What do you do for good health?

TOEFL Essay 56 with the model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

People do many different things to stay healthy. What do you do for good health?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.


Model Answer:
People follow a wide spectrum of practice and habits to remain healthy. Some have healthy diets while others do exercises. I like to exercise for a good health in the line of taking nutritious foods. The reasons are mentioned below behind selecting the exercise for my good health.

Exercises help to burn the unnecessary fats of the human body. The more we take foods, the more we develop unwanted pounds on the body. So, cutting them down is a precondition for a good health. Unless someone is giving up the extra pounds from the body, he cannot be a healthy human being. So, I take exercise to remove the excessive fats from me. And amid numerous types of exercises, I prefer swimming the most. It keeps me fresh and renews my motivations.

To make a long story short, I love swimming for some specific grounds. This is one of the best exercises I have ever experienced. There are a huge number of benefits of taking this exercise. It helps to increase the fitness level and thus keeps the swimmers fit. Swimming is able to transform our ordinary muscles in to super muscles. The other most impressive benefit of swimming is it helps as a full body workout. While using the gym, people take exercises with some sort of instruments. Those are set to benefit some specific body parts. But swimming on water helps differently. We need to move all of our limbs to swim. As a result, we get the workout of our entire body.

A good health is also linked with a stable mental state. When someone swims for half an hour a day, he gets a mental balance. The exercise will keep us calm around the day and also helpful in making important decisions. And when we are mentally strong, we feel relaxed even in a  complex situation.

I am a swimmer and swim about five to six hours in a week. As a result, I do not need to perform any other exercises. I also do not have the sweating issues while exercising. I am completely fit in all terms. Thus I prefer to have this exercise in line with a healthy lifestyle and foods for a good health.

People are never satisfied with what they have

TOEFL Essay 43 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 

People are never satisfied with what they have; they always want something more or something different.

Use specific reasons to support your answer.


Model Answer:

Human nature is completely different. It is not satisfied with what it has and it demands more and more. Or seeks something different. It has been going on since after the inception of the humans. In fact, people are not satisfied with the blessings that they have. The following reasons will make the matter clearer.

A wide number of people live on this planet and they need various things to live on. But unluckily, they are not contented with the things that they have with them in this moment. They are after fulfilling the basic needs and then move to meet the luxuries. But in both the level (basic needs and luxury), they try to get the best things. Even if they get the best of the bests, they look for something far better. It has become human nature. For example, I was in need of a personal computer. Before getting the computer, I passed my days very well. But when I got the machine, some other needs arrived. I was not happy with the computer only. I started feeling the needs of a printer, large speakers, fashionable keyboards and more other accessories.

But do I really need the accessories? The answer is simple – No. For my uncontended nature, I was compelled to think about the other accessories. But when I did not have the computer, I completed my tasks from cyber cafes. The day I got the computer, I started feeling the needs which actually were needless. Moreover, when I bought a fashionable keyboard, I was attracted to another type of special mouse. But I already had bought the mouse and keyboard together. It shows that I was not satisfied with the things I had.    

The matters are similar with the majority of the people. In fact, the number of people who are satisfied with the things they have is very few. Due to the continuous demands of material things, such people do not have their peace of mind. They cannot have happiness in their life. They move after the material well-being and finally reach the last stoppage of their life. The life ends amid dissatisfaction.

Therefore, it is better to appreciate what you have instead of what you do not have. It will make life easier.

Films can tell us a lot about a country

TOEFL Essay 36 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Films can tell us a lot about the country where they were made. What have you learned about a country from watching its movies?

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


Model Answer:

Films are the representation of real life. When the films are made, most of the time the filmmakers try to get in touch with the reality. Further, when a film is made, it represents the country where it was made. I have come to know about certain matters from watching foreign films. The matters were really interesting.

Usually, I love to watch Hollywood movies and the western genre goes best with me. Most of the western movies are made based on the events that took place during the later part of the 19th century. The location was the Old West and the characters were the gunfighters or cowboys. The movies represented the Cowboys in some typical attires of the then time. This is an important aspect that I came to know about the western films. It shows how the countrymen at that time used to wear dresses and moved in places. Besides, the majority of the characters used to ride horses. It also provides an idea of the communication system of the locality which the film represents.

Moreover, there were some other characters in those western films like bounty hunters, outlaws, soldiers, lawmen, bandits, Native Americans and many others. They were the stronger section of the society while the old, women and children were the vulnerable section. Such films also tell us about the settlers who came in search of something and settled in that specific place. Fight for gaining respective rights or ‘duel’ was the most common issue in those movies. There were less legal obligations in duels. It shows that the law and order system in those days in the localities was not so strong as it is today.

On the other side, if we consider the present day films, they show an opposite scene. I have seen some other films where the matters of present days have been represented. The films represent that violation of laws is a punishable offence and the accused are punished once they are proved guilty. The law and order situation is always under control.

