esame PLIDA C1

Ciao a tutti!

Sto pensando di fare l'esame di C1 del PLIDA (italiano) a giugno. Qualcuno sa dove trovare diversi esami di prova? Vorrei provare a fare tanti esempi d'esame come possibile, prima di andare a far l'esame vero e proprio. Ho trovato un paio nel sito ufficiale del plida, e anche ho presso un libro dalla bibblioteca ("Quaderni del plida"). In totale ho soltanto 4 esami, ma vorrei avere alcuni più. Qualcuno mi potessi aiutare?

Grazie!!

IELTS Writing task 2: nuclear power In the last years there has been an intense debate about nuclear power and its possible advantages. In this essay I am going to consider the potential benefits and downsides of this type of energy in order to give a reasoned argument to the mentioned debate. Two main usages of nuclear power must be considered in this essay. The first one regards nuclear power as a source of energy. It is an usual fact that goverments and energy companies are increasing their usage of nuclear methods, claiming that it is a cheap and clean way to obtain energy to supply the society. I would not deny that it is cheaper than other sources, but I would question whether it is actually cleaner. I seriously doubt about the idea of nuclear power as an eco-friendly source, since not only are different specialists claiming the opposite, also there is a big quantity of protests organized by ecologists against nuclear power. The second usage that we should consider here has to do with the widespread idea of nuclear weapons as a threat that helps to maintain thhe peace between countries. I strongly believe that this idea is wrong. Probably, if nuclear power had not been invented we would not be thinking in maintaining world peace. In addition, I think that a state of peace that is maintained under a threat is not a real state of peace, but an underlying or undercover state of war. World peace is a goal that must be achieved by democratic dialogues between countries, and not with the threat of a possible war that is about to break out in any moment. To conclude, nuclear power it is questioned in all its usages and we should provide ourselves,a s a society, with international laws to regulate the possible danger of using it as a source of energy, and to definitely prohibe the creation of nuclear weapong, whi is the real trigger that could awake the armies of the world.

ietls writing task 1 This is an attempt to complete IELTS writing task 1. I was given a graph, and here they are my comments: The given line graph illustrates how the numer of elderly people has evolved in Japan, Sweden and USA throughout the period from 1940 to 2040. Overall, there has been a general rise in the elder population, but while Sweden and USA presents a gradual trend upward, the Japanese percentage has gone up incredibly fast in the later years. In 1940 all countries showed similar quantities of elderly people intheir population. Japan, with its 5%, and USA with its 9%, presented the biggest difference. Since then USA and Sweden has evolved similarly. They elder people percentage grew gradually, with USA keeping a slightly superior number until 1980, when its percentage levelled off, being overtaken by Sweeden in 2000. American percentage started to grow again in 2020, but they never outnumered Sweden again, that finished the period wit a figure of elder people just over 25% (against the American 23%). Japan, instead, suffered a dip after 1940, and carried on falling until the late 80's, when their percentage of elder population resumed its growth. In 2030, this percentage grew substantially fast, overtaking all the other countries and reaching a peak of 27% in 2040.

universities' function The question about what function the universities should accomplish is a current debat ardous to solve. Two main claims have been done by two different groups, those who think that universities should provide students with the knowledge required by the work world, and those whose opinion is that universities should give valuated knowledge, whther is valid or not in their future working life. In this essay I will claim that both positions count with good reasons and that universities should not limit themselves to an unique function. Firstly, it seems obvious that students need to acquire useful knowledge for their future jobs. Nowadays workplaces, in general, are requiring more and more specifi and specialized skills and notions, and universities are the most adequate place to acquire them, since the years and the experience they have been doing so. Furthermore, the dialogue between companies (and others job providers, as the State for example) and universities should be focused on how to work together in order to provide qualified workers to our society. Secondly, it is true that a huge range of disciplines would lose importance if the only function of universities were the commented above. Philosophy, arts, drama for instance, and other degrees which have not a direct relation with the posts needed by the current global economy, would disappear unless we understand thier own value, independently of the needs of capitalism. Universities must be the place to preserve these endangered disciplines. Therefore, both claims are partly right, and universities should incorporate more than a function. From my point of view, another very important role that these institutions should accomplish is researching. All disciplines need to be developed in order to give answers to the huge variety of problems that our world and our century is offering to us.

