Writing practice: bar chart [The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002.] The bar chart illustrates the change of how billions of minutes of phone calls by three call types: Local calls (fixed line), national and internal calls (fixed line) and all Mobile calls in British between 1995 and 2002. It is clear from the chart that land lines were predominated in call types in UK over a period of 7 years in Unite kingdom and the amount of fixed domestic and foreign lines and mobile calls were significant increased. The figure of minutes of local fixed lines outnumbered the national and international fixed lines by two to one (nearly 72 billion minutes vs. 37 billion minutes) in 1995 and reached the highest point (90 billion minutes) in 1999 before falling gradually. The national and international calls rose steadily from 1995 to 2002 (in 62 billion minutes). However, the mobile calls were particularly little in three types of phone calls which only 4 billion minutes in total in 1995 and rising sharply from 1999 and peaked at around 45 billion minutes in 2002. Overall, the chart shows the mobile phone calls and the national and international calls tended to do better than the local calls in 21st century in UK.

Writing practice about public health and sport facilities [Some people say that the best way to improve public health is by increasing the number of sports facilities. Others, however, say that this would have little effect on public health and that other measures are required. Discuss both there views and give your own opinions.] Rising the amounts of sports amenities may make national physical wellbeing, some opponents may think that the influence could be minimal and other ways of actions are needed. While there are benefits to increasing the fundamental sports facilities in local community, I would argue that it is better to raise public awareness of health. The option to increase the amount of sport amenities is practical for several reasons. The sports facilities in community are strongly encouraged local residents to use by local governments, and it is completely free. People are able to take exercise with their families or neighbors when they are convenient. In terms of public health, the more sports facilities the person used, the more traditional diseases (such as diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure) could be addressed. So, the purpose of sport amenities is to create and maintain a healthy environment for individuals. However, the sports equipment could be stopped using or never used if the individual dislike public facilities or no knowledge of physical activities. On the other hand, I believe that local government should play a significant role in all areas, to manage public health planning for raising awareness of public actively. For instance, the local government should provide healthy lifestyle services by accessing to services and programs, by developing the facilities and infrastructure for sports, by organizing campaigns and events to enhance neighborhood amenity, protect the natural environment and consider impact on global ecosystems. If the local governments want to raise awareness of public awareness effectively, the role of those actions in protecting and promoting physical and mental health need to be recognized and incorporated into their local health plans. For the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that more likely the action to be successful in public health if the government take an active role to promote.

writing practice of Pie chart 【The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.】 The pie charts compare the proportion of three age groups in Yemen and Italy in two separate years, 2000 and 2050. It is clear that Yemen had the younger population in 2000, and the same is predicted for 2050. The population of both counties are predicted to get older over the 50-years period. Looking at the information in more details, we can see those children aged under 14 prenominated (above 50%) in Yemen’s population in 2000, while there was only 14.3% of the overall population in Italy. The number of children in both countries are predicted to decrease after 50 decades. The percentage of people aged 15 to 59, it is noticeable that the population of Yemen is expected to rise from 46.3 % in 2000 to 57.3 % in 2050. By contract, people in Italy is forecasted reduce from 61.6 % to 46.2 dramatically within 50 years. For those 60-and-over ages group, the proportion of the elderly population in Yemen will increase slowly by 1.9% between 2000 and 2050. In contrast, the change of the older people in Italy will grow dramatically at twice during the same period.

