Name: Nguyen Ngoc Dong Ha Class: K49CLC3 A1 Student Index: 1001017062 PRACTICE TEST 1 Part 1: What do you know

w about descriptive essays? Descriptive essay is a genre of essay which is used to describe a certain subject: a person, a thing, a place, a memory, experience, situation... A good descriptive essay should make the readers feel like they are present in the scene. As other essays, a descriptive essay usually has three parts: introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. In the first part: introduction, the writer must have a sentence to introduce the subject with many kinds of techniques. Besides, there should be some more sentences to explain why the subject is important to the writer. In order to make coherence, the writer may add a linking sentence and starts the next part: body paragraphs. This is the most important part of the essay. It contains most of the description. The writer will portray the subject so that the readers can feel like they are in the scene and they can know how it looks, feels, smells Finally, in the conclusion, the writer will give his or her final opinion about the subject. Although writing a descriptive essay may sound very easy at first, its really very difficult if you want to transfer your ideas to the readers. First, you should jot down as many details about the subject as possible. Try to recreate it in your mind. The more details you have, the better the essay will be. Then, you can describe it, using clear and concise language. You should avoid repeating the words continually. If you want to describe something, you need to appeal to the senses of the readers. Explain how the thing smelled, felt, sounded, tasted, or looked. If you can describe emotions or feelings related to your topic, you will be able to leave a deeper impression on the readers. Moreover, you should add more adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases to make the experience more vivid. You can impress the readers by your vocabulary and make them cannot stop reading your essay. By using your five senses effectively and recreate the emotions in your essay in your own way, you will be able to show your experience to the readers. What make a good descriptive essay are not facts or statistics but your detailed observations and descriptions. Although sometimes it may seem rather vague, a descriptive essay is the most liberating and pleasurable essay to write. You are just writing something as you see it. If you can describe an idea or image in language, you have accomplished your task.

Part 2: Write a business report (300 words) about the economic development of Vietnam for the past 6 months. Economic situation in the first six months of 2010 Statistics show that the economic development in the first half of 2010 in Vietnam was growing quite stably. However, there are some matters need to be concerned in order to establish strategy for the second half. In the first six months of 2010, GDP (Gross Domestic Productivity) increased by 6.16% as compared to the same period in 2009. This was a rather high growth as compared to that of 3.87% in the same period last year. All three sectors grew quite sharply. To be more specific, the agriculture, forestry and fishery rose by 2.89%, the industry and construction by 7.29%, and the service by 7.24%. In this time, there was a rise by 8.75% in the average CPI (Customer Price Index) against the first six months last year. The social realized investment capital was about 337 million dongs, equaling 43.5% of the GDP, higher than the governments estimate of 41%. Realized FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) was about 5.4 billion USD, rose by 6% against in the same period last year. In this time, the import turnover increased by 15.7% while the export turnover rose by 29.4% as compared to those of the first six months last year. Trade deficit was about 6.7 billion USD, rose by about 19% against the same period last year and equal to 20.9% of the export turnover. In conclusion, in the first six months of 2010, Vietnams economy had a stable and positive growth in general as well as in each sector. Vietnam has attracted more and more investment. However, inflation tended upwards and trade deficit increased. For the second half of the year, GDP is estimated increasing continually while CPI is estimated decreasing to 8%. The problem is that the inflation tends to be more serious while the increase rate of export turnover remains higher than that of import turnover. Therefore, the government should take measures so as to stabilize macro economy, improve quality of the growth and prevent inflation from returning.