On TV or radio, sometimes do we hear about serious traffic accidents which injured or killed a lot of people. These accidents did a great damage to victim’s lives. Although everybody knows the harm of these accidents, there has still been an increase of number of traffic accidents nowadays. Why? This is the problem that we will discuss today.
1/ Traffic problems in Vietnam today:
Nowadays, traffic in Vietnam is very chaotic. According to many experts, Vietnam is considered to be one of the countries that are leading the traffic accidents every year. Since the beginning of this year, there has been more than 11,000 traffic accidents and 76% of them were caused by motorbike (Source: Thanhnien online)
As far as I know, the main reasons for this are the awareness of people. Some people ignore the police’s warnings and they are not aware of how dangerous it is if they don’t obey the traffic law. For instance, few high school students use motorbikes to go to school, many people overtake, turn left or right and park illegally. When being asked about their mistakes, they often give many excuses.
Moreover, at school, children are not educated to execute traffic law, they don’t have any chance to practise, they must learn all theory by hard, so it is very difficult for them to understand. May be, that is the reason why 25% people died of traffic accidents are children.
The second reason is the lack of facilities. Many national highways are in bad condition. Most of them are very old, narrow and they have lots of pot-holes, thus it prevents the transportation. In addition, pavements are known as places to merchandise, park and advertise. The pedestrians have to walk at roadways and therefore make it easy to cause accidents. There problems are considered as reasons that make the traffic in Vietnam become more and more chaotic.
2/ Solutions to these traffic problem:
To reduce the amount of traffic accidents, our government has passed traffic laws, rebuilt traffic infrastructure, replaced traffic light as well as recently enacted the law “ Wearing helmet while driving motorbike”. According to this law, everybody using motorbike will have to wear helmet from Dec 15 2007. It is said that this will protect our head from injury if accident happens. It also help you avoid noise, dust when driving. Mr Hans Thomson, a representative of WHO in Vietnam reported that in Thailand, since the government passed “ wearing helmet law”, the amount of people died of head and neck trauma reduced 24%.
However, buying a high-quality helmet isn’t easy at all. There are many kinds of helmets as well as artificial ones in outlet, and people don’t have any guides to choose a good one. In addition, the price of helmet is so high that the poor can’t buy it. For example, in Da Nang, the price of a helmet cost one-fourth worker’s wages.
On the other hand, many people don’t voluntarily wear helmets. Have you ever heard of “ Hiring Helmets”? This is a way to cop with police. In general, these helmets are in bad conditions, thus it will be very dangerous in case you have an accident.
3/ Conclusion:
In my view, it is necessary to educate people and show them the benefits of executing traffic law. We should also pass strict laws the punish hard-headed people. However, the most important thing is that everyone must be aware of what they are doing and willing to obey traffic law because it affects not only themselves, their children but also other people. Last but not least, voluntarily executing traffic law especially wearing helmets while using motorbike help you to prove how civil you are.
Questions:
1/ What do you think of traffic problems in Vienam today?
2/ Do you think the low price of motorbikes is one of reason to cause more traffic jam as well as accidents? Why?
3/ What difficulties do you face with current traffic jam? ( time/money/etc..)
4/ What are your ideas of wearing helmets? Advantages and disadvantages?
- Do you think it is a need to wear helmet in the city?
- How does it impact on your dressing? Fashion clothes with helmet?
- Does it truly help to improve consequence of accident?
5/ Do you think this time people will follow this rule strictly?
- If not, what do you think our government should do to get it on track?
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6/ Do you have any criteria when buying? What are they/
7/ The quality of helmet is a concern when buying. Are you pleased with its current quality?
- If no, what do you expect?
- How about the design/size?
7/ Beside enacting of the rule to wearing helmet, we should educate people about traffic laws. However, traffic lesions are taught very boring at school. In order to improve it, do you think what they would do?
8/ Some construction sites of water pipe or drainage obstructed the traffic and even caused traffic jam and accident.
- Can you name some construction sites?
- What do we expect from it?
LEARNING CORNER:
Slang in daily talk
1/ One on one
If you want to talk to someone alone, you say you’d like to speak him or her one-on-one. Or if a teacher gives you some special help after class you can say you got some one-on-one advice. When you’re talking about talking, one-on-one means a conversation between two people with no one else around.
- You think you’re good at basketball? Let’s see. Let’s have a game of one on one.- I need to talk to you one-on-one about some serious issues.
2/ All-nighter
A study or work session that goes through the night; studying without sleep ( usually a last-minute course of action ).
The term is popular with college students who spend the night before an exam studying ( or ‘cramming’ ), trying to learn a lot of material in a short period of time. The term is frequently used in the phrase ‘ pull an all-nighter
- We pulled an all-nighter to finish the report.- I pulled an all-nighter to study for my math exam.
