Writing Feedback / The amount of energy used and manufactured in the United States [2]

Energy production and consumption

Task 1: The graph below compares figures for the production and consumption of energy in the US from 1950 to 2000. It also predicts figures for 2025. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart gives the changes in the amount of US energy production and consumption from 1950 to 2000, and a prediction till 2025. Overall, the amount of energy consumped outweighs the produced amount with the continuously increasing trend during the given period.

The first period from 1950 to 1975 saw a proportional growth of both production and consumption with 30 units, and although the consumption was consistently higher, the difference was marginal during 20 years.

While energy production was on the gradual increase in the next 20 years, the consumption of energy was more fluctuating and steeper with a double increase of 20 units, from 65 in 1975 to 90 in 2000, compared to 10 units increase of energy production. This forced the import to rise to keep up with the trend.

During the last years from 2000 to 2025, the imports of energy are projected to be on a dramatic rise when making a comparison between the consistently increasing figures of energy consumption, ranging from 90 units to 140 units and the modest amount of energy production increasing in this period.

Writing Feedback / IELTS Essay: Influence of parents to boys and girls [4]

Boys are most influenced by their fathers and girls are most influenced by their mothers. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons to support your opinion.

Both Parents Affect Children equally?

People often contend that boys are under the greatest influence of their father while the mother has the most significant impacts on their girls. In my opinion, I strongly agree with this idea.

Right after being aware of their gender, children were attracted by parental actions, in which the same-sex influence was of the much more popularity. Day by day, they noticed the way their parents communicate to each other, react to life situations, handle with their work, play with them, and they mimic everything from their parents to gradually form their personality.

Most boys think that they were born to be brave, strong, powerful, who do the big things and will become breadwinners like their father. They idolize their father and see them as the strongest model, especially during their childhood. Trying to imitate their father's actions give them the feeling of becoming a real man. Boys are the most loyal followers of their father in both playing sport and cheering sports matches.They show their interest in sports since the early ages and consider physical activities needing much strength not a topic for girls. Another example that worth discussing relates to colors. By looking at their parent's daily clothes, they can jump to the conclusion about the color distinction between girls and boys that the colors used by their father are also for men and colors like pink, red will be definitely out of their color board.

By contrast, maternal influence is shown the most clearly in the girls' personality. Little girls admire their mother not only by their sacrifice, diligence, tolerance, and faithfulness but also by their wealth of knowledge. From the girls' eyes, the greatest teacher, the best chef, the most interesting storyteller, the smartest financial manager and the most reliable friend is the same person- their mother. The significant mother-daughter relationship affects the behavior as well as emulation of girls. If the mother is a modest woman, so is her girl; if the mother is a successful, but arrogant businesswoman, their girl may be hardly friendly and sociable.

To conclude, although gen decides mostly the difference between the two sexes as well as the similarity in terms of personality between the same-sex members in a family, children are still affected by both their parents and use parents as a place of emotional repairs. This influence does not extend across gender limits.

Writing Feedback / Should schools allocate the same amount of money to their sport activities as to their libraries? [4]

funds distribution in universities

Schooling education always attaches the importance of academic knowledge as the top priority, this explains why they spend a huge part of their budget on libraries which are the symbol of accumulating know-how. However, physical subjects or sports facilities function as an effective facilitator to improve students' health, which in the long terms lead to positive impacts on their studying process. That's why among the countless fields universities have to invest in, universities should allot an equal amount of money to their both libraries and sport activities.

The lack of physical activities at universities or schools in Vietnam nowadays is a ubiquitous issue, which not only affects badly students' health, but also makes them disregard the importance of sport activities.In fact, Vietnamese students usually favour natural science subjects, such as: Math, Physics, Chemistry, rather than physical education, for they are often taught the success is owed to the study of academic knowledge. In a larger extent, it's a problem of the whole education system when just focusing too much on the results, scores, but forgetting to develop their student comprehensively. In a smaller scale, in very our family, parents always feel proud of children being good at natural science subjects, but unsatistied with those who enthuse the sport activities, which incidentally form an irreverent attitude of children towards sport.

That's why in a society that just a few people understand the value of sport activities, the role of universities are played more and more crucially than ever in the encouragement of the sport spirit among the youngsters. Instead of spending an enormous amount of money on building a gorgeous library, universities should pay more attention to the quality of books, ensuring students can access the variety of resources. Besides, constructing facilities assisting sport should not be ignored, but on the contrary, must be creative, ergonomic to encourage the participation of students in the activities more often. In fact, many universities with modern playgrounds still experience a laziness of students in partaking in sport activities; therefore, policies to nurture their love for sport need to be created. For example, universities should leave small space to found a sport library which educates student all the knowledge and advantages of sport or organize Sport Days with attractive prizes to inspire students to participate in. Besides, teachers should emphasize frequently the benefit of staying healthy to studying which results from the regularly physical exercises in order to better their understanding of the extra activities.

To conclude, The allocation of money to physical or academic education is of the most important tasks any universities must concentrate equally to have the comprehensive graduates. Vietnamese education system in particular should create solutions to help students combine actively their studying and other sport activities. In general, I strongly agree with the idea of equalizing the necessity between the study of professional knowledge and joining in physical activities.