Online Class Notes (Ally)

Homework

Some people believe that the best way to improve public health is by increasing the number of sports facilities. Others think that this has little effect and other measures are required. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Society should take action to help teenager have education , and prevent them from taking dangerous and wrong actions
As the young peopleā€™s crimes more often, it becomes serious and complex problems to the society nowadays. Many people have different opinions on whether to punish and treat them like adults. After analyzing this problem, I believe … /However, punishing teenagers in the same way as punishing adults is more beneficial to society.

One popular argument is that …. However … /It is wrong to think that teenagers are too young to realize the mistakes in their actions. Almost all people, as long as they have received education, are aware of the importance of obeying the law. Therefore, it is unwise not to criminalize teenagers just because of their young age. Nowadays, some teenagers commit crimes that are even more serious and dangerous than adults. They do not realize the bottom line in their behavior, but hurt innocent people for their own interests or even to get happiness. This is a behavior that needs to be paid attention to and changed. Moreover, many teenagers will not realize their mistakes and even do crazier and worse things if they are not punished. Teenagers should be equal to adults in matters concerning law and morality.

However, at the same time, it’s a complicated question about how hard to punish teenagers./ Many teenagers do not reflect on themselves as adults do when they are put in prison. They do not realize their mistakes well, which makes what they do after they come out worse. More over teenagers can’t distinguish right from wrong, most of the time they just imitate for the sake of showing off, with the development of science and technology and society, more and more teenagers will be influenced by video games and TV, and their inability to tell right from wrong makes the situation worse, parents should communicate more instead of scolding, it will only hurt their heart and make it worse.

All in all, punishment should be given to those teenagers who break the law and commit crimes no matter what age. Meanwhile, the society and parents should also pay more attention to teenagers and their children, avoid doing stupid things as much as possible, save and protect them, and create a safer society.

The place I want to talk about is the study in my house, but actually it’s my own room. I’ve been living in this room and I like it very well because I can read books and enjoy the sunshine in the afternoon. I can play the computer games at night. I put a small refrigerator here. After I lock my door, I can enjoy my own little room, I really enjoy this feeling. I put a large screen on the wall, it really helped me a lot, whatever…. I like it because it helped me a lot in my growth. I thought that I would never forget and I can’t find any other place like this in my whole life.

The ad I want to talk about is three deer in China. It is common knowledge that people hate three deer in 2010. I first saw it when I watched my fav TV program. At that time, … After about 3 months, it was on the news. The company of the three deer was shut down I know that it has very serious problem in the industry.

The person I want to study with is my front table in my middle school. I have known her for six years… I still remember the first day I met heris after ….

You know I’m not a person who pays … the most things I can remember is I played as flower children in wedding.

Vocabulary

Speaking exercise

Some people believe that the best way to improve public health is by increasing the number of sports facilities. Others think that this has little effect and other measures are required. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Even though …. does have its benefits, ultimately ….
Even though both claims are reasonable, ….. is more beneficial /has more advantages.

People nowadays lead busy lives and cannot take care of their own wellbeing. Public health is becoming an important issue that requires lots of new approaches. Increasing the number of sports facilities is one approach that seems favorable, but is not very effective sometimes. Besides this measure, other measures are required to improve public health./to address the problem of public health.

Even though increasing the number of sports facilities does have its benefits, ultimately it is not the favorable choice when considering the measures to improve public health.

Even though both claims are reasonable, increasing sports facilities alone is not enough to improve public health and more measures are needed.

some people say that men and women are born with different qualities and so men are more suitable for some jobs, while women are more suitable for other jobs. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Writing exercise

(1) Young people who commit serious crimes, such as a robbery or a violent attack should be punished in the same way as adults. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Agree
R1: teenager has to be taught by consequences
Teenagers will not realize their mistakes if they are punished severely(even do worse when they grow up)
We should treat them just like adults
R2: but same time should depends on the age they are
Some teenagers are too young that donā€™t know the degrees to which things they should done
Something they just think itā€™s cool and do that

Society should take action to help teenager have education , and prevent them from taking dangerous and wrong actions
As the young peopleā€™s crimes more often, it becomes serious and complex problems to the society nowadays. Many people have different opinions on whether to punish and treat them like adults. After analyzing this problem, I believe … /However, punishing teenagers in the same way as punishing adults is more beneficial to society.