Therefore, it finally appears that films really can tell us a lot about the country it is made in. I believe that watching a film helps someone greatly to develop real-life ideas about the country.

Choose one transportation and explain why it has changed people's lives

TOEFL Essay 35 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why you think it has changed people's lives.

• automobiles
• bicycles
• airplanes

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


Model Answer:

At present, a wide number of transportation modes have been invented and the airplane is one of them. It has changed human life greatly and lessened the sufferings heavily. In fact, the airplane has become one of the most preferred modes of transportation in recent days. People prefer the way of transportation for some specific reasons. The most notable reasons are as followed.

The airplane is the fastest mode of transportation. It can reach in places which take a long time to reach using other transport modes. Travelling long distance was extremely difficult before the invention of the airplane. Travelers died while crossing the distances. But airplane has removed the global barrier of distance and has become a speedy transport mode.

Secondly, air travel is comfortable. The passengers in airplane get many facilities. The aviation authority takes a great care for the passengers. They look after the utmost comfort of the passengers. The passengers can eat and sleep comfortably while they have recreations options too during a flight.

Convenient ticketing is the other benefit that the air travel provides to its passengers. Traveling by other means like buses require getting a ticket. And to collect the ticket, you will need to be physically present at the bus stop. While air travel, I book my ticket by a phone call and on the day of the trip, I just appear at the airport. It is a simple issue.

When you are on a flight, you will see a notable number of people from a varied culture. You can know about their rules, regulations and rituals which will enrich your knowledge level. This is an important benefit of airplane travel.

Some students prefer to attend a small university

TOEFL Essay 34 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Some students prefer to attend a small university. Others prefer to attend a big university. Discuss the advantages of each. Then indicate which type of university you prefer?

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


Model Answer:

University education helps to explore the life to the fullest extent. So everyone tries to get admitted in universities while some of the students prefer small universities, and the rest others want to be in larger universities. A comparative discussion here will help to get some ideas about both types of universities.

A small university student gets some advantages. First of all, the university being small, everyone becomes familiar with each other and the communication with teachers and professors become easier. The classrooms are smaller and the teachers can focus on every student. Besides, the smaller universities are free of bureaucracy. For instance, you need to get an important document (such as your academic transcript) and you can get that easily from a small university. Moreover, your assignments and other works will be more focused in such universities. The professors can have much time to concentrate on your works.

A small university student is proud for having a very strong advising system. Since s/ he is closely interconnected with the professors (not teaching assistants), s/ he can have the chances to get the right advice at the right moment for academic excellence.

On the other side, a student in a big university enjoys more other freedoms. Firstly, the students of a large university have options to pick their courses from a wide arena. They can also customize their curriculum in the case of necessity. A large university means a large classroom and the chances to form a large community.

Further, a large university usually comes with features like accommodation, library, medical facilities, gymnasium and much more. Such facilities are helping to grow the students to the desired level. In fact, such facilities are necessary to expand their mental faculty. If you consider yourself a big fish, you cannot live in a small pond. Similarly, if you consider yourself intelligent and smart, you would not be able to get real satisfaction without studying at a large university. Besides, you will also get financial advantages from a large university.    

Basically, being an extrovert nature, it is impossible for me to study in a small university. I want to be with more people and participate in extracurricular activities. Therefore, I prefer a big university.

Some prefer to cook at home others to eat out

TOEFL Essay 33 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Some people prefer to cook at home. Other people prefer to eat out. Which do you prefer?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

We need foods to live on. It is a basic need for every living being. However, some of the people love to eat out while a notable portion takes foods at home. I prefer to take my foods at home, and there are some certain grounds behind this.

First of all, it is all about cleanliness. I am extremely conscious about the matter. I had found some untidy conditions in restaurants which discouraged me from taking meals out of home or at the restaurants. I do not blame all the restaurants but the majority of them are unaware of the cleanliness issues. So, taking foods in such places is impossible for me.

Saving of time is another reason for taking foods at home for me. In fact, when I am out of home to eat, I need to place an order and then have to wait. The foods are served when they have been cooked. It takes time. The time may vary from restaurants but I think I need to spend at least half an hour extra to get served. But if I take my meals at home, I do not need to waste such time. I can prepare the foods easily and thus can save the valuable time.

Pricing is the other concerning issue to eat out. Certainly, I am affluent enough to bear the costs of eating out. But in most of the cases, the costs are more than expected. In fact, there are some hidden costs that the restaurant owners do not reveal but add with the final bill. So, it increases the price than it was expected.

Besides, eating out requires some other matters like traveling out of the home with your car or need to ride on vehicles to reach the destination. In this case, you will need more time to reach your favorite place too. This is a type of time waste. But if you are at home, you do not need to do all the unnecessary things.

