Topic 6: If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specifics examples to support your answer.
Outline 6: Introduction: There are many things that I want to change my hometown to make it better. The most thing needs to be changed is traffic. Everyone in my hometown wants to change that problem for several reasons.
Main idea 1: Why I want to change our hometown traffic?
• Supporting idea 1: there are so many traffic jams that cause air pollution and wastes a lot of time for many people.
E.g.: My hometown is Hanoi which is capital of Vietnam. Almost of the streets are narrow so in rush hours there often have traffic jams which make a lot noise and dirty smoke comes from cars and motorbikes. It makes me crazy. Sometimes I am late for my school just because I have to stand in the middle of the street and can’t move anywhere.
• Supporting idea 2: Another problem is we have a lot of roads. So some way it shows our face. But for a long times there has never been a day without traffic jams. Tourists often feel scared about that.
E.g.: Again I take an example from Hanoi. Almost every street has rush hour. At about 5pm to 6pm, even after that, the Hanoi’s air is covered by smoke, noise from car engine…and the traffic light lasts just like forever. Everyday I go to night class; I always have to go early for hour. People standing in the streets just like ants bring food to their nest.
• Supporting idea 3: It often causes accidents.
E.g.: Our major transports are motorbikes. Even living in a capital but we often witness the weakness of the controlment of traffic. Everyday our small streets have to contain thousand of Lorries, heavy-duty trucks which bring a lot of dirt and it just like smog so we can’t see the road and then fall into crashing each other. Also big trucks can hurt smaller one due to the irresponsibility of the traffic controllers. In average, there are about 10 people die per day in Hanoi.
Main idea 2: What I’m going to change about the traffic?
• Supporting idea 1: I would like to broaden all the roads.
Detail 1: if the roads are bigger it can avoid many accidents.
Detail 2: there will be fewer rush hours.
• Supporting idea 2: another thing I want to change is the traffic conditions
E.g.: If the van has a covering-blanket above its container, it can reduce the amounts of dirt.
• Supporting idea 3: I want to change people’s mind.
E.g.: The citizens in Hanoi may be just in Hanoi join in the traffic really crazy. Even holding a license in hand, they still drive just like they are alone on the road. If we can change this, it will be less accident either.
Main idea 3: How will I change that?
Supporting idea 1: The first thing i would do is propagandize to people around how to be safer on the road, when they are driving.
E.g.: I could write on the public bulletin that many people can see it like we should carry motor hat when driving, as you know Vietnam use a lot of motorbikes.
• Supporting idea 2: I will recommend the government to improve roads and traffic signs.
E.g.: I know some people in embassy of some country and I can offer them to tell this problem to our government. Or not, I and the volunteers will fix the road by ourselves, but of course we couldn’t change the signs. Just improve somehow in case I could not ask for the help of the leaders.
• Supporting idea 3: I myself will follow all the rules when driving on the road and try to use as less polluted-transport as I can.
E.g.: I often use bicycle instead of motorbike. It’s safer, cheaper and “green”.
Conclusion: Traffic is the hottest event today in my hometown. So if I could change one important thing, it would be it because after improving traffic it could make my hometown brighter and promise for every development in the future.
Topic 7: How do movies or television influence people behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
Outline 7: Introduction: There are a lot means of entertainment nowadays. Movies and TV are one of those. However, do not just bring fun but also trouble. In fact, movies and television have some bad influence let on people behavior. To get know better about this problem, let’s take a closer look.
Main idea 1: Many people like watching movies and television.
• Supporting idea 1: They see it as an integral part of their daily life.
E.g.: Both adults and children watch TV. For example, child can watch cartoon all day without being bored. And the TV shows are very attractive to them.
• Supporting idea 2: As a result, people watch both good and bad programs.
E.g.: Beside some educational values of some programs, there also have bad shows. People, of course, can’t avoid watching them. Like violent movies.
Main idea 2: How the TV influence People?
• Supporting idea 1: Of course good shows can teach people many things.
E.g.: Discovery channel can show people the world outside so that people will love it then do good things for the environment or like discovering the world.
• Supporting idea 2: But there also has bad sides, people watch and follow it.
E.g.: there are so many violent programs today on TV such as fighting movies, detective, sexual movies…It makes people want to get fight with others to experience the feeling of killing someone. so a consequence of crimes begins. Bad programs change people characters from normal to evil.
Main idea 3: It is serious problem which affects to our community.
• Supporting idea 1: As I said, there will be many crimes which is the afraid of many people around.
E.g.: Let’s imagine that in our neighbor has a man whom often watches movies which contain bad actions. One day he goes out, he will find someone to fight with and show that he is a powerful person. Such a scary it is!
• Supporting idea 2: Children are also an aspect of this problem.
E.g.: A child watches superman movie and then he always want to hit his little brother or sister which makes his parent go crazy.
Main idea 4: How can we solve this?
• Supporting idea 1: Need more educational programs
• Supporting idea 2: Organize more outdoor activities which make people do not watch TV so often.
E.g.: Build more parks and places which are exciting to people.
Conclusion: TV and movies are popular media to people today, but beside its good benefits such as information, news… it also has bad values. The important is how can we reduce the bad side and make it less influence to people behavior.
TOEFL listening lectures: To which entertainment does the lecturer not relate Greek drama?