Примеры ответов IELTS General Writing Task 2 (Эссе)
Задание IELTS General Writing Task 2 выглядит вот так (меняется только тема жирным шрифтом).
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Some people think that the teenage years are the happiest times of most people’s lives. Others think that adult life brings more happiness, in spite of greater responsibilities.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
В этом задании необходимо:
What’s the happiest time in people’s lives: youth or old age; school, career or retirement? All of these have been suggested, but teenage years and adulthood both have many supporters.
Those who believe teenagers are the happiest people cite their lack of responsibilities as a significant factor. They are supported financially and emotionally by their parents, and although they may be included in family decisions, they’re not ultimately responsible. However, adolescents are on the threshold of adult life: they’re old enough to get a part-time job, so they can enjoy their first taste of financial independence, and their future study and career lie ahead.
Away from these serious concerns, young people have an active social life with their friends, often simply by hanging out with them. And of course, there’s the excitement of first love and first heartbreak. With all this to experience, teenagers see their parents’ lives as boring and stressful.
However, the reverse is also true. Adults see anxious, self-dramatising adolescents, and appreciate the joys of maturity. These may include a contented family life, long-lasting friendships and a career. Long-term relationships may not have the fireworks of adolescence, but are stronger for it, because of the wealth of shared experience. At work, many of us are challenged and stimulated by the increasing, professional skills we acquire, which ensures that our jobs remain interesting.
The greatest benefit, though, is that maturity gives you greater confidence in your own judgement, in all areas of life. You’re not afraid to express your opinion when others disagree and, unlike a teenager, you know when to let things go.
Both these periods can be happy times, but I look back at my own teenage years, with no desire to go back. Adult life may be less dramatic, but fireworks don’t keep you warm
In cities and towns all over the world the high volume of traffic is a problem.
What are the causes of this and what actions can be taken to solve this problem?
It is undoubtedly the case that urban areas around the world increasingly suffer from congestion. In this essay, I examine the reasons for this trend and suggest some practical policies the authorities could implement to reduce the level of traffic in our cities.
The first step is to understand why traffic has increased in towns and cities. Broadly speaking, there are three main reasons for this. One is that cars have become more affordable for the average consumer and they are no longer a luxury item, but something that most families expect to own. A second reason is that public transport has become increasingly unreliable in recent years, not least because many bus and train services have been reduced because of the difficulty in funding them. The third reason is that society has in general become more mobile and this means more people are prepared to commute to work by car than they were before.
There is almost certainly no one solution to this problem given the complexity of its causes. However, one option has to be to improve the reliability of public transport to encourage people to take the bus or the train rather than get in the car. It would also be possible to discourage people from driving to work by introducing special tariffs for using the roads, especially during peak periods. A successful example of this is the congestion charge scheme in London which has certainly reduced the level of trafficin inner-city areas.
In conclusion, there are a variety of different factors that have led to rising levels of traffic in urban areas. While it may not be possible to find a complete solution, any action should probably involve encouraging greater use of public transport and making it more expensive for the motorist to drive in urban areas.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Some people believe that children should be allowed to stay at home and play until they are six or seven years old. Others believe that it is important for young children to go to school as soon as possible.
What do you think are the advantages of attending school from a young age?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Здесь пишем о преимуществах.
Помните: 1 преимущество = 1 параграф.
In many places today, children start primary school at around the age of six or seven. However, because it is more likely now that both parents work, there is little opportunity for children to stay in their own home up to that age. Instead, they will probably go to a nursery school when they are much younger.
While some people think this may be damaging to a child’s development, or to a child’s relationship with his or her parents, in fact there are many advantages to having school experience at a young age.
Firstly, a child will learn to interact with a lot of different people and some children learn to communicate very early because of this. They are generally more confident and independent than children who stay at home with their parents and who are not used to strangers or new situations. Such children find their first day at school at the age of six very frightening and this may have a negative effect on how they learn.
Another advantage of going to school at an early age is that children develop faster socially. They make friends and learn how to get on with other children of a similar age. This is often not possible at home because they are the only child, or because their brothers or sisters are older or younger.
So overall, I believe that, attending school from a young age is good for most children. They still spend plenty of time at home with their parents, so they can benefit from both environments.
