ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 12: Music -Art- Fashion -Sport SECTION 1: SPORT 1. Why do you think some people are attracted to dangerous sports or other dangerous activities? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. – 49. This person is often - a risk taker in both sports and business. - an optimist: they live for the thrill of the moment without a thought to the many things that could go wrong. - A fatalist: they might plan for potential problems, but once they have done everything they can do, the outcome is out of their hands. 2. Some young children spend a great amount of their time practicing sports. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.103 Advantages: - Better health: good habit of daily exercise. - Learn how to work hard towards a goal. - Strengthen their confidence. - Make friends and learn teamwork. Disadavantages: - Their focus is very narrow ->neglect schoolwork. - They should try out many different activities. - under pressure from parents or coaches -> health and emotional problems. Best: balance for each individual. 3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing a game is fun only when you win. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.109 “ it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game”. - time with friends: tennis. - Learn new things: Scrable. - Work as a team: soccer. -> Enjoy having a good time. 4. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing games teaches us about life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 120 What lessons can games teach us? - cause –effect relationship: Everything we do causes something else happen. - How to deal with other people: teamwork. - Follow rule to achieve something: learn to make plan, implement strategies, make adjustment - Life is coulorful. 5. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Games are as important for adults as they are for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.43 Regardless of your age, playing games can help you keep your mind aleart, learn new things, and build friendship. 6. Some famous athletes and entertainers earn millions of dollars very year. Do you think these people deserve such high salaries? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.133 Why can those figures earn so much money? - the market determines who get paid what. - Teachers are paid by tax dollars. - Sports teams make hundreds of million of dollars every year. - Earn fabulous profits from radio and television rights, as well as everything sold at the concession stands. - The same is true of movies. They are produced by studios that make profits annually. - These enterprises can afford to pay their entertainers and sports figures huge salaries, because those athletes and film stars draw people to the entertainment. Why are we willing to pay so much to see a ball game or a movie? - We want distraction: we want to be entertained. - We think of education as a right while entertainment seems like a luxury. We expect to pay for out luxuries. Do they deserve? - Disadvantages of atheletes: - Short careers. - Atheletes may be too old in their early 30s. - Many of them gamble early in their lives on making in big in the sports or entertainment world, and deny themselves a good education. - Little chance of a stable career -> need to earn enough money to support them for a long time. -> conclusion: it is hard to sympathize with people who do as they don’t deserve the most value in our society. 7. When famous people such as actors, athletes and rock stars give their opinions, many people listen. Do you think we should pay attention to these opinions? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.129 Why we shouldn’t pay attention to these opinion? - Not just because of who they are: limited knowledge in a specific focus. 8. Should sports classes be sacrificed in High School so students can concentrate on Academic subjects? 9. Professional sport involves large sums of money and receives enormous coverage. Do you think this is justified? 10. Sports now receive too much attention from the public. Sport personalities are paid much more than they deserve. Agree? 11. Topic44:The dominance of black people in US sport is due to sociological rather than physiological factors. Discuss. 12. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Attending a live performance (for example, a play, concert, or sporting event) is more enjoyable than watching the same event on television. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. TOEFL 13. Describe your favourite sport. Say: • whether you like playing it/them or you prefer watching it. • What in particular you like about the sport. • Whether you would like to change something about it. Explain why. 14. Describe the role of sports on humans’ daily life. 15. Evaluate the effects of international sporting events on world peace. 16. Speculate the development of sports in future. 17. Which sports are popular in your country? - Football is the most popular one. - One match consists of 2 teams, each has 11 players: 1 goal keeper, 2 -4 backs, 2-4 half –backs and the left are striker. - Each match need a major referee, 2 or 3 linemen. - Each team will try their best to kick the ball into the opponent’s net and if they are succesful they score a goal. The final score would be rate of goals each team has scored. One team may be the lose, winner or ended in a draw. 18. What problems are connected to sport? (e.g. drugs in sport) - Drug abuse. - Commercialization. - Lost of identity. . ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 12: Music -Art- Fashion -Sport SECTION 1: SPORT 1 the following statement? Attending a live performance (for example, a play, concert, or sporting event) is more enjoyable than watching the same event