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15 CHỦ ĐỀ CÁC BẠN CÓ THỂ GẶP KHI THI IELTS WRITING TASK 2
A. THE ART ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
1. (14/02/2019) Some people claim that museums and art galleries are not needed today, because
everyone can see historical objects or art works by computer. Do you agree or disagree? ............................. 3
B. BUSINESS AND MONEY ............................................................................................................................ 5
1. (24/03/2019): Some people think that hard work and determination bring success. Others think other
factors such as money and good appearance are more important. Discuss both views and give your
opinion? ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
C. COMMUNICATION AND PERSONALITY ............................................................................................. 8
1. (15/01/2019): Nowadays, many people cannot read or write. What problems does this cause? What
measures can governments take to solve these problems? ............................................................................... 8
D. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ................................................................................................................... 10
1. (07/03/2019): Research suggests that the majority of criminals who are sent to prison commit
crimes when set free. What are the reasons? What can be done to solve the problem? ................................ 10
E. EDUCATION ............................................................................................................................................... 14
1. (13/08/2019): Students should pay the full cost for their own study, because university education
benefits individuals rather than society. To what extent do you agree or disagree? ...................................... 14
F. THE ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................... 16
1. (24/02/2019): Some people believe that all wild animals should be protected. Others say that only a
few wild animals should be protected. Discuss both views and give your opinion ...................................... 16
G. FAMILY AND CHILDREN ....................................................................................................................... 19
1. (25/04/2019): In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units,
rather than in large family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend? ......................................................... 19
H. HEALTH ...................................................................................................................................................... 22
1. (04/05/2019): Today, many children spend a lot of time playing computer games and little time on
sports. What are the reasons for this and is it a positive or negative development? ...................................... 22
I. TOURISM ..................................................................................................................................................... 24
1. (22/06/2019): Many museums and historical sites are mainly visited by tourists but not local people.
Why is this the case and what can be done to attract more local people to visit these places? ...................... 24
J. GOVERNMENT .......................................................................................................................................... 26
1. (23/05/2019): In many cities there is little control on the design and construction of new homes and
office buildings, and people can build houses in their own style. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of such a situation? .................................................................................................................. 26
K. SOCIETY .................................................................................................................................................... 28
1. (23/03/2019): It is expected that there will be a higher proportion of older people than that of young
people in many countries in the future? Do you think it is a positive or negative development? 21 .......... 28 lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
L. MEDIA AND ADVERTISING ................................................................................................................... 31
1. (02/02/2019): More and more people want to buy famous brands of clothes, cars and other items.
What are the reasons? Do you think it is a positive or negative development? ............................................. 31
M. TRANSPORTATION ................................................................................................................................. 34
1. (14/03/2019): In some countries, small town-centre shops are going out of business because people
tend to drive to large out-of-town stores. As a result, people without cars have limited access to out-of
town stores, and this may result in an increase in the use of cars ................................................................... 34
N. ENERGY ..................................................................................................................................................... 38
1. (28/09/2019): Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the main energy source for many
countries. However, some nations are using alternative energy such as solar power, or wind power. To
what extent do you think this is a positive or negative development? ........................................................... 38
O. WORK ......................................................................................................................................................... 40
1. (10/02/2019): In most successful organisations, some people believe that communication between
managers and workers is important, while other people said that other factors are more significant.
What is your opinion? .................................................................................................................................... 40 lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371 A. THE ART
1. (14/02/2019) Some people claim that museums and art galleries are not
needed today, because everyone can see historical objects or art works by
computer. Do you agree or disagree?
It is true that technology gives most
people a chance to see historical objects
and works of art on a computer screen.
I partly agree with the view, therefore,
that museums and art galleries are no longer necessary.
to provide funding for: to give money
It is very expensive to maintain a to enable something to be done
museum or art gallery, and governments
often have to provide funding for these national or local authorities:
institutions. If national or local government organizations acting at a
authorities have to allocate resources to national level or within a smaller, local
keep these cultural facilities open, then area
less money is available to spend on
health, education and social services. to allocate resources to: to make
Faced with such a choice, some money and materials available to do
countries opt for a mixed funding model something
for the arts in order to reduce costs.
Therefore, I believe that it is an social services: a system that is
unaffordable luxury to retain these organized by the government to help
wonderful public collections. Their people who have financial or family
artefacts and paintings can all be problems; the department or the people
accessed freely and almost instantly at who provide this help
the touch of a key on a computer a mixed funding model for the arts: a keyboard.
model in which some money to support
the arts is given by the government and
While I agree that museums and art some money is provided by private
galleries are not essential in this
computer age, I would be sad to see their
disappearance. Firstly, the buildings lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
which house their collections are individuals or commercial
themselves part of our tangible cultural organizations.
heritage. For example, the National
Gallery in London is a striking and tangible cultural heritage: refers to
impressive historic building. Secondly, physical artifacts produced, maintained
the feeling of awe on seeing the size of and transmitted intergenerationally in a
the great dinosaur skeletons in the society
Natural History Museum in New York
would be impossible to experience by
simply looking at an image on a laptop
or cell phone. It would be an immense
loss if such places were to close their doors to the public.
