Grammar review - 10

training course on 
tourism. Then I had one year of 
experience as a tour guide so I know 
many tourist areas in Vietnam arid 
have a basic knowledge of 
Vietnamese culture, history, 
geography and the people. Moreover, 
I was a good student at English at 
school and achieved some prizes for 
English-speaking and English-in-use 
contests, so I can say that I speak 
English fluently and be able to 
communicate effectively with English 
speaking partners. In addition, I am a 
sociable and confident person and can 
work hard for long hours. I would like 
to work for you and would appreciate 
the opportunity to discuss this 
position with you in person. 
I am looking forward to hearing from 
you at your convenience. 
Yours faithfully, 
Nguyen Quoc Anh 
TOPIC 16: Write about measures to 
take to protect endangered animals. 
 We now all know clearly that 
our environment is worsening day by 
day. Although countless efforts have 
been made to better the situations, the 
matter seems not to be much 
improved. Thousands of species have 
been vanishing, many other thousands 
are being threatened to be extinct. To 
solve the problems, or even to slower 
the process of extinction, there are a 
number of measures that should be 
taken to protect endangered animals. 
 The first problem is that 
people do not know much about the 
need to rare and endangered animals. 
Therefore, people should be taught 
about the importance of the wildlife 
relaxed and we very much felt 
confident and proud of our school. 
TOPIC 03: Write an essay to 
discuss the benefits of doing 
exercise. 
Health is considered to be 
the most valuable thing one 
possesses. Improving health is 
always a prior task in one’s daily 
routine. And the simplest, cheapest, 
but the most effective way to better 
one’s health is doing regular 
exercise. 
One advantage of doing 
exercise is to reduce stress. People 
who exercise are likely to feel more 
relaxed, healthier, and of course 
happier. Doing regular exercise 
helps the body produce happy 
chemicals that make the exercisers 
reduce the worries about life and 
work as well as forget the boredom 
and unhappiness. 
Another benefit exercising 
brings us is that we will feel more 
energetic to face and overcome our 
daily difficulties. Doing exercise 
helps us reduce the possibilities of 
being ill, protects us from some 
fatal diseases as heart disease, 
cancers and diabetes. Regular 
exercisers are believed to have 
healthier, happier and longer lives. 
The other good thing is that doing 
exercise helps us feel more self-
confident. We know exactly what 
we can do or what abilities, talents 
we have. We will think positively, 
do confidently, and lead an 
optimistic life if we practice 
exercising regularly. Controlling 
our weight effectively is another 
value. Perspiration occurs when we 
exercise, which helps our bodies 
get rid of bad things inside. Fats are 
burnt during our practicing 
exercise, which helps us to keep fit. 
To sum up, doing exercise 
enables people to have good body-
buildings, keep fit and brings 
exercisers many benefits. Sparing 
time doing exercise will ensure us a 
longer, healthier and happier life. 
To sum up, there are different 
good things women and men can do for 
their children. It is obvious that parents 
who love their children can do their 
tasks well, and both fathers and mothers 
give their children good things to some 
extent. It will be lucky and far better for 
a child to be brought up by both good 
father and mother. Parents should join 
hands to give their children good life 
and education. 
TOPIC 09: Write about the changes 
that information technology brings to 
your life. 
We are now living in the Era of 
the Information technology, and we feel 
happy to be supported by modern 
technologies which make our lives more 
comfortable and convenient. For me, 
information technology brings me so 
many positive changes though 
sometimes it does cause some troubles. 
 It is undeniable that information 
technology helps bring my family 
members closer together as we always 
keep in touch with help of telephones, 
internet, and other conveniences. 
Beside, information technology helps us 
stay in touch with the world around. 
Every day, we are well-informed by 
reading news, watching videos, 
browsing websites. We can also learn 
much about the entire world from our 
own tables or even beds. Information 
technology provides us more choices of 
how, where, when and what to do 
things. Beneficially, we have more 
chances to earn because there are 
always numerous jobs available in the 
IT field that helps us make money and 
shop. Moreover, information technology 
helps us to broaden our knowledge as 
we can learn or take various online and 
offline courses. Socially, we seem to 
have more and more friends both at 
home and overseas, we can also share 
opinions, date with the help of 
information technology. 
