Ielts-Wring Task 2 Essays

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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. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this

opinion?

The World Cup football match and the Olympics are held worldwide with greatnational support and expectations. As a fan of those competitions, I agree with the

idea that sporting events can be necessary for international relations and national

unity. In this essay, I will think about the effects of these popular sporting events.

First of all, the World Cup, Olympics and other international games work for

easing tensions among different nations. For example, South and North Korea have

football games regularly which give two nations a chance to understand each other

deeply. In the mid 1990s, a hundreds of North Korean supporters came to South

Korea with the footballers and they were very excited during the sporting events.

Even if it sounds ridiculous, many South Koreans were quite surprised at that momentwhen North Koreans shouted and cried during the match. We all realized that they

were very normal sports fans even though they were occasionally very secretive.

Through the sports, two divided nations could reduce their political and ideological

tensions and could feel the patriotic unity.

On the other hand, some sports matches can make international relations worse.

For instance, football or baseball games between Korea and Japan are always big

matches in two countries where full of tensions overflow. Sometimes, after the

matches, the two rivals blame each other and their patriotic emotions explode in an

aggressive way. Even much worse scenario is that the troubles caused by losing

games affect the players directly. As far as I know, a couple of Korean players in

Japan are suffered from invisible discrimination after the match between two

countries.

In conclusion, I think that international sporting occasions can be one of the good

ways to ease tensions or to release patriotism safely. However, I believe that games

can not be the fundamental ways for the sound patriotism or peaceful international

relations.

This is an excellent essay! Very well done!

We are becoming increasingly dependent on computers. They are used in

businesses, hospitals, crime detection and even to fly planes. What things

will they be used for in the future? Is this dependence on computers a

good thing or should we he more auspicious of their benefits?

You should write at least 250 words.

Model answer 287 words

Computers are a relatively new invention. The first computers were built fiftyyearsago and it is only in the last thirty or so years that their influence has affected oureveryday life. Personal computers were introduced as recently as the earlyeighties. In this short time they have made a tremendous impact on our lives. We



are now so dependent on computers that it is hard to imagine what things wouldbe like today without them. You have only got to go into a bank when their maincomputer is broken to appreciate the chaos that would occur if computers weresuddenly removed world_wide.In the future computers will be used to create bigger and even more sophisticatedcomputers. The prospects for this are quite alarming. They will be so complex that

no individual could hope to understand how they work. They will bring a lot of benefits but they will also increase the potential for unimaginable chaos. Theywill,for example, be able to fly planes and they will be able to co ordinate themovements of several planes in the vicinity of an airport. Providing all thecomputers are working correctly nothing can go wrong. If one small program fails— disaster. There is a certain inevitability that technology will progress and becomeincreasingly complex. We should, however, ensure that we are still in a positionwhere we are able to control technology. It will be all too easy to suddenlydiscover that technology is controlling us. By then it might be too late I believethat it is very important to be suspicious of the benefits that computers will bringand to make sure that we never become totally dependent on a completely

technological world.

Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist

knowledge of the following topic:

News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to

print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these

decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it he better if

more good news was reported?

You should write at least 250 words.

Use your own ideas knowledge and experience and support your arguments with

examples and relevant evidence.

Model answer: 300 words

It has often been said that “Good news is bad news” because it does not sellnewspapers. A radio station that once decided to present only good news soonfound that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad news on the otherhand is so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it. Wehavebecome immune to bad news and the newspapers and radio stations are aware of

this.While newspapers and TV stations may aim to report world events accurately, bethey natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is alsotrue that their main objective is to sell newspapers and attract listeners andviewers to their stations. For this reason TV and radio stations attempt to reflectthe flavour of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor_made to suit theirlisteners’ preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or TV soap operasfocus more on local news, home issues and up_to_date traffic reports. The moreserious stations and newspapers like to provide “so called” objective news reportswith editorial comment aimed at analysing the situation.If it is true, then, that newspapers and TV stations are tailoring their news to theirreaders’ and viewers’ requirements, how can they possibly be reporting realworld events in an honest and objective light? Many radio and TV stations do, in

fact, report items of good news but they no longer call this news. They refer tothese as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising,for instance, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in



the form of documentaries the fight against children’s cancer or AIDS, or the

latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.

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