Topic 6. If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change?

If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use
reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

Sample essay 1.


Everything in the universe is in constant change. And everything needs continual improvement if
the ever changing and increasing demands of humankind are to be met. If I am ever given the
chance to change one important thing about my home town, it would be internet service. Needless
to say that nothing generally revolutionized the way we live as internet in the past decade. Thus,
an improvement in this vital service would mean an even more, unheard betterment to the people
in my home town.

It is said that information is power. True saying indeed! I can envision how everything in my home
town could improve dramatically if the internet service in it were made free, fast and staying out
there like electricity, telephone or water all the time. One thing, a fast free and reliable internet
service could improve in my home town is the way people work. If there is a this said service
people in my home town must not necessarily commute to a far place to do their job. This in turn
would mean less traffic jams, spacious work place, more time for family and recreation and so on.

The way people learn would be another important thing that a fast, free and reliable internet
service could better in my home town. People will have the chance to go through tremendous and
different information resources in a very small amount of time. They, apparently will also take less
time to share it. This assures a more fulfilled life for my home town people.

Since its advent, internet touched every part of our life. It in a dazzling way improved the way we
do business, learn and communicate. A change in internet service implies good way of living for
every one in my home town.

Sample essay 2.


If I could change one important thing about my hometown, it would be air pollution problem, and
I will give the following reasons to explain why I want to solve the problem.

The first and most important reason is that I hope that my hometown can become a beautiful city.
As an old industrial city, my hometown has made a great deal of contribution for the country’s
economic development. At a result, the natural environment of the city has been badly damaged.
The forest has disappeared; the mountains have become bald, and the most awful thing is that the
air quality becomes more and more worse. People seldom see the blue sky during most time of year.

Another reason why I want to change my hometown’s air pollution situation is that the city’s
development needs clean and tidy environment to attract investors. Nowadays people have come
to know that the city’s environment, which is so called “software facility of the city”, plays an
important role in the city’s future. For example, due to the fact that the environment of the city is
very poor, many local students who pursue their study out of the city would rather find
themselves a job in other cities than coming back to their hometown after they graduated.

In addition, nowadays people have paid more and more attention to their health. If air pollution
problem cannot be solved as quickly as possible, people’s requirement for a healthy body will
never be realized.

In my mind, changing air pollution will apparently be my first choice if I can change one
important thing about my hometown. Fortunately people in my hometown are gradually aware of
the serious problem.

Sample essay 3.


If i could change one thing about my hometown, i would like to build up some useful and
advanced facilities for their use. A modern library, an advanced broad band system and an
integrated gym may bring a lot of changes to people living in my hometown and keep them up
with the latest information and technology.

In my opionion, a modern library in my hometown can provide a good environment for the local
people to study and upgrade themsevles. There are a lot of newspaper, magazines and reference
books for their use. They can know what happened around the world and keep up with the fastpace
of this developing world. From lots of cultural books, they also can own a good habit of
reading and learn to get knowledge from books. "Knowledge is strengh". Knowledge can give us
guidance to overcome problems we meet in the daily life.

To popularize the broad band at home also is a quick access to Internet and movie channel, which
can give people much more chances to choose their entertainment. Because of the Internet, our
lives have been changed a lot no matter whether we accept or not. We can read news, buy items
from e-commerce companies, send a free e-card to our friends, mail our beautiful photos to
anyone we like or watch the movies online. Anyway, Internet brings us obvious changes.
Additionally, broad band also can provide movie channel to users. Can you imagine that you can
watch the movies you like just by cliking one button? It provide different types of movie for you
to choose. People have more choice to enjoy the life and advanced technology at home.

Besides important information we need to know and advanced technology we use, we also need
to do exercise to keep our healthy life. This is the reason why i want to set up an integrated gym in
my hometown. Through doing many various exercises, such as, swimming, jogging, playing
badminton or tennice, peopple can enhance their ability to resist the virus and enjoy the life
happily. Furthermore, people who often do exercise have positive attitudes towards life although
when facing difficulties. This is really what i hope to see.

In summary, i want my hometown to be a city equipped with a modern library, an advanced broad
band system and filled with people liking exercise, loving life and possessing positive attitudes
towards life. Thus, i want to build up above-mentioned facilities first.

Sample essay 4.


