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.

Some people prefer to get up early

TOEFL Essay 52 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.

Some people prefer to get up early in the morning and start the day's work. Others prefer to get up later in the day and work until late at night. Which do you prefer?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.


Model Answer:
Getting up early in the morning is beneficial for physical and psychological wellbeing. But some people may oppose the view and prefer to work until late at night. I do prefer the first method for the following reasons.

An early riser enjoys some special benefits that people who wake up late cannot have. When you will rise early, you will have the chance to greet the day. You can enjoy the sunrise in the beginning of the day. The day will begin peacefully. Your body and mind will be fresh. You will have the chances of enjoying the fresh weather of the day. The quiet environment will give you a different charm. You can also have some other works done by this time. Another important thing about rising early is that you will not need to rush into anything. You will have plenty of time with you.

For instance, if you get up 5.00am every day, you will get extra two hours for completing your tasks. But the people who wake up late do not have such chances. They are always in a rush. They are behind the schedule and need to perform extra labor to keep pace with the advancement. But as an early riser, you do not have to worry about such minor issues.

Early rising also allows getting some health benefits. When you will rise early in the morning, you can take some sort of exercise considering your physical needs. It will help you attain a good health. But those who work late at night do not have the chance of a morning walk. In fact, they have their morning in the afternoon (the sleep in the morning and wake up in the afternoon). So, they are not lucky enough like the early risers. They miss the very cup of coffee or tea in the morning.

I get up early every morning and enjoying a good number of benefits. I go out for a morning walk. After returning from my walk, I prepare for the office and do the other necessary tasks calmly. I do not need to rush. So, I a prefer to be an early riser instead of working till late at night.

Many people have a close relationship with their pets

TOEFL Essay 41 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 have a close relationship with their pets. These people treat their birds, cats, or other animals as members of their family. In your opinion, are such relationships good? Why or why not?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.


Model Answer:

This is a really very good trend to treat the pets as family members. In fact, I also treat my dog as one of my family members for many reasons. I strongly agree with the statement for the following reasons.

If you have a pet, you need to spend time with it. After a certain time, the pet will be your intimate and to be true, you cannot spend a single moment without the pet. The pet becomes your constant companion. It will move with you wherever you go or will be your partner in things you like to do. Further, there are many other benefits of having a pet. In consideration of all the matters, it is really important to have a pet. And keeping a close relationship with the pets is also useful to many other extents. Each of the pets has their distinctive features and they also try to provide a feedback to their owners. Actually, the relationship between the pet and the owner becomes too cordial that they the owners start believing the pets as family members.

On the other side, some people have pets for the exhibition. They always ignore the pets. As a result, they create a distance with the pets and they cannot expect any support from their pets. To me, this is really a very good trend to keep a good relationship with the pets. The pets become helpful if you maintain a warm relation with them. I have a dog and it is always beside me. When I need my car key, and cannot find it, the dog brings it to me. When I ride on my car, it comes with me to ensure if I have sat on the car safely. It takes a great care of me. And I do so for it. But if I did not have a good relationship with the pet, I think it would not be interested in me at all.

Based on the discussion above, it is evident that pets are like our family members and they could turn helpful for us in many ways. So, we should take a good care of them and maintain a good relationship as well.

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.

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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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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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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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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Compare and contrast your way of life with that of your parents

TOEFL Essay 14 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? 

 

Compare and contrast your way of life with that of your parents. Which way of life do you think would be more satisfying to future generations?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Model Answer:

This is the age of science and technology and the humans are at its peak. Life has been made comfortable and complicated as well. However, in earlier days, life was not that much comfortable as it is today but there were fewer complexities.

I was born and brought up in a city and my lifestyle is entirely different from that one of my parents. I used to live in a large apartment block with my parents. My education began at an early age and the load of the textbooks was truly heavy for me in those days.  Moreover, we did not have any open space or playing field left for spending our leisure hours. But the scenario was completely opposites for my parents in their early days when I was told about the childhood of parents.

My father lived with his parents in a countryside filled with trees and there was a river in a short distance of the house they lived in. He used to take a bath in the river stream and fishing on the river was a very common issue for him in his school holidays. My mother also had the same living condition in her country areas. Both of them have enjoyed the natural environment but in my early days, I missed those for the mechanization and extreme urbanization.

My parents did not have to study so much as I had to in my childhood. They had the chance to explore the nature in the country sides but I did not get such options. Moreover, in the early days of my parents, the lifestyle was not that much developed and as a result, life was easy and hassle free. But I experienced few complexities due to the technological revolution that started taking place from my age.

With the advancement of time, people started becoming self-centered. They turned into emotionless being for the self-centered attitudes. But the social system was different for my parents. They got the chances to mix with people and people came for help selflessly for others. The social bonding and communal harmony are more prevalent in the country sides today as it was before.    

For instance, when my father was in a personal stress regarding the marriage with my mother, the entire country people including the relations and non-relations were present there and offered every sort of help (told by my father) and the practice is still continued. As a result, the communal bonding among the people is stronger than the people living in the urban zones. But such scenarios are unavailable in the city lifestyle. They lack the time and will to perform such selfless acts.

Therefore, to me, it appears that the lifestyle followed in the country sides is more suitable for the future generations. I do not point that they will be spoiled by living in the cities, but if they are allowed to live near Nature, they would be more humane, more sensitive to others feelings. In city life, they turn self-centered with a virtual environment, but if they are in country sides, they will have chances to take a deep breath in the fresh air. Social values will be increased and finally, they would be prepared with the necessary features to lead a social life in a perfect manner.

