King


 * Hi King, good luck in the exam Friday. Here is the final draft of your Graph Description. **

This graph shows us how many exercise machines broke down between January and July 2009. Overall, there was a slight fluctuation in exercise machine maintenance from January to March.

In January, February and March, the figures were 33, 37 and 35 respectively. However, the number of exercise machine breakdowns increased to a peak of 75 in April. After the fitness centre organized a meeting with the maintenance staff to solve the problem, the number of breakdowns dropped back down to 33 in May. Between June and July, there was a rapid reduction in exercise machine maintenance, with 12 in June and 14 in July.

In conclusion, it is clear to see that, the Gymtastic Fitness Club has successfully solved the problem.

Hi King, hope your preparations for your writing exam are going well. You are a very good writer and won’t have too much trouble. Please remember to plan your essay thoroughly at the beginning of the exam and think of some good synonyms for the topic vocabulary. Also, check your grammar for uncountable nouns such as education.

**Online learning is better than learning in a classroom****As the internet is omnipresent nowadays, learning online is very popular. A lot of students prefer to study online rather than get knowledge in a boring classroom. Besides, I think learning online is better than learning in a classroom for two important reasons.**

**Firstly, students are able to learn by themselves. Learning online is very comfortable and exciting. For instance, people who learn online can lounge on a sofa and put their portable computers over their thighs. Furthermore, students can solve the problems through internet by some experienced people. For example, people can leave their questions on a forum and a website, and then some friendly people who can answer the questions would leave their answers.**

**Secondly, students can get education everywhere. For instance, people who was sick and could not come to school but could still get education online. They finish their homework on a computer and hand it in through internet. In addition, there are a lot of students could not access education because of the distance between their home to the schools and learning online can definitely approach this problem.**

**To summarize, learning online is better than learning in a classroom. In my opinion, I think learning online would be the popular way to get education in the future, and then different people from different countries can communicate with each other through internet.**

P16 Write a short paragraph stating who you agree with 80 words

P22 Write an email
 * Dear Mr. singh **
 * Thank you for supporting and trusting Helix International. **
 * We are very pleasure that we can cooperate again. In fact, there are a few small classes, which are about 9 to 12 people, for improving English writing skills in our institution. **
 * These classes would be started at 8:45 in the morning on Monday and finished at 1:00 in the afternoon on Friday. We teach 4 hours per day and these classes could be last for 12 weeks. **
 * In these classes, people can learn how to achieve business writing. For example, faxes, e-mails, letters and memos etc. **
 * Are you satisfied with the courses above? **
 * Kind regards, **
 * Bjorn Donaldson **
 * Helix International **

P25 Write a summary about Jose
 * Jose' schoolday **
 * Jose Sanchez was not a very good student during the time he studied in high school. His high school, which can only hold 100 students, is small and a lot of trees around it in the country. Jose’s favourite subject is music and science, but his favourite teacher is math teacher called Ms Harrison, who got him interested in music. Sometimes, in math class, Ms Harrison would play a song by guitar. Jose enjoyed her classes Jose always distracted and had a daydream. However, Jose got a lot of friends in high school. His best friend named Don Vargess is a drummer. He with Jose had their own band. One of Jose memory, he remember at the end of graduation ceremony, they play their first song on the stage in the concert. The dogs were howling outside. **

P28 Write a summary about yourself
 * I was not a good student while I was studying in high school in China. I had an impressive memory about my high school and I could not forget it. Once, the director of the school came to my class and checked our hair. Unfortunately, I had a little bit long hair and I did not want to have a hair cut. It was a nightmare coming to me. The director blamed me and punished me to have hair cut immediately at that moment. As a result, he called my parents and told them to come to school and drove me to the barber shop. It was very rediculous that the educators in China thought teenagers must have a crew cut and could not dye their hair, because in these educators’ ineradicable, stubborn and stiff minds, they considered that students who have a long hair and have a hair dye were not a good student. In addition, I found that students were forced to wear old Chinese brand shoes called Warriors. These brand of shoes **
 * were definitely fragile just like glasses shoes. I still remembered how many shoes I had changed per month. Sometimes, it depends on how many times I played basketball in the court with my classmates. On average, I changed 2 pairs of Warriors shoes per month. For a pair of Warrior shoes, cost about 45 RMB. Consequently, I spent more or less 300 RMB on Warrior shoes in a season. And why not I spent 300 RMB on another shoes such as Nike and Addidas. Those kind of sport shoes could last for more than half year. I had been thinking about this question for a long time. It was very ironic that the director of the school said wearing Warriors shoes were good for student not to compare whose shoes were more expensive. What a shamed! This is one of the reasons I hate those so-called educators in China. After that, I had made a decision to learn drawing so that I had chance to leave school for a semester and go to Guangzhou to study art. **

P58 Write 5 sentences about your city
 * Canton Tower, which we call slender waist, is the highest tower in China and it is also the tallest tower in the world so far. In the Asian Games, Canton Tower was the most famous building in the world and it symbolized industry and intelligence of Cantonese people. In addition, it is higher than Eiffel Tower, which is very famous in Paris in France. However, Canton tower would be a few meters shorter than Tokyo Sky Tree in 2 years later. I think that constructing a skyscraper is not only to have a height competition but also to build the safest skyscraper. **

P65 Rewrite sentences
 * 1) ** We sent the plans to the client. **
 * 2) ** We give the clients an estimate. **
 * 3) ** The client give an answer to us. **
 * 4) ** We send the council the plans for approval. **
 * 5) ** We take the plans from the builder. **

P33 Write a story

I remember my first time to learn how to drive a car. With a car coach sitting in the car, I switched on the car, and then pull down the handbrake; tread onto the clutch pedal and put the car into gear. Suddenly, I felt that the car was shaking. After that, I steadily left my foot that tread on the clutch pedal. It was very amazing and exciting I could drive a car in a straight road for a while. Furthermore, I need to practice how to control the steering wheel, and then drove on the crooked road. Perhaps, driving forward was very easy for me, so I gradually know how to drive forward. Unfortunately, the last thing I learned for a long time was how to back a car. It was very difficult for me to realize how to see the rear-view mirror. I have been backing the car until it would not break the rules, which meant the car could not cross the line of the road. My coach was very strict and he always blamed a person who did not drive very well. Although I have been insulted for many times and I can’t stand that, I still have been driving for a couple months. I practiced again and again on my free time. Luckily, I have learnt how to back a car since that.

P69 Plan and Write a paragraph An apartment is an ideal home in China for several reasons. For a start, apartments are cheap for people who can not afford to buy a villa. In fact, general people who work in China and spend their whole life working still can not buy a house, including an apartment. Secondly, apartments are a harmonious home for Chinese to live in. In China, people like to visit and say hello to their neighbours. What is more, Chinese like to help each other. For example, a neighbour who is cooking without soy sauce, and then other friendly neighbours would love to lend theirs to the person who needs it. Finally, an apartment is a convenient place for people who work in the city. For instance, it is easy to arrive at company for people who live in an apartment, because apartments are usually located in the centre of the city in China.

P72 Write a paragraph about your dream house