ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 6: Family –children- women SECTION 2: FAMILY AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS 14. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.2 What parents can teach us? What are disadvantages of parents in the position of teachers? - They may be too close to their children emotionally: sometimes limit a chold’s freedom in the name of safety. - They may expect their children’s interest to be similar to their own. - Different generations -> disadvantage of parents: narrower views of life, can’t keep up with rapid social and technological changes. What is the real teacher of one’s life: - Our parents - Our teachers. - Our peers. - Books and newspaper and televisions. They are all valuable. 15. Some people think that the family is the most important influence on young adults. Other people think that friends are the most important influence on young adults. Which view do you agree with? Use examples to support your position.87 - what role does family play in young adult’s life? - A family is permanent, while friends come and go. They give you support throughout your life - Your parents are your role models. They will encourage you to do your best to push yourself, and to improve your self. A family is amitious for you. - Your family teaches you about love. - What is their friends’s role? • Which is more important? * Relevant questions for interview section: 1. Do you have any brothers or sisters? What are they doing at present? 2. Where does your father or mother work? 3. Do you live with your family? Why? 4. What do you and your family do together? 5. Describe the role of the family in your life - give motivation -> life is more meaningful: have people to care for. - Give lifetime support ->confidence. - Lifelong friends: never betray, always love me and want the most beautiful thing for me. 6. Speculate on how life would be without any family. - Lack of motivation. - Lack of orientation. - Life is less meaningful. 7. Descibe the most interesting member of your family. Say: • His/her relationship to you. • What this persons does. • How you feel about this person And explain what makes this person interesting. 8. A person who has the most influence in your life. (please write your own answer for this question ) Who is the person? It is very my father that makes the most important influence in my life. He hasn’t only helped me form my own character but also given me strength to lead a better life. Moreover, he indeed made a great contribution to all my achievements up till now. For me, he is an ideal Father. How does this person influence on you? - He was the person who make great contribution to my academic performance. - From his view, a succesful person must be an well educated person. That’s why he always encourage us, his four children, to study and study more. He made us awared that intellectual is the most precious thing any person can possess, much more than money. - He worked hard for earning enough money for providing us the best conditions for our studying. Take my self as an example. When I just entered my high school, and appeared to have good ability for computer science subject, he had no hesitation to buy me a good computer despite the fact that our family was not well–off at that time and computer was not cheap at all. - Four children in the same age group is indeed a heavy burden for any parents. Although he is only a normal electrical engineer with moderate salary but he managed succesfully rearing us. All of us have successfully entered into best universities and performed really well in our academic results. Anyone looking at our family would admire my father for his effort of bring up us. - What’s more, he serves as a pattern of a good person for us to follow: - He is a soulful man not only in family but also in his relationship towards friends as well as colleagues - He knows how to tackle his lifetime thorny problem. Take his youth time as an example. His rule was always doing the best in given conditions. 9. Describe the role of the family in traditional Vietnamese society. The long turn should include: - The roles and responsibilities of the various generations. - The benefits to children, the elderly etc. of a family like this. - Any disadvantages. - And describe any changes to the traditional family structure that have occurred or are in the process of occurring. . ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 6: Family –children- women SECTION 2: FAMILY AND FAMILY. 8. A person who has the most influence in your life. (please write your own answer for this question ) Who is the person? It is very my father that makes