Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 5, 2011

CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY: Effects of using mobile phone too much

           The mobile phone is one of the greatest invention in  20 th century . We can not imagine how is our life without the mobile phone. It is an obvious truth that the mobile phone gives us benefits in some aspects of life . Using mobile phone distributes our communication to make it easier than before .Besides  a mobile phone can provide us with a lot of funtions like relaxing with music , chatting or playing games... However , today people especially young people are becoming addicted to using the mobile phone .They can not stay away from their phones , even for a minute . Perhaps , because of the benefits of the mobile phones , most people do not realize lots of negative effects that the mobile phone has brought to us .Using mobile phones too much not only affects our health seriously but also causes some personal problems and limiting communication face to face .
         In the high-tech world , the mobile phones are equiped with all necessary funtions. People can chat together for hours whenever they have time . They talk together from hour to hour , from day to day. As a result, using mobile phone for a long time affects our health. Do you know how dangerous  the wave from the  cell phone is for our brain? The waves from cell phone are very harmful to our physical body such as our heart and brain . A recent study tells that our brain is seriously damaged when using mobile phone too much.Have you ever experienced  the headache with talking on the cell phone for a long time? It is the wave from the mobile phone that causes the headache . Due to the danger of the cell phone wave to our brain , using phones too much can cause a poor memory . Besides, the wave of cell phones is very strong so it can cause heart disease if we keep cell phone near our body , especially under the pillow while sleeping. With many functions of  the cell phone , the young can listen to music anytime thay want . By using a headphone , people can enjoy some video, some music all time without annoying anyone . However, one effect of listening by earphones for a long time is that it damages our ear, even it can cause deaf .Moreover, the excessive use of cell phones causes teens and young adults to experience restlessness and it can make them feel difficult to fall asleep.It is an obvious fact that using cell phones too much  can affect our brain , cause sleep loss and damage our ears .
              Our life is becoming more and more convenient and the mobile phone has become an indispensable and inseperable object . People use mobile phones in every place , every time to manage their business . They talk on the cell phone when working , even when they are on the road. A lot of drivers listen to cellphone conversations while they are driving on the road . Consequently, they can cause dangerous accidents for other drivers on the road . Getting caught up in a conservation on a cell phone can lead to the loss of  focusing and highly distracted driving .Furthermore, it is generally observed that drivers using cell phones often  forget to give proper signals, disobey street signs and tend to cut lanes without warning .It is such a careless driving that results in many crashes and fatalities every day. Therefore, our government should give the law to ban drivers from using mobile phones while driving . Besides , an  another result of using phones too much is the expenses for cell phone cards every month . We often spend a lot of money using mobile phone. For example , if you talk to your friends a lot on cell phone , it can spend about 50 thousands dong every week so it costs you 200 thousands dong for a month . Not only the expenses for cell phone cards , sometimes using phones in a public places also causes some problems . We can see some rude people who speak loudly in public places , particularly in libraries, trains and theatres , which disturbs other people a lot. As another example, the camera of mobile phones sometimes disturbs a person 's privacy. Some people use the bluetooth and the camera in a bad purpose . For example , they sneakily take  photos of some girls in the public places such as swimming pool or spa and spread those photos to the internet. In short, using mobile phone can cause some personal problem like accidents on the road , money for cell phone cards and some trouble in public places.
          Mobile phone has become crucial part of our life . One of the most important functions of the phone is that it helps the communication become easier and quicker.  However it also causes a lot of problem in communicating. Firstly, cell phone use has effects on the direct human to human interraction.Talking on the cell phones are gradually replacing the communication face to face between people. There was a time when the purpose of a telephone was to convey the important messages and not many people owned telephones .Thus, to talk together about something, they often met directly. Today owning a cell phone is held as a neceesity and anyone including children have their cell phone . Therefore ,the communication face to face between people is limited.Nowadays parents can be at the work place to talk to their children, to remind them of studying at school . Friends like chatting together for hours by mobile phone so they do not have anything to tell together when meeting at school. It seems that using cell phones too much destroys the pleasure of direct interaction. Another effect in communicating by mobile phone is misunderstanding between people . Always , people send messages to ask for information or congratulate someone...And the problem is that sometimes they forget to type the punctuation marks or they misspell , which makes the receiver misunderstand . More seriously, this can destroy the relationship between them. Therefore, to avoid some problem in communicating by cell phone, people should be careful in using it.
         Mobile phone is realy necessary for our life because of many convenient functions of it . However, sometimes mobile phone can cause us many problem.The adventages or disadvantages of using mobile phones depend on the way how we can use it in right ways or in wrong ways.

