Task 2

Question: Do you agree or disagree?

To what extent do you agree (or disagree)?
Prompt: It is more important to spend public money on promoting a healthy lifestyle
in order to prevent illness than to spend it on treatment of people who are already ill.
Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? = Do you agree or disagree?

Tư duy trước khi viết:

+ Main topic: Public money/ government finance
+ Sub topic: health care/ medicine

Scope:
+ treatment: Chemotherapy
+ healthy style: exercises and avoid eating fast food
+ illness: cancer
+ public money: local funding
+ promote: news
 I. Introduction:

- General statement (optional) (1)

- Paraphrase the prompt (very important) (2)
- Thesis statement (3)
(1) General statement: on / off-topic
Prompt: It is more important to spend public money on promoting a healthy lifestyle
in order to prevent illness than to spend it on treatment of people who are already ill.

Ex: Medical methods used to counter the spread of diseases have

been constantly developed in recent years. (on topic)

Ex: The allocation of funding has always been a problematic

matter that requires much contention. (off topic)

(2) Paraphrase:
Prompt: It is more important to spend public money on promoting a healthy lifestyle in
order to prevent illness than to spend it on treatment of people who are already ill.
- Method 1: Use synonyms and similar phrasings:
=> It is more crucial to expense public funding on encouraging salubrious (healthy) ways of
living so as to ward off diseases than to allocate funding on treatment measures of the sick.
- Method 2: Keep the main ideas of the prompt while using different
structures (compound/ complex + parallel) with synonyms.
=> (Advanced) Allocation of government funding on health care should be oriented towards
[popularizing preventive methods against diseases for collective/ public safety] instead of
[diverting the fund towards bettering/ upgrading illness treatments of current patients.]

=> (Advanced) Opinions are polarized on the issue of government using public funding on either
promoting healthy ways of living or bettering current treatments of the ill.

=>(Easy – adequate) Some people believe that government spending should be on promoting
healthy ways of living rather than developing treatments for the already ill.
 (3) Thesis statement: Câu chủ để của bài viết – Câu nêu quan điểm và lập trường
của người viết trong bài essay.
🡺 Stance
🡺 Summary of argument

- Transition signals: in response to this issue/ critically responding to the

problem at hand/ addressing the complexity of the issue/ etc.
- Thesis (+ summarizing main supporting arguments)

Impartial Pick a side

Method 1: Critically examining the Method 1: As a critical response to
problem at hand, this essay will the said problem, this essay will
maintain an impartial (neutral) stance maintain
on (1) a concurrence of / an agreement on
(1. noun phrase) the funding for public (noun phrase) the funding for public
health care on prevention and treatment health care on prevention over
of diseases. treatment of diseases
(2. noun clause) how the funding for (clause) how the funding for
public health care is used for preventing public health care should be prioritize
and treating diseases. for preventing over treating diseases.
**The argument of this essay will be **The argument of this essay will be
structured on two main perspectives: on structured on two main perspectives:
the one hand, illness prevention first, illness prevention facilitates
facilitates sustainable (long-term) sustainable (long-term) public health;
public health; on the other hand, second, preventive strategies enable
medicative methods address the current possible exhaustive solutions to crises
deteriorating health condition of in a foreseeable future.
patients.
… (2) an opposition to / a
disagreement on the funding for public
health care on prevention over
treatment of diseases.
Method 2: Critically examining the
problem at hand, this essay will
supplement (provide) an analysis on
both sides of the issue pertaining to
(relating to + noun phrase) how the
funding for public health care is used
for preventing and treating diseases. It
maintains/ argues that proclaiming an
absolute stance will undermine the
intricate nature of the matter.
Method 2: (without template)
Method 3: (without template) As a critical response to the said
3.1. For the essay main argument, while problem, not only does illness
governments should allocate money on prevention facilitate sustainable
preventive health care measures, the (long-term) public health, preventive
dire situations of the sick demand equal strategies enable possible solutions to
investment from public funding. crises in a foreseeable future.
(Without a summary main
arguments)

3.2. In response to the problem at hand,

this essay maintains that while illness
prevention facilitates sustainable
(long-term) public health, medicative
methods address the current
deteriorating health condition of
patients. (with a summary of main
arguments) 🡪 BEST
 FULL INTRODUCTION:
1.1 Some people believe that government spending should be
on promoting healthy ways of living rather than developing
treatments for the already ill. Critically examining the problem
at hand, this essay will maintain an impartial (neutral) stance on
(noun phrase) how the funding for public health care is used for
preventing and treating diseases. (Optional: On the one hand,
illness prevention facilitates sustainable (long-term) public
health; on the other hand, medicative methods address the
current (concurrent) deteriorating health conditions of patients.)