One popular argument is that …. However … /It is wrong to think that teenagers are too young to realize the mistakes in their actions. Almost all people, as long as they have received education, are aware of the importance of obeying the law. Therefore, it is unwise not to criminalize teenagers just because of their young age. Nowadays, some teenagers commit crimes that are even more serious and dangerous than adults. They do not realize the bottom line in their behavior, but hurt innocent people for their own interests or even to get happiness. This is a behavior that needs to be paid attention to and changed. Moreover, many teenagers will not realize their mistakes and even do crazier and worse things if they are not punished. Teenagers should be equal to adults in matters concerning law and morality.

However, at the same time, it’s a complicated question about how hard to punish teenagers./ Many teenagers do not reflect on themselves as adults do when they are put in prison. They do not realize their mistakes well, which makes what they do after they come out worse. More over teenagers can’t distinguish right from wrong, most of the time they just imitate for the sake of showing off, with the development of science and technology and society, more and more teenagers will be influenced by video games and TV, and their inability to tell right from wrong makes the situation worse, parents should communicate more instead of scolding, it will only hurt their heart and make it worse.

All in all, punishment should be given to those teenagers who break the law and commit crimes no matter what age. Meanwhile, the society and parents should also pay more attention to teenagers and their children, avoid doing stupid things as much as possible, save and protect them, and create a safer society.

3) Some people believe that children can learn effectively by watching TV and they should be encouraged to watch TV at home and school. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
(agree)
R1: spend too much time on the tv is bad for health, especially in the process of growing up.
Reduce a lot of time on other habits(sports)
Maybe they cant chat with other kids in the real life(have no time to practice)
R2: many tv programs are beneficial for kids, kids can learn a lot from it
(foreigner language, cooking , drawing , travelling , chatting)
Kids can find their own hobbies and develop the interests
Can stimulate the passion of study)
As the development of the society and technology/as something develops/ with the development of sth , more and more children like to sit in front of the TV and watch programs all day long. And at the same time, more people are beginning to consider whether they should let the kids watch lots of TV at home and school. Although watching TV can be beneficial to children, but it has more disadvantages and parents should limit their children’s TV time.

Nowadays by watching TV , children can see many wonderful programs. Ā They can help children to stimulate their potential and passion for learning. From watching Tv , children can learn how to cook, fish , draw, and write. Children also can learn many knowledge more specific on Tv than books. For example , they can watch the program called ā€œanimal worldsā€, maybe they will attracted by the animals , and have a deeper and different understanding of the world. At the same time they will know the beauty of the environment , and human have the responsibility to protect the environment and the Earth. And in the process, it becomes vey interesting and high effective.

But at the same time , parents should also be careful to limit TV watching time , watching tv can help children learn a lot but doesnā€™t means can watch as much as they want at home or in school. The first reason is that the childrenā€™s bodies are still in the period of growth , watch too much tv will badly harm their eyes, thatā€™s one of the reasons why so many children are now short-sighted. From the psychological aspect and communication aspect , watching too much tv means children sacrifice many times which can let them do exercise or other things they really like do. It also affects their development. They also lose time on chatting with other children who have the same age.

All in all , when we encourage children to watch Tv and absorb the new knowledge , we should think about the disadvantages too. Parents should limit the time on watching Tv strictly, and have more communication to children,. Then children will have more time to do the things they like and improve they chatting skills.

