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Hi all guys, I'm taking the toefl on friday so, please, can anyone evaluate my essay? I really thank for your help, you have been really helpful![:o)] max There are many famous athletes and entertainers that I would really like to meet, but probably the one I’d really prefer to meet is Michael Schumacher, the Ferrari formula 1 team driver. In fact I think he is one of the best formula 1 driver ever lived, he has got great driving skills and he has became part of ferrari team, which is a kind of myth for people like me. Even if I’m only 20 years old, I’ve seen many of the formula 1 drivers of the past, like Mansell, Senna, Piquet, Prost and so on: each of them had great personality and skills, but I think that no one could be comparable with Schumacher. Probably ther are some drivers that have won more grand prix than him, or are remembered for particular events, like G. Villeneuve, or J. Alesi; Schumacher instead is part of F.1 and is popular thanks to his abilty and driving skills that are allowing him to keep on winning in the last years. So, even if Formula 1 has got many champions in the past, I think that Schumacher is the best one ever been in this competiotion. Even if nowadays driving F.1 cars isn’t like it was decades ago, because of modern technologies that help the driver, Schumacher has showed greater driving skills than any other that has taken part in a F.1 competiotion in the last 10 years: the german champion has shown great skills on dry, but also on wet, the weather condition that many drivers are afraid of. He has been able to win more than 50 grand prix and 5 driver world championships: I think that he will keep on winning for several years and he will increase the number of his best performances and of the world championship won. On the other hand, I think that Schumacher has founded the best team to drive for: Ferrari. This team is a kind of myth for all the people that like sports car and sport competitions: it is a brand known and famous all around the world for its history and for its victories in F.1 competitions. Nowadays Ferrari has got probably the best car, also because the team got the most evoluted technologies in engineering, aereodinamic, and many other subjects part of modern F.1. So, among all the famous athletes, I would surely prefer to meet Michael Schumacher, because he is a great champion for me, a person that is a kind of model, because he has got the best skills among the Formula 1 drivers and he has also got the best team to drive for: he is an example of success and he is the kind person that I would really be.

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Hi all, this is my essay; Hope you'll help me.... I really appreciate your works, you are precious for us![:o)] max Modern technologies have made food easier to prepare, and in my opinion, this has been an improvement of the way people live because they have been able to spend less time on cooking, eat a greater variety of food and be able to cook by theirselves everything. First of all, easier food to prepar has allowed people to save time for their affairs: in fact nowaday there are a lot of people that have not the time for cooking instead of the time people used to spend in kitchen several decades ago. Businessmen, full time students and many other people are too busy to learn about cooking techniques, so these people have taken benefits from the new generation of food. Let’s think of frozen food: they just need to be unfrozened to be ready to eat. So, cooking in a faster way has became part of the modern life. An other thing to consider is that people can now eat a greater variety of food: in fact, thanks to the kind of food easier to preparate, we can preparate elaburated dishes like oriental, french or italian ones. A lot of people love these kinds of dishes, but, because of their lack of cooking knowledge, they weren’t able to cook them. Nowadays frozen food get easier cooking those complicated dishes and allow everyone to prepare them without any difficulties. Last but not least we have to consider that, thaks to these kinds of food, people can now cook by theirselves, without going to restaurants or somewhere else. That is important not only because, as I said before, it allows them to save time, but also to save money; so, as a result, they have time and money to spend in other activities. So I think that frozen food and every other kind of techniques that has made food easier to preparate, are really an important thing for us because it is improving our life-style it and is helping many people in saving time, money and eating whatever they want.

Hi all, I would like to know if during the writing section of the toefl, we can organize our ideas on paper even if we decide to type the essay. thanks for your help max

Hi all, I've just written this essay. What do you think about that? Thanks for your help max :p Modern technologies have changed our life style and also the kind of house we live in; many people keep on preferring to live in a traditional house, while others in modern apartment buildings. I think there are several differences between these two kind of living place and several reasons that make a person choose between them. First of all, some people prefer on living in a traditional house because they have spent there a part of their life: so they don’t need anything else than they already have. For example, especially old people, use to watch national television and listen to radio, but they never used to surf on the net or to watch foreign tv channels, or whatever modern technologies can offer: so they don’t need all of them. Then there are many people that aren’t interested at all about modern technologies and how it can improve their living uses in their houses. On the other hand there are several people, especially the young , that are really interested in how modern technologies can change the way they live. In fact we can see how modern apartment buildings are spreading all around the world: there are more and more people requesting new services thanks to technologies applied in cooking, in lighting, in sleeping and so on. That makes a new concept of the house: it becomes a different kind of living space, more suitable for the modern life, and so for all the people involved in this kind of life. I prefer living in a modern apartment building because there are several advantages for a student like me, such as being able to use technologies that can make domestic things easier and faster; people like me, in fact, prefer spending their time in other activities, being not able to care of every domestic thing people should care of in traditional house.

