IELTS Essay Writing Blog

Inborn qualities versus hard-work

2012-01-30T06:49:00.000-08:00

People often believe that great musicians are born and not made.
Do you agree that we are born with much of our ability or are there other factors such as family and environment, that determine success?

Nature versus nurture is an ongoing controversial debate from decades. Whether some people who are famous, for instance great musicians, are born with possessed talents or they achieved that position with their determination and hard-work. Undoubtedly, many great artists, musicians belong to the families who have the same skills they possess, which make us believe that talents are innate. Contrarily, there are many examples who have achieved their positions with their caliber, firm determination, patience and continuous practice.

In my opinion each of us are born with multitude of talents. Those who realize them, can be benefited but who don't, lacks those skills. Even though, someone is talented, they need to be nurtured to reach to their full potential. It is essential that our parents and others should recognize our talents and give us proper environment, guidance to be able to enhance ourselves to that potential. People whom we label as "talented" are privileged enough to get these opportunities while growing up, that is why their skills are prominent and they are successful.

Additionally, hard-work and determination can not be ignored in building a successful personality. Regardless of being innate or not, if someone possess these two things, will definitely grow in life. Many musicians spends hours in practicing, sacrificed numerous comforts to achieve the position they have. Best example is a great musician Beethoven, who was almost deaf. Despite of being deaf, his determination and never giving-up attitude made him a great musician in history.

To summarize, I believe that nature and nurture go hand in hand and its the responsibility of the parents to recognize their children's qualities and nourish them to reach to that potential where they can utilize them to be great or successful.

Early computer education

2011-12-23T11:32:00.000-08:00

Using a computer every day can have more negative than positive effects on children. Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Essay :
There is no doubt that the advent of computers has revolutionized the world in last one decade. Around the globe, children nowadays start using computers from very young age. Although it is very important for children to participate in a well balanced veriety of activities like outdoor event and sports, in my openion computer education is the must-have skill for succeeding in future. Computer cognition (knowledge) is imperative (necessary) in all perspectives such as personal, academic and professional.
From personal point of view, computers are an invaluable resource for young people to explore the world and avilable oppertunities around them. Internet connectivity has expedited the data availabilty to such extent that information searching has now became more easier and more amusing. By starting in early age, children feel totally at ease around computers./By starting computes at early age, children tend to be more comfortable and confident in future.
Computers are backbone of todays education system. Recent Educomp learning method is the perfect example of that. Not only students, teachers are also procuring the enormous benifits of this. From writing assignments, creating presentations to completing thesis, computers are the most valuable resource. So, early knowledge is definately a plus point for the children.
Lastly and most importantly, computers have taken a parmanent position in workplace nowadays. Starting from government job to hi-tech engineering profession, computers are now the initial requirement.
In conclusion, we will have to accept that computers as a technological tool is here to stay forever and I believe that if children start learning them daily for reasonable time along with other important activities, they will become more confidant and successful in future.

Need for Public Transport

2011-12-23T10:53:00.000-08:00

The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. In order to reverse this decline in the quality of life in cities, attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Discuss possible ways to encourage the use of public transport.

Essay:
In the modern world where the environmental awareness is increasing very rapidly, improved public transport system is the key to the future quality of life. Although people do enjoy convenience and privacy of travelling in their own private vehicle, they can use public transport if it fulfils few conditions which will attract or encourage them to shift to public transport. These conditions can be categorized as attitudinal, financial and logistical.
From an attitudinal perspective, people who are accustomed to use their private vehicles needs to be convinced that public transport can be better alternatives with lots of benifits. An educational and public relation compaign should be launched to sensitize people and familiarize them with the environmental, social and personal benifits for future generations.
From functional perspective, the cost of public transportaion should be affordable for all range of consumers. If people feel that by using bus and subways, they can save a lot of money to take a free holiday trip each year, many more people can be persuaded to travel in this way.
The last but not the least, logistical perspective. This means that route, timing and availability of buses and subways should be traveller friendly. City planner and transport officials needs to ensure that a convinient and reliable public transport is available for each citizen. The conditions of transport vehicles, bus or subway stations should be well maintained and clean.
To summarize, there are mulitple ways available to promote the use of public transport over private vehicles but for this, city government, transport officials and polititions should also use this mode of transport and set an example for public. The more people will be encouraged to follow this suit and we may all hope to live in a cleaner environment.

