Raising the Minimum Driving Age for Road Safety — 14.03.2026
Essay type: Opinion (agree / disagree — to what extent)Band 6.5-8.0Stance: Largely disagreeTarget ≈ 300 wordsModel essay: Band 8.0
Student's Edition
Ngô Đức Thảo
MTESOL · Academic Director
Task 2 Topic
Some people think that the best way to increase road safety is to increase the minimum legal age for driving cars or riding motorbikes. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
1Task analysis
Item
Detail
Essay type
Opinion (agree / disagree — to what extent)
Main topic
Whether raising the legal age for driving is the best way to make roads safer
Keywords
the best way · increase road safety · minimum legal age · driving cars or riding motorbikes
Task focus
Judge whether raising the driving age is the best way to improve road safety
Required position
Say clearly how far you agree or disagree and keep the same position in every paragraph
Plain-English meaning
If young people had to wait longer before driving, would roads be safer? Is this the best solution?
Hidden trap
The best way is a superlative — you can accept that age matters but argue that training, enforcement and road design are more effective
Chosen stance
Largely disagree. Raising the age merely postpones inexperience and imposes social costs; graduated licensing, enforcement and safe road design address the real causes
Main-idea plan
BP1 → a higher age only delays the inexperienced phase and has social costs · BP2 → a systemic approach (licensing, enforcement, infrastructure) is far more effective
2Idea generation
Body 1 — Experience, not age, as the key variable
Raising the age merely postpones the inexperienced phase ✓ strongest
Social and economic costs for young workers
Unlicensed riding may increase dự phòng
Body 2 — A systemic approach to road safety
Graduated licensing and rigorous testing ✓ strongest
Enforcement against speeding and drink-driving
Safe infrastructure forgives human error dự phòng
✓ strongest = ý dùng trong bài mẫu · dự phòng = ý thay thế, không có trong bài mẫu.
3Skeleton
Introduction
General statement: Young drivers over-represented
Paraphrased task: Rewrite: raise legal age = best safety measure
Thesis: Largely disagree
Body 1: Higher age postpones inexperience; costs for young workers; illegal riding
Conclusion: Restate the opinion → summarise both reasons → final thought
4Plan & write your paragraphs
How to use: Read the main idea, tap the cue words to add them to the box, then write
your own sentence. Your essay is built automatically at the bottom and saved in this browser.
Introduction(50–70 words)
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Goal: Topic → rewrite the statement → give your opinion.
General statement
Main idea: Young drivers over-represented
Starter: Given that young drivers … ·
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Paraphrased task
Main idea: Rewrite: raise legal age = best safety measure
Starter: One proposal is to … ·
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Thesis
Main idea: Largely disagree
Starter: I largely disagree, since … ·
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Body Paragraph 1 — Experience, not age, as the key variable(100–125 words)
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Goal: Reason 1: explain it and give an example.
Topic sentence
Main idea: Inexperience, not age
Starter: The central flaw in … ·
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Explanation 1
Main idea: Merely postpones risk
Starter: Raising the age limit … ·
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Example
Main idea: Real social costs
Starter: The policy would also … ·
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Explanation 2
Main idea: Unlicensed riding risk
Starter: In rural Vietnam, for … ·
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Further development
Main idea: Shifts danger
Starter: Delaying access, in other … ·
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Link
Main idea: Blunt instrument
Starter: Age restrictions are thus … ·
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Body Paragraph 2 — A systemic approach to road safety(100–125 words)
