Đề cương ôn tập giữa kì I – Tiếng Anh 12 (Global Success) – Năm học 2026–2027

LIFE STORIES WE ADMIRE – A SPECIAL TALK

The English Club warmly invites all Grade 12 students to a special talk about Dr Đặng Thùy Trâm, a (1) ________ young doctor whose diary has touched the hearts of millions of readers.

Dr Trâm volunteered to go to the battlefield in 1967. She (2) ________ at a small field hospital in Đức Phổ, Quảng Ngãi when she was killed in 1970. During those years, she recorded her thoughts in her (3) ________. In 2005, (4) ________ American veteran found her family and shared the diary with them, and the book soon (5) ________ a deep impression on readers all over the country.

The talk will focus (6) ________ her courage, kindness and love for her country. Students will also have a chance to ask the speaker questions, (7) ________ will help them understand the value of a meaningful life.

• Time: 2:00 p.m., next Friday • Place: School Hall
• (8) ________ is free. Please register with your class monitor before Wednesday.

SCIENCE STORIES CLUB – LEARN FROM GREAT LIVES

Did you know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, she faced (9) ________ difficulties as a young woman, but she never (10) ________ her dream of studying science. In 1891, she moved to Paris, where she studied physics and mathematics with very (11) ________ money.

Her hard work paid off: she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Today, she is a (12) ________ for young people who love science.

Join our club and:

• (13) ________ out more about the lives of famous scientists
• (14) ________ simple experiments in our school lab
• Present a life story you admire – (15) ________ member gets a turn every month
• (16) ________ your horizons and get inspired!

Meetings: every Tuesday, 4:30 p.m., Physics Lab.

HELEN KELLER – A LIFE OF COURAGE

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. When she was only 19 months old, she became seriously ill, (22) ________. For several years, she lived in a dark, silent world and often behaved wildly because she could not communicate with anyone.

Everything changed in 1887, when a young teacher named Anne Sullivan came to live with the Keller family. One day, (23) ________, Anne spelled the word "w-a-t-e-r" into her other hand. At that moment, Helen suddenly understood that everything had a name.

After that, Helen learnt to read, write and even speak. In 1904, she graduated from Radcliffe College, (24) ________. Later, she travelled to many countries to give speeches and raise money for blind people. (25) ________.

Today, Helen Keller is remembered as a symbol of courage and determination. Her life story shows that (26) ________.

STEVE JOBS: THREE STORIES FROM A REMARKABLE LIFE

Steve Jobs (1955–2011), the co-founder of Apple, is one of the most admired figures of our time. In 2005, he gave a famous speech at Stanford University in which he told the graduates three stories from his own life. The first story was about "connecting the dots". After only six months at Reed College, he decided to drop out because his working-class parents were spending all their savings on his tuition. However, he stayed on campus and attended classes that interested him, including a calligraphy course. Ten years later, while he was designing the first Macintosh computer, this knowledge helped him create its beautiful typefaces.

The second story was about love and loss. Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple in his parents' garage when Jobs was 20. In ten years, Apple grew from just the two of them into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. Then, at the age of 30, he was fired from the company he had started. It was a devastating blow, and for a few months he did not know what to do. Slowly, however, he realised that he still loved his work.

Over the next five years, Jobs started a company called NeXT and another called Pixar, which went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story. When Apple bought NeXT, Jobs returned to Apple. He later said that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to him, because it freed him to enter one of the most creative periods of his life.

The third story was about death. About a year before the speech, Jobs had been diagnosed with cancer. The experience reminded him that our time is limited, so we should not waste it living someone else's life. He ended his speech by encouraging the students to "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

THE DIARY THAT HAD FIRE IN IT

In 1970, Fred Whitehurst, a young American military intelligence officer, was working in central Việt Nam. [I] His task was to examine captured documents and burn those that had no military value. [II] One day, as he was about to throw a small handmade notebook into the fire, his Vietnamese interpreter stopped him and said that the book already had fire in it. [III] The notebook turned out to be the diary of Đặng Thùy Trâm, a 27-year-old doctor from Hà Nội who had been killed earlier that year. [IV]

Trâm graduated from medical school in Hà Nội and volunteered to work on the battlefield in the South in 1967. She worked at a small field hospital in Đức Phổ, Quảng Ngãi, where she treated wounded soldiers and local people. In her diary, written between 1968 and 1970, she wrote about her patients, her family, her friends and her longing for peace. Even when the area was being bombed, she continued to care for the wounded with remarkable courage.

For 35 years, Whitehurst kept the diary. In 2005, he finally found Trâm's family in Hà Nội and shared it with them. Soon afterwards, the diary was published in Việt Nam and became a national bestseller, selling nearly half a million copies within a year and a half.

In 2007, an English translation titled Last Night I Dreamed of Peace was published, allowing readers around the world to learn about her life. Today, her story continues to inspire young people in Việt Nam and beyond. Her diary shows that even in the darkest times, a person can keep their kindness, hope and love for life.