ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 4: Education SECTION 1: UNIFORM - HOMEWORK 1. Some high schools require all students to wear school uniforms. Other high schools permit students to decide what to wear to school. Which of these two school policies do you think is better? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. TOEFL - What are advantages of wearing uniform? - Make thing more equal for all students. - Equal on an economic level - -> Prevent envy and jeolousy about stylish clothes - -> Form friendship based on personality not clothes. - reduce unequal treatment by teachers. - Enhance solidarity - Encourage the individual students of a school to feel like part of a bigger group. - What are disadvantages of wearing uniform? - School uniforms limit children’s individualism in clothes. - Some families can’t afford those uniforms. 2. Many teachers assign homework to students every day. Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. TOEFL – unavailable. 3. Apart from uniforms, what do you think should be done to improve the equality among the children of different economic backgrounds? 4. Are school children in Vietnam required to wear uniforms? 5. What are some of the benefits of requiring children to wear uniforms to school? 6. What are some of the disadvantages of compulsory school uniform? 7. Do you think compulsory school uniform can be justified on educational grounds? SECTION 2: TEACHER - STUDENT 1. When students are in large classes it is very hard for the teacher to give every student individual attention. What can educational authorities do about this? 2. Evaluate a teacher’s power to influence a student’s whole life. 3. Some people believe that students should be given one long vacation each year. Others believe that students should have several short vacations throughout the year. Which viewpoint do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice. TOEFL115. Why several short vacations throughout the year?: (3 months per year, each time last for 1 month). - Easier for parents to schedule vacations. - Hard for parents to make a plan for the time in long vacation: expensive, unsafe for children. - Better for economy and tourism. - Overcrowded in holiday seasons. - Children are better focused on study Why one long vacation in the year? - School buildings are air – conditioned -> in summer: hot. - Students can take part in the real world: working for experiences. 4. Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons to develop your essay. TOEFL17. Why we need teachers? - Teachers bring with them varied and useful background. - Trained teach individuals in different ways depending on their style - > which way is best for each student: - Discussion. - Writing. - A good teacher can adapt her teaching to your needs, - Teachers help you to focus on what you are learning. - Keep your attention on the subject. - Know how to approach a subject logically, taking it one step at a time. Study by yourself -> skip parts you think you don’t need. - A broader way of learning. - Information in the written materials as well as the teacher’s own knowledge of the topic. - Provided extra materials to broaden the scope. 5. To be successful in education it is more important to be a good student than to have good teachers. Do you agree? 6. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. TOEFL.70 - Why shouldn’t teachers be paid according to how much their students learn?= how good do their students perform in examinations - Students will miss out on a lot of education that can’t be measured on a test, because teacher will start to teach only what students need to get high test scores. - Some less able students would be disadvantaged. Teachers may ignore students who have learning difficulties because they have to push the majority of the students. - On what basis should teachers be paid? 7. Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. TOEFL154 What are advantages of studying alone? - In case the group don’t take studying seriously -> distracted, interuptions. - Absolutely quite. - Depend on your habits and personality. - If you are sociable -> too tempted to socialize. What are advantages of studying in a group? - Exchange information about the topic: comparing notes, discuss various aspects of a topic -> clearer arguments. - Focused on studying: good discipline -> no wasted time. What are disadvantages of studying in a group? 8. Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. TOEFL75 - Why students should evaluate their teachers? - Help teachers to perfect themselves: Inform teacher of how students react both to their teaching methods and to them as individuals. - Encourage teachers, give them confidence. - Helpful for school administrators assessment of the quality of their teachers. - Good exercise for students -> understand better what is expected of them. - Teach students responsibility: Give students feelings that they have a voice in what happen in their schools. 9. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? High schools should allow students to study the courses that students want to study. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. TOEFL110. - What subjects are mandatory? - Mathemetics, literature, and science. - Hardly any students choose these despite neccessity. - What subjects are elective? Why? - Music, art, journalism, various kinds of team sports. - Chance of experiment. - Get a head start on what going to study in college. - Because students interested in different subjects. Later on, no time for studying their interested subjects. 10. Some students like classes where teachers lecture (do all of the talking) in class. Other students prefer classes where the students do some of the talking. Which type of class do you prefer? Give specific reasons and details to support your choice. TOEFL145 Advantages of lecture: - Teacher give the student the information at their best. - Students gain their experience and knowledge. Advantages of discussion: - develop students’ activeness. - Develop students’ interactive skill. - Teachers feel more comfortable. - Students study more effectively: - One effective way of studying is: making mistake. - Dicussion is always a better way for gaining information. - Students have to consider the problems right at the class to know to what extent they understand. 11. Disruptive school students have a negative influence on others. Students who are noisy and disobedient should be grouped together and taught seperately. Do you agree or disagree? – INSIGHT186 - Why shouldn’t we separate disruptive students? - Limiting their educational opportunities. - A sort of prison -> never recover from the experience -> problems for the wider society. What’s the alternative? - Investige for the reason: - The work is too easy. - Teachers are uninspiring. -> solve it 12. Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or university. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these qualities are important. TOEFL – unavailable. . ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 4: Education SECTION 1: UNIFORM - HOMEWORK 1. Some high schools require all students to wear school uniforms throughout the year?: (3 months per year, each time last for 1 month). - Easier for parents to schedule vacations. - Hard for parents to make a plan for the time