. In the mornings we (walk) ……………………..in the streets of London.
went
5. In the evenings we (go) …………………………..to pubs.
was
6. The weather (be)…………………….. strangely fine.
didn’t rain a lot.
7. It (not / rain) ………………………
saw
8. But we (see) …………………………some beautiful rainbows.

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