Topics for writing

This is a list of topics for writing compositions. Choose any of them, write a text of 100 to 150 words depending on your level, and send it to me whenever you want. You can do it by e-mail or personally in class.
Topics for writing.



1. Write a description of a member of your family or someone you know well. You should include both physical appearance and character features.

2. Describe a place where you would like to spend a Holiday.

3. You bought a computer yesterday but it doesn´t work. Write a letter of complaint to the managing director of the company which makes the computer. Mrs Helen Martin, and ask for your money back.

4. What do you think of fortune-telling or astrology?

5. Everyone needs to know how to use a computer. Do you agree?

6. What are the arguments for and against of vegetarianism?

7. Write a short story which begins: “Their eyes met across the crowded room…”

8. Do you think that banning smoking in public is a good idea?

9. The media should not be allowed to write about stars´ private lives. Do you agree?

10. Write about someone famous whose work you consider to be especially important.

11. Describe an occasion – real or imaginary – when you went to live in a new house.

12. Why are the fashion and advertising industries so obsessed with thin models? Do you think that being thin still sells nowadays?

13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a mobile phone.

14. Write a short story which begins: “The concert was over. Susie was making her way towards the exit when…”

15. What can we do to prevent global warming in the future?