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17/12/2014

Hey guys, it's been a while since our last post, since both of us were busy with the graduation exam and busy with new lives in new countries (Singapore & the US). However, this page is still growing thanks to your support! (I am actually amazed at how the likes keep increasing even though we have been delaying our posts for almost a year :P)

So keep supporting us and take care of your English study by reading and learning something new from our previous posts. Next week I'll be enjoying winter break (YAY!) and hopefully I'll have some time to post some cool stuff to this page! What do you like the next topic to be? :D

Word of the day: EXULTANT: very happyExample: We are exultant at the development of this English page. We want to thank ...
29/08/2013

Word of the day: EXULTANT: very happy

Example: We are exultant at the development of this English page. We want to thank those who made it all possible :x

26/07/2013

NEW WORDS IN THE NEWS: THE RUNNING MAN

Sport is a frequent topic in IELTS/TOEFL test, so today you can prepare yourself for it by reading this article about our raising star, The Running Man. (thể thao là chủ đề phổ biến trong IELTS/TOEFL, bạn hãy chuẩn bị với bài viết sau về Running Man đang gây sốt ở Việt Nam nhé!)
Soccer stars on treadmill to boost globalization drive
Vu Xuan Tien became Arsenal's unofficial mascot on the Hanoi leg of their pre-season Asia tour after he ran alongside the team's coach for several miles. Tien was then invited to lead the Arsenal players onto the pitch at the My Dinh stadium in Hanoi before their match against the Vietnamese national team, which they won 7-1.
He runs alongside the Arsenal coach in Vietnam's capital Hanoi mile after mile. He bumps into trees and lamp posts but keeps on running.
At one stage he beats his hand against the badge of the red and white Arsenal shirt that he is wearing, mimicking an often used footballer's goal celebration. Eventually to keep up with the coach he hops on a moped.
The "Running Man" -- as Vu Xuan Tien has been dubbed -- gets his reward when the Arsenal coach stops and he is invited on board to meet the players and manager Arsene Wenger, who all sign his shirt.
Man gets on Arsenal bus. Cue international headlines as the "Running Man" goes global. Welcome to the power of English football in Asia.
"It should be a message for all of you guys that if you really want to pursue your dreams, it can happen," goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny told the Arsenal website.
But the "Running Man" is not the only one working his socks off in Asia at the moment.
Arsenal are one of a number of English Premier League clubs touring Asia and Australia -- others include Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea -- as part of their pre-season preparations. The new season kicks off on August 17.
"Tours provide us with an opportunity to build our global following, and are also a great opportunity to bring thousands of supporters further afield closer to the club by giving them a chance to interact with us personally," an Arsenal spokeswoman told CNN.
"From a business perspective it's also important we show our commitment to building our name around the world to become more attractive to potential commercial partners and to support some of our existing partners' business objectives for whom Asia is also an important market."
The business case is clear, but to travel thousands of miles round the world, to train in humid conditions and wake up in a different hotel bed each morning seems -- on the face of it -- perhaps not an ideal way to prepare for the rigors of the English Premier League season and the challenge of the Champions League.
United forward Wayne Rooney was an early casualty of the club's three-week trip to Asia, with the England international having to fly home on the tour's opening day with a hamstring injury.
Dutchman Alex Buttner also picked up a hamstring injury in their friendly defeat to the Singha All-Stars in Thailand -- United's first match on the tour -- to join Rooney in the treatment room.
United did not respond to CNN's questions regarding the financial importance of the Far East to the club or the physiological efficacy of these tours as a way of preparing players for a new season.
While Premier League clubs press the flesh in Asia, Champions League winners Bayern Munich remained in northern Europe and held a training camp in northern Italy in Trentino early July.
"Unfortunately from a physiological perspective and as preparation for the upcoming season I can't see too many positives and more importantly there is significant chance of injury," Dr Craig Duncan of the Australian Catholic University, who until recently was Sydney FC's head of human performance, told CNN.
Topic vocabulary (Từ chủ đề):
mascot
lead
players onto the pitch
stadium
match against
badge
footballer's goal celebration
goalkeeper
season
global following
supporters
commercial partners
partners' business
challenge
held a training camp
upcoming season
injury

There are also ome interesting words, but not related to sport, so knowing them is nice and who knows, one day they will be on your test (Có một số từ thú vị nhưng không liên quan tới thể thao)
- bump into: va phải
- lamp post: cột đèn
- mimick: bắt chước
- dub: gán tên
- on board: trên tàu/xe
- (make international) headlines: trở nên nổi tiếng khắp thế giới
- go global: trở nên phổ biến khắp thế giới
- pursue your dream: theo đuổi ước mơ
- work your socks off: làm việc vất vả
- rigor: sự khắc nghiệt, khó khăn gian khổ
- casualty: thương vong
- press the flesh: giao lưu, có tính chính trị, trang trọng,…
The last paragraph suggested some ideas and examples that will be useful for writing eassays (Một số ý hữu ích từ đoạn trên):
Touring foreign countries:
- Advantages:
o Builds the global following of football clubs, as well as reinforces the existing fanbase by allowing them to interact with the club personally.
o Attract potential commercial patners and boost existing partners’ business.
- Disadvantages:
Reduce player’s strength
Incompatible climate
Chance of injuries
Lack of intensive training
- Check the dictionary or comment if you have any question about these words.
- Go to this link if you want to read the rest of the article and take note of any word, phrase and idea that you find useful.
- http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/23/sport/football/football-asia-tours/index.html?hpt=ias_mid
- Finally, apply what you have just learned to answer these prompts, which you can find on the internet or make up some of your own, for example (vận dụng những điều vừa học để trả lời câu hỏi sau):
o In your opinion, has modern sport been over-commercialized?
o Does sport have a positive or negative impact on their fans?

