Children’s online time should be controlled by parents
A report of Flinders University showed that most of Australian students spend at least two hours a day online, and it is double in England. But the most worrying problem is that only 17 per cent of parents who have children at the adolescent age take an eye on what their children are looking for on the Internet. It is clear that internet is one of the best educators for our children. However, there are also many dangers of the Internet. Therefore, parents need to control the amount of time that their children spend online. That spending long hours online is damaging to health is the first thing need talked about. Kids who don not get enough outdoor play easily become overweigh because they spend a lot of time sitting down and not moving. They are regarded as couch potatoes of Internet. In addition, it is said that this hobby tend too suffer because of too much viewing. And the fact that many children have to wear glasses for the hobby above. Furthermore, scientists proved that watching computer causes your brain to slowly operate. When most children think of the internet, they think of the main source of entertainments such as music, films, games, etc. Playing game on the internet becomes tendency nowadays. Vo Lam Truyen Ky, Audition, Thien Long Bat Bo are some typical of this. Accordingly, a lot of students take their free time for this trend, even some play truant to play online games. Meanwhile, parents and educators often worry that children who spend many hours online are not learning to socialize with each other, or to develop creative skills. There is too much information on the internet. Children are not mature enough to select what is appropriate with them without parents’ guidance, so they can be affected by unwholesome information. Vice, crime and sex can be given too much emphasis and therefore have a disastrous effect on them. Besides, the inventions of blogs, yahoo chat, virtual reality seem even more dangerous because it seems to mean that actual reality is not being faced and learnt about. Children often chat with people they don not know, and they may be perverted by the bad. Once being online, I discovered that there is an organization of suicidal enticement. It is alarming! It is impossible to deny helpfulness of internet to our children. Only that they should use it sensibly, and this needs parents’ help. For the simple reason, children are not old enough to control themselves.

A Blind On The Top Of The World
Mount Everest, the world highest mountain on earth with snow-covering year around, is a dream of every professional mountaineer. Since the first person reached the top of Mt Everest in 1953, only 3000 climbers have successfully completed climbing up this mount, and about 200 stayed here forever. Among Mt Everest successful conquerors, there is a blind person, a US citizen. His name is Erik Weihenmayer. Erik Weihenmayer is recognized to be the first and the only blind person to complete the Seven Summits including Mt Everest. Erik’s life is a story of will struggling with adversities to succeed. In 1968, Erick was born with a disease called “retinoshisis” and he became totally by the age of thirteen. Everything seemed to struggle against Erik and his family. However, not surrendering cruel circumstances, Erik tried to overcome the challenges of his disease by playing sports. Thanked to his father, Erik did hiking, physical fitness, and other sports without seeing. A turning-point came to Erick’s life in 2001.The American National Federation of the Blind sponsored him to climb the Mt Everest in order to call the protection of environment in the high regions like Everest. To get ready for the journey, Erik has practiced hard everyday. Together with friend who helped him to orient by oral instructing and using bells, Erik reached the top of the world on May 25, 2001. Additionally, in the later year (2002) he completed other highest summits. Surprisingly, being not only a mountaineer, Erik also is an acrobatic skydiver, racing cyclist, marathoner, skier… Moreover, he also shares his experience by writing books published in six languages. One of Erik’s keys of success is practicing patiently. Obviously, his admirable achievements are the result of restless endeavor. He is a really explorer who discovered that altitude cannot shrink willing man. Erik has made me think of a proverb that where there is a will, there is a way.

Trần Thụ Thanh

Family – The Most Important Thing
People nowadays often rush into earning money for living because they want to get higher position and stand out. Therefore, when they just thinking about working, they often forget that there is another thing much more important. In my life, there are many things important such as family, money or may be wife in the future. However, to me family is the most important thing in my life. It is the motivation and sound basis for me to stand. In the early age of a person, I have had a family. My mother stood pain to give birth to me. And since I was born, she looked after me everyday while my father worked hard for our living. When my younger sister was born, family became a conception cannot be apart from me. Secondly, family plays an important role in my life. There is no one gives me the better advices than my father while my mother takes care of me in everything from the needle to the elephant. I myself sometime make mistake as well as getting failure. At those times, family is the best place for me to rely on. They share feelings with me as well as sympathy with what I have been. My father often tells me that friends may be not by my side when I am in need, but family always does. I know that it is a universal truth. That East or West – home is best is absolutely right to me. Maybe I will go somewhere too far tomorrow, family yet is always all by my side in all senses. I could not image what I would become without them. Family is always the most important thing in my life.