So, it is seen that the benefits of eating home are more than taking foods out of the home. Earlier, I did not understand the matter and took my meals at restaurants. But once I realized the matter, I started cooking foods at home. I really enjoy it.

Some students prefer to study alone and others a group

TOEFL Essay 32 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study in a group of students. Which method do you prefer?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

There are some students who want to study alone while there is another group who prefer to be in groups while they are in the study. I prefer the second one for some specific reasons and get advantages as well.

Firstly, it is the extrovert people who do not want to be in a group. They study alone and suffer from several troubles during the exam. When you are alone, you cannot make all the answers or you will not have all the sheets to prepare the answers. When you will be with the other people, you will have chances for discussion. But If you are alone, you are deprived of the chances.

Secondly, when you are in a group, you will have more options to spread or gather ideas about any specific lessons. It becomes essential during the exam times. For instance, you need to know about any specific lesson or chapter that is important for the next day exam. If you are in a group, you may get help from any of the group members.

Thirdly, having a group of students help to be cheerful. By studying alone, you will not have that opportunity. You might feel bored or need to talk with others. But you will have none with you to be on your side. On the other sides, there are no such matters in a group. If you do not feel comfortable, you can share the matter with your group-mates. It will make you feel better.

Another important aspect of group study is instant support. In fact, a group is formed when all the members are of the similar mind. If they were not of the same category and capacity, the group would not have been formed. So, each of the members of the group is ready to support the other member in their needs.       

Based on the discussion above, it is evident that it is better to study in a group than studying alone. Besides, being an extrovert it is impossible for me to study alone. I always will prefer to be in a group. It will make me feel comfortable and cheerful to complete my academic activities.

Problems over reliance on cars can cause and solution

TOEFL Essay 31 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

More and more people are relying on the private car as their major means of transportation. Describe some of the problems over-reliance on cars can cause, and suggest at least one possible solution.

Use reasons and specific examples to explain why these characteristics are important.

Model Answer:

Over the course of the twenty-first century, automobiles have developed from expensive vehicles for elite class into the moderate mode of transportation for middle-class. Consequently, more and more people are depending on their private cars and car has become the prime means of transportation. Unfortunately, many adverse effects, such as health harm, environmental damage, etc., are stemmed from the excessive dependence on cars. As far as I am concerned, the government should adopt an integrated policy.

The trend in car reliance has fatal impacts on the human being as well as the planet.  People tend to avoid walking when they own private car. This means that the private car entices people to keep themselves physically inactive, which in turn contribute to the obesity and health related problems. On the top of that, the heavy reliance on private cars impacts on the environment extremely. They emit a significant amount of toxic gases that causes global warming. As a result of global warming, many species are on the verge of extinction, even the whole planet remains under the threat of it. The private cars, therefore, should be controlled.

In order to rein the reliance on private cars, a coherent policy ought to be introduced by the government. First of all, the government should strengthen public transportation system, so that people can easily commute. In addition to this, the government should launch a campaign to aware citizens about the devastating impacts of using private cars excessively. Knowing the lethal impact on our planet, individual can change their driving habits.

To wrap up, societal car reliance is one of the most pressing issues in many urban areas. The dependency on private car is not only harmful to the public health, but it equally has the detrimental effect of pollution on the environment. The government should adopt a combined policy including public transport system strengthening and educating people about the adverse effects of using private cars.

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Most important characteristics of a good leader

TOEFL Essay 30 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

What are some of the most important characteristics of a good leader?

Use reasons and specific examples to explain why these characteristics are important.

Model Answer:

It is said that great leaders are made not born though it might contradict with some people’s opinion about inherent characteristics of a natural born leader. The statement is authentic but there are few exceptions too. Surrounding environment is an important issue regarding the leadership. To be a good or great leader, few important features are required.

Leadership is the process to execute a task in engagement with the other relevant people, by applying available resources and skills and within a deadline. But the tasks are not as easy as it is pronounced. A leader needs to achieve some specific qualities that will make him special from the common people. The first and the most important feature of a leader is honesty; he has to be honest in his speeches and works. He may get some advantages, temporarily, by falsifying information or being dishonest but in the long run, such leaders lose their credibility. So, if you plan to be a good leader, you have to be honest in every possible way.

To be a leader, one needs to be extrovert in nature. Unless you are being able to communicate with the people you are working with, you cannot be a successful leader. For communication, you have to move first in many places. But introvert people do not take the first attempt usually for their reclusive nature. Besides, you have to be confident enough to execute a specific job within a budgeted time and using the available resources. If you lack the confidence, you cannot be a good leader. The leaders who have created histories in different countries were highly confident about their goals and achieved so by using the confidence.

