nEws EngliSH

my writing assignment 3 talks about a social issue in Taiwan. i chose the topic about ageing population. There are some good sentences i got from internet when i was doing my writing. now i think news English is really worth learning.


"Taiwan's fertility rate - the average number of children women have - dropped to 0.9 in 2010, down from 1.03 in 2009."

"That gives Taiwan the lowest fertility rate in the world."

"Wages here are considered low compared to the cost of childcare and property prices."

"If Taiwan continues this track the population would experience a future labour shortage and that the next generation of children would have siginificant difficulty covering the health costs of their ageing parents."

"According to the Swiss-based international Institute of Management Development, Taiwaneses work some of the longest hours in the world, averaging nearly 44 hours a week, and Taiwan's women are very career-oriented."