Question

[Nguyễn Thành Phát]

Write a short paragraph in English about a life skill that you think is necessary for teenagers

Answer 1

[Nguyễn Lê Thảo Nguyên]

My favorite hobby is playing football in spare time. After completing my home work at home, I generally spend my lot of free time in playing football. I was so interested to play football from my childhood however started learning to play well when I was 5 years old. I was in one class when I was 5 years old. My father asked to my class teacher in the PTM about my hobby of football. And my teacher told him that there is a facility of playing sports daily in the school from class 1 so you can admit your child. Now, I really enjoy playing football and participate in the inter-school competitions.

Bài dịch

Sở thích yêu thích của tôi là chơi đá bóng vào thời gian rảnh. Sau khi hoàn thành hết bài tập về nhà, tôi hay dùng thời gian rảnh để chơi đá bóng. Tôi đã rất hứng thú với việc chơi bóng từ hồi còn rất nhỏ dẫu vệ tôi bắt đầu học cách chơi bóng tử tế khi tôi 5 tuổi. Tôi đi học khi toou 5 tuổi. Cha tôi nói với thầy giáo ở PTM của tôi về sở thích bóng đá của tôi. Và thầy tôi bảo ông rằng có 1 trung tâm thể thao nhỏ mở cử hàng ngày ở trường giành cho các em lớp 1 trở lên vì vậy anh có thể cho con trai mình tham gia. Giờ đây, tôi thật sự thích chơi bóng đá và tham gia vào các cuộc thi liên trường.

HOẶC LÀ:

In my freetime, I love to dance. When I was a little girl I danced all the time. My mother put me in dance school when I was 3 years old. My first dance dress was pink and it was love a ballet dress. Our dance group’s firts show was when we were 5 years old. We looked like pinguis. In 9 years we have had a lot of dance shows. I have danced for 9 years in the same dance company. But now everyone has joined other dance groups.

When I dance I forget everything else and I focus only on danceing. It was relaxing and it makes me happy. I like to take care of my body and dancing enhances your condition.

But now when I’m in High school I do not have time to dance. It’s so sad. I miss dancing . I hope that I have time to dance again day.

Bài dịch

Trong thời gian rảnh của tôi, tôi thích khiêu vũ. Khi tôi còn là một cô bé tôi khiêu vĩ mọi lúc tôi có thể. Khi tôi bắt đầu lên 3 tuổi, Mẹ tôi đưa tôi vào trường múa. Chiếc váy khiêu vũ đầu tiên của tôi có màu hồng nhạt cá hồi giống như một chiếc váy của những nghệ sĩ ba – lê. Buổi diễn đầu tiên của nhóm chúng tôi là khi chúng tôi mới có năm tuổi. Trong buổi diễn đó chúng tôi như những chú chim cánh cụt. Trong chín năm qua chúng tôi đã có rất nhiều buổi khiêu vũ. Tôi đã nhảy múa trong chín năm cho một công ty về khiêu vũ. Nhưng bây giờ tất cả mọi người đã tham gia nhóm nhảy khác.

Khi tôi nhảy, tôi quên tất cả mọi thứ khác và tôi chỉ tập trung vào vũ đạo. Đó là thư giãn và nó làm cho tôi hạnh phúc. Tôi muốn chăm sóc cơ thể của tôi và nhảy múa làm tăng tình trạng của bạn.

Nhưng bây giờ khi tôi đang ở trường trung học và tôi không có thời gian để nhảy múa. Việc này thực sự rất buồn. Tôi nhớ khoảng thời gian tôi có thể nhảy múa. Tôi luôm hy vọng rằng tôi có thời gian để nhảy múa lại.

Answer 2

[Nguyễn Lê Thảo Nguyên]

Are teenagers today prepared for life after school? Or are American students too coddled? Windsor High School student Aliezah Hulett ponders these questions in her TED-Ed Club talk, “Prepring Students for the Real World .” During the talk, she advocates for schools to teach more real-life skills to their students, including a basic understanding of the metric system and a more realistic approach to ***** education. Read on for an interview with Aliezah about the gap between what we learn in school vs. what we need in later life.Teenagers today are the perfect example of what can happen if parents never challenge their children to go above and beyond. They hand everything to their kids. It used to be that you’d be extremely privileged if you got to use your parents’ old beatup car once you turned sixteen. If you wanted something else, you would get a job and pay for it yourself because it was triggering a sense of responsibility. Nowadays, I see 16-year-olds with trucks and Priuses straight off the lot. This causes teenagers to be less prepared for the real world than ever before. A large chunk of this is due to parents coddling their children. According to this interesting article from The Guardian, “more than a quarter of 20 to 34 year olds are still living with their parents according to new statistics — the highest proportion since 1996.”The school system and parents should be working together to raise educated students. Schools should be accountable for instructing students to be knowledgeable about the world around them, even when the parents slack off. It should be a joint effort between parent and educator to train the next generation of children to be independent and prepared for what’s ahead.

Traditional topics such as calculus and Shakespeare should not be neglected, but teachers should be able to ask their class, “Now, how can we use this lesson outside of the classroom?” Every class should be able to draw out a moral that students can leave with daily. For example, a possible moral for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet could be to not be swept up in emotions and carry out such rash actions.If my peers were to be thrown into the real world, I don’t think that they would know how to handle themselves. There’s a sense of responsibility and maturity that come from having a job. When someone puts their head down to achieve their goals by themselves, as an independent adult, their outcome will reflect what they learned in both high school and college. These include how to sew a button or how to use a plunger!Those who think that teenagers shouldn’t be taught about ***** in school are trying to shield children from learning about the outside world. In high school, college, and the many years after, ***** is a real thing. I agree that abstinence is the only way to fully prevent teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among youth, but what happens when they do decide to have sex? The answer is that they could end up getting pregnant and spreading STDs because they may not know how to properly address these types of situations. This is in no way promoting sex, but instead teaching tomorrow’s future about the truth, and what may arise in their future. By providing students with knowledge of how to properly go about the physical and mental components of sex, we are raising educated adolescents.If I got to design my own school, the classes that students would take would be based on two main components: what students are interested in, and what students will need for their lives after graduating. Sometimes, there are classes that we don’t necessarily like but are required to take because they teach things that are needed out there in the real world, or provide a better basis for the rest of a child’s learning career. However, it is proven that when a child is enjoying the class, they are more likely to absorb the information. If there is a particular subject or teaching style that a student likes, that’s information to act on.