Month: October 2015

Parks Vs Residential # Essays For IELTS

You should spend 40 minutes on this task.

Although many people value public parks, but some believe that this space could rather be used for residential areas or develop business to boost economies. 

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 

The population all around the world is increasing with a rate faster than the earth can handle. With this increasing population, some people believe that to meet the requirements, public parks must be converted to business or residential areas. However, in my opinion, parks are very important for the emotional stability of individuals and must not be closed.

The importance of parks cannot be understated. Firstly, parks help in community revitalization. Considering the stressed lives people live in, parks provide the perfect environment for people to meet and release stress. Secondly, they provide holistic environment to children. Most children don’t learn things in the closed walls of classroom and need to interact with their peer or play with them. Thirdly, parks promote public health. Many people don’t have time to go to gym, parks help them giving the right environment for jogging or cycling.

However, some people believe that the world requires more of money and space to live in. Although the urgency cannot be denied, but if the space of parks is allocated, it could lead to unhealthy environment for kids as they would be deprived of place to play and enjoy. Even more, it could lead to unsafe localities as park surrounding the locality, marks its boundary, allowing security guards to ensure the security.

Overall, it cannot be denied that we are in urgent need of space and importantly money for the over populated world, but I believe destroying parks might not be the right option.

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Competing Young And Old # Essay For IELTS

Nowadays, more and more young people are competing with the old for the same job.

What problem does it cause and suggest a solution?

Times have changed and in these changing times, the competition levels have increased leaps and bounds. It has also brought about a tryst between the young and the older generation for the job, leaving both of them emaciated.

The biggest issue created with this new competition is that the young people have to compete with the older ones, who are more experienced, leaving them often unemployed. Secondly, the crime levels have increased since increased unemployment causes greater unrest among young people. Thirdly, unemployment at the older age, also leaves them financially upset. Poverty at the age when they cannot find new work is disheartening.

One effective solution could be to provide older people with social benefits so that they can retire without losing their social status. The second option to avoid the crisis is to fix some jobs for people of older as well as young, leaving competition for the other set of seats. Another possible answer is to offer a job share between elderly and young people so that both groups can gain some form of employment. Alternatively, older people can be employed to purely to pass on their knowledge and experience to the young rather than taking their jobs.

Overall, the issues do exist because of the competition among younger and older generation and can be avoided if there is a perfect balance maintained in order to ensure no one has to face the crisis of unemployment.

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Common Expressions On Money

Money is a form of exchange between the services and you. So, if you want something, you need to give money and English has some expressions for Money. Let us have a look at some of the expressions related to money –

  1. Loaded- If you are loaded with money, it means you have lots of money. Example- I am loaded so I often buy gifts for me and my family.
  2. Make A Killing- Make a killing means to make a lot of money. Example- My brother made a killing working in the software company.
  3. Make Ends Meet- Make ends meet means to have enough money to may be pay your bills or just meet your requirements. Example- She is not rich but knows how to make ends meet.
  4. Hand To Mouth- Hand to mouth means you don’t have money to save. Example- Since I lost my job, I had to live hand to mouth.
  5. To pay an arm and leg- It means it is really expensive. Example- My new car cost me an arm and leg.
  6. Pinch Pennies- It means to be very careful about spending money. Example- My friend is a penny pincher.
  7. Put in your two cents – It means to give your opinion. Example- He always put his two cents in the class discussion.

So, express money properly and score high in IELTS.

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Student Queries # IELTS

When you have dreams, you also have questions, doubts and queries. Let us look at some of the questions asked by students frequently –

  1. Can I write in capital letter in the essay? Yes, you can. The rule changed a few time back and now it is perfectly fine to write essays in capital letters.
  2. Is writing task 2 same for both academic and general? Yes, they are, however you are checked on different things in  both cases.
  3. Do plural and singular form mistakes matter? Yes, they do. The examiner is there to check you on every correct and wrong thing you do. There are no big , small or medium mistakes. They are mistakes and that is it.
  4. Should I write numbers or figures in my writing task? You must write the figure, i.e. nine instead of 9, in the writing task. However, you can write the numeral in other tasks.
  5. Does accent matter? No it does not. You are being checked on your clarity and pronunciation and not accent.

So, go and give IELTS your best shot. Make sure you avoid silly mistakes, as they lead you nowhere except in trouble. Also, getting high band in IELTS is more about doing right things often than ignoring wrong things.

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