1. How to Write an Authentic “Body” Paragraph in an Essay

2. Exercise 1 – Finding Subjects
1. Korean influences have swept through Asian consumer markets including Hong Kong, and the younger generation in particular seems to have fallen in love with Korean culture. Korean TV drama series, movie stars and pop idols, fashion, and computer and electronic products have taken over the local market...
(2006-Q1)
Subject: Korean influences

3. Exercise 1 – Finding Subjects
2. Music, art and literature are of more value to the world than science and technology...
(2003-Q2)
Subject: The value of Music, art and literature
3. The mobile telephone is the most annoying, unnecessary and time-wasting device ever invented...
(2000-Q2)
Subject: Mobile telephone

4. Exercise 1 – Finding Subjects
4. Many young married couples now choose not to have children, even though their parents put them under great pressure to have children Explain why this conflict occurs between these couples and their parents…
(1995-Q4)
Subject: Conflict between young couples and their parents

5. Exercise 1 – Finding Subjects
5. In recent years articles have appeared regularly in newspapers proposing that car ownership should be restricted in Hong Kong… (1993-Q4)
Subject: restriction on car ownership

6. Exercise 2 – Choosing the suitable quotations
1. A Hong Kong radio station has recently started a programme to help young people solve their emotional problems...
(2005-Q3)
Quote 3:
“Emotions surround us, and sometimes we let them get in our way. If we can learn how to control them and share them with someone who we care about then we have learned how to expert ourselves in new ways.” (Jen, 16)

7. Exercise 2 – Choosing the suitable quotations
2. Recent reports have stated that more young people in Hong Kong are overweight and unfit than ever before. Health experts are becoming worried about the life styles of young people who do less exercise than they should and who have an unbalanced diet... (1996-Q2)
Quote 3:
Life is not living, but living in health. (Martial)

8. Exercise 2 – Choosing the suitable quotations
3. The pressures of life are forcing Hong Kong people to forget their traditional roles by neglecting their old people. (1991-Q1)
Quote 2:
“The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit”
(German Proverb quotes)

9. Exercise 3 – Question 1 Paragraph 1: Data 3,5 Paragraph 2: Data 1

10. Exercise 3 – Question 2 Paragraph 1: Data 5 Paragraph 2: Data 3

11. Exercise 3 – Question 3 Paragraph 1: Data 1 Paragraph 2: Data 4,5

12. Exercise 3 – Question 4 Paragraph 1: Data 1 Paragraph 2: Data 4

13. Exercise 4 1.  may choose to write about personal experiences or not
2.  must write about my personal experience
3.  must write about my personal experience
4.  must write about my personal experience

14. Exercise 5 Suggested answer:
Although the girl could learn about informational knowledge from the Internet, she hardly had chances to communicate with other children at her age. The girl had nearly no friends after she grows and had poor group-projecting skills.

15. Exercise 6 Suggested answer:
I read from news two years ago about a fight between a student and his class teacher. According to the news, the student had a good relationship with the class teacher. One day, he broke up with his girl friend. He was totally in a bad mood and kept taking out his mobile and calling his girlfriend. When his class teacher tried to stop him, he suddenly became mad at his teacher and started the fight.

16. Exercise 7
1. Brand-name products cost too much that we should not waste money on them.
2. They just keep sex as secrets.
3. Watching English channels is an extremely convenient way of learning English.

17. Exercise 8 – Question 1
(a) Even people as genius as Mary do not reach their goals for one shoot.
(b) Supports from the family is always the most touching encouragement.
(c) After some time, we do not have goals anymore.

18. Exercise 8 – Question 2
(a) They should have realized that the money can save millions of child of poverty.
(b) No one can truly understand how they work to death for the money.
(c) What’s left behind the “life-lasting memory”? Tons of garbage.

19. Exercise 9 – Question 1
(a) With advanced space technology, we can attract invests of millions international capital.
(b) Hardly can we receive any benefits from these technologies.
(c) The billion Chinese populations can become highly educated labours.

20. Exercise 9 – Question 2
1. We should be proud of our achievements in the academic field.
2. Poor living styles become reasonable for Hong Kong students.
3. Hong Kong females fill their brains with cash and brand-name products.