Phân tích đề IELTS Writing Task 2 Actual Test 12/1/2019 - Parenting Courses

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WRITING TASK 2

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task

Write about the following topic:

The best way to ensure the growth of children is to make parents take parenting courses. Do you agree or disagree?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

BÀI TRẢ LỜI MẪU:

Some people believe that parents should be made to undertake parenting courses in order to guarantee that their children develop well. Personally, I disagree with this idea and will outline the reasons below.

On the one hand, parenting courses could equip parents with necessary skills and knowledge to help them deal with raising their children. For example, many first-time parents can be overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for their newborn infant. Without proper instruction, they do not know how to handle or care for their baby most effectively. Parenting courses could help parents to overcome these common problems. Similarly, many parents have a great deal of trouble dealing with troublesome teenagers who are misbehaving while going through adolescence. Parenting courses could also help parents to better understand and deal with these issues.

However, while parenting courses could provide a lot of good skills and information to parents, many people would argue that parenting is an innate skill that every mother and father can naturally access once they have a child. For example, many mothers instinctively know how to hold and care for their child as soon as it is born. In addition, many people have their own ideas about what good parenting involves due to their own upbringing, and cultural influences. Lastly, many people would consider it ridiculous that people should be forced to attend parenting courses as people should be free to make their own decisions.

In conclusion, although parenting courses could provide some beneficial outcomes for both parents and children, I believe that it should be up to the parents to decide whether or not they wish to participate in such courses.

PHÂN TÍCH TỪ VỰNG:

Phần introduction:

• “Undertake parenting courses”: tham gia khóa học nuôi dạy con cái dành cho cha mẹ

Cụm từ này có thể sử dụng để paraphrase lại cụm “take parenting courses” trên đề bài, tránh bị trừ điểm.

Phần body:

• “Overwhelmed”: cảm thấy choáng ngợp (to be too much to deal with or manage)

• “Newborn infant”: trẻ sơ sinh (a baby/a very young child)

• “Overcome these common problems”: vượt qua khó khăn (to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with problems/difficulties)

• “Troublesome”: phiền phức, rắc rối (causing a lot of problems for someone) (vd: a troublesome child – một đứa trẻ hay quấy rầy/rắc rối)

• “Misbehaving”: cư xử không đứng đắn, đúng mực (to behave badly)

• “Adolescence”: thời thiếu niên (the period of time in a person's life when they are developing into an adult)

• “An innate skill”: một kỹ năng bẩm sinh đã có, không cần phải tập luyện (ability is one that you were born with, not one you have learned)

• “Instinctively”: theo bản năng tự nhiên (in a way that is not thought about, planned, or developed by training)

• “Upbringing”: sự nuôi dạy con cái (the way in which someone is treated and trained as a child)

• “Cultural influences”: sự ảnh hưởng từ văn hóa (to affect or change how someone or something develops, behaves, or thinks from culture)

Phần conclusion:

• “Beneficial outcomes”: những kết quả tốt, có lợi (good results or effects of an action, situation, etc.)

• “Participate”: tham gia (to take part in or become involved in an activity)

Ở phần kết bài, ta nên paraphrase lại ý chính bằng từ ngữ khác. Không nên sử dụng những từ đã dùng quá nhiều lần. Cũng như “undertake”, thì “participate” đều có thể thay thế cho “take”