Writing Contest – Tell us about your Tet ;)

So the new year is coming. You must be really busy with preparing to go back home, especially if you are studying in another city. Buying train and bus tickets is a hassle, especially with the price going up during this peak time. I never had that experience but many of my friends did. So I [...]

Purdue Online Writing Lab

So I was cleaning up my old email and found this online writing lab by Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/, which has been around for several years. It has a huge resource about many writing types, ranging from general writing to specific subject writing. More over, it has a separate section for ESL students writing with useful [...]

Practice writing – 5 – Opening our own companies or…

This topic is suggested by Tran Viet Cuong “Some people prefer to take a position in a company and work for the company. Other people think it is better to go into business for themselves. Which do you think is better? Anh here is Viet Cuong’s essay about this topic. People have to work to [...]

Font & bộ gõ ký hiệu phiên âm Quốc tế – IPA vào Word

Nếu bạn muốn gõ ký hiệu phiên âm Quốc tế – IPA vào Word như trong bảng sau: Thật nhiều các kí hiệu mà bạn không biết gõ thế nào trong Word phải ko nào? Không sao chỉ cần bạn tài 1 add-on uniqoder về & install vào Word là ok. uniqoder có thể tài [...]

Reading towards writing – Part 2

In this post I will explain a little more about how to read effectively. We usually read for information, to answer test questions or just for fun, but forget about many other interesting detail about language from the passage. What I have learned from my junior high and high-school French classes are, always prepare some [...]

Reading towards writing

Does it sound strange? It should not, at least for me . It sounds like “Listening towards speaking”, when I listen to others speaking English, most of the time I’ll try to capture what expressions they are using, such as “roll up and deal with it”, or “Down the hall then take your right” (what [...]

Writing a letter in English

In many cases, you have to write some formal or informal letters. I hope this book will help you in writing appropriate letters. email-english-by-paul-emmerson.pdf

Practice Writing – 4 – Students’ choice of classes

In some school, teachers decided what classes students must take, other schools allow students to select their own classes. Which system do you think is better and why? Include details and examples in your explanations. Collected by Mạch Nguyện Minh. To those who plan to write an essay here, please read Comments in our first [...]

Vietnamese – English saying

Bài này là để chúng ta tập hợp các cách nói kiểu Việt Nam và cách nói kiểu Mĩ tương ứng. Tất cả mọi người đều có thể đóng góp bằng cách post comment

Writing practice – 3 – Reason for attending college

Let’s try a classical topic, “People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.” Collected by anh Thống from ETS website. Have a topic to suggest? Please post it [...]

Guide to Grammar and Writing

I will try to collect all the useful websites for grammar and writing (via google) in this post http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/ http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html

Practice Writing – 2 – Teenagers, students and part time job

This topic is suggested by Duy Nguyen “In some countries, the teenager has to do part time works to earn some money and the student as well . Do you agree or disagree that teenagers or students should do part time job“ If you have any suggestion for up coming topics, please post it here.

Writing topics – 1

Have a suggestion for Writing Topics? Please post it here. About haft a week or so we will choose a new one amongst them for you to try Note: Please don’t write off-topic englishstudyforvms.

Practice Writing – 1 – Pets as family members

”Pets should be treated like family members” do you agree or disagree with this statement?. (Suggested by Nguyen Khac Dinh)

New idea

Writing is also a hard part to get high score, i have an idea that we open a topic about writing. We will discuss about that topic which someone suggests each week, anyone can write and if there is any mistake, anyone can correct or has an idea that american doesn’t use that word or [...]