Working in a foreign country
Business English
для студентов 1 курса экономических специальностей
Нижний Новгород – 2012
Федеральное агентство морского и
Федеральное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
Волжская государственная академия водного транспорта
Кафедра иностранных языков
для студентов 1 курса экономических специальностей очной формы обучения
Издательство ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ»
УДК 811.111
Г 95
Рецензент: к.п.н. Чувилина О.В.
Гуро – Фролова Ю.Р., Соловьева О.Б.
Business English: учебное пособие для студентов 1 курса очной формы обучения экономических специальностей / Ю.Р. Гуро – Фролова, О.Б. Соловьева. – Н. Новгород: Изд-во ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ», 2012. – 49 с.
Целью данного пособия является развитие умений во всех видах речевой деятельности на основе профессионально-ориентированных тем. Система упражнений направлена в первую очередь на формирование и развитие лексических, коммуникативных навыков, а также умений чтения и перевода со словарем текстов по специальности. Материал пособия организован в виде тематических уроков. К пособию прилагается диск с аудиоматериалами.
Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов 1 курса очной формы обучения по специальности 080100 «Экономика (бакалавриат)», а также может быть использовано для специальности 080200 «Экономика (менеджмент)».
Работа рекомендована к изданию кафедрой иностранных языков (протокол № 2 от 10 октября 2011 г.).
© ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ», 2012
Unit 1
Being an economist
1. Reading. Read the article and find the following:
1. Carlos Ghosn’s nationality Brazilian.
2. Two companies that he works for _______.
3. A city in Asia _________.
4. Three European cities ________.
5. A country in Asia __________.
New words from the article:
| foreign | иностранный, зарубежный |
| the head of the company | глава компании |
| employee | работник |
| it (informational technology) | информационная технология |
| to commute | перемещаться на работу и с работы |
| tax | налог |
| ticket | билет |
| expensive | дорогой |
| increase | увеличение |
| government | правительство |
Working in a foreign country
Today more and more people travel in their job. Carlos Ghosn is a Brazilian businessman and he travels to different countries for his work. He is the head of the French car company Renault, and he spends 40 per cent of his time in Paris. He is also the head of Nissan, and he spends 35 per cent of his time in Asia, in Tokyo. He spends 25 % of his time in other countries, such as the USA.
Some employees travel to different countries to work on projects. They are in the country until the project ends and then they return home. For example, many IT engineers live in India but work on projects in the USA. Other people live in a country but go to work every day to a different country. In Europe, workers regularly commute between Brussels, London and Paris. Plane tickets are not expensive and travel between the cities is easy with a European passport.
But is the increase in business travel a good thing? It is interesting for employees to meet different nationalities. It is also good for business to have contacts in different countries around the world. But there are also problems. Some employees spend a lot of time away from their home country and it is not easy for governments to decide exactly where workers should pay tax.
Working in a foreign country
МИНИCTEPCTBO ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение
Высшего профессионального образования
«СЕВЕРО-КАВКАЗСКИЙ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»
ПРАКТИКУМ ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
к практическим занятиям по дисциплине
«Деловой иностранный язык»
Практикум по английскому языку составлен в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего профессионального образования, рабочим учебным планом и программой дисциплины «Деловой иностранный язык».
Практикум по английскому языку включает в себя тексты и задания по темам занятий и список рекомендуемой литературы.
Составители: канд. филол. наук Касьяненко Л.С.,
канд. филол. наук Митрофаненко Л. М.
Рецензент: канд. пед. наук Савелло Е.В.
Практикум по английскому языку предусматривает работу над языковым материалом, позволяющим использовать иностранный язык в сфере бизнеса. Особое внимание уделяется закреплению словаря и лексических структур официально-делового стиля.
Основной целью данного практикума является развитие навыков работы с текстом официально-делового стиля. Данный практикум призван научить студентов участвовать в обсуждении тем, связанных с бизнесом, и пользоваться специальной терминологией.