 On the other hand, modern 
technology can also make us more 
isolated when we are absorbed in 
technological devices. We sometimes 
feel annoyed by bad and poisonous 
information, images, or websites. We 
are also afraid of losing confidential 
documents and files. Seriously, 
spywares are now so popular that they 
and rare animals in the ecosystem. It 
also seems that projects to save 
endangered animals do not have 
sufficient funds, and that our mission 
is to raise enough funds to run these 
plans efficiently. 
 Another bad thing is that the 
habitats for wild animals are being 
seriously damaged or polluted. To 
better homes for the wildlife we 
should protect their habitats from 
being degraded and then help build up 
good habitats for all species to live in. 
Sometimes, people who live in or 
near the endangered species’ habitats 
have poor living conditions and rely 
mostly on wildlife products for their 
livelihood. Urgently, governments 
should raise these people’s living 
standards by providing them with 
jobs, and help them to live well with 
the nature. 
 The other reasons are that 
some countries do not have laws to 
protect the vulnerable animals, people 
keep buying fashionable wildlife 
products, and there are not enough 
wildlife habitat reserves. To deal with 
these challenges, governments all 
over the world had better soon pass 
and enforce laws to protect the nature, 
to make the purchasing products 
related to wild species and to build up 
more and more natural reserves for 
endangered ones to survive and 
develop. 
 Protecting the environment 
today is offering us and the next 
generations more prosperous future. 
To save the endangered species 
means to save the earth and to save 
ourselves. 
TOPIC 17: Write to describe your 
all-time favorite book. 
In life, although I have 
several hobbies, reading books is the 
one I am more interested in. I have 
read countless books so far, but THỜI 
XA VẮNG (THE FARAWAY 
TIME), a romance novel written by 
one of the most Vietnamese 20 
century famous and beloved novelists 
LÊ LỰU, is the one that has created 
the greatest impression on me ever 
since. 
 The story is set in the time of 
our war against the American troops 
TOPIC 04: Write an essay to 
discuss the opinion that arts 
should or shouldn’t be taught in 
high schools. 
 There have existed debates 
whether arts be taught in high 
schools. People who support the 
ideals find it necessary that high 
school students know as much 
about arts as possible. In contrast, 
the protestors think teaching arts to 
high school students is really a 
waste of time and money. 
 It is generally said by the 
supporters that studying arts 
benefits high school students 
several ways. The first good thing 
is that arts help students have 
background knowledge of not only 
the nation but the world cultures 
and history. Another benefit is that 
arts equip students with many 
necessary skills such as; creative 
thinking, observing, problem 
solving, and critical thinking. 
People who want arts to be taught 
to high school students also agree 
that arts are very fun and interesting 
to learn. We can say in other words 
arts are attractive to any learners. 
The other advantage of arts is that 
learning arts help students to build 
team spirit and community as art 
activities can be done in groups. 
Moreover, arts enable students to 
socialize and students become more 
and more civilized and responsible. 
 In contrast, protestors 
believe that there is not enough 
time for teachers to cover all kinds 
of subjects at school. So they 
should focus on core subjects like 
maths, foreign languages and 
physics, etc. to save time and 
money arts should only be elective, 
not compulsory subjects. 
Furthermore, students can learn 
more about arts via media and arts 
are then their leisure activities. 
Additionally, arts, in the protestors’ 
opinion, should be taught by 
parents as they may understand 
their children’s ability and talents 
better. 
 To conclude, there are 
different opinions that arts should 
or shouldn’t be taught in high 
schools. Each side has reasonable 
make us very much worried and we 
have to spend more to protect our 
technological products. 
 Good or bad, I really think I am 
lucky enough to live in this information 
age. I cannot imagine my life without 
the help of information technology. The 
most important thing I need to do is to 
take full advantages of the information 
technology to better my life and try hard 
to reduce the bad effects that may bring 
to my life. 
TOPIC 10: Write to describe your life 
in the 20 years’ time. 
It is obvious that no one knows 
for sure what his tomorrow will be like, 
but he can make guesses. For me, it is 
likely that my 20 years’ time life will be 
very different from what it is now. 
