SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS 8
TRUONG VAN ANH
SAIGON UNIVERSITY
How does the food you eat affect your health? Tell some food that you think is healthy.
Food is the very important source of nutrition that brings us health in many ways. Animal meat such as pork, chicken, fish gives us animal protein which is very necessary for body cell creation. Vegetables such as salad, pumpkins, tomatoes, carrots, etc... give us essential vitamins and minerals. Fruit, such as papayas, mangoes, guavas, jackfruits, etc..., is the main source providing us many kinds of vitamins and carotene. Cereals such as rice, wheat, corn, beans, cassava give us starch and glucose. According to some








scientific research achievements, in our meals, we should eat much food of vegetable origins, little animal meat to be healthy because much animal meat intake is the cause of many kinds of human diseases. All kinds of food are necessary for us but to be healthy, we should have sufficient knowledge about nutrition.









Talk about some effects of smoking. Give some advice to give up smoking.
Smoking shortens your longevity. According some scientific studies, much cigarette intake regularly damages your lung, causing pneumonia, tuberculosis, and even lung cancer. As for heavy smokers, they may get addicted with drug, a kind of refined tobacco or opium, making them loose laboring ability, mental consciousness, and die gradually. To give up smoking is not easy. It requires us to have self-consciousness and high determination. We must not think about it in any situation. We must avoid contacting with all






processed forms of tobacco, and addicted friends. We also must follow doctor advice and find some healthy pastimes for ourselves. To quit smoking successfully, we must sufficiently know its harmful effect, and have strong energy to say good-bye to it.










Talk about the causes and effects of one kind of the environmental pollution.
Today, air, noise, and water are polluted for many causes, but water pollution is the most serious. The immediate cause is that many inhabitants throw all kinds of garbage everywhere, especially into rivers. Most of properly-untreated industrial waste disposals are also poured there. In agricultural production, water in fields containing chemicals from insecticides and fertilizers finally flow into rivers, too. The result is that water resources are seriously polluted. For human beings, the use of polluted water









without being carefully filtered or boiled causes various diseases. For aquatic animals, they can’t lay eggs, grow naturally, even become extinct. For aquatic plants, they can die or become contaminated and become dangers for creatures that eat them. The above-mentioned are just some causes and effects of water pollution that we can easily see everywhere today.








MY FRIEND
Lan is my new friend in class 12C at Vo Thi Sau school in Ho Chi Minh City. She is 17 years old. She is a pretty girl with short black hair and beautiful set of teeth. She also has a friendly smile and she is very interesting to talk to because she seems to know about a lot of interesting topics: friendship, art, music, fashion, medicine, cuisine, etc. Lan is a hard-working student; she does every assignment. Lan tells me that she is particularly interested in maths, chemistry, and biology this school-year because she wants to become a doctor in the future. In her free time, Lan often









visits and plays with orphans or helps her brother with maths homework. She often helps me with my English pronunciation, too. I think Lan’s helpfulness makes her a great person, and a great friend.














Good luck!