Friends— Part 1 Báo cáo

Gợi ý: Answer the comparison directly, then explain how the location has changed and why. Use accurate grammar such as “the places where I meet my friends” and “compared with the past.” Avoid repeating “changing” and clarify what you mean by changes in lifestyle.

Ví dụ: Yes, I usually meet my friends in cafés now, whereas we used to meet at school or in the park. We are busier these days, so cafés are more convenient for catching up.

Gợi ý: Give a clear reason about the place itself, such as noise, comfort, or accessibility, rather than focusing only on whether people are busy. Use “obligations” or “family commitments” if you mention their schedules, and connect your reasons with “because” or “so.”

Ví dụ: Places with comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere are suitable because people can talk easily. A crowded or noisy place may not be ideal, especially if friends want to catch up.

Gợi ý: State your preference confidently without the contradictory phrase “often choose sometimes.” Explain what you enjoy about spending time with one friend, and use natural expressions such as “chat over coffee” and “share our experiences.”

Ví dụ: I usually prefer spending time with one friend because it’s easier to have a relaxed conversation. We often sit in a café, have coffee, and share what has been happening in our lives.

Gợi ý: Answer “yes” or “sometimes” directly, and say what you do at home. Use “invite them over” rather than “invite them to go our home,” and say “chat with each other” or “catch up.”

Ví dụ: Yes, sometimes I invite my friends over to my home. We have snacks, chat about what’s been happening in our lives, and relax together.

Gợi ý: Complete your answer with a clear explanation of how friends support you. Use the plural form “friends are” and the natural phrase “someone to listen to me.” Finish your sentence rather than trailing off.

Ví dụ: Friends are very important to me because they support me when I’m having problems. I can talk to them about family matters, and they listen and help me feel less alone.

Gợi ý: Say how often you go out and give one specific activity or topic you enjoy. Use “chill out” rather than “chill in,” and keep the verb forms parallel, such as “relax and talk.”

Ví dụ: Yes, I go out with my friends fairly often, usually at the weekend. We might have dinner or get coffee and talk about what has been happening in our lives.

Gợi ý: Name your usual meeting place first, then add one alternative. Use “at a café” and “at each other’s homes,” and avoid repeating similar ideas such as “talk” and “make a conversation.”

Ví dụ: We usually meet at a café because it’s convenient and relaxed. Sometimes we visit each other’s homes instead, where we can have a drink and talk comfortably.

Gợi ý: List two or three activities in a natural sentence and add a brief detail. Say “at a café” and “go to karaoke” rather than “sing together with karaoke.” Avoid saying “get drunk”; you can simply say you enjoy singing and dancing.

Ví dụ: We usually go to a café for drinks and conversation. Sometimes we go to karaoke, where we sing and dance together.

Gợi ý: Answer directly and explain how long you have known the friend or how you met. Use the present perfect—“I haven’t seen them”—and say “family and work commitments” to explain why you are not in touch often.

Ví dụ: Yes, I have a friend I’ve known since school. We haven’t met in person for a long time, and we don’t chat online very often because we’re both busy with work and family commitments.

× Yes, usually there are a different feeling that I meet my friend now than the past because there are some other changing changing our feelings, our lifestyle in the few years back.

✓ Yes, there is usually a different feeling when I meet my friends now compared with the past because changes in our feelings and lifestyles have occurred over the past few years.

Use there is with the singular noun phrase a different feeling. There are is used with plural nouns.

× Yes, usually there are a different feeling that I meet my friend now than the past because there are some other changing changing our feelings, our lifestyle in the few years back.

✓ Yes, there is usually a different feeling when I meet my friends now compared with the past because changes in our feelings and lifestyles have occurred over the past few years.

The noun feeling is singular after a, so it must be paired with is, not are. Friends, feelings, lifestyles, and changes are plural in this context.

× Yes, usually there are a different feeling that I meet my friend now than the past because there are some other changing changing our feelings, our lifestyle in the few years back.

