SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS 12
TRUONG VAN ANH
SAIGON UNIVERSITY
FUTURE JOB
It is very interesting to speculate as to what one could do after leaving the school. A career depends on many factors. The occupation of one`s parents, a successful neighbor or even an imaginary ideal, may influence the kind of work which one hopes to do.  I have made up my mind to become a doctor. With all the science`s achievements, man is not able to overcome diseases. He has found medicines and ways to combat diseases but there is no way to eradicate them. To be a good doctor requires a lot of hard work and passion. I have to learn my best now to







get good knowledge so that in the future I will be a good doctor. I am attracted to medicine and I will be devoted to it.









WHAT I WISH TO BE WHEN I GROW UP
I am still very young, yet I already have an ambition. I would like to be a businessman when I grow up. Most parents today want their children to become doctors, lawyers, engineers or accountants. My parents too want me to be a doctor or a lawyer. But I wish to be neither. I wish to be a businessman. As a businessman I can be independent, and rich. I shall not have to take orders from others. I shall look after my own business. Even if I make any mistakes, I shall not have to answer to anyone, though I might suffer some loss for some wrong decisions. I shall also





not fell tired of working for long hours. As the business will be my own, I shall be prepared to work day and night, for this will only make me richer. In business, hard work is necessary; but hard work also brings much money. Yet most people are afraid of business. They say that business does not always make the man rich. Instead, it often ruins a man. But most of the richest people in the world are businessmen. Few people grow rich by earning salaries. All these explain why I would like to be a businessman.










THE SUBJECT I LIKE BEST AT SCHOOL
The subject I like best at school is geography. Even from my younger days, I have been longing to know more about other countries and the people who live there. Geography teaches me not only about my own country but also the neighboring countries and the world in general. From what I have studied I have a longing to see London, Paris, New-York and Tokyo. I have heard much about Mount Fujiyama, the snow-capped mountain of Japan. I also want to see Japan during the cherry blossom season. I want to see New-York and its sky-scrapers. Geography interests me because









without visiting these places I learn about them in books. For pupils like me who are poor and cannot afford to visit these places, the knowledge of geography is all the more useful. It is perhaps the second best means of knowing more about other countries.








THE SUBJECT I ENJOY LEARNING
I learn many subjects in school. But the one I enjoy learning is history. History tells us how people lived ages ago. It also tells us how men had to struggle to make the world a better place to live in. Many pupils, however, do not like to read History. They say that there are too many names and dates to remember. But they do not understand that if we do not know about the past, we cannot understand the present properly. For example, if we wish to know how men learnt to use fire or clothes, we have to know what men did in the past to travel at night or to









keep themselves warm. In fact, only a study of History will make us realize that everything that we do today is the result of what our grandfathers and others before them did in the past. So, History is the long story of man`s struggle through the ages. As we read this story, we learn many interesting things. I love history so much that I have a lot of history books in my house. Some day, I might even write a history book myself.














Good luck!