TOEFL: Independent writing task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. When it comes to personal and professional development, learning plays crucial role in lives of people. When people desire to learn something new, they can use different approaches, including finding a teacher. In my opinion, it is not the best decision to have parents as teachers, due to the fact that most of them do not have sufficient knowledge of specific subjects and did not pass training to become a teacher. While looking for advice about learning, many people hear a quotation that if you want to become a millionaire, you have to learn from a millionaire. The same approach we should use with doctors, lawyers, engineers etc. In most cases parents do not posses specific knowledge for teaching their children or such knowledge is insufficient. That is why, in author’s opinion, it is better to ask professional teachers who have great knowledge and experience in specific subject, to teach a person. The second point is that most parents did not study on professional trainings for teachers. Those people who have education of a teacher know different methods of learning, have experience of communication with learners and can professionally evaluate your skills and knowledge, and give qualitative feedback. For conclusion, parents can be good teachers. Nevertheless, such examples happen rarely, so that people who choose to learn from professional teachers benefit more from lessons. Please, evaluate my essay on the scale 1-5. Thanks!

Essay about work

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Some people pursue career paths that lead to management positions. Other people follow career paths leading to positions of individual responsibility, which do not involve managing others.

Which career path are you more likely to follow? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.<o:p></o:p>

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Work plays an important role in lives of people. It is necessary to choose your career carefully, because this decision will affect the whole life. Whatever sphere of activity you choose, in the end you will have to decide whether you want to work on a position of individual responsibility or a management position. Both options are good, because the only important thing in life is happiness. <o:p></o:p>

I think answer on the above-mentioned question depends on person’s character. Some people fear to take responsibility and lead others. They want to response only for their own actions, not actions of others. The second category of people is more likely to hold managerial positions. They are open to responsibilities that include management and coordination of other employers. <o:p></o:p>

As for me, I support the second option and in my career path probably will choose to occupy a management position. This position could give me an opportunity to develop and realize on practice my organizational, leadership and communication skills. I am aware that such positions take huge responsibility and I could be affected by decisions of the people I am responsible for. Nevertheless, this kind of job is really interesting and gives an opportunity to solve immediate problems, work as a crisis manager. <o:p></o:p>

CEOs, businessmen, politicians, governmental officials, chiefs of departments are good examples of management positions. They are well-known, receive good salaries and have great experience of leading firms, institutions and even states. Work on a management positions is a risky one, but it gives lots of benefits for personal and professional development.    <o:p></o:p>

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Tenses We *** a car for ten years before it broke down. (HAVE) In this exercise I needed to use the word in the brakets correctly. In my opinion, we should use Past Perfect in this sentence. To be more precise - we should use Past Perf. Cont, but because the verb "have" is a non-continuous verb we should use Past Perfect. But, on the site the correct answer is "have had". Is it right?

Grammar Can you give me THE book on the table? Can you give me A book on the table? Which question is writh? Is it possible that both questions are write?