© ФГАОУ ВПО «Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет», 2014
Практическое занятие № 1
ДЕЛОВЫЕ КОНТАКТЫ
BUSINESS CONTACTS
Теоретическая часть
Данный лексический материал предназначен для знакомства и овладения специальными терминами, активному использованию предлагаемых слов и словосочетаний, подготовки к чтению, переводу и обсуждению текстов официально-делового стиля.
business card визитная карточка
job title должность
qualify обладать квалификацией
software программное обеспечение
Задания
Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст:
Working in a foreign country
There is a new type of worker in today’s global business
Today, more and more people travel in their job. Carlos Ghosn is a Brazilian businessman and he travels to different countries for his work. He is the head of the French car company Renault, and he spends 40 per cent of his time in Paris. He is also the head of Nissan, and he spends 35 per cent of his time in Asia, in Tokyo. He spends 25 per cent of his time in other countries, such as the USA.
Some employees travel to different countries to work on projects. They are in a country until a project ends and then they return home. For example, many IT engineers live in India but work on projects in the UK and the USA. Other people live in a country but go to work every day in a different country. In Europe, workers regularly commute between Brussels, London and Paris. Plane tickets are not expensive and travel between the cities is easy with a European passport.
But is the increase in business travel a good thing? It is interesting for employees to meet different nationalities. It is also good for business to have contacts in different countries around the world. But there are also problems. Some employees spend a lot of time away from their home country and it is not easy for governments to decide exactly where workers should pay tax.
Задание 2. Найдите в тексте “Working in a foreign country” следующую информацию:
1 Carlos Ghosn’s nationality_____Brazilian_____
2 two companies that he works for_________________
3 a city in Asia _________________
4 three European cities_________________
5 a country in Asia _________________
Задание 3. Перечитайте текст “Working in a foreign country” и определите, являются ли данные ниже утверждения истинными (true) или ложными (false):
1 Carlos Ghosn is the head of BMW. false
2 He travels between Asia, Europe and the USA.
3 Some workers travel to different countries to work on projects.
4 Indian software engineers work on projects in the UK.
5 It’s difficult to travel between European cities.
6 It’s interesting to meet people from different countries.
7 Contacts in different countries are good for business.
8 It isn’t difficult to know what country to pay tax in.
Задание 4. Вставьте нужную форму глагола to be:
1 _______ you a student?
2 Ali _______a student. He’s an accountant.
3 Leo and Elena_______ from Russia.
5 _______ Mr Amery the head of the company?
6 We_______ from the USA We’re British.
7 Dominique_______an engineer.
8 _______SMGP an Indian bank?
Задание 5. Вставьте нужную форму глагола to be. Используйте сокращенные формы там, где возможно:
John:________you Rob Shaw?
John:Hi. I________John Devlin. I’m with Karlsco.
Rob:Hi, John.________ Karlsco an American company?
John: No, it________a German company. You ________with
Rob:Yes, I________.________you an engineer?
John: No, I________. I ________a sales manager.
Задание 6. Заполните пропуски данными ниже словами. Используйте неопределенный артикль a / an там, где необходимо:
Accountant, designer, architect, teacher, mechanic, salesperson, lawyer, receptionist
1 Laura is _________-she helps people with legal problems.
2 Marco is_________- he builds offices.
3 Stella is_________- she’s good with cars.
4 I’m _________- I work with money.
5 Gregor and Sam are_________- they give lessons at the college.
6 Philo is_________- she’s good at art.
8 Helen is_________- she welcomes visitors to the company.
Задание 7. Вставьте нужную форму глагола to be или артикль a/an, the:
1A ______you Desmond Drake?
В No, I’______ Howard Drake.
2 A Sabine and Martine______ from France.
В That’s right. Sabine______from Paris.
3 A ______you and George American?
В No, we______. We’______ British.
4 A ______Helma______designer?
В No, she______. She’s______engineer.
5 A _____ Ravi and Ali accountants?
В Yes, they______. They work in _____finance department.
Задание 8. Заполните пропуски названиями стран или национальностей:
2 Apple is an American company. It’s based in__________.
3 Serona is an __________company. It has offices in Rome and Milan.
4 Wei and Fang are__________. Their home is in Shanghai.
5 Elena is __________. She has an apartment in Moscow.
6 I often visit France on business, but I don’t speak__________.
7 We have business contacts in Sao Paulo in__________.
8 Many __________businesses have offices in Delhi.
Задание 9. Составьте вопросительные предложения:
Заполните пропуски составленными вопросами:
I’m a human resources manager.