Tài liệu ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) TOPIC 8-2 pptx

ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS )

Topic 8: Happiness –friendship - marriage

SECTION 2: MARRIAGE

1. The advantages and disadvantages of arranged marriages.
*. Advantage:
- Financial security. Lack of money -> stress in any relationship.
- Parents make better choice than their children.
+ Parents are older and wiser
+ Experience: at assessing characteristics (experiences) -> know
what qualities are desirable in a spouse.
+ Better judges of character than young people, who often let
emotions influence their judgement.
parents choose with their head not their heart.
• Disadvantage:
- Misery for 3 people if they have fallen in love with the other.
- Likelihood of unhappy life for their children. The basis of the
marriage is love. Lack of love -> unsuccessful marriage for their
whole life. Love can make people more tolerance (enhancing
sympathy to each other).
- Unfair for their children: Their daughter and son are mature enough
to make their own decision for their future spouse. Parents would
rather be the advisors, not decision maker.
- Life has changed. Parents choices are probably no longer suitable
for their children. For instance, in World War II, hard- working is a
desirable character for any person. However, in these days, it’s active
and well – educated ones that are desirable for a spouse.
2. Young people should live together before getting married?
• Advantages:

- Enhancing mutual understanding:
+ In daily life: cooking, living habit, …
+ Their family life: behavior with their relative
- An effective way to examine if they are a good couple or not. Easy
to solve problem if they are not suitable to each other: financial issues
and children.
• Disadvantages.
- Greater likehood of breaking – up relations, which would lead to a
lot of serious consequences, due to no legal bond between them.
One minor argument can cause their break, for instance.
+ women are vulnerable if their relation are broken up: difficult to find
a replacement because of prejudice.
+ In case there are children of this un – married couple -> they are of
misery: not perfect parents, an unhappy childhood, obsession about
their parents.
- For society: the increase of infectious disease due to a lease sexual
living style: HIV, … -> a great threat to the whole society.
3. Do women usually work after getting married in your country?
• A common phenomenon in several countries: many women drop
their full-time employment after marriage. Instead they find some part
–time job and spend more time caring their family issues: housework,
children rearing, family health care, etc.
• In Vietnam, it’s not of so popular. In fact, Vnese women continue
their employment after marriage. They share nearly the same
responsibility of bread – winner like their husbands.
Some other relevant questions relating to "friendship":
• Are there any famous stories of friendship in your culture?
• Describe one of your closest friends.
• Do you have any childhood friendships that are still strong today?
Tell us about them.

• Do you have any long distance friends?
• How do you keep in touch with your long-distance friends?
• How often do you see your long-distance friends?
• Have you made any friends over the Internet?
• How often do you write to them?
• Have you ever met them in person?
• How are your friendships different now than they were when you
were a child?
• How do you maintain a good friendship?
• How do you make new friends?
• How many people do you consider your "best friends?"
• Is it common to have friendships across generations?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of these types of
friendships.
• Do you have any friends from a different generation than you?
• There is a saying "To have a good friend, you need to be a good
friend."
How can you be a good friend?
• What do you usually do with your friends?
• What factors may result in the breakdown of a good friendship?
• What is the longest friendship that you have had?
• What makes friends different from family?
• What qualities do you think are important in a friend?