IELTS Writing Task 2: : 'university subjects' essay This is an essay for IELTS exam writing task 2. I hope someone could give me some advice on my work. Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!! --- SUBJECT: Some people think that all university students should study whatever they like. Others believe that they should only be allowed to study subjects that will be useful in the future, such as those related to science and technology. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. ESSAY: Choosing a university major is what we have to deal with when we decide to pursue higher education after graduating from high schools. It might be easy for some people when they know exactly what they like, but it might be hard to others who have no idea what their interests are. For the better future of students and our society as a whole, some people suggest that we should only give students useful subjects to choose from, such as science or technology. Personally, I disagree with this passive resort. Admittedly, technology helps us in many ways. We have great medical developments thanks to technology, and our lives are easier due to technology. Moreover, space exploration is perhaps more relevant than the meaning behind Shakespeare’s poems to people in general. Thus, degrees such as medicine, engineering, and computer science are more popular than literature, history and philosophy. They ensure more job opportunities and better salaries, so it is true that studying them could secure better career paths. Despite these advantages of studying certain degrees, we should not force anyone in doing what they are not interested in. In particular, not everyone is good at mathematics or science. If we were told to do something we were not confident with, chances are there would not be good results. People might be unhappy and might doubt their self-worth when they fail. By doing this, we might also restrain somebody from being, for instance, an inspiring musician or an influential writer. All subjects should be treated equally important. We need historians and archaeologists to tell us where we came from and the wisdom of our ancestors. We also need artists such as musicians and painters to color our life. Therefore, we must not confine students in choosing what they prefer to study. Instead, we should give them freedom to cultivate their enthusiasm and shine in their own way. (315 words)

IELTS exam writing task 2: Will Convenience Foods Replace Traditional Foods? This is an essay for IELTS exam writing task 2. I hope someone could give me some advice on my work. Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!! ---- Convenience foods will become increasingly prevalent and eventually replace traditional foods and traditional methods of food preparation? To what extend do you agree or disagree? People living in this modern society are getting busier and having less time due to the fast-paced society and work environment. It is easier and faster to just grab a sandwich from a convenience store on the way to work rather than preparing it at home. Admittedly, there are many benefits convenience foods have brought us. Nevertheless, I do not think they can completely replace traditional foods. Convenience foods have gained much more popularity as our lifestyle has changed dramatically. We live in cities with millions of people around us working day by day from sunrise to sunset. It is hard for us to find time to go shopping for ingredients and go home preparing meals since we do not even have time to rest. Hence, packaged foods were invented to cater for our fast-moving life. They are ready to serve, accessible, and very often, affordable. With many advantages of convenience foods mentioned above, traditional foods still take a very important role in our diet. People enjoy the fun to prepare food for their family and even themselves; People appreciate the delicate taste of homemade foods much more than the fast foods which taste all the same; people know traditional foods are healthier options comparing to roughly-made packaged foods. Even if it takes more time and costs more to prepare food by ourselves, more and more people are upholding healthy and balanced diets, especially nowadays. It is possible that convenience foods continue to be more influential in our lives, but, in my opinion, there is no way that they can replace conventional foods wholly one day.

IELTS Writing Task 1: Radio and Television Audiences This is an essay for IELTS exam writing task 1. I hope someone could give me some advice on my work. Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!! -------- The graph gives information about radio and television audiences in the UK during a day in 1992. It is noticeable that television was more popular than radio in the evening while radio was more popular in the morning. In general, more people watched television than listening to radio, since the percentage of audience that television received were(was?) nearly twice the figure for radio. To be more specific, the percentage of people listening to radio reached a peak at 8 am when (where?) almost 30 % of British turned on their radio, in the meantime, television only had less than 10 % of audience. In contrast to radio, more people liked to watch television in the evening, especially at 8 pm when nearly 45 % of British enjoyed various television shows, whereas only close to 7 % of people listened to radio. Besides 8 in the morning and in the evening when (where?) radio and TV received the most audience respectively, we can also observe another peak at 2 pm when(where?) around 15 % of audience spent their time on both media. (179 words) Questions: 1. Should I write 'was' or 'were'? since I am not sure 'the percentage of audience' is plural or singular ... 2. Can I replace 'when' with 'where' as I noted them in the paragraphs? and if yes, which one is better? Thank you in advance for your help! :)

IELTS Writing Task 1: Population Pyramids This is an essay for IELTS exam writing task 1. I hope someone could give me some advice on my work. Your help is greatly appreciated!!!!! --- The charts illustrate the difference in the age structure of the populations of France and India in the year 1984. It is obvious that in India, there were more young people taking up the proportion of the total population. While in France, people in all age groups were distributed almost evenly with the number of the young people slightly surpassing the figure for the elderly people. To be more specific, young Indians in 1984 aged from 0 to 30 took up nearly 70% of the India’s population. However, young people in France made less than half of its total population. The same phenomenon that we can observe in both countries is that there was no significant difference in the number of males and females at different ages. Furthermore, in 1984, France saw a greater proportion of people lived longer, with around 9 % of the French aged 70 and over. By contrast, it only shows a relatively smaller proportion, less than 3%, of Indians being over 70 years old. (169 words)