HOBBIES- WHAT YOU LIKE

Living in the countryside from a children, i, now, get used to the quiet and the peace there. When i go to HCM city to study in university, where everyone and everything is always noisy and hasty, i feel that i miss and love the hometown feeling much more than ever (CPL). That's the reason- i think- i've a special hobby: to go to look for the quiet and the peace.
In my hometown, there is very peaceful. Since i was a child, i usually went to the rice paddies, where is very spacious and airy, with my parents to work(CPL). However, i was the youngest, so i worked less than played(CPO). I went around with other children in my village. We picked up fruit, grilled fishes and birds which we collected and played some traditional games(CPL). A little grown up, i liked watching green trees and collecting vegetable which my parents had grown before(CPL). There were two ways to go to my secondary school. One way was short but many vehicles, and the other one was long but less vehicles and many shades(CPO). We always rode on the second way . It was safe because we just rode through the rice paddies and bamboo forest(CPL). Sometimes, my sister and i rode on the village road to enjoy the feeling "flying with the wind", the faint aroma of ripening rice. That was really a great feeling.
Now, when i am living alone in a crowded and modern city, i can't do those things(CPL). Although i'm trying to adjusting my life style, i'm still at fault(CPL). After a day at university, i come back my renting room, lie down, close my eyes(not sleep), and think nothing, or i come back to my hometown at the weekend(CPO). This is the way help me balance. However, this isn't the problem. I find that there are somewhere spacious and quiet, take the cases of my university, the green grass areas along the Hanoi highway. I have a best friend who also study in my university(CPL).We often go out for dinner and sit there for a while. It help us feel better and continue our studying.
You can have many other hobbies.May be you think mine sound strange, useless, and it just waste time(CPO). But in the other hand, i like it, and i find it is interesting and neccesary for my health(CPO). It make me light and get rid of my stresses in studying. You work hard, you need relax, and it is an effect way for relaxing(CPO).
I have just lived here for a few monthes so i don't know many other good things here(CPL). I properly have other hobbbies then, but i think i still like and maintain my hobby now(CPO).
Note:
CPO: compound sentences.
CPL: complex sentences.

MY CLASS IN UNIVERSITY

When you learn in a university, you have to learn by yourself much more than when you was in high school. There are too many students in a class, and the lecturer can't observe everyone. Some older students said that they learned in a class with over 100 students. They even don't know all of their name althought they are in the last year. However, i think there is an exception with my class.

Now i'm learning at the Faculty of Foreign Language of University of Technical Education which is one of the largest and oldest tradition university in the South. My university mainly train in technology, so there are more male students than female students. But in my faculty, take the case of my class, there are more girl than boy. There are only 21 students so that we can learn best. The facility is goob. We usually learn in small class with many chairs and no table. It's convenient for moving or working in pair or group which we do everyday. Moreover, we have a LCD TV in classroom. We use it to present lessons by Powerpoint. It makes our lessons be more attractive.

The most important thing when you learn foreign language is to practise, so in every class, we speak more than write. Usually, lecturers give us some projects, and we have work in group to prepare for it which we rarely do in high school.In class hour, we talk,discuss, answer the questions and, sometimes, have a play. It 's very enjoyable. Lecturers always make good condition for everyone showing their qualities. They also concern student's development. I'm really pleased about that.

My classmates all come from many provinces and cities, North and South. Despite meeting many strange people and living away from home, they're all very friendly and funny. We've just learned together for over 2 months, but we have closed relationship. We spend much time together doing teamwork, so we have much time to understand. We often chat discuss the lessons before class. I find that these are good points of university life.

At the present, we are trying our best to do well the first semester exam. Moreover, we can graduate university in 4 years which is the biggest goal. There may be many difficulties, but with our efforts, i believe we can do.

FRIENDSHIP

A friend is not the person you meet and greet everyday, but he is the person you can know what happened with him without saying anything, the person you want to share your feeling, your thought whenever you have happiness or sadness and so does he. It makes you and him closer and closer, also it is the friendship which is very important in one's life.

When I was in primary and secondary school, I was a close-mouthed boy, so I didn't have many friends. After school, I only stayed at home and studied, I didn't join in activities with the children at my age. I didn't know much about everything around me. At that time, I was really bored and lonely, but I didn't know what I have to do and no one helped me.

However, in the year I entered high school, everything changed. I remembered the first days I was so nervous; therefore, I just sat quietly. Later, a boy sitting next to me told some gossips. I started to concentrate on what he said; I also joined in by some my stories. I felt better then. I found that schooltime was more interesting than I expected. I talked more with other classmates, and I admired them much when I knew that they had many difficulties to go to school. Thank to them, I found that I was luckier and learned how to be more optimistic. We were more understanding.

During three years in high school, we didn't changed our class. Everyone wanted that, for we knew there was the place we really needed. Our class took part in many school activities such as singing competition, flower agranging, wall- paper writing... , and we won a lots. In the last year, we celerated birthday parties for every members each month. We sang, danced and took a lot of photo to make a CD; beside, we had our class uniform which was designed by me. I became more active and happier.

