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Essay A

The maps show the layout of Paradise Island in the past and at present.

Overall, while in the past the island was more of a scientific research area, it has been turned into a recreational zone.

Focusing on the original features of the island, first, it was accessible through a pier from its west. There was also a scientific station right next to the pier and a natural spring to the far opposite side of it. The island also featured a beach in its north-west part.

Over the past years, the island has been transformed into a recreational spot for tourists. The pier has been extended to allow access to the island by larger ships. In addition, the scientific station has been removed to make way for a hotel complex with its own swimming pool on the side. More to the center of the island, there is now an open restaurant which is connected to the hotel with a pathway. To the east of the new restaurant, a BBQ spot can be found. The old natural spring has remained unchanged, and a café has been built to its south. The amenities on the island have become more accessible with the construction of a cycle path network all around it. There is also now a scenic lookout in the far north-east of the island. Finally, swimming activities are now allowed on the beach.

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Art is considered an essential part of all cultures throughout the world. However, these days fewer and fewer people appreciate art and turn their focus to science, technology and business.

Why do you think that is?

What could be done to encourage more people to take interest in the arts?

It is true that art has always proved itself to be one of the defining characteristics of a culture. Despite this, people today seem to be less appreciative of the arts and give greater importance to science, technology, business. There are several reasons that can explain this development, and I believe a set of practical measures will be required to address it.

The first reason why art has lost in popularity among some people has to do with the fact that technology has pervaded every aspect of our lives, leaving increasingly little time or reason to practice and enjoy art. People today use technology to do things that they would normally do manually in the past. Handwriting letters, for instance, which used to be a significant part of interaction over long distances, is now replaced by modern devices that require little creative endeavor to communicate. In this sense, people no longer appreciate the craft of handwriting letters and as such the arts. Secondly, modern life has made people more practical, meaning most people find the arts to bear little significance in their lives. Such attitude has been cultivated in people from a young age at school where exact sciences are given more priority over humanities.

Having said that, there are two approaches I would like to propose to elevate art to its former stature. One sensible solution to me would be to incorporate art into technology. To realize this idea, people would have to be incentivized to create art such as painting or music using technology and market it on online platforms where they can get paid for their work. Social media today allows people to share their artwork, whether it be a piece of drawing or electronic music, and earn a certain amount per view. In addition, more art classes can be included in the school curriculum to rekindle students’ interest in art subjects like painting or sculpting. Such classes could be conducted in the classroom or out on field trips to museums and art galleries.

In conclusion, while the prevalence of technology in our lives and poor attitude towards art explain its declining popularity, making art related to technology and facilitating more art classes in the classroom are some of the possible solutions.

375 words

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GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO DO SMTH—> put a great deal of effort to accomplish smth.

He went to great lengths to prove his point.
She went to great lengths to assist her mate.

An expression with a very similar meaning to this is TO GO THE EXTRA MILE —> make a special effort to achieve something

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The admins had yet another challenge. But this time it is a Task 2 challenge. Here is the topic:


It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.”

Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

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Essay A

Is everything humans learn are included in books? This essay will outline fundamental differences and similarities of knowledge gained from experience and that from books, and decide which one is better.

Experience acquired can be applicable to real life. In many spheres, only experience is valued, and employers tend to pay little or no attention to a person’s technical understanding of the field. Programmers are an excellent case in point, from whom simply making the top standard and working to the deadlines are required. In a similar fashion, modern fields like marketing and management are almost completely based on empirical knowledge, not theoretical. New concepts in marketing to make a trend or a product go viral on the internet, or the experience of interpersonal relationships needed in management are hardly learned from books.

From another angle, however, books can still be relied upon as the most fundamental source of knowledge. They make up the basis of areas like math, history and physics. It is through these reliable sources of knowledge humanity achieved advances in technology and in other important fields. The information contained in them are reliable and seem to be universally applicable, but experience-based knowledge may be applicable only to certain cases and maybe for a limited time, as is the case with marketing and programming due to evolving trends and technologies.

In my opinion, it is not sensible to give greater importance to one source of information for they both have their pros and cons. Instead, I believe that they complement one another. If theoretical knowledge is accompanied by practical, experience-based knowledge, then the knowledge gained will be sound and robust.

In conclusion, weighing up the benefits and drawbacks of both sources of knowledge, my firm conviction is that we cannot attach more significance to one of them. To be secure in the knowledge, people should have both.

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310 words. 40 min.

Essay B

Lessons learnt the hard way last longer. This wisdom speaks to the fact that books do not necessarily provide everything one needs to live a meaningful life. Indeed, there are great differences between what personal experience and what books offer. Despite this, I believe that how much value each source brings cannot be brought into comparison.

Theoretical knowledge gained from books lays the foundation upon which one can build practical experience. We all know that students at school are first taught the basic principles of a subject using a textbook and then encouraged to practice the knowledge they gained. This is done to ensure that we can first develop some degree of familiarity with the subject before we can proceed to the more challenging aspect of it: practice. Besides, books have long proven themselves to be a reliable means of recording and sharing information; the use of books to learn and teach goes back to the prehistoric times. The fact that books are generally first composed in draft form and edited multiple times and then published makes it less likely that they contained faults, and as such adding to their reliability.

Experience, on the other hand, necessitates the testing of a learnt idea to master it. It pushes the learner to entertain and examine the idea from various perspectives, giving him a better idea of what he is dealing with. This point can be seen in different walks of life such as medicine, engineering and many others where people apply the knowledge their acquired from books in the real-world context to perfect it and help people along the way. It can also be true to say that we are hardwired to learn things better when we do it by trying it first-hand. Students who are taken out on field trips to learn their subjects are more likely to gain a good grasp of the material in the curriculum than those are not.

In conclusion, I resort to saying that knowledge from books and knowledge gained through experience have distinctively equal meanings to us.

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343 words. 40 min.

Task 1 map reports:
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Essay B - Alisher

Task 2 essays:
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Essay B - Mukhammadali

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Though I spent the last 3 mins of the 40 mins proofreading my work, I still failed to spot my mistakes. Here are the ones I could find after reading the essay once again this morning:

1."This is done to ensure that we can..... we can proceed.... —> This is done to ensure that they can..... they can proceed..."

[improper referencing; when I wrote that line, I had a more general in mind, but I still had to say "they" to refer to the students mentioned in the preceding sentence]

2."...goes back to the prehistoric times....—> goes back to the early ancient times"

[there were no written records in prehistoric times, let alone books]

3. "...make it less likely that they contained faults...—>make it less likely that they contain faults"

[present simple should be used to describe a known fact]

4. "than those are not....—->than those who are not"

[a relative pronoun was missing]

Let us know in the comments section if you spotted any other errors.