Thứ Tư, 20 tháng 4, 2011

PROCESS ESSAY: VILLAGE FESTIVAL IN MY HOMETOWN

             I was born in Ha Nam , a province in the North of Vietnam . I am always proud of my hometown with hard-working and kind farmers and especially I feel very proud of my village with a lot of traditional festivals taken place during a year . One of the most important festivals in my village is " Village Festival " . " Village Festival" is taken place every 2 years  to remind people in the village of the god of the village who built the village . People often call the god of the village as " Thanh Hoang Lang" . This festival is taken place on full-moon day of February . There are three parts in the" Village Festival".
            The first part of the festival that children are the most eager is lifting the palaqueen and lion dances . On the day of Village Festival , children often  get up early , wearing beautiful clothes . Then they go to the communal house of the village to wait for the palaqueen . About 7 o'clock  , all of people in the village gather in two sides of the road to see the palaqueen pass . It is believed that children who go under the palaqueen on this day will have good health and will study very well. At 8 o'clock in the morning the palaqueen starts being raised from the village to  the village . The palaqueen is raised by 8 people . Always the old people in the traditional  costume go in front of the palaqueen and they both go and spread things like coins, pink candles.. My grandma told me that people who pick the pink candles are very lucky . They often put the candles in front of their children 's bed . It is thought that the light of the pink candle will make their children more intelligent and healthier. Therefore they try to get the pink candles. Lion dances are also followed by the palaqueen. The procession lasts for more than an hour.
            After the procession , people in the village : the old, the young and children move to the river in the village quickly to see the next part of the Village Festival called " traditional games". Traditional games is the most interesting part in the Village Festival so  villagers always wait for this activity . There are a lot of traditional games taken place in this part such as boat race , tug of war and wrestling... One of the most interesting games in Village Festival is the racing boat . There are 5 teams which presentate for 5 villages to take part in this game. It is very proud of the village to win the competition . Therefore , every village chooses the strongest man to join the boat race competition.In this game , competitors sit on an imperial boat , a boat has the form of a dragon decorated with the different colours . The captains who stand at the head of the boat order their team to sail the boat quickly . As soon as the sound of the drum starts , all team begin sailing as fast as they can. Along two sides of the river viewers are shouting for encouragement for their home team .The louder the sound of yelling and shouting of fans is , the more quickly the competitors sail .People who watch at two sides of the river run after the boat to encourage for their team . The team which sails to the finish the most quickly will be the winner of the game . It is a big pride of the village for the team who gets the first prize . Besides the boat race , the traditional games like tug of war , rice- cooking and wrestling are also seen by most peole in the village. The activities of the traditional games finish at about 1p.m in the afternoon .
            The last part of Village Festival is celebrated in the communal house yard .after the traditional games.
When the traditional games finish , villagers gather in front of the communal house yard to eat a traditional meal and to see which teams get prizes in traditional games. From early in the morning, woman in the village prepare necessary materials to cook the meal. Often women in the village who are good at cooking will be chosen to cook for Village festival . About 12 p.m all the food is shown carefully and spectacularly on the tables in the communal house yard . On Village festival day  the communal house becomes more crowded.This is a special occasion for  people in the village to meet and talk together about their work as well as the harvest . Firstly, the results of the traditional games in the morning are announced by the leader of the village . Most people are awaiting to hear which teams win the first prize . It is the pride for the village that wins the first prize . The winners in the traditional games last year will award the prize for the winners this year.Then people sit on their seats eating the meal. They both eat and talk happily. After the meal ,people gather to hear the women in the village sing folk songs  The Village festival lasts untill early in the evening .
            Despite the impact of the industrialization , the Village festival is still celebrated as the cultural and traditional beauty of my village . It reminds the young generation of the tradition and originality .

Thứ Tư, 13 tháng 4, 2011

Classification Essay

My topic :Categorize food according to its nutritional benefits.

