"what is sth like "or "what sth is like"? which one is correct?

what is the difference between job, work and vocation?

should we teach young generation how to be good parents in school? Recently, some schools are encouraged to teach the young generation how to be good parents. Because some people think that young people nowadays don’t know how to be good parents, they even can’t take care of themselves well. In my country, every family can only have one child so the child got a lot of attention and love from the whole family. Everything prepared well by the parents so the kids can hardly live alone when they grow up. However, from my perspective, I still don’t in favor of schools set up these kind of lessons. Firstly, nobody can be a good parent just from taking some courses. I believe that whether a person can be a good parent after they grew up is mostly depended on his original family. Children can be impacted a lot from their family, as the saying goes “parents are the best teacher.” So I think parents should take the responsibility to teach their children in daily life. Secondly, there is no need to teach every young person how to be a good parent because not everyone wants to be married or have a child. It will be a waste of time and energy to those kind of people. Finally, what kind of parents can be defined as good parents? I think there are several rules. I believe that good parents should encourage their children when they faced with difficulties, give compliments when they do things right and share ideas with each other regularly. Besides, good parents should also show respect to their kids, treat them as friends.

writing practice. pls help, thank you Nowadays, some people think that children spend too much time on playing not on their school work which is not good for their growth. People always hold the opinions that children don’t know how to use spare time properly, they feel that children watch TV or play computers a lot which definitely bad for their eyesight and mental health. Moreover, as the competition today is more and more fierce, some parents start to afraid that their children spent too much time on playing will impact their academic performance and make them less competitive than children who spend a lot of time on studying. However, some people hold different opinions toward this. They believe that adults shouldn’t push children too hard, children have the right to enjoy their childhood, playing, having fun and do whatever they like. After all, they are young kids. In my point of view, there are some good ways for children to use their free time. Firstly, children can participate in some activities such as summer camping, sport or volunteer club. These activities not only good for children’s physical health but also offer an opportunity to make friends. Secondly, children can also take some courses which they are interested like piano lessons, painting or dancing classes and so on. However, study is still very important to children at school, if a kid can’t catch up the learning progress of the class, then more spare time should be used on studying. In conclusion, parents should help their kids to arrange their free time properly, besides school works they can also do a lot of meaningful things.

A letter Dear tutor, I like your dancing course very much but I’m very sorry to say that I can’t take the course any more. As you know, I’m a saleswoman, I worked from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM before. But recently, one of my colleagues was on her maternity leave and I’m her backup. So I have to take over a part of her work. I always work over time lately and I fell very tired. Therefore, I think I have no spare time to take the evening course. I will still be taking the course until this weekend, then I have to give it up temporarily. I really like dancing and I learnt a lot from this perfect course. After my colleague returns back and all the things get settled, I will continue this course. Thanks for all your guidance and patience during the course. I hope that we can cooperate again soon. Regards, Cassie

The increasing amount of rubbish With the quick development of economy and society, there is a rapid growing amount of rubbish made by people in recent years which caused some concerns to us. In my point of view, the main reason caused this situation is we waste too much resource in our daily life in order to get more convenience. For example, we tend to use disposable cups or dishes because we don’t want to wash them after using. We prefer to use plastic bags instead of cloth bags because they are lighter and save space. I think the second reason is the over package of some goods and presents which in order to attract customer’s attention. There is no doubt that we consume much more on a daily basis than we did in the past, so the packaging of products is one of the reasons of rubbish increase. I believe that if governments can take some actions to avoid the waste, the amount of rubbish will be decreased in the future. Firstly, governments can encourage their citizens to use reusable bags instead of plastic bags and reduce the use of disposable goods by the means of putting tax on them. Moreover, governments can put some advertisements on TV or distribute a brochure to each family to raise the awareness and spread the idea of saving resource and avoid wasting. In conclusion, not only governments but also everyone should take responsibility to reduce the production of rubbish. Then our earth will be more clean and suitable to live.

writing task 1 Dear friend, As you know,I'm going to move to a new house these days and some of my furniture I will not take away. Especially the current sofa,it's too big to my new house. So I'm wondering if you will be interested in buying it. It's a double sofa which can contain two people, and It's white,soft and made of leather.Besides,This sofa is almost eighty percent new that I bought one year ago.I always keep it in a good maintenance. I will give you a good price of course.If you are interested maybe you can come to my house this weekend to see it. Expecting your replies. Love,(what else can I use here to a close friend?best wishes?regards?or sincerely? I'm kind of confused of the use) Cassie