Month: September 2015

Living On Own # Essay For IELTS

 This is an IELTS academic essay.

You should spend 40 minutes on this task.

In many countries around the world young people decide to leave their parents’ home once they finish school. They start living on their own or share a home with friends.

Do you agree or disagree with this approach? Give your opinion.

 

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

SAMPLE ANSWER

 

We all are individuals and need to take our responsibility after a certain age. However, in few countries it has been observed that, often the young minds on completion of their schools, tend to move out of their parental house. They either share their living with friends or decide to completely live on their own means. Many people hold the opinion, that this early shifting helps kids to become more responsible from an early age. Those who disagree point out that, often kids stumble and after falling, never get up in their lives.

There is nothing better than a responsible young mind. Moving out and living on own means, most importantly, brings out in an individual the ability of taking responsibility for their own decisions. Once they realize that there is no backing up, often it has been seen that people start making wiser decisions. For instance, a person living without his/her parents, knows that if some mishap happens, they are the first one to help themselves. As a result, they tend to be more careful. Secondly, they are forced to face challenges that will help them to understand and grow in life better. Thirdly, a child realizes the importance of parents. For instance, when my sister moved out of her house and started living in a new city all alone, she understood how much pain parents go through to provide a healthy environment to their child. This realization made her respect and love her parents more.

Those who disagree point out that a child is more susceptible to the outside world. Sending them out of house even before they are mature enough, often leaves their lives shattered. Firstly, it is during growing years that a child needs the support of parents the most. They are already facing issues in life, mostly because of various changes in their body. Sending them out and allowing them to live alone could add insult to their misery. Secondly, it is not always that a young person knows his/her best. It is even possible that they fall into wrong hands and destroy their lives.

Overall, it can be said that living on own means surely inculcates strong ethics such as taking responsibility, it must be made sure that a child when living alone is still near parents. This helps in giving them both the advantages and helping them during their growing years.

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Topics For Speaking Part I

The first part of the speaking section, consist of general questions and lasts for 4-5 minutes. The questions asked are the ones that are usually related to the person, and are there, to  merely check, how well the person can express himself or herself in day to day situations. So, let us have a look at some of the topics asked in the first section of IELTS Speaking.

WORK

  • Where do you work?
  • Why did you choose that job?
  • Is it popular  in your country?
  • Do you like your job?
  • How well do you get along with your colleagues?
  • What was the first day at job like?
  • What responsibilities do you have at your job?
  • If given the chance, will you change your job? Why?

STUDY

  • What do you study?
  • Why did you choose that subject?
  • Is it a popular subject in your school?
  • Do you like that subject?
  • What kind of bond do you share with your subject mates?
  • How was the first day at your school like?
  • What are the main aspects of your subject?
  • Do you plan to getting a job in the same subject or you want to change your subject?

HOMETOWN

  • Where is your hometown?
  • Do you like your hometown?
  • How often do you visit your hometown?
  • What is your hometown like?
  • What are the places to visit in your hometown?
  • How can your home town be improved?
  • Has your home town changed with time?
  • How are the transportation facilities in your hometown?
  • Do you think your hometown is a good place for growing children?

HOME

  • Where is your home and of what kind?
  • Whom do you live with?
  • How many rooms are their in your home?
  • Do you have a single room or you share your room with someone?
  • How are the walls of your home decorated?
  • Is there anything you would like to change about your home?
  • Do you plan to live there in future?
  • What facilities are available near your home?
  • Do you plan to live there in the future?
  • What is your neighborhood like?
  • Do most people live in houses in your country?

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Home Schooling # Essay For IELTS

The question is of IELTS general.
Home schooling belongs to the past and is unacceptable in the modern society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Use your knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

SAMPLE ANSWER

Everything has two sides and home schooling is not an exception. In the past, it seemed like the most natural way of teaching, but in present times it has come under scrutiny.

