Learning a foreign language offers an insight into how people from other cultures think and see the world. The teaching of a foreign language should be compulsory at all primary schools. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
Language is linked to the identity of a nation, and speakers of a common language share many things, but does this give governments the right to restrict the way a language is used or taught?
It can be argued that a nation maintains its culture through its language, and so there is a need to restrict the use of foreign words and changes in pronunciation. However, in reality this approach is fruitless, because language is a living thing and it is impossible to stop it from changing. This policy has been tried in some countries, but it never works. People, especially young people,...
- Every year several languages die out. Some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? 80
- Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? 70
- You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.You have just spent a weekend at a friend’s house. When you returned home, you discovered you have left a coat containing some belongings in his house.Write a letter to your friend telling him that you left t 90
- The line graph below shows the time spent wit different media by children and teenagers per day. The table below shows the average time spent per day with major media by adults from 2010 to 2013. Summarise the information in both the graph and table by se 70
- The pie charts below give information about world population in 1900 and 2000 83
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No. of Different Words: 163 200
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 292 350
No. of Characters: 1360 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.134 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.658 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.606 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 93 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.908 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.652 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5