Attitude is a great fact to make you a good leader. If you do not own a positive attitude and always seek faults of others, you might be unable to be a good leader. Humans are never perfect and thus they cannot bring perfection in all of their works. So, you are to be positive in your attitude. You have to share your knowledge and inspire other over accepting responsibilities. You have to do it because great leaders also make leaders. So, you are to be inspiring and allow others to follow you in different activities and works. It will help to build a positive image for you among the people you are working with.

The leader should also be visionary. It is an extraordinary quality for a leader to be visionary and plan accordingly to overcome the obstacles on the way to development. If he cannot foresee the problems, he cannot be a good leader. All the subordinates, in fact, wait for such predictions from the leaders so that they could move in the right way and if the leader fails, he loses his popularity from his men. Most of the times we react but the great leaders never exercise reactive attitudes. They are always calm and proactive. So, proactive attitude is another must for the leaders. Besides, a leader never takes pride in his ability to perform the things rather he is on the view that a team is more successful than a leader alone.

There are a large number of political and social leaders are available who exercise the qualities in their everyday life. They have not turned into the leader by overnight rather they were patient and continued exercising and finally, they win.

(Word count = 567)

Schools should require students to wear uniforms

TOEFL Essay 29 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Schools should require students to wear uniforms rather than wear whatever clothing they desire.

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Model Answer:

A school is a formal place to teach and train students about the life, morality, discipline and basics of survival. It is the place that helps them to develop the senses which are essential in leading the life in the days ahead. So, a school is a very important place for the students. A school is not only a place to gain a formal education; it is also the place to learn rules to lead the life and responsibilities to bear in future. For preparing the student, the school authorities undertake different initiatives and school uniform is one of them. Uniforms differ from school to school and it is a must for the students to wear the uniform.

But there are few schools found who do not care for the uniform. They do also have specific uniforms but they are indifferent over the issue to check if the students have worn the uniform of not. They seem not much interested in it and allow the students wearing any kinds of dresses they want. But this is not a good practice and also contains potential damage to the students. Wearing the school uniform is a discipline and if a student does not wear the specific uniform, it refers that s/ he is breaking the rule and the rule breaking begins from the early stage of their life. If the habit continues, it will be harmful to their future.

It could be changed if the schools take preventive measures. It is the childhood which is the perfect time to form any habit regardless good or bad. The habits made in the childhood remains till the last breath. The kids are like soft clay and could be shaped as they are wanted. So, if the schools do not teach them to abide by the rules, they will be breaking the rules everywhere.

Wearing the right uniform is a rule and the schools should make it obligatory for the students to attend school wearing the uniform. They should not be allowed to attend or even enter the school unless they wear the uniform. It will make the students be aware of the value of following rules. Besides, uniforms also represent the schools and if the kids and students do not wear school uniforms, they will continue misdeeds in different places. If they are with uniforms, they will not be able to commit any crime or will think thrice before committing as they will be recognized by the uniforms. It is another way to make them aware to follow the laws and rules. Moreover, the school uniforms are made in different ways and look beautiful when worn. It looks classy when few students of an educational institution walk together wearing their school uniform. But if there were no school uniforms as their attires, they would not have looked so elegant. A good looking school uniform also increases the fame of the school.

Therefore, it is imperative for the schools to make wearing school uniform mandatory. If the students are made aware of the importance of wearing school uniform, they will always try to use the uniform. But the rule may be relaxed in special events organized by the school.

(Word count = 529)

Sometimes you have to lose in order to win

TOEFL Essay 28 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Sometimes, you have to lose in order to win.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Life is a battlefield and we are the soldiers in this field. Sometimes we win, and at times we are to fail. The failure provides us encouragement to be successful in the next round.

To win something, you are to be a loser at first and it is imperative not to take the failure as a negative experience. It is considered as the pillar of success. There are a large number of people who have failed several times in the beginning of their life and now they are at the peak of success. They did not give up hope or lost motivations. They tried continuously and finally succeeded to reach the goal.

Usually, people are afraid of the thought that they will be unable to be successful as they have failed in their first attempt. So, they give up performing the job or do not try hard or sometimes lose inspiration over the issue. They take the failure as a negative thing and it happens as most of the people do not know that they sometimes might fail in any task in order to win that perfectly. When people turn loser over any issue, it actually helps them to lose their fear too. Most of the people are afraid of doing any specific thing being occupied with fear and the fears are of different kinds. When they gradually start failing, the fear becomes vanish and they win finally.

Besides, losing in any job helps improving creativity. When a man turns loser, he tries to discover some other ways to execute the job and by this way the creativity exercise begins. They try to get a perfect way and accordingly invent many other similar methods to complete the job. Although all the ways are not equally helpful to accomplish the job, some of them turn the most efficient one and it happens only for their creativity.

Moreover, when someone loses, s/ he learn a very important lesson over the issue. When the issue comes before them once again, they do not commit the same mistake twice and become successful in doing so. But they lost at the first time and that does not mean that they are losers.

