Section outline

  • Here is a selection of 20 serious and trivial topics.

    Write one well-written and formal COMPARATIVE ESSAY, using ambitious language structures from page 21 in your Y2 handout:


    1. Distance learning vs face-to-face learning: what are the benefits and disadvantages?
    2. Education vs work experience: useful to become successful in life?
    3. Exams: are they a true reflection of a student’s ability?
    4. Boarding schools vs day schools: what are the major differences?
    5. Samsung vs Apple: which is the better brand?
    6. Being miserable in a mansion or happy in a shanty: which is better?
    7. Marijuana: is it dangerous or a blessing in disguise?
    8. Alibaba vs Amazon
    9. Religious marriage vs civil marriage
    10. Dogs vs cats
    11. Pizza vs pasta
    12. Electric vs gas cars
    13. Dumbledore vs Voldemort
    14. Vampires vs werewolves: who are stronger?
    15. 3D vs normal screening - Differences and similarities?
    16. Michael Jackson vs Prince: who is the true King of Pop Music?
    17. Greek vs Egyptian mythology
    18. Are humans wilder than wild animals?
    19. Friends vs enemies: who should you be weary of?
    20. The pen is mightier than the sword: how true is this?