gaming has some major impacts on how you feel, for example, if you’re concentrating
this may help when you’re feeling anxious or upset. But, it can have some negative
impacts on your emotions, perhaps getting annoyed when you don’t win a game or
feeling upset when you don’t reach a certain goal or feeling like you’re not good enough
to play. A lot of the time, some games, can have an online community where you play
with other people and sometimes these people can be quite nasty, which may make you
feel disheartened and low.
However, advertising also has a downside that negatively affects on consumers as they
are being exposed to an increasing amount of advertising from various businesses. They
use a variety of advertising techniques to get consumers to make impulsive purchases
before thinking through whether they really need to buy those products. Advertising also
manipulates consumers, especially young people, and makes them think that using the
same clothes or clothes as in the advertisement is "genuine and trendy". In particular,
children have become the target audience of many types of advertising
Therefore, consumers themselves need to be very alert and learn carefully about product
information so as not to fall into advertising traps.
Bookaholics believe that reading habit is much beneficial for their imagination as well as
language skills whereas TV watchers argue that science films, cartoon will further their
language ability. To my mind, I agree that reading and watching are advantageous alike
due to these following points.
On the one hand, novels and short stories are good sources to lift readers’ imagination
and enrich vocabularies as well. Firstly, words are ubiquitous in thousands of pages that
encourage readers to visualize what they read in their head naturally. For instance, when
a child turns the page on a little girl’ beauty, he will envision her appearance such as her
face, eyes, lips, complexion. While, due to presence of media effects including sounds,
flash pictures, her shape is vivid and clear in films. Therefore, watchers do not need to
draw out what they see in their mind as readers. Secondly, words cover thoundsands of
pages and as such reading is significant activity for enhancement of vocabularies and
grammatical structures. An example is that books on regular diseases will provide readers
with a wide variety of health terminologies. Accordingly, not only do you understand
specialised knowledge but also enrich new words
On the otherhand, TV is much more convenient for language learners. The reason is that
TV has sounds, images which have been used asuseful visual aids to teach and study
foreign languages. For instance, If you are a fan of English talk shows , you will not only
know more slangs, jargons but also upgrade listening skill. Moreover, thanks to these
talk shows, you can imitate utterance of guests and hosts to improve your pronunciation
in particular and speaking level in general.
In conclusion, as I mentioned above, both reading and waching have their own
advantages in term of imagination development and language enhancement. Therefore,
each of us should balance these two habits for long-term benefits.
New words
ubiquitous( adj): Có mặt ở khắp nơi
Turn pages (v): giở sách
Media effects (n) : Hiệu ứng âm thanh, hình ảnh
Envision/Visualize: Mường tượng, hình dung
Jargon (n): Biệt ngữ
Utterance (n): Cách nói, lối nói
Complexion: Nước da
Draw out (v): Vẽ, phác thảo
Undeniably, the birth of the internet has reshaped and redefined almost every aspect of
human’s life including the way we shop. While it is not difficult to see why online
shopping is one of the most popular uses of the internet,there are disadvantages which
also need to be put into consideration.
There are several reasons for people to prefer this modern shopping style to traditional
ones. To begin with, it is more economical to buy goods online. Asa matter of fact, today
there are many small independent businesses who find marketing online not only the
most effective method to reach their potential customers but also the cheapest one.
Instead of investing a huge amount of money in the rent, the staff and advertisements, all
they need to do now is to set up several free accounts on popular websites and forums
and start telling people about their products and special offers. That means on these sites,
goods are sold at lower prices compared to those in big shops. Another advantage of
online shopping is it helps people save time. The more developed our society becomes,
the faster the pace of life is. Time has been given such an importance that scientists and
inventors have worked hard to minimize the time spent on each individual task like
traveling to work or cooking. By using online shopping,people can buy exactly what they
need without even leaving the house to go from this shop to another to compare.
However, certain drawbacks have been claimed by people who shop online. The most
common complaint about this shopping method is the items they order online do not
always appear to be as appealing as on the websites. Obviously, all of the pictures of the
products have been photo-shopped in order to attract more buyers. It is especially
challenging to shop for fashion items since people cannot try them on. For example, a
sweater may look perfect on the model in the picture, but one can expect to be
disappointed when he actually puts it on.However, since most of the goods bought online
are not refundable, customers in such cases usually feel frustrated. Besides, like other
inventions, online shopping has negatively affected people’s lifestyle in a way that it does
not encourage them to move. According to some famous researches carried out recently,
inactivity results in dangerous illnesses, among which are obesity and depression. In
other words, if people keep depending too much on technology, their health will be
seriously threatened.
All considered, while people benefit enormously from shopping online, they also suffer
from scams and health deterioration. I would suggest consumer protection groups act
more efficiently in order to ensure the rights of buyers.