Some people believe that the best way to teach children to behave well is through punishment, others disagree and point out that rewarding and praising them is better. Discuss both views and give your own opinion
A friend from abroad is visiting your country next month. She is planning to stay with you, but you cannot accomodate her. Write a letter to her.
Tell her the reasons.
Aplogise
Make alternative arrangements.
Some parents send their children to preschool when they are three or four years old. Other parents wait until their children are old enough for primary school before they send them to school.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sending children to preschool at a young age.
Your local council is considering closing a sports and leisure center that it runs, to save money.
Write a letter to the local council. In your latter
Gives details of how you and your friends or family use the center.
Explain why the sports and leisure center is important for the local community.
Describe the possible effects on local people if the center closes.
A growing number of people rely on rstaurants and convenience food (frozen food and packaged meals) rather than home-cooked food to supply most of their meals.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating this way?
The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee
and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and
make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas (1999 & 2004)
Coffee
UK
Switzerland
Denmark
Belgium
Sweden
Bananas
Switzerland
UK
Belgium
Sweden
Denmark
1999
(millions of euros)
1.5
3
1.8
1
0.8
1999
(millions of euros)
15
1
0.6
1.8
2
2004
(millions of euros)
20
6
2
1.7
1
2004
(millions of euros)
47
5.5
4
1
0.9
Some people believe that people behave differently when they wear different clothes, while others do not believe that clothes influence the way people behave. Which opinion do you agree with and why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
Write about the following topic:
In many countries people have to pay for medical care, but some think that it should be a free service provided by the government.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Some people prefer to get up early in the morning and start the day’s work. Others prefer to get up later in the day and work until late at night. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
The pie chart below shows the breakdown for revenue streams for average international football team. The table shows the age distribution of football fans attending the matches of three teams.
Some people think that more genetically modified food should be produced to cope with the growing population. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
In many places, new homes are needed, but the only space available for building them is the countryside. Some people believe it is more important to protect the country side and not build new homes: what is your opinion about this
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media? Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience.
While some believe that the best way to learn about current events is through
newspapers, others think that they can learn news better through other forms of
media.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Some people say that a country should produce food locally, while others believe that it is good to import food. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and relevant examples.
You are a member of a sports club. Write a letter to the club president about an event that will be organized.
In your letter, you should tell
- What it is
- Who I am inviting
- What my role is in this event
Some people prefer to live in rented homes rather than purchasing their own homes. Do you think advantages of living in rented house outweigh the disadvantages?
More and more plastic waste is polluting the world’s city, countryside and ocean. What problems will it cause? What measures should be taken to solve these problems?
Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve gowing trafic and pollution problems.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
What other measures do you think might be effective?
In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating harmful too much. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Write about the following topic: In many countries, paying for things using mobile phone (cellphone) apps is becoming increasingly common. Does this development have more advantages or more disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and includes relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
It is neither possible nor useful to provide university places for a high portion of young people. To what extend do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays anima experiments are widely used to develop new medicines to test the safety of other products. Some people argue that these experiments should be banned because it is morally wrong to cause animal to suffer, while others are in favor of them because of their benefits to humanity.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Some people believe that it is wrong to keep animals in zoos, while others think that zoos are important for education and conservation.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Some people believe that tourist should accept social and environmental responsibility while other believe that tourists should not accept any responsibility at all. To what extent do you agree or disagree.
The maps illustrate changes happening in the city of Bates in 1950, 2000 and 2050.
Summarize the given information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant
The graph below shows the spending of UK residents on visits abroad between
1993 and 2013.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and
make comparisons where relevant.
◼️It is argued that the parents of children who break the rules should be punished in some ways as parents are responsible for the children's actions.
🔻To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The maps show a beachfront in Australia in 1950and today, Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Some poeple think thart is an essential subject for children at school while others think it is a waste of time. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Most people think that studying at university or college is the best route to a successful career, while others believe that it is better to get a job straight after graduating. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people think that newly built houses should follow the style of the old houses in the local areas, while others think that people should have freedom to build houses of their own styles. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Many supermarkets are selling more and more products that are imported from other countries instead of selling food that is locally sourced.
What are the reasons for this?
Is this a positive or negative development?
In order to improve a contry's education system youg students should be allowed to openly criticize their teachers during class time. What is your opinion? What are some other ways education system could be improved?
Multicultural societies in which there are a mixture of ethnic people bring more benefits than drawbacks to a country. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people think parents should supervise their children’s activities closely, while others believe children should have more freedom. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Is it good for children to start using computers from an early age and spend long hours on it?
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages. Explain your choice by using specific reasons and details.
Around the world it is likely that more adults will work from and more children will study from home as computer technology become cheaper and more accessible. Do you think it is a negative or a positive development?
Some people say history is one of the most important subjects. Other people think that, in today's world , subjects like science and technology are more important than history.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
The age of information technology has taken a lot of people by surprise. While, it has become a way of life for some, others know very little about it. Eventually we will have a polarized society and this will lead to serious social problems.
Form an opinion based on the info above and write a well-reasoned essay.
The bar chart below shows the enrolment of students in music at an Australian university from
2000 to 2006 and the pie chart shows their career choices after graduating.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons
where relevant.
Some people think that the best way to reduce crime is to gibe longer prison sentences. Others, however, believe there are better alternative ways to reduce crime. Discuss both views
Some people think that all school students should learn a foreign language.Others,however,think that a student should be required to learn a foreign language if he or she does not have talent for it.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
These days, people work in more than one job , and often change career several times during their life. What are the advantages and diadvantages of this ?
Many organization and companies ask their staff to wear a uniform.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
What kind of jobs should have a work uniform?
The charts below show the results of a survey of adult education. The first chart shows the reasons why adults decide to study. The pie chart shows how people think the costs of adult education should be shared. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparison where relevant
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic. In many parts of the world today there is a profitable market for products which lighten or whiten people's skin. Outline the reasons for using such products and discuss what effects they have in terms of health and society. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words
Completing university education is thought by some people to be the best way to get a job. On the other hand, other people think that getting soft skills is more important. Discuss both sides and give your opinion
Some people think that a huge amount of time and money is spent on the protection of wild animals, and that this money could be better spent on the human population.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?