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Would you prefer to live in a traditional house or apartment?

TOEFL Essay 7 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. 

Would you prefer to live in a traditional house or in a modern apartment building?

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Model Answer:

A house is the only place where people return at the end of the day to have rest and pass their leisure with their near and dear ones. Therefore, it is highly important to have a perfect living condition inside the house regardless the category– if you are living in a traditional house or in an apartment building. Both the categories are suitable to live in but I prefer living on apartment blocks due to many reasons.

The first and foremost advantage of an apartment is its economic feature. The apartments are rented in soft terms and a reasonable fare; in most of the cases, you will have the apartment in low cost. Since the traditional houses are larger in size, if you want to hire those, you have to pay more than your estimated budget. The rent of an apartment is comparatively cheaper than the traditional house.

Safety is the most concerning issue now a day. In the apartment blocks, you do not need to worry about the safety of you or your family members as the staffs take care of everything but it is not seen for the traditional houses. You have to invest for your safety if you want to live in a traditional house. The location is one of the most important factors. You can have an apartment adjacent with your workplace or educational institution but having a traditional house in a suitable location is a matter of blessing. You do not need to maintain or repair the apartment as it needs to be done for the case of a traditional house. Here you have flexibility and you could make the maintenance done using apartment staffs and the bills are attached with your rent. But regarding the large houses, the maintenance is a bit troublesome and you might not have staffs or people to maintain the entire building.

The apartment buildings are made with different facilities like walking spaces; gardens before the apartment building, in some cases there are swimming pools and gymnasiums available too which are unavailable with the traditional houses. The apartments are of different size and shapes. You can pick an apartment after your convenience and budget. There are several rooms available; like, bedrooms, living rooms, attached bathrooms and spacious kitchen etc. and you can decorate them according to your desire within a low cost but the larger rooms of the traditional houses are not that much convenient comparing the apartment rooms.

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When people succeed in life, it is because of hard work

TOEFL Essay 1 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective essay will contain a minimum of 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

When people succeed in life, it is because of hard work. Being lucky has nothing to do with success in life.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Sample Answer 1:
Who does not desire success? But being victorious is not that easy, especially in this ever-increasing competitive era. Some express their view that without the favor of luck, we cannot become triumphant in life while others totally disagree as they opine that hard work is the mantra to achieving success. I personally agree with the latter group who believe persistent work is the key to success in life.

To begin with, the world events or someone's fate is not random, rather both are based on some prerequisite and actions. From this regards, doing nothing and blaming the fate for our misery is a foolish act. Successful people in the history were not suddenly promoted by luck, rather they dedicated their life for achieving their goal. Likewise, industrial animals do not suffer from the scarcity of food while the opposite is observed in the mother nature. This also teaches us the importance of diligent work in life.

Many people would argue that some people are more successful than others despite hard words done by these both groups. However, a careful examination would reveal that there are some other attributes besides hard works that have also made the difference. These qualities often include talent, timely decision, and determination. However, all qualities would go in vain if the persistent work is absent. Take Bill Gates as an example who has become the greatest software engineer and a world renowned philanthropist and few people would say that he was tremendously lucky. I believe the luck favors the determined and hard working people as it did to Bill Gates.

To conclude, luck is what we make our life, not what some arbitrary events determine it. History suggests that hard working and determined people are winners in the world and this is why someone's success is piled up on the amount of work and dedication, not the twist of the fate. 

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Model Answer 2:
Success is the most desired thing in the entire world and people are always after it. Their pursuit of success is never ending and thus some of them turn successful while some others do not get so. Why does it happen? What is the key cause of the failure to get success when many of the success-seekers are attaining it? The answer is simple. It needs hard work. I entirely agree with the statement - When people are successful in life, it is mostly because of their devotion to their work, luck has very little to do with success in our life.

Without struggling enough and working hard, one cannot think of success. There is a popular saying – “Industry is the key to success”. So, if you are on the view that success will be attained only by the dint of your luck, then you are walking in the wrong direction. Success never knocks on the door of those who consider themselves as lucky rather people invite it to be a part of their life. There is none in the world who has attained success without any struggle or investing hard labor for the purposes they were after. A large number of discoveries have been made till the date and all of them required long term relentless efforts by the people who were after that. They tried for hundred times to make a single effective invention. Take Thomas Alva Edison as an example who tried several hundred times to come out with an effective light bulb. When his assistant got tired of the effort, Tomas Edison gave his one of the most famous quote and realization – “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”. Luck does not bestow us with the blessing we have, hard work does.

Again, there are lots of people who have climbed on the summit of their respective arena and it was possible for their struggle, their relentless efforts and not giving up attitude. If someone gives up the initiatives, s/ he never would be able to shine in the upcoming days. Failures make people stronger. But many of the people do not try fearing failures and consequently, cannot reach to success. They are on the view that if that is for them, they certainly will get that without any trouble. But they are unaware that to be fortunate enough to get the success in any of the issues in life, they need to be bold. They will certainly have that in exchange for their hard work and sincerity. Take any artist or scientist as an example and hard work, dedication and commitment would be the root for their success, luck did nothing for them.

In conclusion, the world history, and our life are prime examples of hard work. Being lucky means getting rewards from the hard effort we put for achieving something.

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