19/07/2013

TOPIC: ADVERTISING ( enjoy!! ^^)
Noun phrases (part 2: Advanced level)

o Regulatory body: an independent organization, usually established by government, that regulates the activities of companies in an industry. (Hiểu đơn giản là 1 cơ quan chức năng quản lí các công ty khác)
o Point-of-sale display
o Consumer society/ consumerism/ materialism
o Pester power: the ability of children to make their parents buy things for them by continuing to ask them until they agree to do it
o Subliminal advertising: a form of advertising on film or television that employs subliminal images to influence the viewer unconsciously.
o Persuasive intent (of advertising)
o Glamorous theme
o Throwaway society: a society full of excessive consumption and waste of food, products, etc ( Nghĩa là 1 xã hội có quá nhiều hang hoá dư thừa)
o Vague/ambiguous claim: Vague/ambiguous means unclear; claim(n) means a request for a sum of money that you think you have a right to, especially from a company, the government, etc.
o Claim in advertisement
o Cost-efficient advertising strategies
o Graphic identity
o Channels of distribution

Hey guys, since Arsenal and Vietnam soccer team is having a match today, I’d like to present you with a soccer topic-rel...
17/07/2013

Hey guys, since Arsenal and Vietnam soccer team is having a match today, I’d like to present you with a soccer topic-related phrase: CONTROLLING THE CLOCK
“Controlling the Clock”: keeping possession of the ball for long periods of time, giving the other team's offense less time to operate with the ball.

Examples:
Controlling the clock helps Arsenal's defense by allowing them to rest for longer periods before having to go back out on the field.

We love learning English so we have created this page in order to share English tips and materials which we personally f...
14/07/2013

We love learning English so we have created this page in order to share English tips and materials which we personally find useful :D

We don't intend to provide lessons or teach anyone, because we are just students and we need to improve our English as well. :P

SO we highly recommend that you (should) share your stories, your tips or any experience that you've gained in the process of learning English here, too, so that we can all learn from each other. You know, "Two heads are better than one" ^^ Any contribution will be appreciated

13/07/2013

Our first post is for the TOEFL and IELTS standardized tests, since some of us are going to take the tests in the upcoming months. So happy studying!

Topic: ADVERTISING (Quảng cáo)
This is quite a common topic in WRITING PART 2 + SPEAKING PART 3 (IELTS) and WRITING (TOEFL). The graders will score your performance base on your ideas, word usage, sentence structures and connections between sentences as well as between paragraphs. Today, we will give you more insight into WORD USAGE. We have come up with a list of NOUN PHRASES which is related to the topic above. Using correctly more of these words or similar ones can improve your score.
( Đây là 1 chủ đề khá phổ biến trong 2 phần Speaking và Writing (WRITING PART 2 + SPEAKING PART 3 IELTS; WRITING TOEFL). Người chấm bài sẽ chấm điểm dựa theo ý tưởng, cách dùng từ, cách liên kết câu, liên kết đoạn. Trong đó, việc dùng từ sao cho đúng, và thể hiện cho người chấm bài thấy mình có vốn từ vựng khá tốt, còn là vấn đề của 1 số bạn. Sau đây, tụi mình liệt kê ra những CỤM DANH TỪ hữu dụng nhất có thể giúp các bạn nâng điểm số của mình lên khi gặp chủ đề “advertising”)

NOUN PHRASES (part 1: Beginning + Intermediate level)
o Mass communication: Delivery of message to general public by using national press, radio, and television
o General public: (quần chúng)
o Increased understanding
o Wholesalers, middleman: A trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers. (Người lấy mối, người này lấy hàng từ công ty sản xuất và đem về bán lại cho các tiểu thương hoặc người dùng)
o Media content
o Brand loyalty (uy tín thương hiệu)
o NUISANCE, interruption: inconvenient, annoying, or VEXATIOUS
o Commercials
o Product placement
o Developed experiences (kinh nghiệm qua tích luỹ)
o Parental influences
o Customer satisfaction (sự hài lòng của khách hàng)
o Contribution to employment growth
o Immense priority (sự ưu tiên hàng đầu)
o Ethical choices/standards
o Younger population (dân số trẻ)
o Rivaling company (công ty đối thủ)
o Television services
o Technical progress
o Large scale production (sản xuất quy mô lớn)
o Business cost/expenditure (tiền vốn)
o Campaign (cuộc vận động)
o Legal responsibility
o Media plan
o Product sample (mẫu hàng thử nghiệm)
o Promotional tools
o Advertising flyers (tờ rơi)
o Billboard
o Shopping bag
o Media budget
o Constructive manners
o Prime responsibilities of (trách nhiệm hàng đầu)
o Advertising vehicle/schedule
o Buying trends (xu hướng mua sắm)
o Advertising program
o Long-range goals (kế hoạch dài hạn)
o Specific geographic areas (những vùng miền có địa hình địa lý cụ thể)
o Community efforts
o Public relations/marketing/promotional effort

o Product
+ Services
+ Goods
+ Features and benefits
+ Product quality/performance

o Consumers: purchasers, buyers, clients.
+ Prospective customers
+ Existing customers
+ Lost customers
+ Poor/Indifferent customer service
+ Buying preferences
+ Media habits

o Producers
+ Traders
+ Company’s image
+ (Established global) brand
+ Start-up = small business
o Media
o Sales
+ Product sales
+ Sales message
+ Sales projection
+ Sales volume

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