Compare the following introductions borrowed from two different essays and answer the questions:

• Which introduction do you like better? Why?
• What makes the other introduction not so good? How would you improve it?

The extracts are original texts written by students and may contain all sorts of mistakes.

Write your own introduction (see the task here: Essay — 1).

To my mind, the main problem of this text is a family’s role in difficult situations in our life. If Thomas knew about his teacher’s opinion, he would never become a great scientist. I firmly believe that his mother helped him to change his future life and not to pay any attention to such teachers, who couldn’t see talented pupils.

The main problem of the educational system nowadays is that schools do not pay attention to their students’ unique characters and minds and try to teach everybody the same thing. Some people think that our educational system should be reorganized while others are satisfied with its present state.

Compare the following introductions borrowed from four different reports and answer the questions below.

• Which introduction do you like better? Why?
• What makes the other introductions not so good? How would you improve them?

The extracts are original texts written by students and may contain all sorts of mistakes.

Write your own introduction (see the task here: Report — 1).

The aim of this report is to describe how compliments given to female characters in Disney cartoons have changed over the past few decades. I have collected the necessary data and made diagrams to represent the pattern of change in these compliments. And this report will provide you with all the information I have gained.

Introduction

The aim of the report to analyze the ways female characters are complimentedover the last eighty years. This report will be based on the findings of the survey of Disney movies.

Referring to data obtained after studying the cartoons we can say that complements related to the skills were given mostly to Brave(she was praised most of all); complements related to the appearance were popular in Classic Era.

Purpose

The linguistic analysis of the dialogues from 12 Disney movies appearing over the period 1937–2013 has revealed certain alterations in the nature of the compliments paid to female characters. This report aims at outlining the discovered changes and explaining the reasons behind them.

Compare the following introductions borrowed from five different articles and answer the questions:

• Which introduction do you like better? Why?
• What makes the other introduction not so good? How would you improve it?

The extracts are original texts written by students and may contain all sorts of mistakes.

Since the very beginning people enjoyed celebrating different festivals. Nowadays there are thousands of them. Some of them are international others are celebrated only in certain countries. But even international festivals have their own features depending on a country. In this article you will be able to learn about some traditions of celebrating festivals which you might have not known.

Everybody needs the happiness. But do we think what it is as frequently as we say this? Let me try to discourse.

In “This Emotional Life,” Dan Gilbert says there are three key findings on the science of happiness:

1. we can’t be happy alone
2. we can’t be happy all the time
3. we can be happier than we are currently

What country would you like to visit next? France? Turkey? Maybe Germany? The USA? Taking pictures near the Eiffel Tower and after that counting stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Well, you sound so… so cliché. Just like everybody else. Nowadays, when new means of transportation allow us to go wherever we want, most people travel to all the same places. It’s usually either a European country or a cheap resort. Actually, the map of the world is much more than that.

Does the food mean to you a lot? Are you addicted to it? Recently we have started considering food no more as a fuel, bit as a source of our own pleasure. If you do not believe me, just check whether you eat the nutritious, but not very tasty meals instead of eating the food you like.