Computer vs Teachers

2011-12-23T10:52:00.001-08:00

Topic : As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for teachers in the classroom.
Do you agree or disagree.

Essay :
There is no doubt that the advent of computers has tremendously raised the level of education in last two decades. The internet connectivity has expedited data availability and the search for information has become more eaiser and more amusing. The digital books and study materials is replacing the traditional paper books very rapidely. Some people believe that this computerized revolution is fading the role of the teacher in our education system and soon there will be no room for teachers in the classroom. But I strongly disagree and believe that there is no substitute for human interaction in the learning process.

Firstly, I believe that there is no alternative to the vast experience and expertiese of a teacher. Only a teacher can make the difference in the monotonous and shrewd student and change his/her style of teaching as per the needs of the student. The role of a teacher become more important for kids at primarly level as they can not even operate the complex computer systems.

Secondly, there are many subjects like mechanical, architectuer, biology, geophysics etc where hands-on experience has more imprtance over theoritical konwledge. So for these subjects the role of teacher is more important as they can guide the students based on their past experiences.

In the end, I would like to conclude that although computers are breakthrough in every field, the teachers play and will always play an important role in the classrooms especially at the primary level. No matter how complex the computer become, the human interaction can never be replaced.

Reveolution in Travel in 20th Century

2011-09-14T13:21:00.000-07:00

World travel was revolutionized in the 20th century to the extent that the world has now become a global village. What factors will influence travel this century? Will travel continue to grow or will it become less popular ?

It is a fact that in today's time travelling around the world is increasing very fast than ever before due to numerous offers of travel packages including cheep flights, budget hotels etc. Increasing tourism brings many good things for the tourist places but this popularization is also carrying many problems with it.

Around a century back, due to limited resources of travelling, people can only travel the nearby places. But with the invention of high speed trains, aeroplanes, cargo ships, million kilometer distance looks like nothing. This inspires people to travel around the world and see the different cultures, natural beauty with their own eyes. In the 20th century, due to globalisation, many companies are operating in multiple countries, which increases the work related travels for the people. This affect also brought down the travelling prices especially flight costs, so more and more people can afford travelling to different countries. Apart from that many new technologies are discovered to simplify designs, less fuel requirements and increased performance of cars, trains, which increases the short distances travels.

There are few factors which can cause set-back for this increasing tourism. One such factor is increasing number of accidents. But, many new inventions are taking place to make the vehicle more intelligent to reduce these accidents. Other factor is increasing terrorism, but this will only affect only a minimal amount of tourism as the world will not surrender itself to these kind of terrorists.

In the end, I think that, there are more factors which will help in increasing the travelling around the world than the factors to stop them. So the travel and tourism will continue to grow in future, making the world smaller and mixing the world culture.

Violence in Young due to Action in TV and Cinema

2011-09-14T13:19:00.000-07:00

A lot of people believe that the amount of violence shown on TV and in the cinema affects the actions of our young people and therefore increases the amount of violence in our society today.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement? What can be done to reduce violence in our society today ?

    Now-a-days television and cinema are the most easily accessible source of entertainment. Most of the movies now-a-days show large amount of action. Even the animations have big amount of violence e.g. "Rango". Television programs like WWF shows dirty violence. This increasing violence in television and cinema is really affecting the young minds adversely.

    It is a fact that visual things affect our mind very fast and they remain in memory for long time. The kids don't have knowledge to decide what is right or wrong. They learn and try to imitate what they see, whether from their parents or from television.They feel glamor in what they do by committing violence. When these kids grow, they tend to be more aggressive in many situations rather than being calm. Many times we have seen in news that few young bikers created nuisance on the road at midnight as they were just inspired by the movies like "Fast and Furious".