The people favouring home schooling have come with various arguments. Firstly, a child learns from someone he/she is the most close to i.e. parents. When the kid learns from his/her parents, the bond between them increases. In addition, it helps him/her to learn things beyond a fixed curriculum. For instance, Angelina Jolie, home schools her kids. When asked her about it, she said, she has a job where she has to travel a lot. Home schooling her kids, help them to learn things that are more practical. They get to meet new people, see new cultures and understand how life operates. Secondly, when a child learns at home, he/she is saved from the unnecessary pressure that often school environment builds in. Even more, often kids get bullied or punished, a home provides them the best environment to study. Thirdly, it caters to the development of an individual aptitude and abilities. For example, a kid interested in music, need not to learn anything except music.

Nevertheless, there are even facts against home tutoring. The first major drawback is that it is not for everyone. In the past, at least one parent used to dedicate their time at home. However, in present times with both parents involved in making their own career, home schooling could stop the kid from learning at all. Secondly, often parents themselves are not very well educated. This might be possible because of the circumstances they have faced, however, they want their kids to follow their dreams. It is in these cases that the arguments favouring public school system, get their advantage. Thirdly, to an extent, restricting a child to house, reduces the exposure he/she might get, if he/she goes on and faces life on its own.

Overall, I believe that the decision must lie on the parents and even more so on kids. Both of the ways of teaching have their own benefits, but in the end it all boils down to this that every individual is unique and has his/her own unique circumstances and the teaching must be the one that helps the child in his/her individual growth.

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Family # Writing Practice

Have you found yourself in a situation when you had an idea in your head but you could not explain it? When you felt a choke in your neck, as if you want to say something but the word just doesn’t comes out and in that struggle you mumble different words which have no meaning all together. Well, this happens because you have a weak vocabulary or you don’t know how to use the words that you know. It might also be possible that you are not confident, but for now, we shall consider the previous two conditions i.e. either you have a weak vocabulary or you don’t know how and when to use those words.
So, be calm and delve into the new venture of learning words and using them in an exciting way.
In this first article, we will begin with something we all are part of and we all love, FAMILY.
Now, every topic has its own vocabulary( words related to it). And family is no different.
Check out the entire list of family vocabulary HERE.
Now, let us start using them.
About My family.
So, let us begin. When asked about your family, there are few things you have to tell.
1. Who do you live with?
Now, suppose you live with your parents and have a brother or a sister. You must write, I live with my mother, my father and a younger brother.
What have you done, you have used the verb- live, wrote the names of the people you live with. And that is all required to begin with.
2. Where do you live?
Now, there has to be some place where you are currently staying. State the name of the place. You must write, I live in Dehradun( now this place can be anywhere in the world).
3. Now, you need to elaborate.
Tell, more about your parents and your brother or sister.
My mum’s name is Catherine.
She is Indian and speaks Hindi and Kumaoni.
She is a home maker.
She is tall and a little plum, she’s got long brown hair, brown eyes.
My dad’s name is Philip.
He is an Indian as well.
He is tall and a little fat. He has got black hair and brown eyes.
He works in a Thermal Power Plant.
My brother is Mayank.
He is an engineering student and loves to read engineering books.
He is tall, and has got brown hair and eyes.

QUESTION TIME
Choose the correct option-

1.
  1. We lives in Dehradun.
  2. We live in Dehradun.
2.
  1. She speak Hindi and Kumaoni.
  2. She speaks Hindi and Kumaoni.
3.
  1. My mother is an indian.
  2. My mother is an Indian.
4.
  1. She is home maker.
  2. She is a home maker.
5.
  1. My father name is Philip.
  2. MY father’s name is Philip.
6.
  1. She has got long hair.
  2. She has got long hairs.
7.
  1. He works in Thermal power plant.
  2. He work in thermal power plant.

ANSWERS
1. 2
2. 2
3. 2
4. 2
5. 2
6. 1
7. 1

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