The aesthetic qualities of something:
In conclusion, although these cultural The qualities related to beauty and
facilities have unique aesthetic qualities, understanding the beauty of something.
now that people can access their
treasures thanks to the digital revolution, the digital revolution: the advancement
the expense of keeping them open of technology to the digital technology cannot be justified. available today 284 words lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371 B. BUSINESS AND MONEY
1. (24/03/2019): Some people think that hard work and determination bring
success. Others think other factors such as money and good appearance are
more important. Discuss both views and give your opinion?
It is true that some people believe that
the key factors for success in life are hard work and
determination, although others place more
importance on money and smart
appearance. While all these are lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
necessary, I would argue that money is to earn a living: to earn money
the single most essential factor for
those who wish to achieve success.
a heavy workload: having many tasks to perform
On the one hand, the determination to
work hard is essential for anyone who minimum wage: the lowest wage that
wants to earn a living and raise a an employer is allowed to pay by law
family. Firstly, this is true in terms of
employment, because most jobs job prospects: the chances of being
impose a heavy workload on successful and having more
employees. Even jobs such as serving opportunities at work
customers in stores, supermarkets or promotion opportunities: chances to
coffee shops, offering a minimum move to a more important position in a
wage, no job prospects and no company or organization
promotion opportunities demand hard
work and dedication. Secondly, from to support a family: to have enough
a perspective of life outside work, money to be able to look after a family
simply supporting a family involves
commitment and a lot of effort to commitment: the willingness to work
maintain a close-knit family. Such hard and give your time and energy to
parental involvement is the basis of a job or activity
preparing children to enter adult life,
and to pursue a successful career.
a close-knit family: a family having
strong relationships with each other,
On the other hand, money and helping with problems and enjoying a
appearances are the things most lot of time together
valued in the modern world. People
are increasingly judged by their wealth parental involvement: the act or
or their smart and fashionable clothes. process of parents when taking part in
Without money, it is impossible to their children’s activities.
think about running your own business
or developing contacts with rich and
influential people who can help you to
get ahead in life. Most aspiring lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
entrepreneurs, film or sports stars, for to enter adult life: the stage when
example, do not achieve their dreams, adolescents are almost old enough to
and are considered by society as be legally independent of their parents.
failures. If you have money, then
designer clothes and celebrity status to pursue a successful career: to have
advertise your success to others.
a series of jobs in a particular area of
work, with more responsibility as time
In conclusion, it is a sad reality that of passes judged: to form an opinion
all the factors most likely to bring about something or somebody to run
success, money is, in my opinion, the your own business: to have a business most important. which you own 283 words
influential: having a lot of influence
on something or somebody get
ahead in life: to succeed in life
aspiring: wanting to be successful lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
C. COMMUNICATION AND PERSONALITY
1. (15/01/2019): Nowadays, many people cannot read or write. What problems
does this cause? What measures can governments take to solve these problems?
It is true that even today, illiteracy is illiteracy: the fact of not knowing how
widespread. While this presents to read or write
serious difficulties for individuals and society, there are steps
that disadvantaged: not having things,
governments should take to deal with such as education or enough money, the problem.
that people need in order to have a
When people can neither read nor good life
write, they are disadvantaged in
important ways. In terms of the lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
individual consequences of illiteracy, bureaucracy: the system of
dealing with bureaucracy is a complicated official rules or ways of
nightmare. Reading and writing – or doing things organised by a
even adding a signature to – an official government
document is often necessary, for
example when people have to apply welfare: practical or financial help
for social welfare benefits. From the provided by the government to help
perspective of society in general, it is people in need
difficult to integrate economic to integrate into society: to become
migrants into society who are perhaps
illiterate in their home countries, or are accepted as a member of a social
unable to read and write in the group, especially when a person
language of the host country. This comes from a different culture a
makes the task of constructing a
multicultural society difficult if multicultural society: a society
minority groups are forced to do which includes people of different
sweated labour, simply because they origins, traditions and languages
are illiterate and excluded from betterpaid jobs.
minority groups: small groups
within a community that are different
There are, however, policies which
national and local authorities can because of their origin, religion,
adopt to improve matters. Firstly, language or traditions sweated
resources should be allocated to labour: hard work that is done for
provide basic literacy classes in local low wages in poor conditions; the
colleges or social and community people who do this work
centres to help people to learn to read
and write. Secondly, government to allocate resources to: to make
departments must employ staff who money and materials available to do
have specific responsibility for something
helping illiterate people to cope with
the confusing mass of official to adopt policies: to start or use
paperwork. In this way, they will not policies
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by losing welfare rights to which they national and local authorities:
are entitled. Finally, governments government organizations acting at a
even in developing countries must
ensure that everyone has the right to a national level or within a smaller, local
basic education which enables them to area read and write.