    To reduce this increasing tendency of violence in young, we need to refrain kids from watching too much television and engage them other activities like arts, music and outdoor sports. Being aware of the age of the children when they start seeing these things and raise the age limit will help in preventing this. Another solution can be to control the violent behavior of a young. Rather than putting them in prison, put them in the army, where their violence can be controlled and they will learn discipline.

    In the conclusion I completely agree that our society is really facing the large amount of violence specially from young people. There are few thing that can be done to control the situation but it will be very difficult I think.

Leisure Time vs Hard Studies

2011-09-12T04:21:00.000-07:00

In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies.
What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?

Sometimes many young people find very little leisure time for recreation and have to do lot of hard work in their studies. There can be many reasons for this including heaving competition in schools/universities, parental pressure, maintaining social standards, financial conditions.

Every parent wants their child be successful in their life. Some of them has decided what their child will become in future for example engineer, doctor. In many countries, where the economic condition is not very good, people want their child to do what they were not able to do in their life. So they start pressuring their child to study hard to achieve the same. Even in my country, kids have to go for three to four hours of private tuitions after the regular six hours of schools. As a consequences, they have very little leisure time to go for sports and other recreational activities.

Second reason is our higher education system. In todays competitive environment, a child has to put lot of extra effort to compete with others to survive. Due to increasing population, specially in Asian countries, there are thousands of young people competing for little number of seats in good universities. This puts lot of pressure on teenagers to put long hours of studies to get even a single chance of success.

One solution of the problem is that the parents have to understand the abilities and interest of their child and support them to follow their dreams rather than imposing their own will. The schools should inform the parents about their children's' interests and ask them to give their child a stress-less environment of growth.

Other solution is to improvise the curriculum of the schools/universities to include latest technologies. So that the kids don't have to put extra efforts to learn new things to beat the competitions along with good grades. The schools should also promote sports, arts based on the interest of the kids.

In conclusion, only studies will not help in the overall growth of the individual. To compete in the society they have to be smart, energetic and free.

Finanncial Litracy at Schools

2011-09-12T04:17:00.000-07:00

Financial education should be mandatory component of the school program. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

It is obvious that the financial aspects are most important part of our daily life, as an adult or as a young individual. We should be able to take financial decisions concerning our health, education, recreations, savings, future plans. To take correct decision, we should have proper financial education. But the question is that, we should start the financial education in school program or postpone it for later studies.

To begin with, to understand the value of money, understand the economic structure, interpret the financial aspects and to choose the best possible option among many, good financial education is must. Without this, an individual might have to suffer to some extent. For example, a young borrowing things without understanding the interest compounding on that or doing an investment without knowing the rates of returns. In addition, one of the most important decision for students is to know how to finance their education. An early grounding financial literacy, bridges this gap and sets the strong stage for later in life.

However, financial education involves the understanding of quantifying and setting prices for goods and services. This may turns them cynical and cold-hearted human beings. Furthermore, a tendency of self concentration and egoism might arise when people start thinking everything from profit making perspective.

In conclusion, financial literacy has both pros and cons. But as we know that eduction is never bad if it is utilized with good intentions and in positive direction. In my opinion, the advantages are stronger than the disadvantages in making financial education as a part of school program. The disadvantage of this can be thought of as the young people have to pay as the characteristics of the world in which we are living.

Sport Professionals Salary

2011-09-12T04:15:00.000-07:00

Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions.
Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

As a result of constant media attention, the sport professionals gets the celebrity status and earn great deal of money. They live lavish life as the celebrities with all amenities and luxuries of life.

Some people find their rewards unfair, specially when comparing with the professions like scientists, professors, government bodies who have the responsibility of governing the nation. The money that these successful professionals can not be determined by the contribution to the society they made or the level of position they hold. Their main source of income is endorsements. This is because they reflect the public popularity of the sports in general and the level of public support they achieve. So the question of unfair does not arise.

