As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role

for teachers in the classroom.

There is no doubt that education and the learning process has changed since the
introduction of computers: The search for information has become easier and amusing,
and connectivity has expedited the data availability. Though experts systems have made
computers more intelligent, they have not yet become a substitute of the human
interaction in the learning process. In my opinion; what can be expected, is a change of
the teachers? Role but not their disappearance from the classroom.
Nobody can argue that the acquisition of knowledge is more fun and easier with
computers. The mere activity of touching and exploring this device constitutes an
enjoyable task for a kid. This, accompanied with the relaxing attitude and software
interactivity, usually conduce to a better grasping of new knowledge. At a higher
educational level; the availability of digital books, simulator and other academic
materials, provide the student with an ever accessible source of information, that
otherwise would not be at hand.
But, besides the increasing complexity and behavior of intelligent software, which is
usually embedded in the academic digital material, the need of human interaction in the
learning process will always be present, at least in the foreseeable future. There is the
necessity for a human being to be able to determine what the specifics needs of each
individual are. The expertise of a teacher in how to explain and adapt complex concepts
to different individuals can hardly be mimicked by a computer, no matter how
sophisticated its software is.
As computers are becoming a common tool for teaching, teachers should be more aware
of their role as guides in the acquisition of knowledge rather than transmitters of facts.
They have to be open minded to the changes that are taking places, keep updated and
serve as a problem solvers in the learning process, thus allowing students to discover the
fact for themselves.
To summarize, in my personal view, teachers play and will() play an important role in the
classroom, especially at the primary level. No matter how complex computers become,
there will be no replacement for the human interaction, but in the way haw this
interaction takes place.
Excellent essay! Are you a native English speaker? Well done. The only problem: too
long, 365 words instead of 250-265 maximum.

Improvements in health, education and trade are essential for the development of
poorer nations. However, the governments of richer nations should take more
responsibility for helping the poorer nations in such areas.
Todays world has been divided into developing and industrialised countrieswhich the
main difference between them is the amount of money that governments apply in
important sectors such as education, health and commerce. Most of the poorer nations are
buried in debts as a result of their unbalanced finances which are reflect in a failed health
care, an unstructured education system and a weak international trade. This vicious cycle
will continue indefinitely unless wealthier nations show interest in minimizing the
worldwide economic differences, as well as taking more responsibility for assisting
unfortunate countries.
Most of the African countries live in sub-human conditions because of the extreme
poverty, upheaval, hunger, disease, unemployment, lack of education and both
inexperienced and corrupt administrations. The devastating consequences of the AIDS
epidemic in those countries could improve if the infected populations receive free drugs
to control the disease, have access to health professionals and get information on how to
prevent its spread. But this can only be achieved through international help programs in
which leaders of the world?s richest countries donate medicine and also send doctors and
nurses to treat and educate those in need.
Moreover, most of the poor countries rely on selling agricultural products and raw
material to rich nations and buying industrialized products from them resulting in a huge
financial deficit. Consequently,
they borrow a significant amount of money from the World Bank to try to improve their
broken economies, but sometimes the money disappears with no significant changes and
they cannot even pay the interest to the bank. Regarding this issue, last year the G8,
which is comprised of leaders of the eight richest nations, decided to forgive billions of
dollars worth of debt owed by the world?s poorest nations. In addition, they developed
adequate loan programs to financially assist those countries.
In conclusion, leaders of the industrialised countries play an indispensable role in
assisting developing nations deal with essential areas such as health, education and trade.
Also, their aid is the key to breaking the vicious cycle, which results in poverty and
death.
This is an amazing essay, looks like Band 8 to me, nothing to improve here.

Popular events like the football World Cup and other international sporting
occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic
emotions in a safe way.
Every four years, the whole world stops to watch international sporting events such as the
Olympics and the Football World Cup in which athletes show their best performance to
make their country proud of them. These sporting occasions have proved to be helpful in
easing international tensions in difficult times when powerful leaders were trying to
control the world?s economy and other governments were fighting over land.
The Olympic Games are one of the best examples which prove how sporting events can
bring nations together, at least temporarily. From ancient History, when Greeks and
Romans would interrupt battles to participate in the games, to the more recent
international disputes, when athletes from Palestine and Israel would forget their
differences, compete pacifically and even embrace each other after an event. Moreover,
these popular events have called the world?s attention to the terrible consequences of
wars; thus some leaders have tried to accept agreements to end their dispute and live
peacefully.
Similarly, international sporting events show benefits in some developing countries
which live in a daily internal civil war. For example, Brazil has a high rate of
unemployment, lack of education, hunger, crime, poverty and corruption which leads to
an immense embarrassment of being Brazilian and a low self-esteem. However, when the
Football World Cup starts, the Brazilian squad, which is considered the best team in the
world, provokes an amazing feeling of pride in their country. Most people seem to forget
all their problems and even the criminal activity decreases. They paint roads with the
national colors, use wear the Brazilian team shirt and buy national flags. Moreover, the
competition brings families and neighbors together and even rival gangs watch the games
and celebrate peacefully.
In conclusion, popular sporting events play an important role in decreasing international
tensions and liberating patriotic feelings as History has shown.
This is a great essay, the ideas, language, structure of paragraphs and sentences,
grammar show high level of English. In my opinion it is Band 8. Keep up the good
work.