Hi all what about the following essay? thanx, max The world in which we live is making us more and more stressed because the “modern life” allows us just few moments of break and relax. It’s hard to say what is the best way for reducing stress and getting relaxed, especially because it depends on the kind of work that makes us stressed and on the hobbies each of us have. Anyway, I think that every way to reduce stress could be evaluated according to the following conditions. Many people prefer spending time with hobbies or whatever makes them having fun; it is important to find the way for getting relaxed and enjoying what we are doing. Often we prefer a hobby rather than an other one just because it makes us stay in a place or makes us doing something totally different from where we are used to stay or what we are used to do. For example it often happens that teachers get relaxed staying as far as possible from books, just like what happens to scholars. An other important condition for having fun and get relaxed is making something with friends. Staying with friends is an important way to forget all the troubles and misunderstanding happenned in the workplace; many people think that nothing can makes them feeling better than staying with people they like, and have fun with. For other people, it is quite important to escape from stress by staying in opened spaces; it happens especially for all the people that work in an office or in whatever closed space. Those people prefer to forget the stresses of their work staying in places like beaches, mountains and everything that make them breath pure air and enjoy the view. According to all those aspects, I think there is no best way for reducing stress; no one could ever say “gardening is the best one”, or “reading is the best one”, because it depends on several subjective elements, like the kind of work each of us has to do, on our attitude to stay or not with friends, and on the people we prefer to spend the time with. So, each of us knows better than any one else what he prefers to do to get relaxed

hi guys, I typed the following essay; I think that it doesn't matter distinguishing between sports and videogames. The world of childhood is dominated by games: children love to play with games, they are really important for their growth. It often happens to see an adult playing: it is not simple saying if games are as important for adults as they are for children. We need to realize why do children and adults play games. Children love playing games because it is the most natural thing they can do: each child wants to move around, to jump, to have fun with friends, but also to live great adventures thanks to videogames. Playing game is an opportunity for children to stay in opened spaces, like playground, or the sand; to stay with friends, so it is an opportunity to socialize; and it is also important because playing sports helps children to improve their strenght and resistance. So playing games is really one of the most important things in childhood. On the other hand adults too seem to like playing games, and the number of adults that play games seems to increase year by year. Adults play game like soccer, volleyball, but also any kind of sports: we can understand that by the growing attention to their shape. In fact adults want to play sports to lose weight and to keep in good shape. But sport isn’t the only game they play: adults have lately discovered the greatness of some videogames released in the last years; playing videogames is a way for them to get relaxed and have fun, thanks especially to the high level of graphic and sound reached by those games. So, according to the elements presented before, I think it wouldn’t be right saying games are important just for children: adults too are interested in those things. But the main difference is the attitude that adults and children have towards games: adults like playing games because they want to keep in shape and just have fun, while children need to play game because it is the way they get to grow up , having fun while they learn things and move around .

Hi all hope someone will help me with this essay thanks to you all! max It isn’t hard at all recognize that adults are different from children, but on the other hand it is quite hard to realize which are the things that make a child become an adult. Surely there are some events and experiences that helps this shift step by step. One of these events is surely love: when a child realizes what is love, he leaves the fairy world behind him, getting into a new world, made of real thing and real pain like the one suffered because of love. The child in fact, starts loving some one who isn’t part of his family, that has been all his world before, but some one else; that makes the child aware of new feelings they never felt before. An other important experience is surely that of taking exams: children learn that they are continuosly evaluated by other people. In fact they realize they won’t be for ever under the protection of their family: they will be soon evaluated for what they are, and they will learn to accept marks and consider them just like a way to keep on improving theirselves. Then, the event that I think makes definetely the shift between childhood and adulthood is the wedding. Marrying an other person means leaving the family in which a person has lived before and joining a new one, with the people loved. Even if people get married when they are about 20 or 30 years old, I think this is one the most important steps towars adulthood, because it helps being indipendent, self-confident, and especially, the opportunity of becoming a father/mother makes each of us more responsible for all our actions. So, according to these events, I think that isn’t simple to recognize what is the event or cerimony that really makes a child become an adult: in fact each of us has different experiences and different ways to react to events. Then we have to considere that the average age of the shift from childhood to adulthood keeps on growing: more and more people seem to prefer keep on living at home with their parents until they got married.

