Writing task1: How people received the information in the UK from 1987 to 1997

The line graphs show the percentage of people approaching the international and regional occurrences  through 3 instruments of the mass media which were TV, newspaper and radio over a decade between 1987 and 1997 in the UK.

As can be seen, there were nearly 70 percent of UK’s population got the world news through television in 1987 before decreasing noticeably by 10 percentages two years latter. In the next seven years, the proportion of population getting information through TV fluctuated between 70 and 65 percent, which nearly doubled the percent of newspaper just fluctuating at 20 percent. In addition, people receiving the news through radio remained steadily at 10 percent over the surveyed period.

On the other hand, most of local happenings were update by newspaper, which was employed by approximately two third of population. However, it nosedived substantially to nearly 45 percent in 1989 and kept decreasing to 40 percent in 1997. Meanwhile, the figures of television started at lower point, just 20 percent in 1987 before soaring markedly in the rest of decade to about 40 percentages in 1997. Radio was the least popular method which accounted for 10 percent during the whole ten years.

Essay: Parent punishment should or should not

Many parent use punishment to teach the difference between right and wrong to kids. Many think punishment is necessary to held children learn the distinction between right and wrong. To what extend do you agree and disagree?

In the modern life, it is undoubtedly true that punishment is the easiest way for parent to point out their children what is right or wrong. At the first sight, this seems effective but on closer, many people argue that this method’s disadvantages dominate its advantages and I strongly agree with it. In this essay, this argument will be analysed in detail.

It is fairly easy to understand the reason why this proposal has been made. The reason is that whenever the kids make wrong thing, they will be punished and the next time they will not do the same thing. These would be at least two disadvantages to this. Not only the physical injury but also the psychological wound has been created. For example, if the children are suffered a lot of punishment, they will scare everything and not try to do new things because of being punished.

This is also, however, a strong argument not to implement this proposal. This argument is base on that retribution can turn the children into a bad manner. Let’s take an illustration. If the children has been suffered too much punishment from their parent because of doing wrong things, there will be two ways for their upbringing. One is that they scare everything and another way is that they will hate their parent and no longer care about being punished so they will become a bad manner of society.

In a nutshell, it can not deny the affection of punishment in teaching children. There are both disadvantages and advantages in this issue. My own personal view is that if the children do wrong things, parent should sit down and analyse for them why it is wrong and in the next time they should not do it again.

Essay: Keeping pets

Topic: Too much attention is paid to and too much money is spent on keeping pets, while people through out the world are starving.

Discuss the arguments for and against keeping  pets.

       

Recently, keeping pets is one of the most controversial issues. It has generated a lavish deal of heated debate in over the world. Reportedly, the amount of money spent on keeping pets is increasing gradually instead of using for many starving regions whilst some people are in the opposite side. In this essay, I am going to analyze this issue from both points of view.

It is unarguable that ore and more money are invested in pets. Taking Paris Hilton as an example, she is a rich woman and she has just built a luxury house for her pets, which costs approximately 1 million dollars. If this amount of money used for donating some volunteer action, many famine could be fought back. From this, it can be said that humans are wasting their money for many unimportant purpose such as keeping pets instead of investing in more beneficial goals.

On the other hand, many recent researches have shown that pets play an important role in human’s life. In the modern life, young people are too busy with their business, their family and career. Sometimes they forget their responsibility with the old such as their parent or grandparent. So the old people have t share their emotions with their friends or their loyal pets. Besides that, pets such as dog are very helpful in guiding the blind people. For this reason, keeping pets is essential demand, which makes world more interesting and colorful.

My personal conclusion is that although keeping pets makes us invest time and money but it is undoubtedly that life will be much more monotonous if it is without pets                      

Writing task 1: Causes of land degradation

The pie chart indicates the percentage of farmland becoming less solid because of different reasons which are deforestation, over – cultivation and over – grazing. Besides that, the table shows the result of these causes in specific areas which are North America, Europe and Oceania by percentage in 1990s.