To take an example, we can cite many celebrities and famous people who have failed for several times and continued the failure attempts until they succeeded. Walt Disney, J. K. Rowling, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Emily Dickinson, Elvis Presley and many other renowned people have failed in their first attempts. But they are respectfully remembered in the current days as they did not give up hope and continued their efforts unless they achieved the success.

So, if you fail in the beginning, please do not give up hope or stop your endeavors. Miracles happen every day and it may also happen for you too. You are unable to do something today, but if you continue exercising that, someday you will be the master of your specific arena.

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What are the qualities you value most in a friend?

TOEFL Essay 27 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

What are the qualities you value most in a friend? Has your opinion about what makes a good friend changed as you have grown older?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Friendship might be the oldest relationship in the world and has been being practiced from time immemorial. Friendship is the closest bonding after the family relations. But a friend should have some qualities.

Sincerity is the most important thing for a sustainable friendship and even it is important for all other relationships too. But to be a good friend, one should have the quality of being a sincere person. It may happen that you are responsible for keeping a promise and due to your indifference, you failed to keep the promise. In a word, you are insincere. None will be with you for your insincerity. Honesty is another must to be a friend. Everybody loves honest people and they are respected too for exercising their honesty. If a man is dishonest, it is impossible for him to be a friend. Initially, he might gain trust from the other people who consider him as a friend, but when the dishonesty will be revealed, people will ignore him. I prefer honesty than rich in my friends.

Kindness is the other virtue that a man should possess to be a friend. If you are unkind, you will not provide any sort of help to your friends in time of their danger. If you lack kindness, you will also never get help from your friends at your needs as you refused them earlier. Selflessness is another quality that a friend should exercise. Most of the people, including me as well, prefer friends who are selfless. The people who rush for any support without thinking about the consequence or their own benefits are the real friends. So, selflessness is one of the desired virtues that people seek in their friends.

Easy going is the other quality of a friend because if the friend creates a sense of invisible boundary around him or her, it becomes difficult to share emotions and feelings with him or her. So, easy going nature is also sought by the people to make friendship.

In my personal experiences, I have seen many changes in friendships. In my early days, I had a friend who has changed a lot in this adulthood and stopped socializing with me from the early days of our childhood because of his arrogance. Moreover, friends get changed for some other reasons and the causes are different during different age range. In teenage, usually friendship changes for some specific issues like not helping in an exam or preparing lessons, issues related to having affair with girlfriends (it happens that two of the boys fall for a single girl and accordingly their friendships changes), misunderstanding over different issues etc.

But if someone gets a good friend with all the necessary qualities, the friendship remains the same round their life. In my college days, I have seen the friendships are broken for petty issues and the friends did not even talk or socialize today. Further, I have seen people who are friends from their childhood and never had a single disagreement or quarrel over any issues. So, this is about picking the right friends.

(Word count = 512)

Do you agree that money is the root of all evil

TOEFL Essay 26 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree that money is the root of all evil?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Money is the most important thing in this world and humans cannot do a single moment without money. But sometimes is it termed as the root of all evil. But is it really true?

It should be acknowledged that we need money for everyday life. We must need money to live on the planet as we cannot get our necessaries without money. It is also considered as the blood of an economy. Without money, nothing can go well in this material world. It is impossible to do anything without money. But interestingly the other living beings, except the human beings on the planet, do not need money. It is told that money sometimes brings destruction. Different tragic events have taken place for money and mostly during the distribution phase. It is also believed that money brings happiness and it is the only thing that elevates a man to a higher level than the ordinary men. But it is believed, not proved.

Money is required for a healthy and solvent life, but when it is about happiness, money has nothing to do with that. Monetary terms are important to lead a quality life but if you lack happiness in that life, the money spent are of no use. Most of the people are on the view that the more money they have, the happier they will be. Accordingly, the money you want to be happy or you plan to make a certain amount to meet your needs, you will be unable to achieve so as humans are not content with what they have. They want more and more and to attain the desired amount of money and wealth humans get engaged into different illegal activities.

To have more money, they start adopting unfair ways and consequently get trapped in various ways. As a direct result, they get destructed in unusual ways. In fact, they start inviting the destruction by following the ways they were not supposed to follow. The evil possess them. When people turn wealthier, they have some changes in their attitudes and as a result, conflicts occur with their relations and near and dear ones. A mental gap is created between the wealthy man and his relations. Gradually, the man starts losing his social life for his arrogance that he achieved with the money. It is a kind of degradation and mental poorness for him.

Further, when people become rich, they do not care about their families too; especially they do not care for their kids as they lack time. As a result, their kids become spoiled and they create anarchy in the society. It is also a different kind of ruination for them, and at times they are to spend the money to recover the troubles created by their kids.

The aforesaid two descriptions are enough to prove that money is the root of all evil. But it also should be noted that we cannot do without this. But it is highly imperative to gain or use the money in a fair way to avoid potential troubles and complexities associated with it.

