Speaking 3 Situations

SITUATIONS FOR THE FINAL SPEAKING-3 TEST

1. 20 years ago, you were an orphan and were adopted by a family. Now, you find out your biological mother is still alive. However, she is struggling in her life and no one takes care of her. What will you do? Should you come back to live with your biological mother? If your adoptive mother does not agree, and she thinks that your biological mother is not worth living with you because she used to abandon you. What will you do?

Solution:

I would feel shocked because I never think that I would be in this situation. I have no idea what to do but the first thing I should do is to help my biological mother. I feel so sorry when she is working hard to feed herself while no one is beside her and takes care of her. She must be very lonely.

Besides, whatever happened in the past, she must have been very sad when she left me. I will find out why she she did that. I think I still live with my adoptive mother but I also try get closer to my biological mother.

2. Because many families cannot aford to send their children to universities or colleges, they decide to send them to vocational schools or to delay their study so that they can work to earn money and then continue their university study afterwards. What do you think about it? Is it a right decision? Does it waste potential talents of the country? What can be solutions for this situation?

Solution:

If they do not have enough money for their children’s study at university, I think they can borrow money from a bank to pay the school fee and their children can pay back when they get a job after.

If they want to delay their study, it is not a bad idea. It’s never late to study at university because we have already known many cases in which very old people still go to university and graduate.

If they send their children to vocational schools, it is still a good decision. When you learn in a vocational school, you learn more skills and practise more time and this is good for your job after. The important thing is not at where you learn but how and what you learn.

3. You, your mother, your wife and your son are all on the same boat. Suddenly it capsizes and no one know how to swim except you. You are able to save only one person. Who will you save?

Solution:

If I am able to save only one person, I believe that I should save my son. It is easily understandable that the son deserves to live long life than the others and I’m sure my mother and my wife will agree with my opinion.

If my son is too far from me, I would save my mother be cause she is the oldest person and one who has brought me up, gives me this life and takes care of me for her whole life. My wife will understand that more than the others and she would do the same to her mother.

4. You are a beautiful secretary working for a very handsome young manager. He always favours you. Your colleagues talk behind you that you and your manager are in a relationship and thus you are favoured by him. What can you do to solve this?


I am the person who lives independent and I am confident in my real capability. Therefore, inspite of my manager’s special support, I still work and do my job correctly in very high performance. So I do not feel fair when people talk behind me like this.

I will feel very happy if my manager favours me but it does not mean we are in a serious relationship. So I will explain this to everyone in a suitable meeting or occasion. If people say that, they should give me some evidence, otherwise, I will complain them for talking behind me.

Besides, I will try to explain this to my manager and make sure that he is doing his job correctly. He is a manager for a company, and he should be fair to everyone, and make it clear to everyone.

5. Lan is a sophomore (second-year) student who loves Nam and is pregnant. What can she do? Should they cohabitate before marriage?

Cohabitation is more and more common in western countries. I’m quite an open-minded person, so I don’t see it is wrong or weird to do that. However, I live in Vietnam where people are quite reserved and not really open-minded to these problems, so I will not do that just to protect my family.

However, I will not let myself so stupid that I am pregnant when we are not married. We don’t know if our partners are responsible enough or they will leave you after they know the news. So, you should put yourself in a safer side where you can protect yourself but you can still do what you love to do.

6. While you are looking for a job, you are offered 2 jobs. One is to work the whole week including evenings and weekends with very high salary. One is to work only on week days with lower salary. Which one do you choose?

Solution:

It is easily understood that salary is very important when you look for a job. If you are offered a job with high salary, it means that you are qualified. However, I want to know what job it is. Why does it require me to work the whole weekends and even evenings? It means that you do not have any time to rest and do your own favourite things but work. I believe I will be absolutely exhausted after work and it will be very boring for me when most of my time, I have to work. I also can’t imagine how I look like if I have to do a job like this. So, I will not agree with this job I I will choose the other one.

Besides, though you have lower salary, you have time to be with your family. For those who are married, it’s even more important for them to spend time with their family. This is crucial to make sure that you are still a member of the family when your family can share things to you, discuss family problems with you and, on top of that, you have time to take care of your children, to be with them as a father.

Moreover, if you are young, and you think that the job that requires you to work all the time can give you passion, can bring you opportunities and motivation, then I think you can do that job. However, make sure that you are not overwhelmed and the job does not take all of your energy away. Health is the most important thing to keep you have enough energy to work to earn money and do everything you want.

7. You are going to employ a new staff for your company. Your manager asks you to keep it as a secret. However, you know that this new staff will replace your friend’s position. What can you do in this situation?


