IELTS WRITING TASK 2 TOPIC:In many countries traditional food is being replaced by international fast food. This has negative effects on both families and societies. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Nowadays, people in most countries tend to prefer fast food than traditional food and this trend is thought to have a detrimental impact on families as well as societies. In my opinion, fast food threatens traditional cuisine in many cultures and deserves people’s emphasis on the problems it may cause but indeed caters to people’s real demand of contemporary life. Fast food have influenced people’s ways of life, including their dietary habits. Traditional cuisine focuses on the quality of raw materials, method of cooking and the diversity of flavours, evolved by embracing, fusing and extracting the essence of cuisine in various culture. On the contrary, most fast food chains provide only very simple food like roasted chicken, hamburgers and pizzas. People’s menus become monotonous with some traditional recipes fading out. Owing to the uniform diet of fast food, many countries have been witnessing the soaring of overweight and obese population, now an important issue of health for obesity closely relates to heart diseases. Fast food is usually junk food because of the large amount of fat, sugar, salt and calories it contains. Therefore, fast food not only does harm to individual health but also cost the government much money to tackle the issue. However, fast food is of certain value especially in this epoch. This is an era when most people are in pursuit of efficiency of work and believe in the maxim that time is money and thus, it is reasonable that they tend to save as much time as possible. Therefore, fast food naturally becomes their best choice to save time. In conclusion, though fast food imposes a severe threat to not only the cuisine of traditional culture but also its harm on health that ought to raise people’s caution, fast food is yet irreplaceable for people are in real need of adapt to the fast pace of current life.

IELTS WRITING TASK 2 TOPIC: It is argued that we are living in a throw-away society: people throw away what they use in daily life, instead of recycling or reusing them. Why has this happened and how to address this issue? Nowadays people tend to discard the products used only once even though the items are still reusable, while previous generations used to recycle these goods for quite a long time. This essay is to explore the causes of this worrying trend and figure out solutions accordingly. Consumers no longer keep goods for a long period of time because these products are not so expensive as before and new products emerge and fade more frequently. In general, not only does individual income of common people gradually increase, but, meanwhile, the costs on manufacturing are remarkably reduced year by year with the advances of technology and batch production applied to a large variety of goods. Therefore, products become cheaper to most of them. What is more, new products with a fair price in place of the old are created to cater to and spur consumer demand. For instance, people, especially youths, are keen on new mobile phones not so expensive but with new functions, usually out of curiosity and to follow the fashion, and naturally, abandon the old ones. Another reason is that most of people tend to neglect the environmental problems caused by this kind of lifestyle. Ignorant of the process of garbage disposal, people are too apt to underestimate the massive resource consumption and severe pollution generated by the waste of various products so easily discarded. For example, mobile phones are hard to degrade when ending up in landfill sites, and heavy metals in the battery can utterly lay waste to acres of soil. As the overconsumption of consumer goods is pervasive, it is important to take some measures to mitigate the problem. Environmental groups can disseminate the knowledge of how to recycle disposable goods and household appliances in order to raise people’s environmental awareness. The government can levy environmental taxes on some disposable products such as plastic bags to deter consumers from overconsumption and encourage people to use eco-friendly alternatives. In conclusion, the main cause of excessive consumption of disposable items is the change of people’s attitudes toward consumption and the increase in disposable income. To solve this problem, it is crucial to raise the awareness of environmental protection which leads to a change of lifestyle.

IELTS WRITING TASK2 The growing number of overweight people is putting a strain on the health care system in an effort to deal with the health issue involved. Some people think that the best way to deal with this problem is to introduce more physical education lessons in the school curriculum. To what extent do you agree/disagre In order to deal with the widely focused problem of the growing population of overweight people, some people propose to introduce more physical education lessons in schools. I firmly support this proposal to tackle the health issue of overweight for students, but not so effective for those who have already graduated. Admittedly, to introduce PE lessons in school is the best way to deal with the health issue surrounding obesity and weight problems of students in terms of both an instant effect and a long-term result. For short term, this method will ensure a certain period of time for sports and exercise at school. By introducing benefits of the exercise and techniques of some particular sports in PE lessons, students will be more willing to do sports, enjoy sports and gradually develop the habit of doing sports both in and out of class. Currently, however, sports time for students is only about twice a week in average, far from enough to counteract the otherwise sedentary lifestyle. Therefore, such a method that can effectively increase sports time will undoubtedly make students fitter and more active. For long term, students’ developed habit and interest that have been incorporated into their daily life during school years will be maintained after graduation and what is more, filter through to other members in their family, thus expanding the population of sport. For instance, a father keen on sport will certainly fail to conceal this passion and otherwise manage to attract their children by displaying the charm of strength and veracity and exquisite techniques in a particular sport. In this way, the habit of doing sports is passed from generation to generation. Therefore, this is a natural and lasting way to promote a healthy life style and to improve public health. However, those who have graduated contribute a large part to the total population of the overweight but they cannot have a PE lesson like students. For these people, apart from advertising in social media to spread knowledge of health, it can be an effective way to offer subsidies to the gyms and shops for sport facilities so as to lower the price and thus encourage people to do sports.

IELTS writing practice 1 Topic：In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend? Nowadays many countries are witnessing a gradual transformation of city inhabitants’ inclination to live from in joint families to in nuclear families or even on their own. This trend is by and large positive because a decrease in the size of family tends to reduce unnecessary family conflicts and means more freedom to some extent, but it goes too far to live alone, which may lead to much inconvenience to our life, especially when trouble comes. One evident advantage of nuclear families, compared to large families, is the convenience and easiness to reach an agreement on various household affairs. In general, more people involved in a process of decision are always followed by more requirements to consider and fulfil, rendering the process more complicated and the result less likely to satisfy everyone, and so is it on family affairs. Those who are seldom satisfied are certainly unhappy or even feel slighted, which, therefore, buries the seed of family conflicts with the accumulation of unhappiness. For instance, cooking a meal, very simple daily work, can be a burden for the chef in consideration of different flavours that members in a large family are fond of respectively. On the contrary, a family of small size can easily reach an agreement and thus avoid such conflicts. From the perspective of individuals, it means more freedom to make a decision from tiny to huge with less people concerned. As a result, there is less unnecessary tension between family members and everyone has enough freedom to choose the way of their lives. Although living alone can bring most freedom without constraints from family, life can be tough without the harbour of love. When we are tired, family will sincerely comfort us. When we are ill, family will keep us company day and night. When we fail in work, family will encourage and support us all the time. Consider that when suffering from a sudden disease with nobody around, how desperate we will be in that case! In conclusion, to live in a nuclear family is a positive trend not only well balancing both personal freedom and family love, but also mitigating family conflicts due to large size of family.