IELTS listening test, tips.

Hello everyone.

I've been reading some tips about how to do a good listening test on IELTS, and one of the advices is the following:

 

Use a minute to look through each section – you are given 30 seconds at the end of each section to check your answers. You are then told to turn over and look at the next section for 30 seconds. Although some IELTS listening tips will tell you to check what you have written, there is little you can check for the previous section as you can’t hear the listening again. So instead, turn straight to the next section. You will then have one minute (instead of 30 seconds) to look through the next section. This is time better spent.

 

Does anyone know if this is possible? I mean, Wouldn't you be penalized if you do it? I found this advice really helpful because always in the last part I run out of time and can't read all the questions before the recording starts. So if it's possible to do what the advice says I would feel relieved!

Is anyone taking IELTS soon?

 

 

controlling car's ownership This is an attempt to complete IELTS writing task 2: The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use. To what extent do you agree or disagree? As the population of the world has grown and the standars of living has rised in many parts of the planet, the number of cars in our globe has been increased as well. Britain, where there are 29 millions of cars approximately, is a clear example of this trend. However, the uncontrolled growth of the number of these vehicles could bring some dangers to our enviroment. Controlling the ownership of cars has been proposed as a solution. In this essay I am going to consider the pros and cons of this possible solution in order to give a more reasoned response to the problem here questioned. Controlling the number of cars by controlling the ownership of these machines has not been received as a good new by many people and drivers. The conservative mentality would claim that ownership is an individual right and can not be removed or controlled. Besides car's factories are a very important part of the country's economy, and would be a mistake to reduce their production, since this would reduce our economical resources as well. However, I would claim that, even though ownership is actually a right, it must be controlled as long as our lives are in danger as a consequence of a frenzy of ownership. The protection of our enviroment and the life of our planet it is a goal that can not be ignored, and one of the most challenging aims that human being must face nowadays. In addition, this measure would not be a problem to hte economy, since other kind of vehicles are being invented and developed. These new eco-friendly cars would make up the new trend of the transport industry. To conlcude, I totally agree with the statement here questioned, since I do not believe that set this type of measures would bring about any real disadvantage.

further education This is an attempt to complet IELTS writing task 1, which consist of commenting a graph. The bar graph illustrates the quantity of people (in thousands) that have been in further education in three different periods of the recent history of Britain (1970/1, 1980/1, 1990/1). The information is divided in genders and in the categories of part-time and full-time education. In the first period (1970/1) men outnumbered women in both types of education, 1000 men and 750 women in part-time education, and 150 men and 100 women in full-time education. However, in the next moment here considered (1980/1) the graph shows that male's number is just slightly superior to female's in part-time education (840 versus 830), yet women overpassed men in full-time education (800 versus 170). Regarding the last period (1990/1), the quantity of women in part-time education grew significantly reaching a figure of 1100, against the 900 men. Full-time education presents a similar value for both sexes (about 300). In general, the trend of the full-time education has rised constantly for males and females. On contrary, the figure of part-time education has fluctuated for men, and increased for women. Besides, and to finish, is worth to say that part-time education is alwats significantly superior in number.

community service I'm trying to practice Writing Task 2, of the IELTS exam, which consist in a little essay: This is my try: Some people believe that unpaid community service should be a compulsory part of high school programmes. To what extent do you agree or disagree? The debate about wether upaid community service should be a compulsory part on the secondary education have brought about two different claims, those who agree and those who do not. In this essay I am going to consider the possible advantages and dissadvantages of both opinions in order to give a more reasoned answer to the debate in question. There are several advantages that this type of programs could bring about to both students and the community. On a personal level, the pupils would develope useful skills for the future working life, and at the same time would be involved in a social context in which values as responsability or solidarity could be aquired. In terms of social advantages, any help is a great step to improve the conditions of the neibourhood or town. Nevertheless, unpaid community service could present a side of disadvantages. In areas where unemployment is high, probably would be better that these posts be covered by people who have been off work for a long period, so that they can recieve a wage. Moreover, unpaid programs are sometimes wrongly used by compnies that take advantage of this to have free employees working for them. To conclude I claim that I partially agree with the statement here questioned, since community serice programs presents various advantages (for students and community itself), and however, set as compulsory and unpaid the program would loose some of the possible advantages.