Writing an essay

I. Introdution
Practice 1 :
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Eating a
balanced diet is the most important factor for a healthy life. Use specific
reasonsand examples to support your answer.
In my opinion, eating a balanced diet is the most important factor for a
healthy life because it helps people to keep body shape and keep them out from
many diseases.

2. Some people say that computers have made life easier and more
convenient. Other people say that computers have made life more complex
and stressful. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to
support your answer.
I feel computers have made life easier and more convenient. Computers not
only help us do every task faster but also provide various sorts of entertainment
for people.

3. Some people prefer to spend most of their time alone. Others like to be
with friends most of the time. Do you prefer to spend your time alone or
with friends? Use specific reasons to support your answer.
I prefer to to spend my time with friends since it help me learn many things
from them, have fun after a long stressful times and some friends can help me
solve my problems.

4. Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a

big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and
details to support your answer.
I prefer to live in a big city because it is more modern and give me better
conditions regarding education, occupation and entertainment.

5. Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to

travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to
support your choice.
I like to travel with a companion since I can have more fun, can get help
when I need and save plenty of time and money.
6. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.
I believe that movies and television do influence our behavior, both for the
better and for the worse. Because they make us less active, more violent but it
also give us more knowledge and help us reduce stress.
Practice 2 :
Some people like to travel just himself or herself because they have more
freedom. They do not need to discuss the routine with others. Although there
may be one or more advantages to traveling alone, traveling with my friends is
my choice. I can have more fun, can get help when I need and save plenty of
time and money.
Although there may be one or more advantages to traveling alone, traveling
with my friends is my choice because I can have more fun, can get help me wen
I need and save plenty of time and money.
II. Body paragraphs
Practice 1 : Write the other two paragraphs of the above topic. The topic
sentences are done for you.
Thesis statement: I feel that the Internet is positive for society since it enables
us to communicate more easily, save time, and save money.
Another reason is that the Internet saves people time. We can do everything
at home from shopping, payment bill, do excercise but don’t need spend time on
the move. I spent 15 minutes a day going to gym to do excercise with my PT.
Now, I just need search on Youtube and I can choose what I want to do for my
excercise.
The final reason is that the Internet saves people money. This is because we
can see the review or comparison the thing we want to buy in many store to
choose the best one. I bought a beautiful dress for 300.000VND by finding it at
the online shop instead of 500.000VND at store.
Practice 2 :
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Eating a
balanced diet is the most important factor for a healthy life. Use specific
reasonsand examples to support your answer.
Before, a balanced diet provides a person the right nutritious ingredients
which are proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, the body can
gain the whole needs of them and support it to work properly. This leads to have
healthy nutritious organs and tissues and help keep body shape.
After, due to the increase number of illnesses around the world, fully
completed diet is able to protect the human’s body from the widespread
diseases. Cancers is, for instance, a common one among people. If a person
strengths his immune system from an early age by eating balanced diet every
day, it is definitely difficult to be affected with these diseases or even the
chronic pains.
2. Some people say that computers have made life easier and more
convenient. Other people say that computers have made life more complex
and stressful. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to
support your answer.
Before, they do every task faster. Considering the fact that time is a valuable
factor in everyone's life. For example, before the computers were invented, we
had to do a large number of calculations by hand and it take a lot of energy and
amount of time. But these days these type of calculations are no longer a
human's concern.
After, they provide various sorts of entertainment for people especially for
children. Computers include many video games for different age ranges and a
variety of tastes. Long time ago, when I was in high school, I did not have a
laptop and I had to spend my free time sleeping or staring at the wall. As a
result, huge amount of time was wasted
3. Some people prefer to spend most of their time alone. Others like to be
with friends most of the time. Do you prefer to spend your time alone or
with friends? Use specific reasons to support your answer.
Firstly, I can acknowledge new things from my friends. Every of them is
professional in one profession. Each time we gather together, we are talking
about new subject which happens in our career.
Secondly, we can have fun together. We can go out with a friend to have
dinner, go to see movies or even play games with them which all of these help
us to be happier more than are now. For example, I and my friend go to the
coffee shop every week to talk. Our conversations concern different aspects of
our lives. I have a lot of fun with her. A good friend can make you happier in
many ways.
Finally, a good friend can help you in hard situations. My friend helped me to
write my note book when I was sick in my second semester. Therefore, a good
friend can be very helpful to overcome your obstacles.
4. Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a
big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and
details to support your answer.
First of all, big cities are usually more economically developed. In the big
cities, the people can find jobs easier than in small towns. For example, I was
looking for a job for almost a year in a small town but I did not get any,
