Tài liệu ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) TOPIC 6-1 pdf

ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS )

Topic 6: Family –children- women

SECTION 1: CHILDREN

1. It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a
big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and
examples to develop your essay.20
- Growing up in the country means a certain amount of isolation. You
are in a small town or on a farm and not with a lot of people. Even
more important, the people you meet every day tend to be just like
you. Most will be the same race as you, have the same background
as you, and will have gone to the same scholls as you.
- In the city, you meet with a variety of people. There are different
races and different cultures. You get a more interesting mix.
- there isn’t the sense of community in the city that you have in the
country because city people tend to come froma lot of different places
and move around a lot. People in the city can live in the same
apartment building for twenty years and never get to know their
neighbors.
- In the country, everybody knows everybody. For a child, this meas
the country is more secure. A child can get lost or hurt in the city and
have no one to turn to. In the country, everyone is a neighbor. People
in the country feel connected to each other.
- A child growing up in the city has the advantage of a lot of
interesting and exciting places to visit. He or she can go to the zoo,
museums, art galleries and concerts. There are a lot of restaurants
with different kinds of food. It’s easy to see every new movie that
come out. Children in the country don’t have a lot of these activity
nearby.

- All in all, I think a childhood in the city is better because it prepares
you more for what real life is like.
2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Parents or other adult relatives should make important
decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children. Use
specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. –51.
- Agree:
- no one knows me as well as my parents. No one wants the best for
me like my parents. It is natural that I should allow my parents to
make important decisions for me, concerned education, social life
and future career.
- They are much more wise and deep thinker.
- They are experienced.
3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A
person’s childhood years (the time from birth to twelve years of
age) are the most important years of a person’s life. Use specific
reasons and examples to support your answer.106
Are childhood years of a person the most important years in
his/her life?
- Agree: these are the years that form us. These years determine
what kind of a person the child will become.
- Why?
- The time when we learn about relationships.
- Our parents and siblings, then about rest of the world.
- Learn how to respond to others based the treatment we’ve given.
- If we are loved ->know how to love others.
- Form our ideas about our own self – worth from the way others treat
us during these years. They can convince us we are worthless, or
they can teach us we deserve love and respect.
- The years when we begin our formal education.

- Acquire the basic skills –reading, writing, working with numbers –
use throughout out lives.
- Learn how to analyze information and use it.
- Develop our moral sense of what’s right and wrong.
- Develop our self – discipline to live according to our morals.
4. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There
is nothing that young people can teach older people. Use
specific reasons and examples to support your position.99
- What can older people teach young people?
- Is there anything that young people can teach older people?
- Technology.
- Youth culture: popular music is generally youth – oriented.
- Youth – related social issues: AIDS and school – violence.
5. As part of a class assignment you have to write about the
following topic. In some countries children have very strict rules
of behaviour, in other countries they are allowed to do almost
anything they want. To want extent should children have to
follow rules? You should write at least 250 words.children.doc
- It would be unwise, indeed foolhardy, to impose the same rules of
behavior on all children in every part of the world.
- Acceptable rules if behaviour can vary greatly from one country to
another, with factors such as age and family values influencing what
is deemed to be acceptable in that particular society. Even the sex of
a child can greatly influence these rules.
- A basic factor that must be considered is the age of the child.
- Other factors which must be considered include maturity and
household rules
- Whatever the situation, rules of behaviour do need to be imposed
on children. In all societies rules are an integral part of life and if
imposed from an early age a child will develop a more disciplined

approach to life and as a result develop into a well balanced adult to
deal with an ever more complex world.
6. What are the important qualities of a good son or daughter?
Have these qualities changed or remained the same over time in
your culture? Use specific reasons and examples to support
your answer. TOEFL54.
- Obedience
- Loyalty
- Respect
7. Children learn best by observing behavior of adults and
copying it. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this
statement?
8. Some people think that children should begin their formal
education at a very early age and should spend most of their
time on school studies. Others believe that young children
should spend most of their time playing. Compare these two
views. Which view do you agree with? Why?85
- Should children begin their formal education at a very early
age?
There are many things that could affect the outcome of the
argument.
- What kind of school is it?
- It could be a school where children sit at their desks all day long
memorizing dates and facts.
- Or it could be a scholl where the teacher helps the children learn
what they want to learn -> better.
- What kind of play we are talking about?
- The child could be alone all day long watching television, which
could make him or her bored and lonely.
- The child could e involved in group activities with neighborhood

children of the same age, which could help him or her learn how to
get along with others.
- At which age should children begin their formal education?
- 6 years old -> why?
- What role does “play”take towards a child?
- Learn how to get along with others.
- What is more important to a child, eduction or playing? Why?
- Both are important.
- What is the best balance?
- An ideal school with proper break in which children can play.
9. It is very important that children should study hard at school.
Time spent playing is time wasted. Do you agree? children.doc
Why education is very important for children?
- It is believe that if children study hard at school, they will have many