        There are a lot of factors that affect to our heath such as the environment around us , our daily eating habits ...However, the most important factor that affects directly to our heath is the food we eat everyday . Food provides us with the necessary nutrients to grow our body and to keep us heathy . Besides , every kind of food contains  specific nutrients . Base on nutritional benefits of food, people divide them into three main groups . They are the starchy food ,food providing a lot of vitamins and mineral and the food that contains protein and fats.
       The first group is starchy food . Do you know what is starchy food? Starchy food is the food containing a lot of starch such as cereals , rice, corn, potatoes, bread... It is the most important group of food to our heath because starchy food is a good source of energy for our body . The starch in rice , maize and cereals provides a great source of energy for us to work and study all day.Moreover, they are the main source of a range of nutrients in our diets. Starchy food gives us many important nutrients, including fiber, several vitamin B and minerals like iron, magnesium and selenium. The fiber in brown bread , cereals and corn is really useful for the digesty system. It reduces constipation. Because starchy food has much vitamin B , it helps the body release energy and plays a vital role in the function of the nervous system. Vitamin B also aids in the formation of red blood cells and builds tissues.Starchy food is very important to us because of its nutrients and energy it provides us.
       Fruit and vegetable is one of the most important groups of food to our health .It consists of all kinds of fresh fruit and green vegetables such as cabbage , carrot, pea, apple, banana...We can not have a good health without eating fruit and vegetables . Fresh fruit and green vegetable are a vital source of vitamins and necessary minerals for our body. For example , vitamin C in a lot of fruit like orange , lemon...is really impotant for our health. It helps us to heal cuts and wounds and especially , it keeps teeth and gum healthy . Not only vitamin C , it also provides us many minerals that are good for us . We should eat more green dark vegetable such as carrots , amaranth... because it contains iron which is good for the blood . Besides fruit and vegetables provides us a great amount of water and fiber .To have a healthy immune system we should eat more fruit and vegetable .Nowadays, obesity is the most popular disease so eating a lot of fruit and vegetable is the best way to reduce your blood cholesterol level and prevent the obesity . Furthermore, the more fruit and vegetable we eat everyday , the less risk of heart diseases we can get . Generally , fruit and vegetable are the natural drug for our body and reduce the risk of heart disease .
         The third group of food that is really important to our body is the food that contains protein and fats. The common foods in this group are meat , poultry, fish , dairy food and eggs .The amount of protein and fat in this group of food is very high . Meat is a good source of protein , vitamins and some minerals. Fish is another important  source of protein , especially oily fish is particularly rich in omega- 3 fatty acids so the fat in fish is really good for our health. Protein is really nesessary because it help our body to grow and repair itself. Besides we need this group of food as they function as building blocks for bones, muscles, cartilage , skin and blood . Protein and fat are one of three nutrients that provide calories and energy for us to work effectively. In despite  of the important nutrients contained in this group, we should not eat too much because they do still contain high levels of fat. Therefore, it is good for our health to eat them in moderation.
         In short  , Starchy food , fruit and vegetable and the food with protein and fat are the most important groups of food with the differences in nutrients . To have a good health , we should eat a balanced diet of three main groups of food.  
  
       