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What one quality or characteristic best defines success?

TOEFL Essay 25 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

People define “success” in many different ways. In your opinion, what one quality or characteristic best defines “success”?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Model Answer:

Success has different point of views or meanings and it varies from place to place, person to person. So, success is considered as a universal issue which has different terms based on situations. But the most important thing about success is that people are after it. If a student passes the exam, his passing is termed as a success. All the students in the world are after ‘success’, it means they want to pass their examinations with good grades. For a service holder, promotion is a success. If they are promoted to the desired level, it is considered that they have become successful in their career.

So, we are having various schools and opinions over defining success. But is it true that passing or getting promoted in a job is the success in a true sense? I do not think so. To me, success has a different meaning. It is not only passing the hurdles of life. I think success is the ability to perform things in a proper manner. If the works are done in the right way, they turn easier and the desired outcome is received. As a result, we turn successful.

So, it appears that success is the feature which is necessary to perform things in the right way to win the situations in your own way. Actually, success is a universal thing and it cannot be defined in words only. Sincerity is the most required thing to be successful.

If you do not become sincere whatever you are doing, you cannot expect to have a better result than the average level. If you want to have an extraordinary performance, you are to work harder than ever before. If you want a quality in your work and thrive in your profession, you are to work sincerely. Success has no shortcuts. You cannot achieve that or reach your destinations until you are preparing yourself with sufficient groundworks, and if you are on the view that you will achieve something easily, I bet that the thing will not last for longer. You are to regret for losing the thing.

To be successful, another important feature is to gain self-confidence. If your confidence level is of below standard, surely you will not gain the desired results. So, in line with sincerity, you are to gain a good level of self-confidence too to be a winner (or successful).

Therefore, success, to me, is the combination of sincerity in work and a positive attitude with belief to gain something. But it may not be denied that luck has something to do with success but that is a minor issue. If you do not work and believe that you will be the gainer, you are dreaming the daytime. So, get rid of the dreams and start believing and work accordingly.

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Good things come to those who wait

TOEFL Essay 24 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 

 

Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. 

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

There is a saying that survival is only for the fittest. If you cannot be fit, it will be impossible for you to survive in the world.  Fate is the thing that cannot be predicted but if someone takes precautionary measures, surely the fate changes. It was earlier thought that fate is the divine gift and cannot be changed but if we look at the history, we will have numerous examples of fate-changing through a hard work, sincerity and perseverance.

In fact, the world has turned so fast that without any hard labor one cannot think of changing the situations. It is true that good things come to people who wait patiently for the thing but if they had the slightest idea that the best thing is waiting outside of their door, they would have run for that.

To be successful in life, it is unwise to wait for divine blessings or any divine interventions to uphold the situations. They actually lead a lazy life and accept what they get without investing any labor. Finally, they are on the view that they have got what was in their fate and accept the gifts. But if they had tried to do something better, they could have done so. They did not as they are unwilling and happy with what they have. They lack ambition and accordingly their fates are not changed. They remain the same during their entire life.

Further, there are some people who have a strong will to shine in life and consequently they have grown much and have surpassed all the others of contemporary. There are a large number of examples available in our surrounding. For instance, we can recall the names of the few people who started their lives with super-poor state and now are the owners of billions of US dollars. Sheldon Adelson is one of them and is the owners of 21.5 billion US dollars who started his life with nothing. After investing his hard labor and sincerity he is now a billionaire and made himself as an influential figure in the country.

Oprah Winfrey is another vivid example of hard labor. She experienced different troubles in the beginning of her life. She overcame sexual abuse in her life, poverty and many other struggles, but now she is one of the rulers of media and owns over 2 billion US dollars and millions of US citizens now wait for her television appearance.

All these are done by great struggle and courage to move ahead. So, if you want to ensure a perfect and bright future, you are to try hard. If you wait that good things will arrive at your doorstep, you are right. That may arrive when it is time. But you will be deprived of having the best things in your life as the best things needed to be grabbed, they do not appear before the doors.

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Which type of television show do you prefer?

TOEFL Essay 23 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Some television shows are dramas, some are situation comedies, and some are “reality” shows that deal with real people in real situations. Which type of television show do you prefer? 

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Television is one of the best inventions of modern science and it has turned into the part and parcel of our everyday life. We watch television and mostly different programs that entertain us and help getting relieve from the monotonous life, but there are plenty of programs that update us about the current happening and enhance our knowledge.

There are different programs are aired on television and there are numerous channels to telecast the programs. The programs are of diversified categories including drama, comedy shows, reality shows, movies, cartoons and much other. But each of the programs has a specified group of audience and a program neither can entertain all ages of people nor suitable for all classes of people. Usually, the kids are fond of cartoons, women of different age are fond of dramas but movies are popular almost among the people of all ages. Besides, reality shows show the performances of the real-life people and the enjoyment is more than any other category. So, I like the reality shows much than any other television programs.