Hi all, I'm the first to post an essay about this topic! Hope it is not so bad, max Learning is one of the most important way to improve our knowledge, and there are surely many ways to do that. In fact people could prefer learning by doing things theirselves, or by reading about things, or then listening to people talk and discuss about things. The reasons of these many ways of learning have to be found in several aspects. First of all, we have to realize if we can be helped by someone in our learning: if so, many people surely would prefer learning by listening to them , maybe because it seems the easiest way. In fact it is really a good thing having someone teaching us about the things we have to learn, we just have to listen him and take notes. Anyway this way of learning is mostly preferred by people that have to learn theorical things; it is not as useful as I said if a person have to learn practical techniques or something like that. An other important aspect we have to consider is the time we planned for learning, compared with the time needed to learn. In fact I thing that the fastest way to learn can be both reading on books and listening to people; these two ways make us able to know everything we need, because they are explaned in a accurate way by someone else (the writer of the book, or the person we are listening). On the other hand learning by doing things isn’t not as good as many think about time needed: it requires much time to learn all the aspect and all the skills needed. That happens because we have to learn things step by step, according to our practical experience. Then I think that people could prefer a way of learning rather than an other, according to their past experiences: if a person realized that a way of learning is more useful for his self, that one will be used in the future. The last condideration I am going to do is about the difficult of the thing we want to learn; I still prefer learning by reading and by listening to people than by doing things. It is simple to explain: difficult subjects require an accurate comprehension of each part of them so that just learning them by doing practice is really hard for everyone. So, according to all the previous considerations, the best method for me to learn is reading about things: it is in fact the only way I have to learn step by step, according to the time I have, planning the learning by myself. I also consider learning by listening to people a good way, but it all depends on the knowledge and the disponibility of people we are in front of. In conclusion, prefer one way of learning more than an other depends on the way we used to learn in the past, the time we have to learn and the difficult of the things we want to learn. Even if each way of learning is good and maybe is better than the others in particular conditions, I think that learning by theirselves with a book is the best way to know the things required us.

Hi all guys, this is an essay similar to the toefl ones. I've found the topic in the cambridge preparation to the toefl. Thanks if anyone would read that and tell me what he thinks about. max Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Families with fewer children should be rewarded for helping to prevent overpopulation. Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. The country in which I live, Italy, counts about 57 milions of people, but its rate of natality is negative: this means that its population is decreasing. This is happening in many other european coutries; on the other hand I know that somewhere, such as african and asian countries, is happening the opposite. The growing population of the poor countries of the world, is warming the western countries, which look at this situation as a danger. In a particular sense, it is, because it seems that the world population is growing fast and seems there will be no food and acceptable living conditions for everyone in the future; but, on the other hand, the western democracy can't approve any resolutions that will force poor people to do something they can't even understand the reason. I think that the overpopulation is the result of an unequal distribution of the richness in the world, and a difference in living conditions. Rewarding families for helping to prevent overpopulation is not a good idea at all; it won't help poor people to get out of their living conditions, and it couldn't be the solution we need for the future. We should make instead these people aware of risks of the future waiting for all our children; it is necessary a resolution that involves the poor families in Africa, Asia and latin America, but also the governments and the families in the rich countries. So, there is no need to force families to have fewer children, also because it is an immoral decision, but everyone should work for a better future and better world in which there would be place for all of us.

Hi all guys, this is my first essay in this forum, I would like to know what you think about it. I really appreciate the way you help all the guys that, like me, have to get the toefl: you are doing a great job! I do support this plan for several reasons; first of all I think that opening a restaurant could be an important way to increase tourism, and step by step, the economy of my town. The opening of a restaurant, just like every other kind of economic activities, is in fact a good sign for economy, because it means that there are people ready to invest their money in an activity from which everyone could take benefit. In fact the owner will be able to get his gain, and people living in the area around the restaurant will have the opportunity to go out eating in a new place. On the other hand there could be some bad aspects of a new restaurant opening; but the most of them depends on the kind of restaurant it is going to open. It is important that the restaurant becomes part of the area in which it stands; I mean that if it is placed in a poor area, it can’t be a luxury restaurant or something like that, and it is the same if a “low-quality” restaurant opens in an important residential area. So it is important that the restaurant service is adequate for the area it is placed in. An other important aspect is caring of the kind of people attending that restaurant; in fact, as that restaurant is placed near to my house, I’m interested in the people that use to go there, and the eventual noises coming from there and disturbing me and my family. Even these bad aspects, I think that I wouldn’t oppose the opening of a new restaurant, maybe also because, in my opinion, going out to eat with friends is always a pleasure and a way to get relaxed.