As can be seen, the main reasons making agricultural land become less solid were over – grazing and deforestation with 35% and 30%. Over – cultivation also transformed farmland into less productive, with 28%, which is four times of the percentage of farmland destroyed by other reasons.

According to the table, Europe is an area which had the biggest land become less productive with 23% of total Europe’s land, which is almost four times of total degraded land in North America, only 5%. In addition, the land affected by 3 main causes in Europe was higher than 2 other areas. Most land in Oceania was degraded by over – grazing with 11,3% of total land in this region.

In overall, the large amount of farmland was become less solid because of humans demand. Especially in Europe, the amount of less solid land was the biggest number among 3 regions.   

Essay: Affection of technologies on human's relationship

Topic: Nowadays, the way people interact with each other has changed because of technology.

In what way has technology affected the type of relationship people make?

Has this become a positive or negative development?

Nowadays, the way many individuals keep in touch with each other is an issue which frequently generates a great deal of heated debate. With supporters remaining that it is vital to accept that technologies create a good effect on making people become nearer, whilst opponents claim that now people only know about their virtual world and forget the real world. The arguments surrounding such issue will be hence be discussed in this essay.

Upon initial examinations, it cannot be denied that today, people always interact with each other through social networks such as Facebook. Taking my experience as an example, in 5 years ago, on my birthday, a lot of my friends came and gave me presents and the best regard but now, a lot of notifications and e – mails send to me instead of the real people on that day. As a consequence, more and more individuals communicate through the social networks instead of meeting each other.

However, it is not always the case. Despite the fact that technologies have a lot of advantages but it makes a large impact on human’s relationship. Up to a point, many people become lazy and cannot control themselves. The most obvious instance to prove is that everyday it announces a lot of teenager criminal who has addicted game online. That is to say, technologies also have negative affect that people should avoid.

Taking everything into consideration, it can be concluded that the benefits of technologies still far outweigh the obstacles. The course of action would be to attempt to achieve a balance between improvement of technology and the human’s interaction. It is my firm conviction that people should communicate to other people by meeting each other instead of using modern technologies

        

Idiom of fear

1. Shaking like a leaf : means that when someone is too scare that they cannot stop moving

2. Scared stiff: So frightened tat you cannot move

3. It sends shivers up and down my spine: something frightens you very much (useless in Ielts)

Sometimes when i was a little boy, I was scared about the ghost story. Whenever I heard a haunting from my sister I was usually "shaking like a leaf" but it never make me "scared stiff" so My mother always told that I was a brave boy :">.  And now I know that ghost is just imagination and I do not believe in it. But rarely I read a frightening story . maybe "It sends shivers up and down my spine" :-SS

Essay: Credit cards and loans

Topic: Many people are using credit cards or loans to run up huge personal debts that they may be unable to repay. It should therefore be made more difficult for individuals to borrow large amount of money.

It is unarguable that nowadays, credit card is becoming more and more popular. Many people use them and some people have to have at least two. However, a lot of people say that “Using credit cards or loans makes lavish private liability that individual cannot pay for, which create more difficulties people to borrow cash from banks” I strongly agree with this argument and in this essay I will show you more detailed about it.

First of all, now people can have a credit card or debit card easily. Most banks usually encourage their customers create new card and it also make individual feel more convenient especially with their shopping. Unfortunately, people often use money, which is bigger than the real money that have. For example, individual who are shopaholics always buy a lot of things, which may force them, have to borrow money from bank so that make their personal debt become larger and unable to pay.

On the other hands, many individuals usually go to bank and ask for borrowing money to set up their business idea. Many recent researches have shown that there is a variety of business idea created by people everyday but most of them do not work effectively in the real situation as the individuals think. In addition, when the bank releases loan for one ineffective personal idea, it makes the number of their unrepay debt increase. Therefore, it is more difficult for people to borrow the large money from bank.

To sum up, using credit cards and loans from bank may not only make you more convenient but also provide an opportunity for your business idea but it also create your private liability become huger. So individual should think carefully and clearly before borrowing money from bank.