The first thing is the suspense of the reality shows which offer a special sort of thrill to me that I cannot derive from the other types of programs. The activities undertaken by the participants are praiseworthy. Since the programs are made live, the participants have to use their ready wits and common senses to overcome the obstacles. They invent and apply different techniques for the survival on the real life situations which is a great learning tool for me too. Besides, the reality shows also create a sense of sympathy for the contestant which is another important issue. In drama serials, the audience is made to feel sorry for the characters and they feel so which last during the end of the drama. But the reality shows are the best program to feel the very same feelings of the participants. Whenever they make a mistake, unintentionally, the audiences try to get inside of the television to teach them the right one.

But such a mental participation is not seen on the other television programs. The reality shows help to build a mental connection with the contestant and I have seen some of my favorite fellows to celebrate the victory of their favorite contestant while I have seen a gloomy state of some of my friends as their favorite one has lost in the event. It is the grand success of the reality shows that they have become an integrated part of the audiences’ life.

I usually watch the reality shows like Weed Country, The Gossip Game, Branson Famous, Chrisley Knows Best, Escape Club, Party Down South, The Real Housewives of Melbourne, Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, This Is Hot 97, Boston EMS etc. Few of the shows have been ended and I have been eagerly waiting for their next seasons.

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Some people prefer to eat at restaurants while others at home

TOEFL Essay 22 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Other people prefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Food is the most important element for living on the planet and we cannot do without it. All the activities people do are aimed to gather foods for themselves and surrounding members. But foods habits are different like some people prefer foods at a restaurant while some other prefer taking foods at home.

There are different reasons behind the choice. This is a fast paced world and majority of the people are busy with their respective professional activities to earn their livelihood. As a result, the number of busy people is more than the people with leisure hours. To keep balance with their work and daily activities, they are to always be in a rush and most of the time they prefer foods from restaurants or food stands. Since they are highly occupied with their professional activities, they lack the time to prepare foods at home and mostly get foods on their way to office or workplaces.

But there are some other people who never take foods out of the home. They are always conscious about their health. Most of the foods prepared at restaurants or food stands are not prepared well and having those may raise the weight level too.  Moreover, the foods are at times unhealthy and prepared with excessive spices which decrease the tastes of the foods. So, they are reluctant taking foods at restaurants or outside. But they occasionally visit the restaurants to taste some special foods or to attend any invitation which is a different issue.

Usually, I take my foods at home. I do not prefer the outside foods for some specific reasons. The first and important factor is the preparation process. Most of the time the foods I had taken outside were not prepared well. I found different external objects from the foods which were inedible and bad for health. So, I gave up taking foods at restaurants or outside.

Though it becomes a bit difficult for me to prepare foods always at home, I do it for my own. The home made foods are tasty and healthy; they are cleaned well before preparation and could be preserved for a longer time. Besides, the foods at restaurants are costly too and if I continue eating at eateries, it would be a bit of troublesome to me. Tipping is another fact in restaurants to consider and you are to pay tip nowadays even if the services are not satisfactory. It has become a standard practice.

Therefore, for all those reasons I think it is important to take foods at home and I take all of my meals at home. But when we friends meet together or to attend any party arranged at any specific restaurant, I pay the visit.

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Why do you think people visit museums?

TOEFL Essay 21 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museums?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:

Museums are the places where the relics and other historical and famous significances of any specific locality or geographical locations are stored to let people know about the past histories and traditions. Museums are the greatest source of receiving knowledge about any place within the shortest possible time and mostly they are entertaining as well.

When people go to a new place, by their natural curiosity they want to know about the history of the area and locality. If they start asking about the histories, they may not get the right answers and even the people of the location may not also provide the necessary supports in revealing the histories. Besides, museums educate people. Not only the historical elements are preserved in a museum, rather different study areas and research works are also exhibited in a museum as part of its expanding education and knowledge among the visitors.  The museum galleries turn into a live classroom for the visitors and they receive knowledge in an unconventional form.

Since there are different types of museums, the visitors become completely aware of the different issues. For instance, if the museum is about painting, the visitors will be able to know about painters of different eras and also would be aware of their painting themes. On the other hand, if the museum is related to science and inventions, the visitors will see different inventions of science and get familiar with the scientists too in a standard manner.

If the museum is about the culture of any location or nation, the past relics stored on the galleries allow the visitors to imagine the past days. Scenarios of past days become live before the visitors’ eyes, and they start imagining - how the days were, how people lived and about their customs and rituals. People mostly visit the foreign countries for entertainment and some other specific purposes. When the tour is for entertainment only, they visit the available and adjacent museums to know about the country. There are few museums which have all forms of galleries to make people aware of everything the country has or planning to prepare.