Take work first for example, I 
think I will get a good job which I very 
much want to do. There is a tendency 
that I will start up my own business 
then. I may invest in stock market and 
make a great fortune. I will at that time 
be satisfied with what I earn, and never 
worry about financial matters. 
Studying will change, too. In 20 
years’ time, it is likely that I will take 
various professional courses, and I tend 
to have several MA or PhD degrees in 
some different fields such as economy, 
education, and culture. I will probably 
enroll in different courses to get higher 
and higher diplomas. 
For lifestyle, I hope I will have 
balanced diets, live healthily and 
actively. I may get married to the one I 
love and we plan to have one or two 
kids. I will spend as much time for my 
family as possible. We will travel to 
different countries in the world on our 
yearly holiday of course. We will also 
afford weekly or monthly trips to beauty 
spots throughout the country. 
In the future, I will live in a big 
house with modernly-equipped living 
rooms, bedrooms, kitchen, toilets and an 
open air space garden in front of a four-
car garage. As I love animals very 
much, I will raise some pets in my 
house including some different kinds of 
dogs, cats, parrots, doves, and others. 
Transportation means are also 
my concern. I will then own some most 
fashionable hybrid luxurious cars to use 
in different occasions. I will travel by 
in the South to unify the country and 
the construction to build a communist 
country in the North. The ground of 
the story is in a tranquil poor farming 
village in the North. The main 
characters are GIANG MINH SAI, a 
village schoolboy a veteran then a 
brick-works manager, a schoolgirl 
then a city dweller named HUONG, 
and some other characters. 
 When still school students of 
about grade 8 (the first year high 
school at that time), SAI and HUONG 
had fallen in love with each other. 
They harbored and norished a very 
romantic love, but modern at the time 
being, though the two families did not 
want them to be. Growing up together 
in that poor village SAI and HUONG 
then chose the two different paths 
though their soul seemed to belong to 
each other. HUONG furthered her 
study in a city bearing her 
sweetheart’s image and love, wishing 
to reunite one day. SAI joined the 
army, devoted his life, and love to the 
national ideal targets, he even got 
married to the girl he could not share 
his bed. Then came their old age, the 
two lovers bitterly realized that they 
had forgot their precious emotion for 
their day-dream goals. 
 The scenes in the book are 
interesting poetic and romantic, 
typical for a young couple’s 
enthusiastic truthful, deep love. The 
story is touching and rather sad. The 
story leaves us valuable lessons in 
life, and helps us know more about 
the lifestyle of our ancestors. I must 
say that it is one of the best and most 
moving novels I have ever read in my 
life. 
TOPIC 18: Write an essay to express 
you wish to work for an international 
organization, giving the reasons why 
you choose the organization. 
When still a little boy, I read 
an article about the World Health 
Organization (WHO), I realized that 
health is of the most important factor 
affecting one’s quality of life, and that 
helping to improve people’s health is 
a noble profession. Since then, I have 
harbored the dream to work for the 
Organization for a number of reasons 
as following. 
explanations to convince and prove 
the points of view. For me, we can 
hardly be civilized without 
knowledge of arts. Sooner or later, 
in my opinion, arts should be taught 
to students to help them enrich their 
knowledge, to discover their talents 
to better their own lives. 
TOPIC 05: Write about the causes 
of the fact that families now are 
not as close-knit as they were in 
the past. 
It is widely believed that 
home is where love dwells and that 
east or west home is the best. That 
means family is so important to any 
of us that we hardly grow up 
without the care from family 
members. It is also true that the 
social, economic changes make the 
traditional family formulas vary. 
Although different people have 
different points of view on the 
matters, we all agree that families 
now are not as close-knit as they 
used to be. The causes are various, 
but we can count for the three main 
points below. 
The first cause is that in our 
modern life we all seem to have so 
busy lives and dynamic lifestyles. 
People now are so busy with 
working, earning, getting 
promotions, taking part in social 
activities, etc. People are likely to 
have longer working hours because 
of their demand of earning more 
and more. People seem to be never 
satisfied with what they have. In 
families, under the economic 
pressure, both parents work so they 
have less time for themselves as 
well as for other family members. 