(3)In the past people store knowledge in the books. Nowadays people store knowledge on the internet. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages
(The advantages outweigh the disadvantages)
R1: store knowledge on the internet is more easily and cheaper (many books are expensive)
People can surf the information quickly just by a phone or computer
R2: bookshelf needs a lot of space (not everyoneā€™s house have the study)
The Internet only needs servers to store information
R3 :we can share the knowledge easily through the internet , which the book can’t do

In this information flood era/era of info overflow , people can learn new knowledge very easily. That is because almost all of the information are stored on the internet now. For/In terms of this phenomenon, people have different opinions. Many people still think that knowledge should be stored in a book, but in today’s world, storing information on the internet definitely has more advantages.

It is common knowledge that one of the greatest things about the internet is it can store infinite/countless/all the information just on the servers. And in theory, it can store all the knowledge on the world , and people can reach and surf the information easily. People can learn/get the information anytime and anywhere just by a phone or computer, which are easier to carry than heavy books. And at the same time, many homes donā€™t have a study that canā€™t hold so many books , people will more decide to place a computer instead of bookshelves. Moreover, when info is stored on clouds and servers, people can share information easily, which only need to edit and click the ā€œsendā€ button. And before the internet was developed , if people want to share messages, they must use letter at the cost of time and money.

But thereā€™s still have some problems for the Internet, such as the technical failure or just sometimes the power goes off suddenly, people will have no way and just waiting or fixing. But there will have no problem on reading books , and still many people like books because theirsā€™ real touch, meanwhile they can enjoy the feeling of getting knowledge in the books.

All in all, in terms of storing knowledge, the internet is undoubtedly the easier and cheaper option. However, different people will always have different preferences. As the time pass, maybe there will be more ways to store and learn the knowledge, in even cheaper and faster ways, but there would always be people who like read on the books.

ļ¼ˆ4ļ¼‰In some countries around the world, men and women are having babies late in life. What are the reasons? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
advantages outweigh the disadvantages
R1: people want have a higher career advancement
Students want have more time to study and get better degree
High tax and the pressure from the life
More and more people like single life
Want have more free time to do the things they really liked(travel cook exercise)
Have more choice in the life
High technology lets people have more way to have a baby(test-tube baby)
To society: cause aged tendency of population (spending more on the medical care)
Donā€™t have enough of the young people(cant help the economy)
But people will feel more happy (have choice to enjoy the life they choose)
To family: no kids to take care of the parents when they are old
but family members will feel happy(less argue)
Less pressure on the kids

In this population explosion world, having babies late is not a rare things nowadays. The reasons that cause/ behind this phenomenon is that people want have a higher career advancement, and the students want have more time to study and get better degree. It also is a very serious problem that the governments want to solve. Based on these reasons, the advantages of having babies late in life are far greater than having babies early.
Many people nowadays are against having babies because they usually feel too much pressure, both from work and daily life. From the material aspect, people need to pay the high tax every month , include the cost of picking up the children from the school , and have to pay more attention on kidsā€™ daily life and not his own. From the emotional aspect, more and more people like to live alone and have single life , and it also means that they have more time to do the things they like. They can manage their life and time whatever they want, and have more choice in the life. They donā€™t have to take care of the kids that spend their whole life time. From the practical/anotherĀ aspect, In real life, nowadays, / with the development of new tech /people now can decide when to have babies through the test-tube. So people are in no hurry to start new families.

However, this phenomenon/having babies very late or even not having babies at all also leads many problem to the society and family. People can enjoy and have the life they want when they are young without worrying about their children, but there is no one to take care of them when they are old. Society donā€™t need to spend so much money on the babies, but also means that will cause aged tendency of population. And donā€™t have enough of the young people to help the economy.
All in all, having babies late in life has its own advantage and disadvantage, but one thing is for certain: people should figure out whether they can be a good parent before having a baby./having a baby is something that requires serious consideration and people should …

  • thesis: last sentence of the intro must the answer the question
  • use “.” and “,” correctly. – SVO, and SVO.
  • you don’t have to categorize all your ideas.
  • conclusion: restate your idea
  • description in passive voice
  • SVO – S must match V. and O
  • do not start a sentence with “but”