Writing skill of the 9th form 003

<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span>5. Opinion essay Topic: What are the disadvantages of using the Internet? Write a passage giving your opinions on this. Pre-writing Before writing the letter, pay attention to the following points: - Your passage should be in the right structure (already in the lesson). - Before you write, list all the drawbacks of the Internet you can think of. - Choose the most important points. - Arrange the points in correct order (e.g. order of importance) - Think of any facts and examples to each idea. - Write an out line. Writing: We all know that Internet plays an important role in our life. However, beside the benefits it has, Internet has a number of disadvantages as below. The first disadvantage when using the Internet is that your personal information is not safe, especially important one. In fact, as you surf the webs, read emails, download soft wares or even chat with your friends, a Trojan, known as a hidden program, can be sent to your computer without your knowing. It will steal and transfer all the information you save to the sender. This person, after that, may make use of or give it to somebody else. For example, if you use Internet to shop online, your credit card number can be stolen, and then the money in your bank account will probably be used up. Or if you send some confidential material to your business partners, your opponents may try to steal it and harm your company. Pornography is the second disadvantage of the Internet. This is a very serious issue, especially when it comes to children. Nowadays there are thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can be easily found. These sites are very harmful to the kids, and may incite them to act out sexually against other ones. According to the study of researcher Dr. Jennings Bryant about 600 American.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span> males and females of junior high school age and above, 31 percent of the males and 18 percent of the females admitted actually doing some of the things they have seen in the pornography. Moreover, a recent study has shown that frequent exposure to pornography may cause the children to involve in sexual illness, sexual addiction and unplanned pregnancies, which have bad influences on the children’s mental life. The last con is virus threat. What is a virus? A virus is nothing but a program which disrupts the normal functioning of your computer systems. Computers attached to internet are more prone to virus attacks and they can end up into slowing down your computer’s speed, destroying data and crashing your whole hard disk. Maybe most of us here have at least once suffered from viruses no matter how hard we have tried to prevent them from infecting the computers by using some anti-virus programs. So we should know clearly that they cause bad damages, but are inevitable. In conclusion, the Internet can have some bad effects like unsafe personal information, pornography’s influences on children’s mental life, and virus threat. However, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use the internet any more. It’s hard to imagine our life without the Internet. What you should do is just need to be more careful every time when you use the Internet. 6. A complaint letter Topic: You went on holiday in Hoi An last month. During your holiday, you stayed at a hotel here but the hotel service did not satisfy you. Now you write a letter to the manager of this hotel to complain. The name and address of the hotel is up to you. Pre-writing Before writing the letter, pay attention to the following points: - Think of what you may complain about. For example: bed bugs, dirty hotel, small room, unhelpful staff, poor room service, substandard restaurant ....

<span class='text_page_counter'>(3)</span> - After stating the problems, you may make some suggestions how to fix the problems or improve the situation. - Your letter should be in the right structure (already in the lesson). - The language used in your letter must be formal. Writing: Do Manh Dung 43 To Hieu St, Son La, Vietnam February 4, 2011 Mr. Nguyen Van Dung Hotel ABC, Q.........., Vietnam Dear Sir, Last month, January 2011, I stayed at your hotel and the weather turned bad unexpectedly. It was raining and there was no proper heating in my room. Those days I suffered a great deal because it got unusually cold, the heater wasn't working well and the roof of my room was leaking rain water. So I complained at your service desk, but they just came and looked at the heater and roof and said, We'll be working on it" " , but nothing was done. Then I asked them to change my room but unfortunately there weren't any vacant rooms available at that time. I spent 2 days and 1 night in very poor conditions and due to this I came down with a fever. I was sick when I left your hotel and the next day I was unable to go to work, which was very important to me. I hope you will pay attention to this letter and try to fix your service center and renovate your establishment. Your hotel is in the center of the city and is very convenient. Next time, I would like to stay at your hotel in hopes that you will take better care of your customers..

<span class='text_page_counter'>(4)</span> Yours Faithfully, My Tam.

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