IELTS WRITING TASK 2 – GENERAL

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1. Some people say that E- books and modern technology will totally replace traditional newspaper
and magazines to what extent do you agree or disagree.
Technology is flourishing by leaps and bounds and providing us new avenues while keeping
ourselves update with latest news and current affairs. Therefore, a fair amount of people believe, a
conventional way of newspaper reading will be disappeared. I do not completely accord on it
because conventional newspaper are easiest and cheapest way to get news.
To embark on, there are multiple reasons why the traditional ways of getting news are still popular.
First of all, reading newspaper has become ardent habit of many people. Everyone whether from
affluent or middle class are seen desperately waiting for paper in morning and enjoy it reading with
cup of tea. Moreover, these are the portable, cheapest an easiest way of knowing about the global
activities. It can be carried from one place to other in bag and available at economical price. It is so
handy and merely by continuing flip of pages can make you omniscient. Secondly, electricity and
other appliances are not required. Moreover, the other attachments are like icing on the cake. For
instance, the Hindustan times has multiple attachments like women’s fashion, career guide, culinary
art and so on.
However, undoubtedly, technology has given the radical approach to reading news, for example,
videos provide full and clear view to reading besides that we can download, share and forward it to
our relatives and friends. Needless to say that technophobic will be having no place in this ever-
advanced modern world.
To conclude, the lives of people are drastically affected by advanced versions of technology yet, in
my opinion, it will not be able to pose threat to the existence traditional newspaper and magazines.

2. Some people believe that teenagers should be required to do unpaid community work in their
free time. This can benefit teenagers and the community as well. To what extent do you agree or
disagree.
Children are the backbone of every country. So, there are people who tend to believe that
youngsters should be encouraged to initiate social work as it will results in flourished society and
individualistic growth of youngsters themselves. I, too believe that this motivation has more
benefits than its drawbacks.
To begin with, social work by children can be easily associated with personality development
because during this drive, they tend to communicate with variety of people, leads to polished verbal
skills. For example, if they start convincing rural people to send their children in school they have to
be such a convincing attitude along with developed verbal skills to deal with diverse kind of people
there. This improved skill will help them lifelong in every arena. Apart from this, the true values of
life like tolerance, patience, team spirit, cooperation can be learnt. Besides that, young mind serve
the country with full enthusiasm that gives them feeling of fulfilment and self-satisfaction. This
worthiness for themselves brim them with self-confidence and patriotic feeling. Moreover, going
 and experiencing multiple culture and tradition make their horizon so broad that add one more
feather in their cap.
However, it is truly said, no rose without thrones. Can the drawbacks of this initiation be ignored?
Children go to school, participate indifferent curriculum activities, endure the pressure of peers,
parents, and teachers and in competitive world they should not be expected to serve society
without their self-benefits. This kind of pressure might bring resentment in their mind.
In conclusion I believe, notion of teenager doing unpaid work is indeed good but proper monitoring
and care should be given to avoid untoward consequences.

3. Do children behave better when they are physically punished or rewarded?

Children are the future of the nation and how they should be raised, is a debatable issue. Some
people believe that they should be exposed to the physical punishment while other say constant
appreciation is required for them. According to me, these arguments need proper scrutinisation
before forming any opinion.
To begin with, there are many advantages of conferring rewards to children first of all, appreciation
and verbal praise can have a magical impact on the behaviour of the children because when they
are appreciated for good conduct they come to know about value of good behaviour and try to keep
continue with that. The more they brim with positive comments, the more they are confident. On
the other hand, children who are subjected to artificial physical punishment are seen with lack of
self-confidence. A survey conducted on behaviour of children revealed that a child exposed to
punitive actions my parents are more aggressive and furious than others of his age. Hence beatings
to child can never be fruitful.
On the contrary, there is no denying the fact that training to the notorious and ferocious mind is a
hard nut to crack because it is true that rod the only logic for the fools. Moreover, some children
repeat mistakes even after being warned and punished, this type of stubbornness force parents and
guardians to give them beatings. Needless to say, over pampering may have adverse effect on
children. In this present scenario, parents have one or two children and this pampering distract
them away from their path.
To conclude, children are the tender buds and nurturing them is really a major responsibility.
Therefore, a fair judgment on behaviour is required for good upbringing.