1/ Traffic problems in Vietnam today:
Nowadays, traffic in Vietnam is very chaotic. According to many experts, Vietnam is considered to be one of the countries that are leading the traffic accidents every year. Since the beginning of this year, there has been more than 11,000 traffic accidents and 76% of them were caused by motorbike (Source: Thanhnien online)
As far as I know, the main reasons for this are the awareness of people. Some people ignore the police’s warnings and they are not aware of how dangerous it is if they don’t obey the traffic law. For instance, few high school students use motorbikes to go to school, many people overtake, turn left or right and park illegally. When being asked about their mistakes, they often give many excuses.
Moreover, at school, children are not educated to execute traffic law, they don’t have any chance to practise, they must learn all theory by hard, so it is very difficult for them to understand. May be, that is the reason why 25% people died of traffic accidents are children.
The second reason is the lack of facilities. Many national highways are in bad condition. Most of them are very old, narrow and they have lots of pot-holes, thus it prevents the transportation. In addition, pavements are known as places to merchandise, park and advertise. The pedestrians have to walk at roadways and therefore make it easy to cause accidents. There problems are considered as reasons that make the traffic in Vietnam become more and more chaotic.
2/ Solutions to these traffic problem:
To reduce the amount of traffic accidents, our government has passed traffic laws, rebuilt traffic infrastructure, replaced traffic light as well as recently enacted the law “ Wearing helmet while driving motorbike”. According to this law, everybody using motorbike will have to wear helmet from Dec 15 2007. It is said that this will protect our head from injury if accident happens. It also help you avoid noise, dust when driving. Mr Hans Thomson, a representative of WHO in Vietnam reported that in Thailand, since the government passed “ wearing helmet law”, the amount of people died of head and neck trauma reduced 24%.
However, buying a high-quality helmet isn’t easy at all. There are many kinds of helmets as well as artificial ones in outlet, and people don’t have any guides to choose a good one. In addition, the price of helmet is so high that the poor can’t buy it. For example, in Da Nang, the price of a helmet cost one-fourth worker’s wages.
On the other hand, many people don’t voluntarily wear helmets. Have you ever heard of “ Hiring Helmets”? This is a way to cop with police. In general, these helmets are in bad conditions, thus it will be very dangerous in case you have an accident.
3/ Conclusion:
In my view, it is necessary to educate people and show them the benefits of executing traffic law. We should also pass strict laws the punish hard-headed people. However, the most important thing is that everyone must be aware of what they are doing and willing to obey traffic law because it affects not only themselves, their children but also other people. Last but not least, voluntarily executing traffic law especially wearing helmets while using motorbike help you to prove how civil you are.
Questions:
1/ What do you think of traffic problems in Vienam today?
2/ Do you think the low price of motorbikes is one of reason to cause more traffic jam as well as accidents? Why?
3/ What difficulties do you face with current traffic jam? ( time/money/etc..)
4/ What are your ideas of wearing helmets? Advantages and disadvantages?
- Do you think it is a need to wear helmet in the city?
- How does it impact on your dressing? Fashion clothes with helmet?
- Does it truly help to improve consequence of accident?
5/ Do you think this time people will follow this rule strictly?
- If not, what do you think our government should do to get it on track?
-
6/ Do you have any criteria when buying? What are they/
7/ The quality of helmet is a concern when buying. Are you pleased with its current quality?
- If no, what do you expect?
- How about the design/size?
7/ Beside enacting of the rule to wearing helmet, we should educate people about traffic laws. However, traffic lesions are taught very boring at school. In order to improve it, do you think what they would do?
8/ Some construction sites of water pipe or drainage obstructed the traffic and even caused traffic jam and accident.
- Can you name some construction sites?
- What do we expect from it?
LEARNING CORNER:
Slang in daily talk
1/ One on one
If you want to talk to someone alone, you say you’d like to speak him or her one-on-one. Or if a teacher gives you some special help after class you can say you got some one-on-one advice. When you’re talking about talking, one-on-one means a conversation between two people with no one else around.
- You think you’re good at basketball? Let’s see. Let’s have a game of one on one.- I need to talk to you one-on-one about some serious issues.
2/ All-nighter
A study or work session that goes through the night; studying without sleep ( usually a last-minute course of action ).
The term is popular with college students who spend the night before an exam studying ( or ‘cramming’ ), trying to learn a lot of material in a short period of time. The term is frequently used in the phrase ‘ pull an all-nighter
- We pulled an all-nighter to finish the report.- I pulled an all-nighter to study for my math exam.
3/ All ears
Listening carefully; keenly attentive.
- I was all ears as Svet told me this exciting story.
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