IELTS Writing Task 1
Task 1: The charts below show the main reasons for study among students of different age groups and the amount of support they received from employers. |
Example
The bar charts present statistics regarding learning motive among students from various age groups and support that they receive from employer while undertaking their study.
In general, as people get older, their study motivation shift from furthering their career to pursuing their interest [good observation]. It is also worth mentioning that those under 26 receive the most support from their employer.
The first bar chart reveals that on average, 70% of people under 26 to 39 years old study to gain better career prospect while the mean for those who do so for interest is only 15%. Despite that, this gap disappeared in those from 40-49 with the two groups having similar figure at just over 40% each. The dynamic, however, is reversed for those over 49 with the majority of them (70%) study because of their interest whilst less than 20% study to advance their job.
Regarding the second graph, 65% of those under 26 received support from their company (both in the form of day leave and tuition reimbursement). This figure is lower for people in the next age brackets, at just over 50% and 35% respectively. Surprisingly, for the last two groups in the spectrum, nearly 40% and 45% of them stated that they receive monetary and non-monetary aid from their firm.
Vocabulary
- Motive (n): động lực (để làm một việc gì đó)
- Undertake (v): thực hiện
- Further (v): thúc đẩy
- Pursue (v): theo đuổi
- Career prospect (n): triển vọng nghề nghiệp
- Mean (n): giá trị trung bình
- Dynamic (n): mối quan hệ tương quan
- Advance (v): thúc đẩy
- Day leave (n): thời gian vắng mặt trong ngày (ở công ty hoặc cơ quan)
- Tuition reimbursement (n): khoản bồi hoàn học phí
- Age bracket (n): nhóm tuổi
- Monetary (adj): thuộc về tiền
- Non-monetary (adj): không thuộc về tiền
Analysis
Overview:
- Động lực đằng sau việc học của nhóm trẻ là thăng tiến trong sự nghiệp trong khi ở nhóm già hơn thì là do sở thích
- Nhóm trẻ có xu hướng được nhận sự trợ giúp nhiều hơn so với nhóm lớn tuổi hơn
Lưu ý: Ở biểu đồ 2, dữ liệu không phải là ‘time off and help with fees’ mà là ‘phần trăm người học báo cáo rằng mình nhận được sự hỗ trợ dưới hai hình thức này’ từ công ty của mình.
IELTS Writing task 2
Task 2: Some people believe that crime is a result of social problems and poverty, others think that crime is a result of a bad person’s nature. Discuss both views and give your opinion. |
Example
Crime has existed ever since there was human civilisation. Many believe that people commit crimes because of their circumstances while others contend that it is because criminals are inherently evil. While the latter view can be justified for some reasons, I am more inclined towards the former.
People tend to attribute crime to the wrongdoer’s nature because in many cases, people witness unfathomable atrocities carried out for seemingly no clear reason. Such association often emerges whenever tragic events such as mass shootings or multiple murders occur. The public’s quick jump to conclusion is understandable since in most cases, the perpetrator does not have previous criminal record and the victims are selected randomly, leaving some people with no alternative explanation rather than blaming their corrupt personality.
However, I believe that the aforementioned explanation does not paint the whole picture because even the most unlawful acts can have their roots in the social and economic milieu of their time. Firstly, the background of many offenders have revealed that they were either abused as a child or were victim of bullying in their adolescence years. Incidences like that often damage their mental well-being to the point where they might desire retaliation even several years later.
Despite that, abuse and bullying are still pervasive in many societies and do not receive as much attention from lawmakers as they deserve. For other more common types of crimes icluding robbery, theft or smuggling, law-breakers are often well aware of the risk that they might face when they get caught but for most of them, there is simply no other means to make ends meet. Many of them are born into underprivileged families and do not have good education, which leaves them with no opportunity to find a job. Unable to find a way to make a living, these people resort to crime.
In conclusion, social issues and poverty breeds crime. It is therefore suggested that people and the government should work together to alleviate those problems and reduce crime rather than blaming on offenders’ nature.
Vocabulary
- Circumstance (n): hoàn cảnh
- Contend (v): cho rằng
- Inherently evil (adj): về bản chất là xấu xa
- Attribute (v): quy (một cái gì đó) cho một cái gì đó
- Wrongdoer (n): người phạm tội
- Unfathomable (adj): không thể hình dung ra được
- Atrocity (n): tội ác
- Tragic (adj): bi kịch
- Perpetrator (n): kẻ thủ ác
- Corrupt (adj): sa đọa
- Milieu (n): bối cảnh
- Retaliation (n): sự trả thù đáp trả
- Pervasive (adj): tràn lan
- Lawmaker (n): nhà lập pháp
- Law-breaker (n): kẻ phạm pháp
- Underprivileged (adj): có hoàn cảnh khó khăn
- Offender (n): người phạm tội
Analysis
View 2 cũng có lý nhưng tác giả ưa thích View 1 hơn
View 2:
Một số người cho rằng tội phạm là do bản tính xấu của họ. Điều này có thể hiểu được bởi vì có nhiều vụ án mà không có động cơ rõ ràng, nạn nhân được chọn ngẫu nhiên
View 1:
- Ngay cả những hành vi phi pháp nhất cũng có thể có nguồn gốc nằm ở các vấn đề xã hội. Nhiều kẻ thủ ác có xuất thân từ những vấn nạn như bạo lực học đường hoặc bị lạm dụng khi tuổi đời còn nhỏ khiến tâm lý bị tổn hại khi lớn lên.
- Đối với những hành vi phạm tội phổ biến khác như trộm cắp hay cướp giật, nguyên nhân đa phần là do hoàn cảnh nghèo khổ không lối thoát khiến học dựa vào hành vi phi pháp để tìm kế sinh nhai.