Writing
Topic A
Do you
agree or disagree with the following statement? Most experiences in our lives
that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future. Use
reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
☆Let’s Think
1.
Let’s take a look at the details of the topic. It
says, “MOST experiences,” Why does this word is used?
Note: Some
experiences, those irreversibly damaging cases like child abuse or disasters, are
excluded.
2.
What kind of experiences can we use as examples?
Note: The
statement says, “seemed difficult at the time,” and “valuable lessons for the
future,” so it is talking about the tough experiences that make you learn
something, ranging from your childhood piano lessons to moving to a foreign
country to losing your pet.
Examples
of Harsh Experiences
going
abroad
living
by yourself
living
with a troublesome person
living
in poverty
having
trouble with someone
fighting
a disease
having
an injury
being
a disaster victim
practicing
instrument, sports, etc.
taking
a difficult test
failing in a crucial test
starting
a project
being
in charge of something
being
extremely busy
making
a serious mistake,
hurting
someone,
embarrassing
yourself
being
misunderstood
being
rejected
being
betrayed
being
bullied
being
abused
being
discriminated against
losing
something or someone
3. Answer
the following questions and tell the answers to your partner or group members.
When
and where did you have the experience? What was
tough? How did you feel then? How did you deal with
it? How do you feel about the experience now? What have
you learned from it?
☆Hints for Points
1.
We live and learn. We grow as we go through an
endless series of difficulties of various degrees.
2.
A tough experience makes you tenacious.
3.
By going through a rough experience, you learn
that the world is full of unjust things and that you have to be considerate to
others all the more.
4.
Even the death of your beloved makes you realize
that your heart had always been with the person even when you were not with him
or her and that the bond is stronger than you thought and will protect you.
☆Essay for Ideas
and Expressions (Barron’s, Writing
for the TOEFL iBT, p.280)
Your Sample Essay Structure
【Introduction】
【Point 1】
【Point 2】
【Point 3】
【Conclusion】
☆Speech Time
Make a
one-minute speech on this topic.
☆Sample Paragraph
Development
【Main Idea】A
tough experience makes you tenacious.
【Supporting Detail (general)】My
case is an arduous exercise in my childhood.
【Supporting Detail (specific)】When I
was in my kindergarten, teachers would often take the children to a nearby
shrine sitting on top of a hill, which can be called a cliff. To reach the top,
we had to walk up long and steep steps made of stones, which were
lined straight from the foot to the top of the hill. A few children ran
up, followed by most of the others at a slower pace. As a weak child, I toiled
in the small group at the end. I felt as if the steps would never end. I was
also afraid of my legs giving up in the middle. Then, the labor made me even
stop worrying and focus on walking up. Reaching the top gave me relief and I
met smiles of some children noticing that I had made it.
【Follow-up】Decades
later, when I was not weak anymore, I went there and did the task. It turned
out to be a tough one, even to an adult. I felt for a moment the same fear that
I had as a child that I might get stuck in the middle of the stairs. I told
myself that I would reach the top if I kept moving my legs, and I realized that
I had been telling the same thing to myself since when I climbed the stairs as
a child, whenever I was doing something hard. The hard tasks of my kindergarten
had given me the lesson that a predicament will end if you do not give up and keep
moving on.
【Conclusion】This
lesson has helped me pull through hardships patiently all my life.
Your
Sample Paragraph Development
【Main Idea】
【Supporting Detail (general)】
【Supporting Detail (specific)】
【Follow-up】
【Conclusion】
Comments
or Suggestion from your partner or group members
Writing
Topic B
Some
people prefer to work for themselves or own a business. Others prefer to work
for an employer. Would you rather be self-employed, work for someone else, or
own a business? Use specific reasons to explain your choice.
☆Let’s Think
Ask
them each other the following questions that can be related to this writing
topic.
1) What
is important in your life?
2) What
does work mean in your lifestyle?
3) What
is your characteristic related to work?
☆Ideas and
Expressions
1. Owing
a business provides freedom as well as responsibility.
2. Working
for an employer can be stressful, even though you can forget about work once
you leave your office.
3. Being
self-employed allows some freedom, but it is basically the same as working for
someone else.
☆Essay for Ideas
and Expressions
(Barron’s, Writing
for the TOEFL iBT, pp.280-281)
☆Sample Essay
Structure
【Introduction】 I
would rather be an employee than an employer or a freelance.
【About Being Your Own Boss】Starting
a new business can help improve the economy.
【About Being a Freelance】It is
risky to be a freelance.
【My Choice】I am
not interested in running a business.
【Conclusion】Being
my own boss is not my cup of tea.
Your
Sample Essay Structure
【Introduction = Outline】
【Point 1】
【Point 2】
【Point 3 / Counterargument-treatment】
【Conclusion = Wrap-up】
☆Sample Paragraph
Development
A.
【Main
Idea】 I am not interested in running a
company.
【Supporting
Detail (general)】I have never been
a leader and wanted to.
【Supporting
Detail (specific)】”Each individual
doing his or her best in his or her position will improve the whole society,”
which was a musician’s comment I heard when I was young, has been my motto.
【Follow-up】Being a rank-and file does not embarrass me. Society will not
run without us.
【Conclusion】I am happy if I am of any use for a company and can be paid
for it.
B.
【Main
Idea】 Owning a business would give me a lot
of freedom in business.
【Supporting
Detail (general)】If you are the
boss, you can carry out your idea at your discretion.
【Supporting
Detail (specific)】If you work for
an employer, it is almost impossible to put new ideas into practice. You are
supposed to do your assignment under the policy decided by the management.
【Follow-up】 This does not mean that I would like to be an autocratic
president. Decision-making in business actually involves consultation with
other executives because there are many things for a CEO to consider, such as
effects to the community or the fate of your employees and clients. The
difference is whether I have the right to lead a new project or make a change.
【Conclusion】I would like to try my ideas in business in my own ways by
becoming leader of a company.
Your
Sample Paragraph Development:
【Main Idea】
【Supporting Detail (general)】
【Supporting Detail (specific)】
【Follow-up】
【Conclusion】
Comments
or Suggestion from your partner or group members
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