💎 IELTS CÔNG THỨC NÓI TIẾNG ANH PHẦN 10

✅ Formula 10: When was the first/last time you did X?
Cấu trúc:
1 Use prepositions and adverbs of time correctly.
The last time I went fishing was about three years ago.
The first time I used a computer was in high school in 1984.
around (months, occasions, festivals, special days)
… around Christmas …
… around my 10th birthday …
last (weeks, weekends, months, years, festivals)
… last weekend …
… last month …
in (months, seasons, years)
… in December …
… in 1979 …
during (months, seasons, long festivals)
… during the Tet holiday …
… during the spring …
on (days, special days)
… on the 5th of November 2005 …
… on my parents’ 25th wedding anniversary …
about + time period + ago
I played a computer game about two years ago.
They visited the Summer Palace about three days ago.
the last/first time I + past verb + was …
The last time I went swimming was a few hours ago.
The first time I ate insects was in the summer of 2007.
2 Have great control of the past simple to talk about completed events.
l went on holiday last May.
My father bought me a computer when I was 10.
Học bảng động từ bất quy tắc.
3 Use varied adjectives of experience to sound more like a native.
Camping in the USA was so boring.
I thought acting was so intriguing.
difficult, challenging – for things you learned to do that were not easy but you enjoyed learning.
exciting, thrilling, exhilarating, stimulating, enjoyable – for things that you really enjoyed and that were a lot of fun as well as being interesting
fascinating, intriguing, surprising – for things or experiences that were new and you felt very curious about them before/while doing them
depressing, upsetting, unpleasant – for things that made you feel sad, very uncomfortable
embarrassing, humiliating – for things that made you feel very uncomfortable because other people were watching or because you felt silly
irritating, annoying, frustrating – for things that you did not enjoy because you
thought they were stupid, a waste of time or too difficult.