however, when I moved to a big city I get a job faster. It is so good to live in a
big city because we can find all things that we want easier than small towns, due
to the fact the better economic development, like for instance, we have many
banks, markets, shopping and all kind of trade which we desire.
Secondly, education in big cities is better than in small towns. Usually, the
better universities and schools are been located in big cities. In today’s modern
world, more and more competitive, the pursuit of knowledge has made that
people in small towns move to big cities.
Finally, in big cities we find more options to go out with friends, to have fun.
In some way, we have more options to rest and leisure. Therefore, this implies a
better quality of life and more and more healthy social life mainly with friends.
5. Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to
travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to
support your choice.
First of all, you can have more fun. How to spend the boring time when
traveling on the road? Talking with friends, playing cards will help you. Beside,
when you want to get a photo, your friend can take a picture for you. When you
feel scared, your friend can encourage you. When you are lonely, your friend
can joke you. When you get a beautiful place, you can share your happiness,
inspiration with your friend.
In the second place, you can get help when you need. There will be many
unexpected thing during the journey. Such as, get lost, be sick, cannot wake up
early for the morning flight. It is very hard to handle these situations by
themselves especially when they travel to a strange place. Friends can give you
a hand to overcome all these difficulties.
Finally, you can save plenty of time and money. In the travel, you have lots
of things must do such as booking hotel, buying tickets, looking for bus stations
etc. If you have a companion can do these things with you, you will have more
time to enjoy the journey. And money is a very big problem. If you like to travel
alone, you must afford all. But if you have a companion, you can share this.
That may let you travel more days than you plan.
6. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.
Movies and television influence badly our behavior because of two reasons.
They make us less active. Looking at films is a passive activity. If we watch
too much, we become unhealthy, both mentally and physically. We stop using
our own imagination when we see things acted out for us. Mental laziness
becomes physical laziness; we'd rather watch sports on TV than play sports
ourselves. One of my friend loves watching movies . She used to be thin, but
now she is overweight because she doesn't feel like exercising.
Beside, movies and television also can make people more violent. The more
we see violent acts on television, the less sensitive we become to them. And it
lead to the thinking that violence doesn't seem wrong. This is true because we
don't always realize that violence has consequences. Actors can be killed and
come back for another movie. Sometimes we confuse that with reality. We
forget that killing someone is forever.
Of course, watching movies and television can also be good for us. The best
influence on our behavior is that movies and television reduce stress. Watching
films, we can escape our own problems for a little while. Also, sometime
movies show positive ways to resolve problems we all face. Not only that
watching movies and television also give us more knowledge. For example,
seeing movies can expose us to people of different races and cultures. We can
then overcome some prejudices more easily.
III. Conclulsion
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Eating a
balanced diet is the most important factor for a healthy life.
To conclude, the balanced diet has brought plenty of positives effects, so
once maintaining on this nutritious diet is the most important factor for a
healthy life.
2. Some people say that computers have made life easier and more
convenient. Other people say that computers have made life more complex
and stressful. What is your opinion?
 In some, even though some people may believe that computers have made
life stressful and more complex, but I think that the opposite is true. Note only
do they do many jobs faster than ever, but also they provide a large variety of
entertainment for human. I advise every office and home to have at least one
computer and make a good use of it in its most proper way.
3. Some people prefer to spend most of their time alone. Others like to be
with friends most of the time. Do you prefer to spend your time alone or
with friends?
There are some reasons which may convince some people to be alone, I
strongly believe that positive points of spending time with a friend worth its
negative effects.
4. Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a
big city. Which place would you prefer to live in?
Living in small towns have some advantageous, like for instance, in most
cases they are more secure and quiet. However, for those people who prefer
better economic conditions, better places to go and a variety of things to do, the
better choice is a big city.
5. Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to
travel alone. Which do you prefer?
In conclusion, I prefer to travel with friends rather than travel alone not only
because the trip will be easier with friends, but also because more help and fun
will be got from friends.
6. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior
It is true that movies and television can influence our behavior negatively.
However, I also believe that they influence our behavior in positive ways. How
they affect you depends on how much you watch, what you watch, and how you
respond to what you watch.
Writing a paragraph
A.
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. B
B.
1. v
2. My mother is the best chef in my heart.
3. My car is very old.
4. I always enjoy my current work.
5. I had a terrible vacation in last summer.
C.
1. Sentence: 2,3,4
2. Sentence: 2,3,4
3. Sentence: 2,3,4
D.
 1. My favorite kind of car is convertible
2. v
3. There are many different types of governments in the world
4. Some Japanese universities are developing medical robot to detect certain
kinds of cancer
5. Packing is used to protect things that are breakable
E.
1. I am so enjoyable wearing a uniform to school.
2. I wish we don’t have to wear a uniform to school.
3. Credit card will helps our life be easier and more convenient.