social and community centres:
In conclusion, although illiteracy is a places where people who live in the
serious problem, there are steps which same area can meet for events or to do
governments should take to help those different activities
who can neither read nor write.
to cope with: to deal successfully with 282 words something difficult
paperwork: the written work that is
part of a job, such as filling in forms or writing reports or letters
to discriminate: to treat one person or
group worse/better than another in an unfair way
D. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
1. (07/03/2019): Research suggests that the majority of criminals who are sent
to prison commit crimes when set free. What are the reasons? What can be done to solve the problem?
It is true that a large proportion of to re-offend: to commit a crime or
criminals are known to re-offend after crimes for a second time, or for more
they have been released from prison. times
There are some important reasons for
this return to a life of crime, but there to mitigate: to make something less harmful or less serious lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
are solutions which could mitigate the problem. lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
I believe that there are two principal to serve a prison sentence: to remain in
reasons why many criminals who have prison as a punishment
served their sentences, commit further
crimes when they are released back into to release back into society: to give
society. Firstly, prison is popularly freedom to prisoners who have finished
regarded as an institution whose their sentences.
purpose is to punish wrongdoers. There
is a public outcry against being soft on to punish wrongdoers:to punish people
crime, and many argue that only the full
weight of the law will act as a deterrent, who do something illegal
even though this is obviously not
to be soft on crime: not to
working. As a result, few resources are impose strict punishments on offenders
allocated to prison programmes which
will help ex- offenders to make a fresh the full weight of the law: all the
start in society. Secondly, prisons are strictest punishments available
overcrowded and often violent places, according to the laws of a country.
in which the most hardened criminals
influence and intimidate other inmates, to act as a deterrent: a measure which
and form networks to plan future makes somebody less likely to do
crimes, such as a criminal prison gang something called the PCC do in Brazil.
Steps should be taken to solve these to make a fresh start: to try something
problems. One solution is reintegrating new after making mistakes in one’s life
offenders back into the community.
Programmes which provide vocational hardened: having developed a way of
training or academic study opportunities dealing with bad experiences, so that
must be implemented in order to give they no longer upset you
prisoners a chance of rehabilitation and
to find work. Some universities in the to intimidate: to frighten or threaten
UK and the USA, for example, offer somebody, so that they will do what you
degree programmes to enable offenders
to gain qualifications. Another want
solution is to segregate the most
dangerous convicts, in order to prevent inmate: one of the people living in a
intimidation and bullying in prisons, prison
from which offenders are released as even more expert criminals. lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
In conclusion, while important reasons to reintegrate back into the
for the rate of re-offending can be community: to restore someone into
identified, some steps must be taken to society through education or therapy implement workable solutions.
a chance of rehabilitation: a chance of 286 words
helping someone to have a normal life
after serving a prison sentence
an outcry against: a reaction of anger
or strong protest shown by people in public
to segregate somebody: to separate
people for some reason and treat them in a different way
to allocate resources to: to make
money and materials available to do something
convict: a person who is guilty of a
crime and who has been sent to prison lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371 E. EDUCATION
1. (13/08/2019): Students should pay the full cost for their own study, because
university education benefits individuals rather than society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people believe that students
to pursue a successful career: to have
should not receive help with the costs a series of jobs in a particular
of their university education. While area of work, with more
graduates may benefit individually responsibility as time passes
later in life from the opportunity to
pursue a successful career, I would
to provide funding for: to give money
argue that the government should
to enable something to be done provide funding for students. lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
In many cases, it is true that students headhunting: connected with the benefit from their university
activity of finding people who are
education in terms of future salaries. suitable for top jobs and persuading
Headhunting corporations compete them to join a company
with each other to offer attractive
employment to graduates. Graduates can expect to have better job
job prospects: the chances of being prospects than non-graduates, successful and having more enjoying higher pay and good opportunities at work
promotion opportunities. They will,
therefore, be more likely to live in
promotion opportunities: chances to
prosperous neighbourhoods, with an move to a more important position in
enviable lifestyle. For example, in a company or organization
the USA college graduates may earn
two or three times as much as an
prosperous: rich and successful unskilled worker.