The money the sport professionals achieve as a reward can be justified by the amount of their talent. All the sport persons don't earn that much money. There are very few who are talented enough to reach that stage and wins the public support. They have a great amount of pressure from media as well as from constantly increasing competition. These players are tested all the times in their every game and a single mistake can shorten their career. They also get little privacy out of their spot-lite. These argument justified the huge luxuries they avail.

In the end, i feel that the amount of money these sport starts are making is justified as they are the ones who has the responsibility of representing our nation in the world. If they win, it is the win of the nation for which they are playing.

Population Explosion

2011-09-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

Counties such as China, India and Japan have unsustainable population growths. In fact many experts are of the opinion that the population ‘explosion’ which is now a very worrying concern, is the most serious threat to life on this planet.

Give some suggestions to address this problem.

It took the entire humankind to reach to the population of 1 billion by 1810 and only in 120 years by 1930 its doubled. The statistics says that the population will reach to 10 billinon by 2025. The current rate of population is now a burden to human well-being. Understanding the factors which affects the population growth can help future plans to restrict the giant problem of population explosion.

First i want to discuss about the causes of the rapid population growth. Until recently, birth rates and death rates were nearly same. Thanks to improved nutirtions and sanitizations, medical technology ( vaccines and antibiotics) which rescues the number of deaths specially children below age of five. Now people live longer than ever before. Also, in countries like China and India, where more than 30% of population is less educated. Because of which they are not aware of the consequences of the population growth and have many children.

The major consequence of the population growth is an affect on basic needs for survival such as food, shelter, water, education and employment. These resources are limited on earth. But with the increasing population, soon there will be crises for these basic amenities. In addition to this increase in population will increase the poverty level of the people specially in the developing contries as due to illiteracy they are growing more children than the educated ones.

To control the increasing population, we first need to use technology to derive future population projections and its consequences. Then we need to educate people with these results. Teachers need to teach students about popluation explosion and its consequences so that they can learn to handle this problems in future.

IELTS Essay Topics

2011-09-07T04:57:00.000-07:00

( Task – 2 [ Writing Module ] )

Even though globalization affects the world’s economies in a positive way, its negative side should not be forgotten. Discuss.

In some countries children have very strict rules of behavior, in other countries they are allowed to do almost anything they want. To what extent should children have to follow rules?

Even though globalization affects the world's economies in a very positive way, its negative side should not be forgotten. Discuss.

Financial education should be mandatory component of the school program. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for teachers in the classroom.

Improvements in health, education and trade are essential for the development of poorer nations. However, the governments of richer nations should take more responsibility for helping the poorer nations in such areas.

Popular events like the football World Cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way.

As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for teachers in the classroom.

Some people think that schools are merely turning children into good citizens and workers, rather than benefiting them as individuals. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In Many countries, children are getting fatter and less fit day by day. What is your opinion about it?

Without capital punishment our lives are less secure and crimes or violence increase. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons to develop your essay.

In some countries children have very strict rules of behaviour, in other countries they are allowed to do almost anything they want. To what extent should children have to follow rules?

With all the troubles in the world today, money spent on space exploration is a complete waste. The money could be better spent on other things.

Financial education should be mandatory component of the school program. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Today, the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertizing and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold.To what extenet do you agree or disagree.

Successful professionals earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while other think it is unfair. Discuss both the views and give your openion.

Some people believe that visitors to other contries should follow local custom and behaviours. Others disagree and think that host contry should welcome the cultural differences.Discuss both the views and openions.

Some people prefer to spend their lives doing the same thing and avoiding chanes. Others , however think that change is always a good thing. Discuss both the views and opinion.

Some people believe that a college or university education should be available to all students.
Others believe that higher education should be available only to good students.
Discuss these views. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.

Food at Home or Restaurent

2011-09-07T03:16:00.000-07:00

Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Other people prefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

There was a time in stone age when man has to hunt for the food. Now-a-days we have lots of food options available. Every next road has eating joints ranging from luxurious hotels and restaurents to small road-side stalls. We also have options in raw cooking materials from fresh vegitalbes, meats and fruits to pre-cooked frozen materials. It is difficult to say that I always like cook and eat at home or going to food stands. The choices depends upon many factors.