4. Some people say that feeling of competition should be encouraged in children others say they
should be taught to become cooperative. What is your opinion?
Children are the tender buds of the society and they are required to be taught true values of life.
Therefore, some people tend to believe that feeling of competition should be infused in them while
others believe that the possession of cooperative values are required for them. I will discuss the
merits and demerits of both aspects before reaching to any opinion.
To begin with, there are many reasons why children should be having competional values? Firstly,
competition motivates youngsters to accelerate their efforts to attain higher level in education and
in other activities. They start doing work hard to compete with others and understand the value of
 hard work. This dedication and hard work help them to stand first everywhere. Secondly,
competional values inculcate self-confidence and self-independence in children. When they
participate in activities and compete others, they are more likely to have feeling of self-achievement
and fulfilment. They feel themselves worthy that provide them balanced and peaceful mind. They
tend to become self-reliant and that result in best decision talking ability in them. Moreover, sense
of completion is the need of the hour. Undoubtedly, in modern era, people since their childhood till
adults, face completion for example- in school there are dance competition, race competition,
poem competition and when they grow adults, they face competition in taking job, while taking
admission in college and even face competitive in exam. Thus, value is highly required.
On the other hand, it is needless to say that how important is it to inculcate the value of
cooperation. This is the only feeling by which a child can learn teamwork, team spirit, co-existence,
tolerance and patience. Moreover, if the history is seen it becomes quite evident that the well-
known icons of the society are only those who had a helping and sacrificing attitude. A self centered
human being cannot earn fame in society. Secondly, incessant preaching for competition may
results in rivalry feeling for peer group and others. These rivalry feelings take no time in turning in
to jealous and personal grudges. A heart full of jealous for others can never hold good for
themselves and for others.
To conclude, after gauging both, competional and cooperative values, I feel that both values have
its own importance. Thus, a child should be brought up by imparting both equally.

5. Some people think that the government is wasting money on the arts and this money could be
better spent elsewhere. To what extent do you agree or disagree.
Art is the externalization of the individual skills and reflects the heritage of a country. At present,
art seems to losing its value because of less concern by government, however, I feel that art still
requires to be given more value than other basic necessities of any nation.
To begin with, there are many reasons why art should be the priority of any country? First of all, it
is the best source of generating revenue income for government. Museums, art galleries and
musical concerts are the place, from where a handsome revenue is taken. Mesmerizing sculptures,
beautifully engraved paintings by renowned artists adorn the beauty of the museums and attract
tourists. Undoubtedly, these tourists are the greatest source of revenue income. These tourists
throng in large number on these historical places and monuments that help to promote local
handicrafts, resulting in providing income to the small scale industries. Secondly, art is the cultural
and historical reflection of every country. It is the real asset of every country that brings uniqueness
and pride for every country and if fund is not allocating by the government then it will be difficult
to keep this alive.
However, some opponents of the art says that spending money by government on art hampers the
development of the country in regards to good infrastructure , road system , efficient transport
system and medical facilities . Moreover, allocating money to education and medical facilities
definitely lessens the literacy rate and increases wellbeing of the nation that help a country to grow.
To conclude, art is really an integral part of every country, therefore, government should fund art
museums and promote artists’ values to keep and maintain the glorify history of country otherwise
artists and the art will be lost in oblivion.
6. When a country develops its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die out. It is
pointless to try and keep them alive. Do you agree and disagree with this statement?
Technology is flourishing by leaps and bounds and undoubtedly this advancement is taking toll on
the traditional values .I do believe that in this technological world traditional values are bound to
disappear.
To initiate with, there are many reasons why these conventional values have no existence in this
modern world. First of all, in this fast paced world, everyone is assisted with mobile phone to stay
connected with their family and friends. However, in olden times people used to send letters and
stand in the long queues on S.T.D and I.S.D just for maturity of one call. This advancement in the
modes of communication has proved that traditional skills are worth for nothing. Secondly,
technology has transformed the world of fashion. Earlier people used to do knitting, stitching, and
designing manually but now machines have made every task easier and comfortable. To
substantiate my view, many of fashion designing students were seen portraying pictures of model
themselves for checking the compatibility of colours but at present this work is done in seconds on
multifarious advanced software. Apart from this, hardly any one is seen purchasing pitcher for cool
water because of the invention of refrigerators.
To conclude, evolution of modern technology is an ongoing process, so, the time consuming
traditional methods will not be able to maintain their pace with these latest trends. Hence, it is
useless and wastage to time to preserve them.

7. Artists need a certain amount of freedom to develop their creativity .Some people think that
artists should have total freedom to express any thoughts and ideas. To what extent do you agree
or disagree?
Art is the externalization of the skills of an artist. Therefore, there are the people who are in the
favour to impart full liberty to the artists; however, others oppose this opinion freely. In my opinion,
freedom is necessary up to greater extent but there should be proper surveillance on their work to
avoid any unpleasant situation.
To begin with, there are many reasons why some people are in favour to give full freedom to artists.
First of all, if they are free from any suppression that helps them to unveil all the social issues of the
society without any fear. They expose the cancerous spot and request the society to uproot that.
Any type of confinement will not let them to express their thoughts. Secondly, these creative artists
are the nerve of every nation because of their extraordinary skills; if they work freely they,
undoubtedly, have the potential to make masterpiece that brings recognition for every country in
the map of world.
However, I feel that the full autonomy may have adverse effect on the individual and on the society
because many times artists are seen painting any objectionable picture, adding any anti-social
dialogue in the films that result in the communal riots and hurt sentiments of the people. These
types of acts cost the life of the people. For example, once in the a popular film, some Hindu gods
are shown begging .This film has not only brought criticism by the hindu society but also sparked
 communal riots that have ended up in the demise of some people. Therefore, they should not be
given full freedom.
To sum up, although artists are required to give full liberty for exploring their creativity yet
government should ensure that that very act may not hurt others feeling .