Even though globalization affects the worlds economics in a very positive way, its
negative side should not be forgotten. Discuss.
Globalization is a process of advancement and increase in interaction between the
worlds country and people. It involes in locomotion, comunication, knowledge and
skills. Globalazation is gaining speen over the entire world. It has attract enough world
attention needed from international organization in promoting and encouraging human
right and freedom , opportunities, economic, social and culture rights.
However, there are some countries that are missing out the opportunities that are offered
and its taken as a big problem to their country. They are the poorer countries that are not
connected to the people globally and their people are unskilled due to the lack of
knowledge and equipments. They are also unable to trade with the other countries which
are richer and larger as they are unable to meet the demand propose to them. They also
will not have the opportunities and the challenges that are require.
Globalization has also encourage crime like the illegal trade in drug trafficking around
the world through the air, sea and land. This has involve human smuggling and stuffing it
in anything they can come across. This has affected a lot of problem to the country and
the family of the drug addicts. This will also lead to other crimes like robbery and
violence in the country.
Another negative side of globalization is the dumping of the dangerous waste to the river,
sea or the ocean. This will effect the aquactic creature, contaninate the water and cause
harm to the people too.
To conclude, globalization has done an enormous part in the worlds econnmics but the
international organization should also not forget the poorer countries and the countries
should also tackle the other negative side that affects the world.
This essay doesnt have a paragraph about the positive side of globalization, and it
should so the task is only partially covered. The structure is fine, the paragraphs are
logically connected and usage of linking words is sufficient. However, there are many
spelling and grammatical errors (see comments underlined in blue). Overall, looks like
a Band 6 - 6.5 essay.

Popular events like the football world cup and other international sporting
occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic
emotions in a safe way. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
The World Cup football match and the Olympics are held worldwide with great national
support and expectations. As a fan of those competitions, I agree with the idea that
sporting events can be necessary for international relations and national unity. In this
essay, I will think about the effects of these popular sporting events.
First of all, the World Cup, Olympics and other international games work for easing
tensions among different nations. For example, South and North Korea have football
games regularly which give two nations a chance to understand each other deeply. In the
mid 1990s, a hundreds of North Korean supporters came to South Korea with the
footballers and they were very excited during the sporting events. Even if it sounds
ridiculous, many South Koreans were quite surprised at that moment when North
Koreans shouted and cried during the match. We all realized that they were very normal
sports fans even though they were occasionally very secretive. Through the sports, two
divided nations could reduce their political and ideological tensions and could feel the
patriotic unity.
On the other hand, some sports matches can make international relations worse. For
instance, football or baseball games between Korea and Japan are always big matches in
two countries where full of tensions overflow. Sometimes, after the matches, the two
rivals blame each other and their patriotic emotions explode in an aggressive way. Even
much worse scenario is that the troubles caused by losing games affect the players
directly. As far as I know, a couple of Korean players in Japan are suffered from invisible
discrimination after the match between two countries.
In conclusion, I think that international sporting occasions can be one of the good ways to
ease tensions or to release patriotism safely. However, I believe that games can not be the
fundamental ways for the sound patriotism or peaceful international relations.
This is an excellent essay! Very well done

Even though globalization affects the worlds economics in a very positive way, its
negative side should not be forgotten. Discuss.
Everything has two sides and the globalization is not the exception. Our first thoughts
about this topic include the process of global McDonaldisation and, generally speaking,
spreading the one, American, lifestyle across the whole Globe.
Firstly, I would try to concentrate on the positive aspects of globalisation. As far as
economics is concerned, institiutions like the Global Bank or IMF are always focused on
developing the Third World and helping poor people to combat their life obstacles
(through loans and donations). Moreover, the world becomes an area of sharing the
thoughts (e.g. philosophical or economical doctrines), which become popular due to lack
of barriers.
However, disadvantages of globalization are also widely known. Some people maintain
that because of this process, the spirit of countries and nations rapidly disappears. The
integrity, established houndreds years ago is on the verge of collapse. Furthermore,
theres a strong lobby of communists who reckon, that the globalization indicates
uncontrolled reign of capitalists and slave work of lower labour-class. We should never
forget about detrimental impact of global investments on environment - green house
effect or soar rains are triggered by globalization.
To sum up, globalization has both positive and negative influence on our everyday life. I
cant agree with the popular statement that we should try to avoid being affected by it.
However, we must not forget about our surroundings and local communities. They have
invaluable values which should last forever.
This essay is too short (233 words instead of mandatory 250) and that will be penalized.
On the bright side, it covers the task and has a sound structure on essay level. The
paragraphs are coherent and logically connected by linking words; the sentences are
well-structured and the vocabulary is adequate. There were some inaccuracies, see
comments underlined in blue. Overall, looks like a band 6 essay.