1.2 Some people believe that government spending should be

on promoting healthy ways of living rather than developing
treatments for the already ill. In response to the problem at hand,
while illness prevention facilitates sustainable (long-term) public health,
medicative methods address the current deteriorating health condition of
patients
II. Body:
Main idea – topic sentence
Supporting ideas – reasoning + evidence

Impartial Pick a stance

Paragraph 1: (agree) Paragraph 1: (agree/ disagree)
- Topic sentence: WHY do you - Topic sentence: WHY do you
agree? have that stance?
+ Reasoning: further explanation + Reasoning: further explanation
for TOPIC SENTENCE for TOPIC SENTENCE
+ Evidence: MUST be based on + Evidence: MUST be based on
explanation in REASONING explanation in REASONING
- Concluding sentence: Connect - Concluding sentence: Connect
the evidence/ reasoning with the the evidence/ reasoning with the
topic sentence. topic sentence.

Paragraph 2: (disagree) Paragraph 2: (agree/ disagree)

[similar to paragraph 1 in terms of [similar to paragraph 1 in terms of
structure] structure]
- Topic sentence: why do you
disagree?
Topic sentence: The promotion of healthy lifestyle engenders long term health
benefits.
Reasoning (evidence):
- What forms of promotion
- In what ways could promotion engender health benefits
- How long
- What are the benefits
Ex: The promotion of healthy lifestyle engenders long term health benefits. Social
media oriented towards healthy diet and daily routines popularize (phổ biến)
ways of integrating (tích hợp) various types vegetables and organic meat in meals
throughout the day, supplying health-conscious practitioners with ways to achieve
unprecedented level of physical and mental energy. Within a realistic amount of
time investment in meal preparation recipes found on social media platforms like
Instagram or Facebook, a healthy diet could facilitate muscle growth and
long-term memory reinforcement for all types of people, albeit labor workers,
white-collar employees, or even students.
(xem xét, chứ không bắt buộc, phải có evidence)
Evidence:
- Example (general / personal) (1)
- Statistics (2)
- Quotation (3)
(1) Example (general/ personal):
General example: Providing general example demands students to provide
a case study, an actual historical event, a fabricated event, a specific
situation, etc.
Ex: Muscle memory could be strengthened with a diet based on a balance of
protein and fiber; both could be found in nuts and vegetables. As for the
preservation of sustained memory, a regular consumption of both red meat and
seafood supplies the brain with energy for information consolidation.
 Personal example: (story-telling)
Ex: When I was in grade 8, I had a horrible diet at home because my mom had
been busy working. However, by the time I reached grade 9, I had to reinvent my
habits of eating to both fit my learning regimen and my tight extra-class
schedules. The moment I started to consume more fish and kale, which were both
highly rich in protein, I noticed that my scores for maths and literature increased
tremendously along with improved performance in physical education. Not only
did I remember formulas and poems better, I became more muscular and resilient
physically.
Statistics: research/ survey/ interview
- Institution/ organization (University, NGO, Ministry, etc.)
- Subject (No. subjects – less than 1000)
- Location (School, Company, Neighborhood, etc.)
- Year
- Statistics (percentage, number) – estimated

Ex: According to recent extensive research on roughly 980 students in Thang Long
University by the Ministry of Health and Education in 2020, it indicated that
among the participants in the study, about 750 students insisted that their high
achievement in learning was because of their healthy diet with high protein.
Those students even concurred on the cruciality of eating fish twice week for
memory consolidation as well as muscle strengthening.
 III.Conclusion:
+ Transition signal: In conclusion, to punctuate the argument, In
summary of the argument, Summarizing the argument, etc.
+ Rephrasing of the essay stance.
+ Summarize/ Rephrase the ideas in the two topic sentences of respective
body paragraphs (two main arguments).
+ NOTE:
- NEVER OPEN NEW ARGUMENT OR START NEW IDEA.
- NEVER END YOU ESSAY WITHOUT A SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT

Impartial Pick a stance

In conclusion, the essay has To punctuate the argument, the
substantiated an impartial stance essay has proposed an agreement/
on the issue of using public disagreement on the use of
funding on whether preventive or government financial resource on
treatment measures. Although (S + preventive measures over
V – 1st argument), (S + V – 2nd immediate treatment of patients.
argument). Not only (S + V – 1st argument),
but also (S + V – 2nd argument).

Nowadays, women as well as men work full time. Therefore, women and men should
share household tasks equally (e.g. cleaning and looking after children). To what extent do you
agree or disagree?

Agree?

- Equal participation of husband and wife -> improve quality of life and marriage

- Role model for life/ familial responsibility -> Kids learn to respect his/her partners

- limited time after work -> sharing -> productivity / efficiency. (assumption: little time //
a lot tasks)

Disagree?

- Out of convivence, male or female can take up those tasks (abundances of time // few
tasks)
 - Different biological nature, women (pregnancy + on period) weaker than men -> men
support -> men have to do more chores + tasks

- Living circumstances, biological/ physical disadvantaged (disabilities) -> the disabled

need more help and do less work. They can still participate, but not equally.

Reasoning:

How ? / In what ways?

Why?