IELTS口语TOPIC以及答案的新鲜集锦(11)

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SECTION 4: COMPULSORY - COEDUCATION

23. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Boys and girls should attend separate schools. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. TOEFL - unavailable
24. Education is recognized as vital to the future of any society in today’s world. Governments throughout the world should make education compulsory for all children between the ages of 5 and 15. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
What are benefits of compulsory education
- At a young age, students are unlikely to be sufficiently mature to make sensible decisions about their lives.
- In today’s society, where increasingly high levels of skills and knowledge are required of the workforce -> need at least basic education.
- The governments provide a basic education for children for free. their parents have nothing to lose.
- Some parents who do not want to follow the policy do not realize the necessity of a basic education.
- In fact, a basic education is a major foundation for every career.
What are disadvantages of compulsory education - Low income families may not be able to afford to keep their children at school.
- Children can help bring in much needed income.
- Compulsory schooling might be psychological damaging for the students who are not motivated to learn

SECTION 5: EDUCATIONS ROLE

1. Should developing countries concentrate on Improving industrial skills or should they promote education first?
2. Education is a critical factor in a country’s development. Opinion is divided, however, on whether a developing country with limited resources should give priority to improving and expanding basic education for the masses or to providing a high quality tertiary education for the future leaders. Pd(1)
- Why should improve and expand basic education?
- Everyone born to this world is equal and, hence, is entitled to receiving basic education.
- Only by improving basic education could a poor nation encourage its people to discover their potential, which would translate into their knowledge and skills to be employed at work, thus/thereby improving productivity and , ultimately, living standards.
- It’s common people who make up the largest part of the workforce.
- The moral question of equal opportunities for everyone. On what criteria can a young person be judged as a potential future leader or just as a common person?
- Deprive the involved individual of higher education opportunity to explore his/her full potential, and might also deprive the nation of a potential clever leader.
3. Describe the major purpose of education in society.
- Well – educated and good citizens.
- Skillful and qualified workforce.
4. Too much education is dangerous. If people receive more education than they need to function in their job, it only breeds dissatisfaction. For or against? -Preparation and practice –141
Too much education is dangerous?
- Education gives people unrealistic ambitions: the law of the market decrees that not every one can be a managing director.
- There is very little point in training people for a level of job that they can never hope to achieve.
- Education is expensive. Overeducation is a waste of time and money.
- Students tend to be a disruptive influence on society: found at the forefront of radical organisation.
Why should invest in education?
- Most countries need a high standard of human resources in order to compete in the world market.
- Uneducated people unable to show initiative.
- Constantly changing technology means that the workforce has to be flexible and receptive to new ideas in order to be of value to employers.
- Moral question: who has the right to say how much education a person is entitled to? What criteria could be used to decide a level of schooling?
5. Topic19: Education is the single most important factor in the development of a country. Do you agree? Cuc 2
Why education is the most important factor?
- Education provides basis for other skills.
- Literacy improves working person’s capability.
- Creates self/ national respect.
- Education provides basis for healthy population.
Why education is not the most important factor?
- Health is more important than education.
- Economic development is important, and may only need unskilled workers.
- Difficult to find enough trained teachers.