Step 2

1. Give an example:

• What special dishes do they serve?
• What can you learn from this good student?
• What kinds of thing do you often buy from this shop?
• What can you see from this garden?
• Example:
  • What are the contents of this website?
    • There is/are a variety of/a wide range of/heaps of/loads of contents on this website.
    • Including/such as/like a search engine, a music download service, video clips, and maps.
  • What special dishes do they serve?
    • Well, they serve a variety of special dishes.
    • Such as spaghetti, pasta, steak, salad and milk tea.

2. Tell a story:

• What does the film talk about?
• What did people do at the wedding?
• What does thís advertisement talk about?
• You can narrate the story in the following order: the setting in which the story occurs, the course of the story, the point of the story, the end of the story. Use the following key words/phrases:
  • At the very beginning ...
  • After that/ Afterwards/ And then, ...
  • During/ While ...
  • Towards the end/ In the end/ Finally/ Eventually, ...

• Where

  With questions related to place, you can answer as follows:

  • This place is located/situated in ... (specify location)

  •  This place is very handy; it is just on the ground floor/around the corner/on the opposite side of my neighborhood/in a shopping mall called Parkson Plaza. (describe that place in relation to another place)

  •  It is only 5 minutes' walk/10 minutes' drive from ... (describe the place by travel time)

  • The place I want to travel to in the future is Las Vegas, which is a world-renowned gambling destination in the States. (use subordinate clauses to introduce geographical locations)

• Who

  • Use the sentence pattern It is ... who ... to answer questions related to people. This is a sentence structure used to emphasize the object in question. 

  • Who do you want to travel with?

    Well, it is my boyfriend who I want to travel with since we have so many things in

    common.

  • Who took this picture?

    Well, it was my father who took this picture while I was riding a horse on the grassland.

• When

  • Time-related questions are divided into two types: questions about things that happened in the past (When did you travel to this place?) and questions about things happening in the future (When do you want to travel to this place?).

  • When talking about something that happened in the past, you use the past tense:

    • I went to this place several months ago when I was having a holiday.

  • When talking about something that will happen in the future, you can use the present or future tense with modal verbs such as may, will, shall.

    • I plan to travel to the States this coming September. (it will happen at the scheduled time)

    • Well, I haven't decided my future timetable yet. Basically, after I graduate from university, I may/ will travel to the States. (the event will happen or not depends on a certain condition)

• How often

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If the number of times the action is taken is fixed, you can answer like this:

    • Normally, I often go shopping at Parkson Plaza during weekends. I go there once a month.

  • If the number of times the action is performed is not fixed, you answer as follows:

    • It depends. Whenever I need to buy some daily necessities, Ben Thanh market will be my priority. It depends. Whenever I am in the mood for pizza, Pizza Hut will be my first choice.

• How much

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In case you know the price of the item, please specify the price:

    • Basically, a smartphone would cost me roughly 300 USD.

  • In case you do not know the price of the item, you can answer as follows:

    • Frankly speaking, I have never done market research before, so I have no idea how much it is.

Note: You should answer the second and third questions in about 20 seconds.