Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
Learning a language course |
- get B1 certificate for graduation - improve English to have better job opportunities - make friends |
- expensive - choose free online course without paying any money |
Doing voluntary work | - help local community - make friends - improve social skills |
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Learning to play a sport | - get in better shape - improve your health |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
Buying what she wants | - she has the right to spend her own money | - too young to spend money - spend money on bad things (buying candy, playing computer game..) |
Keeping in the pig box to save for her future | - buying things for herself - teach her how to save money |
Lucky money is not much so you can’t save much |
Buying the necessary things for the family | - buying things for the family and she can benefit from that | It’s her money so she has the right to spend it |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
Buying clothes in a shop | - clothes are in good quality - can try on clothes |
Expensive Limited number of clothes |
Buying clothes in an open – air market | -there are a wider range of clothes - cheap - can try on clothes |
Clothes are in bad quality |
Buying clothes in an online shop | - cheap – save money - convenient – buy clothes in the comfort of our own home |
- cannot try on clothes - might have lower quality products than expected. |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
living in a university hostel | - cheap - convenient: close to university, easy to share learning materials or discuss with roommate |
- too crowded, noisy - not safe - can’t concentrate on studying |
renting a flat | - comfortable – do whatever I like, go out late at night - live independently (do everything by myself like doing housework, managing time and money |
expensive |
staying with the relatives? | - cheap – don’t have to play the rent or pay very little. - enhance relationships |
- not comfortable - do housework - relatives might live far away from campus. |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
buying a house | - need a house to live in - do not have to pay the rent |
- not enough to buy a house or a flat with 1 billion VND - borrow some money |
buying gold | A traditional way of keep money | -prices goes up and down |
saving in the bank | - cheap – don’t have to play the rent or pay very little. - enhance relationships |
- not comfortable - do housework - relatives might live far away from campus.. |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
a school abroad in Australia | - Offer better education> better jobopportunities in the future - live independently (do housework, manage time and money) - learn a foreign language > work with a foreign company |
- far away from home > miss family - meet culture shock - learning a foreign language is a challenge |
a public school near home | - live with family and be taken care of - cheap cost |
education is not as good as that in the city or broad |
a gifted school far from home | - offer better education > find a better job easily - live independently (do housework, manage time and money |
-far away from home > miss family - not be cared |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
joining an English club | - cheap (pay a little fee every month) - take part in different activities (discussions in pairs, groups, presentation) - practise English with different people every session |
- noisy > find it hard to hear what other poeple are saying - no one checks your speaking |
joining an English class at center | - lear with experienced teachers (take part in different real life situation) - it’s great fun (make friends and practise with classmates) - benefit those who find it difficult to self-study |
- expensive |
talking to foreigners in public places | - free of charge - improve pronounciation |
- foreigners are too busy sightseeing or doing their own business - dicuss only common topics like weather, family, job |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
wearing uniforms all week | - don’t have to think of what to wear or how to combine clothes - there’s no difference between the rich and the poor - students focus on studying rather than clothes - show other people what school students belong to |
- uniforms are not suitable for everyone because they are made for both boys and girls - some unifroms are baggy |
no uniform at all? | - wear what students feel comfortable and like - show their personality |
-students spend lots of money buying expensive or designer clothes. - some might focus on clothes rather than studying |
wearing uniforms 2 days week | - students focus on studying rather than clothes - show other people what school students belong to - wear what students feel comfortable and like - show their personality |
Options | Advantages |
rebuilding libray | -it’s old and in bad condition > the library needs rebuilding - the school needs to build more reading rooms and buy more books and computers - it serves a big number of students - the library is necessary for students’ learning |
rebuilding canteen | the canteen was built last year, so there’s no need to rebuilt it |
upgrading laboratory |
- the laboratory serves a limited number of students - it’s in good condition |
Options | Advantages | Disadvantages |
a restaurant party | - choose a restaurant near school > everyone can join - sing songs, dance or play some games after the party |
- spend little time with each other |
a one - day picnic | - spend more time travelling to the countryside, the suburb of Hanoi or go outside Hanoi - take part in more outdoor activities (go sightseeing, visiting a beauty spot....) |
- expensive (pay for sightseeing fee, transportation) - not everyone can join |
a two- day party | - visit a beautiful place outside Hanoi - take part in more outdoor activities (going sightseeing, visiting a beauty spot...) |
- expensive (pay for sightseeing fee, transportation, accommodation (hotel), meals) - some parents might not allow their daughters to stay overnight outside - not everyone can join |