Additionally, museums inspire people to adopt newer practices and customs. When an individual observes something new in a museum during the travel, s/ he tries to adopt the specific feature in their daily lives and by this way, museums are inspiring the visitors in improving their livelihoods.

Therefore, it is a must for the tourist to pay a visit to the museums during their travel in foreign countries.

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Universities should give money to their students' sports activities

TOEFL Essay 20 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 

 

Universities should give the same amount of money to their students' sports activities as they give to their university libraries.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Model Answer:

A university is a place to transfers knowledge among the students to be applied in their future days. It is to be acknowledged undoubtedly that all the university students are highly meritorious, intelligent and smart as they undergo tougher and competitive tests before their admission in a university. Thus, they should be taken care of properly so that they could bloom when they enter into their professional life.

University students should exercise both physical and mental well-being. To be mentally fit and smart, they should use the library and should also have very good linkage with their textbooks but to be physically fit, they need to have regular exercise and participation is different sports activities too is a must.

There are some universities who spend money only for the buying books so that the students could have a good score in the exams and simply ignore the issue of their physical well-being. As a result, the students turn as the bookworms and cannot comply with the real lie world. They are not tailored so to survive.

Physical fitness is also a requirement to survive in the world and thus they need to have proper physical exercises and participation in the sports activities is the best way to bring the fitness. If the university authority does not provide with the necessary arrangements, the students will be unable to gain the fitness. Usually, the universities enrich their libraries with rare and expensive books to fill up the library shelves. Sometimes, most of the books are of no use except beautification and it is a kind of money wastage. Besides, some of the books are not allowed for the students as being rare and costly.

On the other side, if the authority invests the same amount of money that they usually spend for the libraries, the student could have done much better in their education. When they will be fit physically and mentally, they will be inspired to be attentive in their studies and consequently, their scores will go up, undoubtedly. For example, the students who are good at sports are good at study too, but the scenario is the opposite – all the good students are not good players.

Thereby, the university authorities should consider the issue and allot the same amount of money for the sports development of the university as they spend to enrich the libraries. Arranging a large field for sports activities will be a great help for the students and if not possible, a small gymnasium will do better.

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A good sense of humor is one of the most important human qualities

TOEFL Essay 19 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 

 

A good sense of humor is one of the most important human qualities.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Model Answer:

Human being is the best creation in the universe. They are the best because of different reasons and quality and a good sense of humor is one of them. Without the sense of humor, one cannot live a happy life.

A sense of humor is the quality to appreciate the humor without being affected negatively by them. It does not mean that you are to memorize each and every joke you hear and have to deliver them in different conversational events, or you are to response to every issue you are hearing or dealing with. The sense of humor refers to appreciate the situation where the jokes are cracked, conversations are held and even if it is meant for or against you, you have to keep away from the negative consequences. Rather, you are to look and judge the issue from a different perspective.

As humans, we are blessed with different qualities including good and bad. We are considerate, by the same time some of us are inconsiderate. Some of us are highly intelligent and smart while some others are dumb to a great level. Some of us like to be calm and quite while some become angry easily. But anger is one of the most unwanted features of human beings as when they get angry, they start destructive activities of different scales. If you lack a good sense of humor, easily you could turn angry with the speeches you are listening or if something is thrown at you mockingly at any public forum. For instance, you are attending a public ceremony where all of your familiar people are present and making fun of each other. Someone cracked a joke and you got hurt as you lack the sense of humor. You do not have the idea how to appreciate the joke or how to avoid the comments inflicted upon you, technically. So, as a result, you are standing alone, away from the other guests, or you just left the party. Simply you missed the party and all the fun.

But think of the scenario from the opposite point of view. Someone cracked a joke which is related to you or has some similarity with your personal experience. What did you do? You just made a hilarious reply in exchange of the joke. The environment becomes friendly. Everyone starts appreciating your sense of humor. Your relation with the other invited turns warm and pleasant. You have gained a large number of your new friends and well-wishers on your real life list from the ceremony or party whatever it is.

Thereby, it appears that being a positively responsive man, you could gain many things. But on the contrary, if you react negatively to the issues related to you, you are the loser. Your social life will be lost. You will lose your friends and community. If you do not develop a good sense of humor, you are unable to lead a prosperous life. If you keep continuing such negative reactions, you are to suffer in the long run. The most important issue is that you will lose your tolerance ability over petty issues like negative remarks. It will block your way of marching ahead. But if you develop a sense of humor, you will march ahead. Nothing will be able to hinder your progress.

Moreover, a good sense of humor will make your relationships with the other people warm and responsive. People will be amazed over your appreciations and the quality of thinking and analyzing things from several angles and perspectives, and ability to change the situations efficiently. Therefore, a good sense of humor is considered as one of the most important qualities of human beings.

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