✓ Yes, there is usually a different feeling when I meet my friends now compared with the past because changes in our feelings and lifestyles have occurred over the past few years.

The original sentence combines unclear clauses and repeats changing. Use a clear clause beginning with when and express the reason with because.

× Some other places they are a obligation to their family. Sometimes they are busy on that day or their life. That's why they're not suitable for meeting us or catch up.

✓ Some people have obligations to their families. Sometimes they are busy that day or have other commitments in their lives. That is why they are not available to meet us or catch up with us.

Use an before obligation because the word begins with a vowel sound. In the correction, obligations is plural, so it does not take an article.

× Some other places they are a obligation to their family. Sometimes they are busy on that day or their life. That's why they're not suitable for meeting us or catch up.

✓ Some people have obligations to their families. Sometimes they are busy that day or have other commitments in their lives. That is why they are not available to meet us or catch up with us.

Say busy that day, not busy on that day, in this context. The usual expression is catch up with someone.

× Some other places they are a obligation to their family. Sometimes they are busy on that day or their life. That's why they're not suitable for meeting us or catch up.

✓ Some people have obligations to their families. Sometimes they are busy that day or have other commitments in their lives. That is why they are not available for meeting us or catching up with us.

After the preposition for, use the -ing form. Keep the two activities parallel: meeting and catching up.

× I often choose sometimes uh one friend because I want to relax with him or her, just chilling with cafe and telling us our experience a year a year past, a year day.

✓ I sometimes choose to spend time with one friend because I want to relax, go to a café, and tell each other about our past experiences.

Choose needs a clear object or an infinitive phrase here, such as choose to spend time. The original ending is difficult to understand, so the correction uses a clear, complete list of activities.

× I often choose sometimes uh one friend because I want to relax with him or her, just chilling with cafe and telling us our experience a year a year past, a year day.

✓ I sometimes choose to spend time with one friend because I want to relax, go to a café, and tell each other about our past experiences.

Use go to a café for movement toward the location. With is not the correct preposition in the original phrase chilling with cafe.

× I often choose sometimes uh one friend because I want to relax with him or her, just chilling with cafe and telling us our experience a year a year past, a year day.

✓ I sometimes choose to spend time with one friend because I want to relax, go to a café, and tell each other about our past experiences.

When two people share experiences, use each other rather than us. Each other correctly shows that both people tell and listen.

× Mmm, sometimes I invite them with my friends to go our home to to catch up and give a chat each other and just chilling together.

✓ Sometimes I invite my friends to my home to catch up, chat with each other, and just chill together.

Say invite someone to my home, not invite someone with my friends to go our home. Use chat with each other rather than give a chat each other.

× Mmm, sometimes I invite them with my friends to go our home to to catch up and give a chat each other and just chilling together.

✓ Sometimes I invite my friends to my home to catch up, chat with each other, and just chill together.

The activities follow to, so use the base form of each verb: catch up, chat, and chill. Chilling does not fit this parallel infinitive structure.

× The friends is important to me because sometimes I have a problem in my family or my loved ones I have a person to listen to me and to

✓ Friends are important to me because when I have a problem with my family or loved ones, I have someone who listens to me.

Friends is plural, so it takes are, not is. The verb listens agrees with the singular pronoun someone.

× The friends is important to me because sometimes I have a problem in my family or my loved ones I have a person to listen to me and to

✓ Friends are important to me because when I have a problem with my family or loved ones, I have someone who listens to me.

Use a problem with my family, not a problem in my family, to describe a difficulty involving family members.

× The friends is important to me because sometimes I have a problem in my family or my loved ones I have a person to listen to me and to

✓ Friends are important to me because when I have a problem with my family or loved ones, I have someone who listens to me.

The original sentence joins clauses without a clear grammatical connection and ends unfinished. Use when to introduce the situation and complete the thought with someone who listens to me.

× I often go out with my friends together just to chill in and talking about our past years and what happened to our life when our busy.

✓ I often go out with my friends to chill and talk about our past and what happened in our lives when we were busy.