Our friendship is not always happy, but , sometimes ,some members had arguments. However, the others soon celerated a inside-classroom meeting to solve the problem. Everything was OK again. I remembered a memory. Once time, I had a very boring thing, I cried a lot. But I didn't want my friends to know. After school, when I hurried go home, they gave me a letter; they sang a beautiful song and say nothing. After reading the letter, I cried again much more. Not because I was sad, because I was too happy.They gave me the faith in life and helped me overcome everything. I believed that friendship is what I have spent.

Now, we all graduated; we still keep contact. We usually meet each other at the weekend. I hope that our friendship will last forever.

MY FAMILY

Have you ever wondered if what a family is and how a happy family is? To me, I have thought much about that, but I still don't have the answer. However, I can self-confidently speak that I have a family and my family is happy.

Living in a big family in a village, with parents and six children, we don't have good living condition. As many other people in village, my parents are kind-hearted farmers. They have to work hard all day on rice paddies to support for my whole family. That is really a difficult thing. Understanding our parents' hard, we don't ask for many things except for our studying. My sisters help parents do housework, take care of younger members, help me and my brother do homework. I remember the days we walked to school together, played games in the yard in front of our house and quarreled, sometimes, which made our parents scolded at us. Of course, each member has different characters so it is certainty. But the importance is that we were soon joyful again. The time we spend together most is in dinner. We talk about many things and share our emotion with the others. We have a very closed-knit relationship. Although our parents don't spend much time at home as well as show their emotion to us, we all know they love and take pride in us very much. However, sometimes they are very strict. They often punish us when we had a mistake. As our parents usually said that bringing up us was their biggest desire and they always want us to try to learn to have a good future. This is the most valuable present we can give our parents.

Now, when we grow up, all of that became nice unforgettable memories. My four elder sisters have their own jobs, my elder brother and I are studying at university. We still seem children with our parents. They always care for us. whenever I go away, I miss my family very much. East or West, there is no place like home because there I have a family.

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red: noun phrase

yellow: verb phrase

green: infinitive phrase

pink: prepositional phrase

orange: gerund phrase

blue: participial phrase

SENTENCE PATTERNS

One (SS) of the people I loves most is (LV)Hau(PN), my old best friend from the high school.
During school years, we(SS) go(AV) to school on the same way everyday so we spent much time together.
That(SS) make(AV) me(SDO) know him clearly.(?)
He(SS) is(LV) small, thin(PA) but very strong with a curly black hair.
May be, I(SS) like(AV) him(SDO) because we have many similarities, such as: singing, dacing, listening to music.
However, what(SS) I admire him is(LV) that he is very optimistic and humourous.
He(SS) was a goob joker in our class.
Thank to him, we(SS) have(AV) much time(SDO) cheerfully and unforgetable experiences(SDO).
He(SS) is(LV) willing(PA) to listen to any problems of his friend and help them if he could.
He(SS) used to help(AV)and encouraged(AV) me many times when I had troubles in studying, friends and family.
He(SS) gave(AV) me(SIDO) energy(SDO) to overcome all of that.
To me, Hau(SS) is(LV) more than a friend.
I(SS) hope(AV)that our friendphip would be last forever.

NOT ONLY A JOB BUT ALSO A HOBBY.

Getting a goob job and be successful in the future is my biggest desire now. English is my major at university, so I want to be a good translater when I graduate my course.

Being a teacher of English is also an interesting job. But translater is still my first choice. I think with my knowledge of English, I could make many foreigners understand much more about our country and VietNamese. It's may be useful for their study, their business or simply their travelling. Nowaday, the trend of the world is co-operation and exchange relations. VietNam is a developing country; therefore, foreign invest play a very important part in the development of our economy. VietNam is also an actractive point of travelling. More and more people come to VietNam everyday. Furthermore, there are many foreign companies or offices where use English as the first language. Because that, translater are very necessary. Working in an international environment will make me be more active and give me better conditions to work and learn up. I want to be an international citizen. Beside, since I was a child, I always want to travel around the world, meet and talk to people there. I loves many different cultures. I can get much knowledge from that.

This is only the first period that I have to try my best to make my desire come true. I learn and practice English as much possiply as I can. Although my English is not really well, I beleave that I can get the goal oneday.

The person you like.

One of the people I love most is Hau, my old best friend from the high school. During school years, we went to school on the same way everyday, so we spent much time together. That made me know him clearly . Hau' s small, thin but very strong with a curly black hair. May be, I like him because we have many similarities such as singing, dancing, listening to music. However, what I admire him is that he is very optimistic and humorous. He was a great joker in our class. Thank to him, we have much time cheerfully and many unforgettable experiences. He's always willing to listen to any problems of his friends and helps them if he could. He used to help and encourage me many times when I had troubles in studying, family and friends. He gave me energy to overcome all of that. To me, Hau is more than a friend and I hopes that our friendship will be last forever.