Another cause is that due to 
the explosion of modern 
technologies people are more 
interested in their online lives than 
interacting with other family 
members. It is sometimes thought 
that people seem to isolate 
themselves with their mobile-
phones, tablets, personal 
computers, and other information 
technological devices. 
Having different 
viewpoints is the other cause of 
course. The generation gaps 
air whenever travelling in distances. 
In my dream, I am likely to 
keep in touch with all high school and 
university friends. There will always be 
available most up-to-date means of 
communications for me to have good 
relationships with relatives, friends, 
colleagues, partners, or even 
acquaintances. 
Naturally, the future is not ours 
to see, but we have rights lo lead our 
own life, to shape our thinking, to build 
up our future. As I am an optimistic and 
dynamic man, I will try my best to 
realize my dreams to make our wishes 
become true someday. 
TOPIC 11: Write a letter to pen-pal to 
talk about your family rules. 
 , September 21st, 2014 
Dear Jim, 
I am writing to talk about my 
family rules. It is an interesting topic, 
isn’t it? It may br obvious that every 
family has its own rules. Mine has a 
few, apart from the traditional ones, 
especially for this school year as I am in 
the final year. 
 First, I am not allowed to watch 
much TV, except when there is a good 
or very interesting film or an academic 
game show, or when I have finished all 
my homework and exercises. And 
hardly do my parents let me stay up so 
late at night. Next, my parents rarely 
permit me to go out with friends without 
necessary reasons for example birthdays 
or funerals. Besides, I have to take the 
balanced diets to keep fit for my coming 
examinations. And one more thing I 
have to keep up is talking on the phone. 
That is why I have to set a limit to my 
using of the phone. Furthermore, I 
don’t have to do much housework 
though we share that all together. 
 Do you think I have a lot of 
rules to abide? Or I have no rights or 
freedom to do what I want or like? 
 Tell me about your family rules, 
will you? It is much fun to hear about 
then. 
Write to me as soon as you can. 
I look forward to hearing from you. 
 Best wishes, 
 Mai 
 First, working for the World 
Health Organization (WHO) gives me 
opportunities to live abroad, to use 
English at work, and to have high 
salary. I am an active and dynamic 
person so I think it will be an 
interesting life to have chance to 
travel far and wide to meet different 
people of different personalities and 
nationalities. 
 Second, I will be able to 
further my biology knowledge by 
doing numerous medical researches. I 
can also understand more about life 
mechanism, the reactions of the 
bodies to the changes of the 
surroundings. Of course, working for 
the World Health Organization 
(WHO) will offer me occasions to 
meet, to have talks with well-known 
people worldwide. 
 As far as I can say, taking 
care of other people’s health is always 
a respectful job. Working as an 
official of the World Health 
Organization (WHO) helps me to be 
more aware of the value of life. 
Looking after the ones who struggle 
to survive will give me strength and 
hope, help me think more 
optimistically and do more positive 
things. 
 Living is sacrificing. I for 
long have considered this proverb as 
one of my life approaches. I will try 
my best to realize my dream some 
day in the future. 
TOPIC 19: In today’s competitive 
world, many families find it 
necessary for both parents to go out 
to work. While some say the children 
in these families benefit from the 
traditional income, others feel they 
lack support because of their 
parents’ absence. Discuss both these 
views and give your own opinions. 
In the business-driven culture 
nowadays, in order to adopt all of the 
so-called symbols of advanced life, in 
many families; both parents have to 
work hard all day long for their 
children to enjoy the best. It’s true 
that those children benefit from the 
joint income and the same, those grew 
up lacking parental support, and this 
practice is creating a negative 
feedback loop. 
sometimes cause 
misunderstandings or even debates. 
Information technology also brings 
opportunities to diverse viewpoints 
within family members. Having 
different opinions pulls people far 
from one another. 
Above all, though changes 
of traditional families are 
unavoidable, we are to shorten the 
gaps among family members to be 
as close-knit as possible. Because 
family life is very important to any 
individual, each member must be 
responsible for bringing all family 
members closer together. 
TOPIC 06: Write to suggest 
measures governments an