English essays of the 8th form-02

05. Describe your schoolmates and whom do you like best

I have many schoolmates, but Long is the one I like best of all. He is the biggest boy in class. He is about fourteen years old, his shoulders are broad. He is good as one can see when he smiles. I already know several of my classmates. Another one I like too is named Hung. He wears chocolate-colored trousers and a catkin cap. He is always jolly. There is little Nam, a poor hunchback, a weak boy with a thin face. Near him is Ba who is very well-dressed. On the bench in front of me, there is a boy who is called Thanh. His face is as round with a small nose. He possesses a special talent; he knows how to make a hare’s face and they all get him to do it and then they laugh.
And there is another curious fellow – my neighbor on the left Hai – small and thick set, with no neck, a gruff fellow, who speaks to no one, and doesn’t seem to understand much but stands watching the master without winking, his brow lined with wrinkles, and his teeth set and if he is questioned when the master is speaking, he make no reply the first and the third time he gives a kick.

And beside him there is a bold, cunning face belonging to a boy named Lam, who has already been expelled from another school. There are, in addition, two brothers who are dressed exactly alike who resemble each other to a hair.
But the most handsome of all, the one who has the most talent, who will surely be the head this year also, is Hai Anh.
Truly I like Hai Anh, the son of the blacksmith, the one with the long jacket who seems sickly and pitiful. It is said that his father often beats him so he is very timid and every time that he addresses or touches someone, he says “Excuse me” and gazes them with his kind, sad eyes. But Long the biggest is the best of all, I think.

06. In your opinion, what is the most difficult skill of studying English?
Men who learn English as a foreign language often say that writing is more difficult than any other skills. As the fact of the matter, most native speakers of the language have to make their efforts themselves to write accurately and effectively even on what they are well aware of. Needless to say, it is not easy at all for a non-native speaker to do something that an average native speaker usually considers a difficult job to do. Here are three reasons which, in my opinion, can answer the question why writing becomes the most difficult skills.
Firstly, writing requires good grammar. A non-native person has to remember a large number of rules in structure which are quite different from their own language. This is a very big problem if he or she learns the grammar with an English native teacher at the beginning. The teacher cannot help to point out the distinct differences between the two languages. In this case, the learner must figure out the differences themselves and even outline some rules to convert from their own language to the target language.
Secondly, people are often known to spend less time to write than to listen, to speak and even to listen. Learners learning the language in their country are proved to read more than any other skills while learners learning overseas must listen to the language most of their time. In any cases, they spend little of their time for writing. It is clearly known that an average person spend the most for listening, the second most for speaking, then reading and finally writing.
Thirdly, when students of English as a foreign language write something, they have a big question in mind whether what they write is correct or incorrect. Who can answer the question for them and help them recognize the mistakes. It is, in many cases, the teacher who is teaching them and is ready to give them a hand. The problem however I want to mention is that the teacher does not have enough time to correct for all of them if there are more than ten students in the class. When the teacher corrects the writing for just some of them, the other students cannot recognize their own mistakes. Without correction, the mistakes may be repeated many times and become bad habits which are hard to adjust.
In conclusion, writing is the most difficult skill that learners of any foreign language may face. To be good at it, learners must give much effort.

07. Describe a teachers’ day

Teachers’ Day falls on the twentieth of November. Every year, our school will celebrate this day by holding a concert specially for the principal and teachers. This year was no exception.
On that day, the whole school proceeded to the hall after morning assembly. Every class was involved in the concert. There were dances, sketches, mimes and songs. All the performers did their best and the concert was a great success.