Opinion Essay

1. Agree or disagree
Paraphrase. I agree/disagree that……on the grounds that…
Paraphrase. I agree/disagree that……because…

I agree, I view that/my view is that, I am of the opinion that

Because, On the grounds that,

2. Which side is better

Non-Opinion Essay
1. Identify issue and provide solutions
Paraphrase. This essay intends to enlighten about why…and the means to clear up the issues.
Paraphrase. This essay aims to shed light on how to….that is by….

2. Discuss advantage and disadvantage

3.

Hybrid
1. Both views and opinion
Paraphrase. There are pros and cons in……., nonetheless I believe the …..because of reasons
explained below, by first elaborating both viewpoints.
Paraphrase. There is a debate about ways to ….which I believe that….
2.

List of synonyms

However, Notwithstanding, Nonetheless, Nevertheless

Law, extensive legislation

Gap year, year off

1. Telephone Calls
talked over, spoke, telephone conversations
the duration, communication span, conversation duration
local fixed-lines, cell phones, mobile phones, national & international landline
communication, national and international fixed line calls

2. Damaging Effects from Media

Harmful actions displayed in digital media
Practice violence

3. Criminal
Crimes, criminal activities, illegal activities
 Offenders, perpetrators, former inmates
Prison time, tenure jail, incarceration
Lack of skills and useful knowledge, Vocational training/skills to give the legitimate
occupation, impose longer prison time

4. Teaching Children
Home education, homeschooling, education in home
Education outside home, school
Sharpen social skills, flourish social skills
Child’s brighter future
Greater upsides
School provides ample opportunities, Promising means, effective measure, excellent option

5. University degree, Soft Skill, Experience and Work

University education, proven credibility (by a certificate/diploma, degree)
To secure a great job, to land a desired occupation, land a person a more desirable profession,
land a marvellous profession
Hands-on experience, first-hand experience, soft skill, internship

6. Sport as an essential part of school life

Controversial topic in the school curriculum

Academic subjects
They have no interest in
Drugging and corruption

Children’s physical development, unfit

Team building, competitive spirit
Successful business people

7. Wrong to keep animals in captivity

Zoos continue to be controversial, evolving to be ‘animal parks’

Unnatural way
Anti-zoo lobby
Suffers mentally

Secure and peaceful setting for animals

Safe and able to breed
Protecting animals
Safeguard endangered species
Preserve the global ecosystem

8. Gap year/time off between school/university study

Cost involved in areas such air fares, accommodation and living expenses
 Take a young person’s focus such as by travelling
Hard to adjust the university life, damaging the students performance
Being kidnapped or mugged

Skills learned outweigh the disadvantages

Independence and assertiveness
Time management and interpersonal skills
Greater career success

9. It is best to save money

Whether to save or spend money is very topical today, financial worries, economic turmoil

Relax and enjoy life, shopping or taking holidays

Spending money on products and services boosts the economy and creates employment

Dangers of reckless spending, encouraged by advertising

Hardship to fund the emergencies, unemployment or illness
Bankruptcy
Increase the security and standard of living, invaluable skill
Good discipline for people to develop, as it builds skills of planning and reaching targets

It is wiser to save money wherever possible to benefit both individuals today and future
generations.

10. Tourism is good

The role of tourism is widely debated.

Causes pollution for local societies, litter left, damage to ecology caused by safari tourism
Distrust between nationalities

International relations, encouraging the investment/flow of money

Benefits in terms of improving local infrastructure such as roads and airports

11. Laws to employ the equal numbers of male and female

12. Prison as the effective form of punishment

Effective forms to protect citizens from the threat of crime

Minor offenders can be punished through fines, community services (cheaper)

Small-scale criminals
Training or education programmes

13. Cybercrime (hacking and identity theft)

Financial impact
Criminal networks
 Insecurity

Improve personal security, ranging from passwords to shredding of documents

14. Worrying about children using video games

The level of violence found in games
Aggressive or warlike character
Obsessive way that some children use the game
Social and Physical effect

Control the content of these games (by manufacture), be reviewed by censors

Counselling and advice through schools and authorities

15. Unhealthy lifestyles

Practical steps
The issue of obesity
Poor diet
Mental health

Improve the level of education

Promote sports and other positive
16. Officers patrolling the streets
practices
Using the legislation to curb the consumption of unhealthy foods
Imposing higher taxes or by restricting availability in retail products

17. Officers patrolling the streets

Increasing number of police in the streets lead to a drop in crime
Assertive police patrolling is the most effective resource we have

Supplement police patrols with coordinated actions elsewhere in the state

Increases the resource available to the police away from the streets
Individual and business should step their own security arrangements to complement the
police presence

18. High level of migrations from rural to cities

19. Financial crime involving identity theft

Identity fraud

The almost universal use of digital technology to store financial data and undertake
financial transactions
The increasing probability of ‘traditional’ crimes (such as armed robbery, mugging)

There is the loss of money from back accounts or being connected to a fraudulent loan
 Damaging their credit rating
People’s employment prospects can even be damaged as well

20. Difficult to balance the demands of work and personal life

Increase the workload that many people have to deal with
The rise of communications tolls
Pressure to cooperate

Clarify time to be free or work to the employer

Ask manager to provide a flexible working hour
Advice and coaching to staff in areas such as management

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