IELTS speaking test - an unusual meal 1) Describe an unusual meal you had. ( a 2 mins presentation) Sharon, she is a bright, intelligent and confident girl. We just had a dinner at a Japanese restaurant at her hometown in Malaysia in the date of this New Year. She told us that she was eventually diagnosed as suffering from terminal lung cancer, and required hospital treatment. We was informed that her treatment effect was very positive, the medicine worked in her body. She also attended a cancer support group at her local hospital, everything sounded great. Unfortunately, she was admitted to the ICU for further treatment because her cancer has spread to her brain in early May, Despite attempted at resuscitation, she died a week later in hospital. I was unable to visit her at the last moment of her life. As I look back, the dinner seemed light-years away, and we never expected the dinner could be our last unusual dinner. 2) Do you think having dinner at home is a good idea? Yes. I do think so. In short, you can enjoy the home cooking health benefit all the time. Cooking your own meal can increase knowledge of food, it also can save money. 3) Do young people like to spend time with their families or friends? Most of young people prefer to spend their time with their friends, especially if they live in a big city. But for me, as a young person, prefer to spend time with my family during my holiday, because it is one of the best ways to create memorable experiences, this is especially true if you have to live alone in other city. 4) What do you think are the benefit of having dinner together? The dinner table can act as a unifier, a place of community. Sharing a meal is an excuse to catch up and talk our status. for instance, my family dinner builds our relationships, we can talk whatever we want to discuss with our family members, our chat can be about football, local news, television series. 5) Do you think people are less willing to cook meals by themselves these days, compared to past? After-school activities, late workdays, long commutes -- it's no wonder few families are willing to cook meals at home today. One of the simplest and most effective ways for parents to prepare a meal is by eating outside or getting a take-out food. Compare to past, you also have many choices for food if you would like to eat outside.

IELTS speaking test - A country/city you want to stay Describe a country or city where you want to live or work in the future. (2 mins) Singapore is one of my favorite cities I would like to work in coming future because of numerous work opportunities. As far as I known, many international companies set up their Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, such as Facebook, google, Johnson and Johnson and so on. Those companies employed a goodly number of expert professionals in the field. You will get a great chance to work with them and deepen your knowledge of your work. Experience of any career in Asia Pacific headquarter is a big plus. Besides that, city development of Singapore is a mirror of modern city planning, especially the combination of Nature and Science and Technology. Singapore calls itself the Garden City, this city aims to be the world's greenest city. 'Supertrees' is one of Singapore's symbol and it efforts to promote green space. Moreover, Singapore is quite close to my hometown, it is only 3 hours away by air. That is why I think Singapore is a small country and city but still attractive for me to live there. Do you like to live alone or share a room with others? I prefer to live alone, because I would like to spend my time on reading and meditating on weekends. So I need my own space and little private time. What are the advantage and the disadvantage of living alone? Living alone can be challenging, but it can be more comforting than living with others as per the convenience. There are serval types of advantages in living alone, for instance, you can enjoy the silence. you can decide your own decoration on your space. Most of the people can enjoy being alone, but not all of the time, especially if you need some extra helps immediately. What are the advantage of working abroad? Working overseas has many advantages, including: Experiencing different cultures, enhancing your CV, learning a new language, building confidence, developing independence and personality, gaining new qualifications and improving professional skills What are the disadvantages of living in a foreign country? Moving aboard can be very unsetting, many things will be very different than your home country and you have to learn how things get down in your new country. What is more, you will be away from friends and family, although it is easier to keep in touch with friends and family. Above answers are prepared for my IELTS's spoken test. Thanks for your time to help me correct my grammar :)

IELTS speaking test - Service II Hi, I am preparing for my IELTS test. Here are few of my answers. It will be assessed based on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range, accuracy and pronunciation. Would you mind helping me to check my answers? Please kindly let me know if there is still room for improvement. Thank you in advance! 3) How do you deal with impolite waiters I would say, If their attitude is very rude in their job and affect customer, I'd like to submit my complain to their manager to see how to improve their service quality. All the waiters shall be trained before they star their job. Customer service would be one of their on-boarding trainings. 4) Do you think that all the waiters should be given training classes? Yes, I do think so.Customer service and customer loyalty are greatly affected by the waiters somehow. All waiters should be customer service oriented and learn techniques to best serve clients. 5) Would you like to work in the service industry in the future? Yes. I think I would like to work in the service industry in the future, but not start from the front line. I am not alway confident of serve customer. I am more good at dealing with datas. 6) Why do some older people want to be waiters in the big city? In China, many young people prefer to work in big city, their parent would like to company with their children to live in big city. At this situation, the older people want to find a job to get some financial supports. Consider to their limited education, they only can seek some job opportunities as waiters, cleaners, maids and so on.