Thứ Tư, 23 tháng 3, 2011

LONG ESSAY

       Do you agree with me that money always has its power in our life? Money plays an important play in our life. Without money, we can't live a happy life. Therefore, when money looses its cost-it means that the inflation happens, our life will be affected a lot. One of the classes in our society affected the most is students who live far away their family. In the context of the high inflation, students face a lot of difficulties. The high inflation puts them under the pressure of money and the studying of students is also affected a lot. Now, students are finding the best solutions to overcome these difficulties.
         Students living far from their house hardly earn money for daily life. Most of them still depend on their parents. Every month, they receive an amount of money from their parents. With that money, they must spend for everything from daily expense, renting an apartment to the expense for studying.Maybe students'life is difficult. However, life is more and more difficult for students because of the impact of high inflation. In the context of high inflation, the problem that most students worry about is that the price of the consumer goods goes up and up while the monthly money their parents support them doesn't rise. Students are becoming worried a lot about money when the price of food goes up twice as much as before. For example, before the high inflation, students just spend about 30 thousands dong for meals everyday. However, with 50 thousands dong everyday for buying food, students can have meals with vegetables and meat now. Comparing with a few years ago. with amount of money of 1 million dong every month , student can live comfortably but it is veru difficult for them to live with such amount of money at present. Consequently, they try to reduce money for daily meals, even they don't have breakfast. Therefore. it affects a lot to their heath. Not only the price of the consumer goods rises, money paid for renting an a partment also rises dramatically. Besides, water bills, electricity bills are higher than before. Everything is going up, which makes students anxious alot about money. Money is becoming a real anxiety to students in the context of high inflation.
               Not only the pressure of money, the high inflation also affects on studying of students. Before the inflation, they don't have to worry about money, they just concentrate on studying in university. Now the price goes up higher and higher. As a result, most students have to take part- time jobs to earn money for daily expenses. Eveyday, after university students have to do a lot of jobs to support their life. Some students work as a delivery person. Everydaym they work outside, delivering advertising papers for companies to earn money. The other students choose the jobs as waiters in the restaurants. They have to work for about 5 hours from 5 p.m to 11 p.m in the evening. It is not easy to earn money. Sometimes they fell tired and when they come back home, they just want to sleep. As a result, the pressure of high inflation makes students distract their studying. After tiring hours, they can not concentrate on lessons at university. Some students focusing on earning money drop school because their result of studying is too bad. The pressure of money in the context of inflation makes them neglect their principle responsibility. Because of the impact of high inflation, students are losing their future for a good job.
              Now to live in the context of high inflation, students need to have solutions for themselves to overcome the difficulties. The first solution that students should learn is making a budget . In the context of high inflation, making a budget is really important . Students should cut money for unneccessary things and spend money approciately . For example , some students like going out for coffee with friends for about 3 times a week. However, they should go out just  for 1 time a week now. Therefore, they can save a little money . The other solution is that students should make a detailed plan to balance between studying and taking part- time job . Studying is the main responsibility of students so they should make the priority for it . Arranging the timetable carefully helps students take part- time without being affected to their studying . Therefore ,they can both earn money and study well at university . Besides , the government should give the policy to support students in the context of high inflation.
                 Although students' life in the context of high price is really difficult , they will overcome  the difficulties if they know how to plan for their life.
                  

Thứ Ba, 15 tháng 3, 2011

MAKING AN OUTLINE: Student's life in the context of high inflation

Introduction: In the context of high inflation, the price of all goods is increasing drastically. This affects    directly on students' life who live far away their house. Because of  the inflation , students are under a lot of pressure : They both worry about money and studying in university. Also, they are in difficulty looking for a job in the future.I wonder how they can face that problems?
BODY:
     Paragraph 1: Students' life is becoming more difficult because the pressure of increasing of the price.
              - In the context of high inflation, the price of goods go up and up while money for daily life does not 
 rises . Therefore, they have to manage to spend enough with that amount of money. They have to reduce money for daily meals. As a result, it affects to their health.
             -Not only prices of goods and foods go up, money paid for renting the apartment also rises dramatically. For example, water bills and electricity bills are higher and higher.
   Paragraph 2: The high inflation of the economy also affects to studying of students.
             -With the pressure of high price of the expense for daily life, students are facing to increasing the tuition fee. Consequently. they are have to take a part-time job to earn money so they do not concentrate on studying in university. And their result of studying is not good.
            - They are losing the chance of good job in the future
paragraph 3: Solutions for students to overcome the context of high inflation.
            - learn how to spend money approciately.
            - plan for studuing carefully and arrange the timetable to take a part-time job.
           - the government and universities should give the policies to support students 
CONCLUSION:  In the context of inflation, students should make a suitable plan of spending to stay healthy and study well.
                                                   WRITING INTRODUCTION
C1: BROAD STATEMENT:
       Student who live far awy their house always face a lot of difficulties in daily life. They have taken many jobs to earn money paying for their studying. Even to study in university, some students have to work all nights in the restaurants, fast- food stores. However, these are not all difficulties which students have. Nowadays, high inflation is becoming the worry of most students because it affects not only spending money but also  their studying.
C2:QUESTION+ RELEVANCE
        Do you agree with me that money always has its power in our life? Money plays an important role in our life.Without money, we can not live a happy life . Therefore, when money reduces its cost, it means that the inflation happens, the residents' life will be affected a lot. And perhaps students who live far away their family face to much more difficulties in the context of high inflation. The high inflation puts them under the pressure of money and studying in unversity.