Solution:

I would try to figure out why my boss want sombody to replace his position. Will he be promoted? If then, I would be very happy and let everything happen quietly as my boss wants. If it means to kick him out of the company, I would try to ask my boss why he wants that. Does he have any suitable reasons to kick him out? If yes, I would not imform my friend but I will say that what he is not good at so that he can improve, I do not want my friend to lose his job and as a friend of him, I should help him to get out of this problem. Everyone make mistakes, so l try to help my friend to correct his mistakes. It is not only useful for him but also for the company.

If he still keep his manner and make the same mistakes, I think my boss should be the person who inform my friend that he will be kicked out if he keep making unreasonable mistakes. Because sooner or later, my boss has to do that. I just try my best to put my friend in a situation where he can understand his mistakes and try his best to fix it. For the rest, my boss wiill decide what to do.

8. You go to Australia for study and you fall in love with an Australian guy. After marriage, you choose to stay there to live with your husband. However, after living for a while, you just realize that there are so many cultural differences between you and your husband. Some gestures such as hugging and kissing the oposite-gender friends make you feel uncomfortable and upset. What can you do to solve this problem?

I will try to share all of my feelings to my husband because we are already wife and husband. We can not keep this for ourselves and then blame each other at the end. We can understand easily that everyone is different and this makes people attractive to each other. However, sometimes if it is too much different and makes you feel mad or sad, then you should solve have a conversation to your partner. You say that when you see it, you do not feel good at all and you can’t accept too close gestures to the other opposite-gender people. If your partner love you, he should try to control it but you should give him time because no one can do it fast like a robot.

However, you should also think about yourself. Is it important to ask your partner to change himself like this. He does it because it is his culture and you know that. It’s just because you are not familiar with it. Then you should give yourself time to adapt new culture while you also ask your partner to give you time to be familiar with that. Then everything will be solved in a very gentle way and your partner will be very happy because you have put yourself in his shoes and understand him deeply.

9. Amy got good results in the last entrance examination to university. Her friends claim that university is not the only way to success. What do you think about this?

See question 2

10. Phong’s father passed away 1 year ago and his mother has been very upset. One day, she is falling in love with a man and is feeling very happy. She wants to get married to this guy. Despite his love to his mother, Phong disagrees with his mother because his father just died for a short time. Do you agree with his argument?

I can understand how he feels because he loves his father so much that he will not accept any other guy being with his mother. Besides, his father just died 1 year ago and it is not enough for you to forget his father’s death. However, he should also put himself in his mother’s shoes to understand how she feels. A woman should always need a man to be loved and shared, especially when her husband passed away and she is feeling lonely. She has found someone who she thinks she can live together to share her sadness and


happiness. Besides, she wil not be upset anymore bacause this guy can make her happy. However, 1 year is quite short to think about a marriage. She should think about you, talk to you more before she decides to get married to this guy. Actually, they can be lovers, they can take care of each other but a marriage is quite soon. So Phong should not deny her love to this guy but ask her to postpone the marriage to more 1 year later. First, it is to let everyone ready including you and your mother. In addition, she will have 1 more year to know more her lover before getting married. This is not bad at all and I’m sure this guy will agree to wait for it if he loves her.

11. In a test, you are caught to be helping your friend do the test and you lose 50% of your total mark. What will you explain to the teacher? Bonus: if you catch your close friend cheating in his test, what will you do?

First, I will say sorry to the teacher but I will try to make her listen to my explanation. I will say that he is too nervous that he could not understand the questions. He asked me for a favour and I did not know what to do but help him. I know he can do some if he understand the questions. He seemed to believe in my support and I feel so sorry if I could not help him. However, what I helped him is too little to make any difference from what he could do by himself in the test. This is my mistake but I beg a sympathy from a teacher like her.

Bonus: I would not do anything because that is his choice. I respect that although I disagree completely.

If this is what he usually does when doing a test, I will try explain to him that this is such a wrong action that it may cause more problems than he thinks. He can be dropped out of the school if he is caught by teachers. In addition, this make him become less and less confident when doing a test and he never develops himself and his study. I will try my best to persuade him not to do it anymore.

If this is the first time he did that, I believe there is something wrong that I should find out. After finding out the reason, I will try my best to help him as much as I can.

12. One day, your friend visits you and leave his wallet in your house. The next day, he comes to ask for his wallet and you give it back to him. However, he complains that he loses 100 $ in his wallet. What can you do?

I will try to help him to find it, it may drop somewhere in my house. If I can’t find it, I will tell him exactly what I know. I will tell him maybe he drop it somewhere else that he forgets. I will help him to figure out when and where he leaves it if I can. Another possibility is that he might have spent it some time and I will help him to recall it.

If he insists that he drops it in my house, I will ask him to give me evidence. If not, I want him to respect me and stop saying something bad about me or behind me.

If he keeps doing that, I will consider our friendship, I may not let him visit my house anymore or being together with him. I will keep a gap in our relationship so that I’m no longer his victim.

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