Cooking a good and healthy food requires time, efforts and also bit experties. In todays competitive time, after working for hours in offices, a person needs rest and good food. At that time we doesn't have strength to cook the food. Then we are looking for ready made food either at food stands or at any good restaurents. Also, sometimes we want to taste food of different cuisines like indian, thie, continental etc. Restaurents are also the best choice for social gatherings like birthday parties, old friends get toghather when we want to enjoy rather than wasting time in cooking.

Contrary to that, it is also the fact that nothing is better than the home cooked food. When we prepare food by ouself, we take care of everything like hygiene, spices, oil depending upon our health and taste. Many times cooking work as stress buster e.g. when you put your full concentration in cooking forget about your tensions and only think about tasty food. Also the best thing about eating at home is that you can watch your favorite programs on televsion while having your dinner. Having dinner with family increases communication, everyone can share their day with each other. Finally, it saves lot of money too.

In conclusion, I want to say that most of the time I personally like the home made food. But there are times as mentioned when we prefer to go out for lunch or dinner.

Globalisation : Pros and Cons

2011-09-04T01:24:00.000-07:00

Even though globalisation affects the world’s economies in a positive way, its negative side should not be forgotten. Discuss.

The term "globalisation" refers to the unification of distinct political, economical and cultural trends all over the globe. Directly or indirectly, globalisation plays a very important role in our lives. But in the meantime it is a blessing or curse is a heated debate.

Globalisation has affected the world in several ways. Workers in developing countries now have more occupational choices than ever before and they are able to compete on the global job market for high paying jobs. The companies are becoming multi-national and doing offshore business all over the world, thereby making contribution to the local employment and growth. Asian countries like India and China are the best example of that, which has most offshore work in the world. Moreover, the people get to know each other, their culture through global communication (Internet chatting, cheap VOIP calls etc.).

Opposite to that, globalisation has increased the inequalities and environmental degradation. In search of cheap labour, companies are sending more business to offshore, leaving in-house vacancies open. In the current time United States is facing this problem. Also, the mind workers like engineers, scientists are able to compete successfully in world market and earn higher wages than the production and service workers. Which leads the problem of job inequality. It also adds the problem of Brain Drain as the talented minds are moving away from poor countries. According to research India is loosing around $10 billion per year due to brain drain.

In summary, I would say that in spite of obvious problems with overly rapid development, globalisation is a very positive force that lifts countries out of poverty. It causes a virtual economic cycle associated with faster economic growth.

Advertisements : Pros and Cons

2011-09-03T21:16:00.000-07:00

Some people say that advertising encourages us to buy things that we really do not need. Others say that advertisements tell us about new products that may improve our lives.

Which viewpoint do you agree with?

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Advertisements play an important role in today's economy. They are useful to both consumers and the producers. They help the consumers by giving information about their products available in the market. With the help of advertisements the vendor can directly speak to the customer. But the advertisements have both pros and cons.

Advertisements help to increase the sale of goods, so producers sell them on reasonable prices. Consumers also get to know the offers and discounts available on products by advertisements only. In turn they increase the demand of the goods and more workers are required to fulfil the demand. So they provide employment. For advertising their products, producers pay money for transporting, printing, porters and sellers. Daily newspapers, bus fees, television licence fees remain cheap for end consumers because of advertisements only. They also keep the standard of the goods and services to maintain the stability of the product in the market.

Contrary to that, advertisements try to influence our emotions by making us buy their products which we really don't need. They make use believe that with the use of their product our dreams come true. For example many chocolates advertisements are acted by children to attract them and forcing their parents to buy for them. Also the inappropriate content shown affect the kids mind adversely. Also from cost perspective, the total production cost of a product includes the advertisements costs which increase the market cost of the product. That is why non-commercial products, such as produced for organizations has lower cost.

In conclusion, advertisements are essential to update consumers with the latest products, their features and prices. It is responsibility of the consumers to analyse their needs before making a purchase.