8. Some people think that art is an essential subject for children at school while others think it is a
waste of time. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
There has always been a raging debate whether art is an important subject for children in schools
or it can be neglected in the views of other important subjects. I am going to scrutinize on both the
aspects in further paragraphs before forming any opinion in the last.
To begin with, on the one side of the coin, there are many reasons for supporting other important
subjects in children’s school curriculum; firstly, modern technology like computer literacy has
become need of the hour. It is one of the most demanded skills for job in every sector. If they
spend most of their time in learning art they will not be able to face cut-throat competitions of this
scenario. Moreover, the knowledge of essential subjects like math, science is highly required in
every field. Secondly, Art despite being highly appreciated, still do not ensure any career growth
because most of the fields like engineering, marketing, IT professionals and managers are a found
graduated and post graduated in these important subjects.
On the other flip side of the coin, art is a creative skill that has wonderful imagination power. It
provides the wings to the fantasy and expresses the feelings without exchange of words. To
illustrate, once I have come across with the painting in which the difference between the rich and
poor’s plight was depicted through painting only. Moreover, music is also a piece of art and works
as a healing therapy in to hectic world. Secondly, artists bring laurels for the country across the
world and ensure that the cultural heritage of the country may not extinct. For this they are highly
paid and appreciated. That kind of respects is not less than flourished career. To conclude, in my
views the selections of the subjects should be left on the students in which they are interested
because that very interest help them to grow in their life.

9. Now a days the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology.
In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has this become a
positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant
examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Technology is flourishing by leaps and bounds in each and every field and communication is not the
exception. However, this tremendous change in the ways of interaction cannot be regarded fruitful
straightforwardly because of its certain drawbacks which spark debate on its positive and negative
effects.
To embark on, with regards to positive development, one of the prominent benefit is that
technology has made communication easier and comfortable. At present, people are hardly one
click away from the nears and dears one because of the modern developments like Skype , video
conferencing , WhatsApp and social networking sites, like face book . These advancements have
made everyone social up to much extent. Secondly, there are tremendous chances in the way of
 letters and telegrams were sent and in making calls. People used to stand in long queues on S.T.D
and I.S.D booth but now mobile phone and advanced gizmos facilitate everyone to interact freely.
On the other hand, certain drawbacks cannot be ignored like todays’ people not only spend longer
time in using computers but also do not prefer to meet their friends and relatives face to face
leading to faded relationship. For instance, one of my childhood friend preferred to meet me
personally on different occasions like festival and on birthdays but nowadays, she sends messages
for wishing me and send greetings on my mail. Even most of the family members are suffering from
asphyxia, a disease sparks from isolation .This is really a worrisome issue for the imitate
relationships.
To sum up, despite having numerous drawbacks, no one can afford turning face from this ever fast
modern technology that has facilitate our lives.

10. Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary
school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh its disadvantages?
It is true that language acquisition is a complex process. Therefore, it is advisable to teach foreign
language at elementary school than secondary. According to me, the merits of this notion
outnumbered its demerits.
To embark on, there are numerous benefits of teaching foreign language to children in early age.
First of all, children are having receptive mind with good grasping power. This age is the learning
stage of life. Whatever is learnt in child age, can remember longer in life. Besides that, children are
less egoistic and do not afraid of committing mistake in learning. As failures are the pillars of success
while continuous practicing they may attain a reasonable level of language. Undoubtedly, a
language consists of different dialects, grammatical rules, intonations, denotation, functions syntax
and style. By practicing these, a child can possess unmatchable linguistic skills. Secondly, everyone
is in a mad race to fly board in this modern scenario and possession of foreign language equip them
to communicate freely for easy survival. Moreover, polished communication skills have become
need to the hour of the cut throat competition world.
However, it is also a fact that going to school, doing homework, taking part in extra-curriculum
activities are itself a time consuming activities for students. If they are exposing to the regular
language teaching sessions that will make them pressurize and psychological ill. This type of burden
will hamper their physical, mental and psychological growth.
To conclude, even though , teaching foreign language may aggravate their existing burden yet
preparing young mind for further survival has become mandatory by imparting linguistic skills.