IELTS speaking test - Service I Hi, I am preparing for my IELTS test. Here are two of my answers. It will be assessed based on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range, accuracy and pronunciation. Would you mind helping me to check my answers? Please kindly let me know if there is still room for improvement. Thank you in advance! 1) Describe a good service you received. (2mins) A good service I received from InterContinental Hotel Group. I have been one of their golden members for 5 years. For the benefits of the golden members, you can enjoy exclusive rate which help you save money, extended check-out to maximum 2 hours, then you can take more rest in hotel if it needed. The most favorite parts for me is collect points to exchange airline miles. I can use this miles to apply for free flight for my family and friends every year. If I remember correctly. I used nearly 60,000points to exchange a room of one of their hotel in Sanya city for my parent. What a carefree second honeymooned in Sandy! my dad said. What is more, my mom asked me where is her next trip? Well, I have no idea where they want to spend their time for their third honeymoon. For a such customer oriented company, I have no reason not be to one of their loyal clients. 2) What kinds of service are not good? Customer received different massages from different department. For example. Few months ago, I booked a room for my foreign friend via hotel's hotline. But I was informed that this hotel hadn't have any available basic-level room only one day ahead of check-in date, and my booking was required to pay extra money to upgrade if I still needed. I think, first of all, the hotline service shall check the room status before they accepted customer's booking. If the thing went to wrong, they shall not ask customer to take any responsibility for their mistakes. Anyway, my friend received a free upgrade.

IELTS speaking test - Work or study Hi, I am preparing my IELTS test. Here is one of my speakings. It will be assessed based on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. Would you mind helping me to check my writing? Please kindly let me know if there is still room for improvement. Thank you in advance! Part 1: 1)Do you work or are you a student? Before I came to Hainan I was working as an executive assistant for senior management in an international company. But at this moment, I am preparing my IETLS because I hope to do a Master abroad. 2)Why did you choose to do that type of work for? My career path is from an assistant to operation manage to head of operation department. You can learn a lots from your hiring manager, such as leadership skill, communication skill, presentation skill and so on. especially as if your hiring manage is one of exco members. 3) Do you like your job? why/why not? Yes, I love my job because it's interesting and challenging enough. Moreover, I work with a great team from APAC. 4) What is the best thing about your job? I led 2017-2018 corporate English training program for over 100,000 associates in China. Before my takeover, this program was only covered 20 associates in Home office. 5) Do you prefer working alone or with others? Why? I prefer to work as a part of a team. I am a team player with excellent interface skill, but also can work independently to drive for targeted results. 6) Do you miss being student? Yes. Actually, I am preparing my master this year, and would like to apply for 2019 intake of MBA course. 7) What subjects are you going to study? I am going to apply for MBA, specializing in Global business. Because all businesses in the world now are become globally nowadays. It require that the leaders to have professional global business knowledge.

IELTS writing task - values I am preparing my IELTS test. Here is one of my writing. It will be assessed by task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy. Would you mind helping me to check my writing? Please kindly let me know if there is still room for improvement. Thank you in advanced! A person's worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. 1)To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? 2) Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. 3) at least 250 words. It is true that the social status and material possessions are the new symbols of personal worth today. And the traditional values, *like (*I want to use an advanced vocabulary to replace 'such as' and 'like' here. ) honour, kindness and trust are being forgotten. At some point, I would agree with the fact that people's value are measured by their wealth and power these days, but I also believe that the *old-fashion values (*besides 'old-fashion' and 'traditional', can I use 'conventional values' here? ) still play a critical role in our society. It is apparent that many celebrities are admired for their fortune or their position in various areas. Many of these people are well known for cheating on their partners or over-indulging in drugs. Owning many properties, driving an luxury car and attending high-end parties are risen them to an exalted position. One of famous celebrities is Kim Kardashian, the TV only shows how her life luxurious is, but never only focus on her good performance in fashion. Traditional values might seem less important than social status and material possessions, however, it is indispensable for our life. Most of people believe in values such as honour, kindness and trust. In some way, we hope our children live in a fair, health and lovely world. Employers are prefer to assess employee's attitude rather than their performance. We also form companionship, romantic relationship, business partnership based on the criteria of old-fashion values. In conclusion, while it is common for people to hold a higher value of social status and material possessions in this world. Nevertheless, some people do believe that old-fashion values are available for measure people's worth.