After to, use the base form chill. Keep the verbs parallel by using talk, not talking, alongside chill.

× I often go out with my friends together just to chill in and talking about our past years and what happened to our life when our busy.

✓ I often go out with my friends to chill and talk about our past and what happened in our lives when we were busy.

Chill in is not the right expression here; use chill without in. Say what happened in our lives, not to our life.

× I often go out with my friends together just to chill in and talking about our past years and what happened to our life when our busy.

✓ I often go out with my friends to chill and talk about our past and what happened in our lives when we were busy.

The clause refers to a past state, so use were, the past tense of be, rather than leaving out the verb.

× We often meet at cafe. Sometimes we meet our own home to tell us, you go my home and go together with cafe and drink and relax and talk and make a conversation about our life.

✓ We often meet at a café. Sometimes we meet at each other's homes. We go to a café together to have a drink, relax, and talk about our lives.

Use a before the singular countable noun café. The original phrase at cafe is missing an article.

× We often meet at cafe. Sometimes we meet our own home to tell us, you go my home and go together with cafe and drink and relax and talk and make a conversation about our life.

✓ We often meet at a café. Sometimes we meet at each other's homes. We go to a café together to have a drink, relax, and talk about our lives.

Use meet at a café and meet at someone's home to identify a meeting place. Use go to a café to describe traveling there.

× We often meet at cafe. Sometimes we meet our own home to tell us, you go my home and go together with cafe and drink and relax and talk and make a conversation about our life.

✓ We often meet at a café. Sometimes we meet at each other's homes. We go to a café together to have a drink, relax, and talk about our lives.

The original mixes a statement with an unclear reported phrase, so the relationships between the ideas are difficult to follow. Separate the meeting locations and activities into complete, clear sentences.

× We usually do sometimes. We drink together with cafe. We sing together with karaoke and dancing when get a drunk.

✓ Sometimes we have drinks together at a café. We sing karaoke and dance together, and sometimes we get drunk.

Use parallel base forms in the list sing and dance. Dancing does not match sing in this sentence.

× We usually do sometimes. We drink together with cafe. We sing together with karaoke and dancing when get a drunk.

✓ Sometimes we have drinks together at a café. We sing karaoke and dance together, and sometimes we get drunk.

Use at a café for the location. Sing karaoke is the usual expression; with karaoke is not needed here.

× We usually do sometimes. We drink together with cafe. We sing together with karaoke and dancing when get a drunk.

✓ Sometimes we have drinks together at a café. We sing karaoke and dance together, and sometimes we get drunk.

Café is a singular countable noun, so it needs the article a.

× We usually do sometimes. We drink together with cafe. We sing together with karaoke and dancing when get a drunk.

✓ Sometimes we have drinks together at a café. We sing karaoke and dance together, and sometimes we get drunk.

We usually do sometimes is incomplete because do has no clear object. The phrase when get a drunk is also missing a subject and uses an incorrect expression; the correction completes the ideas clearly.

× Yes, I have a friend. Too long we not meet and we not chat together online because maybe they are busy our obligation to our family and our work.

✓ Yes, I have a friend I have known for a long time. We have not met or chatted online for a long time, perhaps because they are busy with family and work obligations.

Use have not met and have not chatted for an action that began in the past and remains true now. The phrase too long we not meet does not use the required verb form.

× Yes, I have a friend. Too long we not meet and we not chat together online because maybe they are busy our obligation to our family and our work.

✓ Yes, I have a friend I have known for a long time. We have not met or chatted online for a long time, perhaps because they are busy with family and work obligations.

Use busy with to introduce the responsibilities that occupy someone. Busy our obligation is missing the required preposition.

× Yes, I have a friend. Too long we not meet and we not chat together online because maybe they are busy our obligation to our family and our work.

✓ Yes, I have a friend I have known for a long time. We have not met or chatted online for a long time, perhaps because they are busy with family and work obligations.

Too long we not meet is not a complete grammatical clause. Use a clear subject and verb, such as We have not met for a long time. The correction also connects the description of the friend naturally to the answer.