enviable: something that is enviable is
something that is good and that other
However, I consider that there are people want to have too
two important reasons why students
should not pay the full cost of their
university education. Firstly, they to acquire
acquire skills which are useful, and
experience/knowledge/skill: to gain
sometimes essential, to society as a
experience/knowledge/skill by your
whole. Doctors, scientists and
own efforts or behavior
engineers are obvious examples, but
other professions should not be
forgotten, such as teachers, artists or
philosophers. Secondly, if students
have to pay for their education, they to pay off a student loan: to repay
may be forced to pay off a huge
money borrowed in order to study at
student loan when they graduate, or college or university
they may have to work their way
through college. In the latter case,
to work your way through
their studies will suffer, and some
university: to have a job when you are
may fall behind with their studies or at college/university in order to help to even drop out of college. pay for your studies
In conclusion, I disagree that
to fall behind with your studies: to
students should pay the full cost of
improve more slowly in studying than their university education. lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
Although in some cases they benefit other people so that you fail to learn the
individually from having a degree,
course material at the necessary speed
they also contribute to the prosperity
to drop out of college: to leave
and well-being of society and,
college or university without finishing
therefore, deserve some financial your studies support while studying. 279 words F. THE ENVIRONMENT
1. (24/02/2019): Some people believe that all wild animals should be protected.
Others say that only a few wild animals should be protected. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
It is true that people hold different in the wild: in a natural environment
opinions about the extent to which wild not controlled by people
animals should be protected. While it is
difficult to justify the protection of every a violation of animal rights: an action
wild animal, I believe that some wild that harms or acts against animal rights
animals ought to be protected.
On the one hand, some people put to treat animals humanely: to be kind
forward the moral argument that humans to animals and treat them in such a way
have no right to kill any animal in the that they do not suffer
wild. They argue that it is a violation of
animal rights. They believe that it is to condemn: to express very strong
necessary for everyone to treat animals disapproval of something, especially
humanely, and they correctly condemn for moral reasons
the many forms of animal exploitation,
animal suffering and even animal animal exploitation: the use of
slaughter in the world today. For animals in order to get an advantage
example, animal lovers will argue the from them animal suffering: physical
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oceans, there is an international
campaign for an end to the practice of animal slaughter: the killing of animals whaling. for meat
On the other hand, I tend to agree with animal lovers: people who like
those who argue that only animals on the animals very much, and feel love for
brink of extinction should be protected.
Their views combine practical and moral them
arguments. Although they recognise the
ethical dilemmas, they believe that the to eliminate poaching: to stop all
numbers of some species of animals illegal hunting of wild animals
must be regulated. Rats, for example,
are everywhere and they are a danger to wildlife reserves: protected areas for
human health, contaminating food and wild animals the practice of whaling:
water and carrying diseases. If their the activity of hunting and killing
numbers were not reduced, the whales on the brink of extinction: an consequences would be
serious. animal or plant which has almost
Therefore, people should mainly be
concerned with protecting rare or disappeared from the planet
endangered species of wild animals.
ethical dilemmas: a situation in which
In conclusion, because it is impossible to a difficult choice has to be made
protect every species of wild animal, I between two different things, relating
believe that priority should be given to to beliefs about what is morally right
saving those species which are in danger and wrong of becoming extinct. 272 words
to contaminate: to make a substance
or place dirty endangered species:
plants or animals that only exist in very
small numbers, so that in future they may disappear forever
priority: something that you think is
more important than other things, and
therefore should be dealt with first lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371 G. FAMILY AND CHILDREN
1. (25/04/2019): In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in
small family units, rather than in large family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend? lOMoAR cPSD| 61470371
It is true that in recent years, many urban urban dwellers: people who live in a
dwellers have tended to live on their city or a town
own or in nuclear families. In my
opinion, this trend has both positive and tend (to/towards something): to be negative consequences in
equal likely to do something or to happen in a measure.
particular way a nuclear family: a
On the one hand, the rise in smaller family consisting of a father, mother and
households is a positive trend primarily their children
for economic reasons. The migration of
people from rural to urban areas has the migration of people from rural to
resulted in an enormous increase in urban areas: the movement of people
demand for housing. The housing stock from the countryside to cities
has been inadequate to cope with this
demand, and so property developers the housing stock: all the houses
have taken advantage of this population
shift to raise house prices and rents. available for living in
They have built apartment blocks which
provide accommodation for only single to be inadequate to cope with: not
people or small families. If they do not good enough to deal with a problem a
wish to endure squalid housing property developer: a person who buys
conditions, therefore, it is clearly land or buildings, and then makes
necessary for people to live alone or in improvements in order to sell them for
small, usually family, groups. more money
On the other hand, there are negative
apartment blocks: large buildings with
aspects of this trend. With the mass apartments on each floor.
exodus of people to cities, ties of
kinship are broken as the extended population shift: a change in the
family which lived together in the numbers of people who live in a
countryside is broken up. Socially, particular area
family gatherings take place only rarely
and, financially, living costs can no
longer be shared between many family
members living under the same roof.