IELTS Speaking Task 2: Topic Tết cổ truyền Việt Nam

12/02/2018

Topic:

Describe a national festival in your country.

When it takes place
Why it takes place
What the people do during this festival

and explain why this festival is important to you.

Bài mẫu:

Chú thích:

Từ mới: in đậm
Âm nối: chữ đỏ gạch dưới

Well, to start off, I would like to describe Tet, which is the most crucial national festival of Vietnam. In Vietnamese culture, Tết marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year. It usually lasts three days but celebrations continue for at least the first week of the New Year.

Moving on to the next question, in my opinion, the primary reason for its appearance is that Tết is a special occasion for family reunions as well as for celebrating the arrival of spring.

To celebrate the New Year, we do lots of things together. Before New Year’s Eve, we prepare some local specialties, such as Chưng cake, Vietnamese sausage and dried candied fruits to worship our ancestors and then enjoy during Tet. Houses are thoroughly cleaned out and then nicely furnished in the hopes of getting rid ofthe past year’s bad lucks. Additionally, many families usually decorate their houses with Kumquat trees, Apricotor Peach blossom and parallel sentences that are believed to bring luckiness, happiness and prosperity to them in the New Year.

All members in a family gather together and have parties to ring in the New Year. During Tết, there are a lot of customs practiced, such as giving lucky money to children, visiting friends’ houses and going to churches, temples or pagodas to make good prays for their family.

If there’s time left, I would like to explain its importance to our culture and me. With Vietnamese, Tết is vital as it’s avery meaningful tradition to welcome the New Year. And it’s more important because Tet is the time for families and relatives to gather under the same roof for rekindling love and bonding. For me, I always long for Tet as it’s the longest holiday, which can help me recover my battery after a long working year.

Các từ vựng trong bài:

Từ vựng	Phiên âm	Dịch nghĩa
Crucial	ˈkruːʃl	Quan trọng
Vital	ˈvaɪtl	Quan trọng
Marks the beginning	mɑrks ðə bɪgɪnɪŋ	Đánh dấu sự khởi đầu
Local specialties	lokəl spɛšəltiz	Đặc sản
Family reunion	fæməli riunyən	Sum hợp gia đình
Lunar New Year	lunər nu yɪr	Năm mới âm lịch
Dried candied fruits	draid ‘kændid fru:t	Mứt hoa quả
Vietnamese sausage	viɛtnamis sɒsəǰ	Lạp xưởng
Worship our ancestors	wəršəp awər ænsɛstərz	Thờ cúng tổ tiên
Kumquat tree	kəmkwat triz	Cây quất
Apricot blossom	’eiprikɔt ‘blɔsəm	Hoa mai
Peach blossom	pi:tʃ ‘blɔsəm	Hoa đào
Parallel sentences	pɛrəlɛl sɛntənsəz	Câu đối
Ring in the New Year	rɪŋ ɪn ðə nu yɪr	Chào đón giao thừa
Rekindle love and bonding	rikɪndəl ləv ænd bɑndɪŋ	Nhóm lại ngọn lửa tình yêu và gắn kết
Recover my battery	rɪkəvər may bætəri	Phục hồi lại năng lượng