11. Most school offers some type of physical education program to their students. Why it is
important? Should physical education classes be required or optional?
Physical education programs are having paramount importance in school curriculum, therefore,
there have been a number of given opinion, that physical education should be compulsory because
of its mental and physical health benefits for a student, however, some oppose it. I will discuss both
types of opinions before conclusion.
 To begin with, undoubtedly, it has been proved that physical activities are the part and parcel of
healthy life. Students who are exposed to these types of physical exercises can increase their
stamina and resistance power. According to medical science, Strong immune system helps to
prevent from certain diseases like diabetes, obesity and indigestion. It not only improves stamina
of body but also make one mentally strong. Besides that, A recent study has revealed that
indulgence in these activities do not let the students to sneak time for electronic gadgets.
Furthermore, physical programs are very helpful in inculcating the values of team spirit, cooperation
and coexistence. Therefore, the array of benefits make it inevitable part of the school’s curriculum.
On the other hand, there are the situation and certain circumstances when physical program needs
to be sacrificed. Students with certain disability and illness somehow should not be forced to be the
part of this. Their impairments prevent them to be active and physically enthusiastic. Indeed, there
is requirement to have it optional but it is also imperative to understand that they should be
equipped with any other educational aspects like computer numeracy and soft skills.
In conclusion, physical education should not be optional since it provides physical and mental
growth to a student but the circumstances of impaired candidates should be kept in view.

12. What are the main reasons and solutions for re-offend?
Every country has its own laws to combat with crime and criminals. However, nowadays, it is quite
apparent that many criminals repeat crime even after being punished. It has really become a matter
of concern because of multiple reasons and according to me this kind of problem should be
addressed immediately.
To start with, undoubtedly, these criminals get influenced by many reasons like social isolation,
unemployment, psychological disabilities and lack of education. Unfortunately, they are subjected
to humiliations very frequently by society people that disturb them mentally and pull them in
constant stage of depression. The imbalanced mental condition never let them get rid of criminal
record. Moreover, their past criminal background leaves them in the lurch of unemployment. While
finding no way to meet their both ends, they start following same path of destruction. Lack of
knowledge and skills is the other most contributing factor.
It is true that there is no problem without solution. The government should get up from long
slumber and initiate rehabilitation programs for them in which they should be given vocational
training for self-employment. The other sustainable approach is the psychological nourishment
where they can be exposed to regular spiritual and religious lecture. That will help them to keep
them away from criminal activities. Moreover, the individual should be sympathetic towards them
as Gandhiji said; Hate the sin, not the sinner.
Indeed, the aforesaid measures are highly required to curb this problem as stitch on time saves
nine.
13. Every year several languages die out. Some people think that this is not important because life
will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world. To what extent do you agree or disagree
with this opinion?
Language is the best way of communication. However, it is seen that many languages are getting
disappear in this modern era. There are the people who believe that it will be convenient if there
are less languages across the globe. I also support this opinion up to greater extent.
To start with, in the justification of my notion, first of all, the less the languages, the easier the
communication. There will be no language barrier and exchange of ideas among people that will
ultimately help in developing harmonious relationships. Besides that, it will not only result in
flourished relationship among masses but also make political relation strong as there will be more
chances of exchanging scientific research and invention.
Moreover, having fewer languages will prove boon for students and business men. The survival in
other countries will be convenient. Hence, the disappearance of some certain languages seems to
have more positive impact on the world.
However, up to some extent, it is irrefutable fact that language diversity shows the richness of
culture and tradition. Fewer languages mean less linguistic skills. These languages are the identity
of some certain community and tribe because languages are closely associated with culture of
individual and devastation of these vernacular languages will take toll on diverse culture.
To sum up, although, it seems to be necessary to save regional languages yet the declined barriers
of languages will results in good psychological relationships among people.

14. Some people say that Government should break down all the historic building and replace them
with modern buildings. Do you agree or disagree.
It is undeniable fact that every country’s monuments and historic sites are their heritage.
Surprisingly, there are some who feel it less valued and want the government to pull it down. In my
opinion, these are the greatest assets of every country and deserve respectful attitudes by citizens.
To embark on, in the justification of my notion, every country has its own cultural history that
exhibits old civilization. These historic sites are priceless and irreplaceable. This is the only way to
apprise the next generation about our ancestors and their sacrifices. Moreover, visiting on these
locations will help us to learn from our ancestor’s lapse and provide better course of action.
Furthermore, these locations are the best source of revenue income for the government. Tourists
visit on different places and their spending help the government to improve Infrastructure of the
country. Moreover, tourists show their interest in purchasing handicraft that result in the growth
of small scale industry. It increases the flow of foreign money. Above all questions, it is quite
apparent that tourists’ visit leads to good bonding among the people across the world.
In conclusion, I feel that preserving historical sites means saving history of the country. It has
Paramount importance because of its array of benefits for existing and fourth coming generations.