With the developement of my hometown in the past few years, the population is expanding very
fast. The city is expiriencing not only a higher birthrate than ever, but also waves of immigration.
The streets in the city are crowed or even jamed during the rush hours. If I could change one thing
about my hometown, I would develope an advanced public traffic system.

In order to hold such an exploding population, the city has extended miles by miles without much
plan. It is common for people to travel from the southmost part to the northmost part of the city to
go to work everyday. They have to spend three hours or more on the way they go to work and
come home. Eight hours' work is a heavy burden, while people have to spend hours before and
after the work. A subway running through or around the city can solve the problem. People could
live further away from the downtown without worrying about spending too much time on the way.

Some people buy their own car or take a taxi to work everyday. It's really expensive for most of
the people in the city. They can't afford paying so much on traffic fares. Many civil engineering
experts advocate that sharing a public traffic system is the most efficient way. People could
reduce their fares a lot by using the public traffic system, and they can spend the money on some
other things.

Even there are more and more people who can afford buying a car or taking taxi everyday, It is
still suggested to using the public traffic system. Because the road developement can never keep
up with the demand of the increasing cars, the cars may jam on the roads during rush hours.
Usually, the speed of the car in that time is no higher than a bycicle! And pollution is another
concern. So many private cars running in the city will bring us an environmental problem. On the
other hand, the pollution from the public traffic system is much lighter.

All in all, an advanced public traffic system time efficient, cost efficient, and pollution preventing.
This is the trend of advanced cities.
(This is a 5 point essay)

Sample essay 5.


I am from Arroz e Feijao, a small town in the northeast of Brazil. Building a factory in there will
bring a lot of advantages and disadvantages, but I believe that Arroz e Feijao will mostly benefit
from the building of a new factory because it is largely populated by poor people and the factory
would bring many benefits to this small town. However, of course, a factory has disadvantages as
well.

As you know, factories usually bring pollution. If this factory is not managed very effectively and
efficiently according to specific rules, it's prone to polluting the local air and water. What's more,
factories usually make noise. Beside clean drinkable water and fresh air, an ideal community
should be quiet. If the factory cannot maintain this situation to the community, it will not last long.
A factory that is too noisy or pollutes too much will eventually be relocated to a new area.

On the other hand, a factory could bring a lot of benefits to the community. So I would support
the plan to build a factory to my community for all the reasons I will describe below.

First of all, the factory's construction will surely improve the local infrastructure. To run smoothly,
the factory will have to have a steady, reliable supply of water and electricity. Some old pipes will
be changed, and some facilities will be renovated. The residents' living standard get improved as a result of these widespread changes, an important benefit in Arroz e Feijao, where many people do
not have access to clean water.

Secondly, to make the employee commute more convenient, the local roads will have to be rebuilt
and broadened, resulting in improved public transportation. The town's residents can take a public
bus to go shopping or go to work. As a result, air pollution and fuel consumption might be
reduced.

Most important, a factory's establishment will bring up a lot of employment opportunities for the
community. A factory need experts from various fields. The residents can take just a few minutes
to go to the factory to work. So, the local residents can get great benefits from this factory.
Generally speaking, I agree with the plan to build a factory near my community. If the factory can
be managed successfully, the factory and local residents can have mutual benefit.

Sample essay 6.

Have you been waiting for buses at bus station for an hour in an extremely hot day? Have you
been staying in a car waiting hours for the heavy traffic? Have you seen the scene that tons of
people are crammed on a small bus? Maybe you think that’s incredible, but it’s true in my
hometown. So the thing I want to change most about my hometown is the mass transportation
system.

Mass transportation system is a very important part of a city. It influences people’s daily life,
work and entertainment. An effective mass transportation system can save people’s time so that
people can do more work hence to increase the city’s efficiency. If you were the mayor, would
you like the people in the city to sit in the cars or stand at bus stations wait for hours or would you
like them to sit in the offices or stand in factories work for hours?

Moreover, a city with bad mass transportation system can’t be qualified as a good city, regardless
how rich the city is and how big the city is. It’s essential for a city to have a good mass
transportation system to be qualified a good city. For example, big cities such as Toronto, Tokyo,
New York all have very good mass transportation systems which can bring people anywhere they
want in a short time. A bad mass transportation system would limit the city to grow and it would
be a handicap for the city to develop in the future.

Finally, as we can see, if my hometown can improve the mass transportation system, people will
appreciate it a lot. It will be a great thing which benefits everyone in the city and makes our lifes
more convenient.