Doan Hung Phuong, Band 7 student, shares with us his secrets to success in the Speaking
test.
Speaking tips
Speaking is a weakness of analytic learners (who learn English from books and tapes).
Moreover, in countries where English is not a first language, improving your speaking in
English is really difficult. Therefore, I dont have much experience in practicing
speaking. Here are some tips that I got from my teachers and some suggestions that I
think they might be helpful for you.
Pronunciation is the most important feature in speaking. If you speak correctly,
academically and interestingly, but no one understands what you are talking about, you
certainly lose your points.
One of my teachers, who is fluent in 5 languages, shares his experience that
pronunciation is the key of learning a language. It might be true since native English
speakers can pronounce a unfamiliar word correctly but dont know how to spell it.
Because English is a combination of many languages, there are no totally general rules
for pronunciation. As a result, you must remember everything.
So how to pronounce the words correctly?
- Firstly, listen and learn what native English speaker said. As I mentioned, listening can
help you in speaking. You can correct yourself in basic words if you listen a lot.
Moreover, listening can also help you to learn how to stress important words, how to
speak naturally and even how to organize your speech.
- Secondly, if you learn a new word, you must know how to pronounce it first. Typically,
when people want to learn new words, they revise these words again and again, and write
it down so many times. But now, to improve your speaking and listening, you must hear
electronic dictionary pronouncing and repeat after it again and again.
- Thirdly, make sentences with new vocabulary. Everybody might know how to
pronounce words correctly, but when they combine them all together, they cannot
pronounce correctly anymore, or even if they do, their sentence may sound unnatural.
The reason is they lack of intonation. Listening might solve this problem.
- Fourthly, practice pronunciation every week (3-4 times a week) by reading out loud a
short passage. At first, you practice to pronounce all the words in that passage correctly.
Then read the whole passage slowly and correctly (pay attention to ending sound).
Afterward, increase reading speed in each sentence (read here means you must speak
out the words, not read in your mind). If you speak quickly but start to pronounce
wrongly, that means you reach your limit, dont speak faster than that. And finally, you

read the whole passage again at normal speed, or may be a bit faster than normal a little
bit, but you MUST include intonation.
To find material for practicing this exercise, you can visit this website:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com. There are hundreds of short news and audio files
spoken by a native speaker. I guarantee if you practice this kind of exercise gradually,
you pronunciation will improve a lot. (Note: this is the exercise of my teacher, who
speaks 5 languages, as I mentioned before)
Now, to prepare for IELTS speaking test, you should practice some more exercises:
- Pick a topic and stand in front of mirror to practice speaking test. You should go through
all three parts of the real speaking test. Standing in front of mirror will help you improve
your body language and also your pronunciation. You might find it strange that mirror
can correct your pronunciation. In fact, there are some vowels and consonants that you
cant pronounce correctly if you dont know how to do that (not just simply remember the
pronunciation).
- Try to speak naturally. You are advised to speak fast with intonation (the previous
reading exercise will certainly help you). You should learn and apply some verb phrases,
idioms and slang expressions. This is not the key part of speaking test, but it is better if
you know, not only for your test but also for you speaking skill. If you want to get 7.0,
you must master pronunciation, accuracy and intonation.
Important tip #1
when you practice in speaking, you must pay attention to the ending sound. But when
you take the real test, dont do that, because it will affect your fluency. In the real test, it
is the time you show examiner what you got, not the time you can show them how good
you can correct yourself. Using experience you gained from practicing to prove your
speaking skill.
Important tip #2
another wonderful way to practice speaking is to speak English in your dream. If you
never do that, you do it now. I have already spoken English in my dreams even before my
teacher advice me to do so. I just watch cartoons in English, films in English and listen to
songs in English. As a result, I naturally dream in English. Actually, I can control my
dreams, lol, it is very interesting, try to do that. By doing that, I can think quickly in my
mind, but I still have problems when speaking my ideas out. So, you must do 2 previous
exercises in order to improve speaking.