Name: Tran Thu Thanh Class: VI 9nD3

Mekong Delta
In each country in the world, there are always some tourist destinations for travelers to visit. And every country proud of their household names. Un my country, the most important things that attract a great number of tourists are the people and the landscapes. For this aspect, Mekong Delta probably is the most popular destination for tourists who first visit to Vietnam. Indeed, in Mekong Delta, there are a lot of things for you to take in. Mekong Delta, located in the South Western of Vietnam, is inherited many highly valuable things from the nature. It is considered one of the two loads of rice of Vietnam, and the other is the Red river Delta. Having the fruitful soil, which is raised by Mekong river, Mekong Delta is well-known for specialty of fruits. You may hear Vinhlong’s rambutan, Tiengiang’s durian, etc. when you are here. And especially tourists may enjoy fruits free. Besides that, Mekong has a interlacing waterway system. Therefore, the main transportation means here is waterway. You yourselves could row boats into small channels to sink into the country riverside charm. Talking about Mekong Delta, we cannot but talk about “Cai Luong”, a form of folksong in South Vietnam, and is considered the greatly unique form of folk-music in the world. It is an unpaid entertainment and commune with hard life of inhabitants. “Tinh anh ban chieu”, “Da co hoai lang” are some typical song that you may enjoys at inhabitants’ thatched houses. We can easily run into a girl who is droning out a shanty while rowing a boat. It is difficult to talk wholly about Mekong just in words. I think you should first hand visit here to relish the beauty that you have never seen.

Name: Tran Thu Thanh Class: APD06

School Uniforms
Wearing uniforms at schools is compulsory for primary pupils as well as high school students, and is optional at some university in my country. The modernization of our education system and society has led to different points of view. There are good reasons for the compulsory wearing uniforms, but there are also valid reasons for the protest. And like many other things, school uniforms have both advantages and disadvantages. School uniforms have several spiritual and educational significances in my country. Firstly, this is one of the cultural identities of Vietnam. High school girls have to wear “ao dai”, Vietnam traditional long tunic, meanwhile the boys wear shirts and blue pans. This expresses the charming beauty of Vietnamese women and the gentlemanliness of men. Furthermore, it also represents the integrity and dreamlike unaffectedness of school-age. Secondly, that children have to wear uniform as soon as they start school is a good regulation. It directs them to become selfdisciplined people. Besides that, in some opinions, school uniforms show the unity. Many people including students, however, do not support the compulsory wearing uniforms. Most of high school and university students are teenager and youth. They are pretty active and confident in showing themselves. Therefore, they want to dress to their liking because “the tailor makes man”, according to them. Parents often complain it is inconvenient for their daughters to dress “ao dai” to school, especially in the rainy season. However, despite the valid arguments against, I believe that everyone should wear uniform at school because it is well-prepared for their future. But we have to look for a best solution so that it is appropriate with reality. Some schools have changed “ao dai”

The Club
Briefly
 Politics: President Nguyen Minh Triet would visit New Zealand and Australia in September, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung said yesterday.  Education: VUS students took the TOEIC test yesterday. It was easy to most of them  Entertainment: MTV News Asia has been broadcasting since Friday a three-minute clip of Thanh Nien’s charity show Charming Vietnam, which was held to rave reviews in Singapore last weekend.  Sports: Liverpool had 2 – 0 win over the host Sunderland last night.

Death toll mounts in Greek fires
Multiple forest fires sweeping across southern Greece have claimed at least 41 lives and destroyed numerous homes. Greek emergency workers continue to find the charred bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country. Officials raised the death toll to 41 at around midday on Saturday, but said they feared it would climb higher. Searches of burnt cars, houses and fields were still turning up the remains of those who could not escape.

The prime minister called the situation "an unspeakable tragedy" and the government appealed to the EU for help. Greek newspapers are calling the southern Peloponnese region a "crematorium", says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. The fires have been moving so fast that people have been cut off before they could escape. With emergency services overstretched, desperate residents and local officials called television and radio stations to appeal for help. … (BBC)

Name: Tran Thu Thanh Class: VI 9nD3

Writing Chart Discriptions

First language vocabulary by child's age
1,200 1,100 1,000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

This graph show the number of vocabulary that a child acquire in the first ages. As an overall trend, the number of vocabulary of a child increase rapidly. The child start acquiring vocabulary when he is about 1.5 years old. Only after three months, he possess over 100 words. He has approxiamtely 200 words at age of two, and then this number go up gradually to 400 when he is at 2.5 years old. There is a moderately increase in the next half of year - only 100 more. That number rise from 500 to 900 is a dramatic rise from 3-3.5 years of age. This number keep rising steeply at the next age. He has 1200 words when he is at 4 years old.

Number of Internet Users by Language
300,000,000 250,000,000 200,000,000 150,000,000 100,000,000 50,000,000 0 English Chinese Japanese Spanish German 113 67 56 54 291

This bar graph compares the number of Internet users by language. Look at the number for the 5 columns shown. German has the lowest number of users with 54 millions. The next column is similar to the first with a little higher. 56 millions people use the Internet by Spanish. Although Japanese is not a international language, 67 millions people use it on the Internet. This prove that Japan has the very high rate of Internet users. Contrary to this, Chinese just has 113 millions users though China has the highest population of the world. It is obvious that English has the highest number of users because it is an International language used in many fields. 291 is the number of Internet users by English. It absolutely outdistance the four other languages.

Primary Languages in Malaysia
Indian 10% English 5%

Chinese 25%

Malay 60%

Although the official language of Malaysia is Malay which is spoken by 60% of the people,chinese is spoken as mother tongue by 25% of the people. An other native language is Indian which is spoken by indian people. The third biggest section represent for this, 10%. Because Malaysia is a former English colony, English is also spoken here by 5% of the people.