Writing Topic
What sort of setting would you like for your
home, a traditional house in the county or an urban apartment building built in
a modern style? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.
☆Let’s
think
Some questions make you wonder which planet you are on now. How many
people actually want to live in either of these types of setting? A really traditional
house in the country which still remains now in this industrialized world is an
old farm house, often without electricity, in a remote area suffering from
depopulation, and people who live in such places are elderly people whose
children have left them to work in cities. Also, as most population of the
world concentrate in urban areas, if you want to live in a city and still want
to live in a decent apartment which can be described as modern, you have to
work 25 hours a day and have little time to enjoy to your heart’s content the
latest movies or exhibitions that are showing next door unless you are born
with a silver spoon in your mouth. Neither can be a romantic,
which-lifestyle-would-you-prefer setting.
Of course, these are the negative images of the two settings given
in this writing topic. Now let’s see what kind of positive images we are supposed
to develop from them. They are two ultimate images of ideal homes. Would you like to
have a relaxed life close to nature or would you like to spend every day in an
atmosphere that stimulates all of your senses?
Which do you prioritize in your life, nature or civilization? Which
would you prefer, an idyllic setting or urban setting?
Note: This question starts with the word “What,” not “Which.” You do
not exactly have to choose either of these diagonally opposite types of places
to live. Write, “Honestly, I would like to live in a high-tech mansion in a
resort,” the mixture of both. However, since all kinds of settings can be more
or less grouped into either of the two, this writing topic can be dealt with as
a choice question. Thus, writing about both settings would be a good idea.
☆Hints for
points
Brainstorm characteristics
of each choice, juxtaposing them point by point.
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Traditional house in the country
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Modern apartment in a city
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environment
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full of
nature, good for the health
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constantly changing,
noisy, polluted
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lifestyle
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relaxing,
slow, monotonous
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exciting,
fast-paced
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convenience
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low prices
life based on
automobile transportation
safer
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many means of
transportation
varieties of shops,
restaurants
many
hospitals, schools, cultural facilities
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relationship
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intimate, warm
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dry, individualistic
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people
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same kind of
people, many relatives
carefree, relaxed,
down-to-earth
conservative
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people with
many different backgrounds
interesting, open-minded,
freer
progressive
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☆Two ways of dealing with opposite ideas (Two types of body
structures for a choice question)
Choose either
of the following two ways of dealing with choices in the writing topic, and
make a framework of the body of your full essay. It is one idea of efficiency
to write the framework of the body and develop it first, and then add the
introduction and the conclusion.
♦Comparing choices
point by point
You write about both choices comparing and
contrasting them point by point.
e.g.
Point 1: Comparison of the environment,
convenience, and security
Point 2: Comparison of the leisure
activities
Your preference (choice)
♦Developing
images of each choice
You write about
each choice separately.
e.g.
About living in a traditional house in the
county
About living in an urban apartment
building built in a modern style
Your preference (choice)
The framework
of the body of your full essay
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