SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS 6
TRUONG VAN ANH
SAIGON UNIVERSITY
How do you like to travel in your daily life? What are advantages and disadvantages of traveling this way?
Bicycle is the best friend in my student life. I always ride my bike to go to school or around the city. Riding a bicycle has some advantages. First, bicycles are easy to repair. When it is damaged, you can repair it yourself or have it repaired at low cost. Next, you don’t have to pay for gasoline because bicycles don’t need gasoline. Moreover, riding a bike helps you do body exercises and does not cause environmental pollution. On the other hand, using bicycles also have some








disadvantages. You can’t ride it to work over long distances. You can’t ride it as quickly as a motorbike in emergency cases. You also can’t take a rest on it when you are tired because bicycles move with your own strength. However, no matter what strong points and weak points does a bicycle have, I always consider it my favorite means of traveling.









If you are asked to recommend to foreign tourists the sights worth seeing in my province, which would you recommend?
If I am asked to recommend to foreign tourists the sights worth seeing in my province, I will recommend two places: Uncle Ton’s Temple and Lam Vien sightseeing zone because of their historical meanings and natural beauty. Visiting Uncle Ton’s Temple, foreign tourists can learn much about this great person along with a stage of heroic history of Angiang homeland in the two recent resistance wars against foreign invaders and understand more about Angiang’s people and





culture. Visiting Lam Vien sightseeing zone, tourists can enjoy the beauty of the nature in Cam Mountains and specific daily activities of the locals there and their religious customs as well as local handicraft products. Through such a visit, foreign tourist will have strong impression and sufficiently understand about Angiang homeland and its people.










Do you like to live in the city or in the countryside? Why?
I like living in the countryside because of some reasons. Environmentally speaking, it is a peaceful place. The air is fresh. The space is quiet. We can enjoy healthy natural conditions without worrying much about environmental pollution. As for social security, the countryside is a safer place than a city. While urban security situation is always complicated with all kinds of crimes, rural areas are much more secure because most of countrymen are friendly and ready to help one another. Moreover, rural life is also easier than in









cities. People in cities are easy to get stressed because of pollution, job pressures, competitions, etc. On the contrary, those bad things are very rare in the countryside. To sum up, except income matters, the countryside is a better residence than cities.








Talk about one of your closest friends. Why do you enjoy making friends with him/her?
Of all my friends, Thanh is my best friend. He is 21 years old and is an informatics-majoring student. Physically, he is not very handsome with nothing special. He is tall and thin. His skin is brown. His eyes are bright and his hair is wavy. Mentally speaking, he is very intelligent. Since I knew about this class-mate, he has been a good student with high marks in examinations. He has never retaken examination for any subjects. To everyone, he is friendly and helpful. He is always available to tell all his friends what he knows and helps them








heartily in need. Especially, to me, we have many things in common. We go out and share joys and sorrows with each other. We respect each other and help each other much in study and life. We have got many beautiful memories. Those are something about my closest friend and the reasons why we are very close.














Good luck!