IELTS writing model essay: Is it reasonable for athletes to get high salary?
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write down the following topics:
Successful professional athletes can earn more money than people in other important occupations. Some people think this is completely reasonable, while others think it is unfair.
Discuss these two views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer, including any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Examiner Fan Wen:
Due to the continuous attention of the media, sports
Professionals in our country have become stars and celebrities, and those high-level people hold high salaries. Just like movie stars, they live in luxury, with huge houses and cars.
Many people find that their pay is unfair, especially when comparing these super-high salaries with the top ones.
Surgeons or research scientists, or even major politicians who have the responsibility to govern the country. However, sports pay is not determined according to a person's contribution to society or his or her responsibility. On the contrary, they reflect the popularity of sports among the public and the degree of public support that successful stars can get. So the concept of "fairness" is not a problem.
Those who think that the salary of sports stars is reasonable may argue that there are very few professionals with real talent, and money is the recognition of the skills and dedication that a person needs to succeed. Competition is continuous, and a player will be tested every time he performs. In their relatively short career. There is a lot of pressure from the media, and there is little privacy outside the spotlight. So all these factors can justify the huge income.
Personally, I think that the money earned by such sports stars is more reasonable than the huge income of movie stars, but at the same time, it shows that our society attaches more importance to sports than more important careers and achievements.
My poor translation:
With the constant help of the media, many professional athletes in China have become stars and celebrities. Those top athletes earn a lot of money. Like some movie stars, they also have luxury houses and cars, and their lives are extremely luxurious.
Many people feel that compared with top surgeons, scientists engaged in research or senior officials with the responsibility of managing the country, their remuneration is extremely unfair. However, the salary of an athlete is not determined by a person's contribution to society or his degree of responsibility. On the contrary, they reflect the popularity of sports among the whole public and the contribution of those successful sports stars to promoting public support for sports. Therefore, the concept of "fairness" is not the key to the problem.
Those who think that it is understandable for sports stars to get high salaries think that talented athletes are rare, and high salaries are recognition of their skillful skills and hard work on the road to success. Competition is still going on, and athletes will encounter various tests in their relatively short sports career. The pressure from the media is suffocating. They must live in the spotlight and have no privacy. All this proves that they deserve a high salary.
In my personal opinion, compared with the high salary of movie stars, the high salary of sports stars is more well deserved. But at the same time, this phenomenon also shows that our society attaches more importance to sports than other more important fields and achievements.
Should athletes get high salaries?
The 27th World Cup has ended. People all over the world get great pleasure from the wonderful performances of football players. But at the same time, a new problem has emerged. Should athletes get high salaries? From my point of view, I think they should be well paid.
First of all, the development of competitive level represents the strength of a country. Athletes have made great contributions to society and won great honor for the motherland. When our national anthem was played in the stadium, we were very proud of the strength of our country. Therefore, high salary is a reward for athletes' efforts.
Secondly, athletes devote themselves to training and exercise. They do a lot of exercises every day in order to set a new record in the sports meeting. Athletes are easily injured in competitions, because some sports competitions are dangerous, such as football, boxing and martial arts. High salary ensures that they can get timely and good medical services after injury.
Third, the sports career is very short. Many athletes retired when they were still very young. A high salary can guarantee them a better life after retirement. If they want to pursue further studies, they will have no financial burden.
However, we also notice that some athletes cheat referees and spectators in order to get money. Some of them even bribe judges and referees. The government must take some measures to ban this kind of corruption.
In a word, it is reasonable for athletes to get high salaries because they are worth it.
Should athletes get high salaries?
Salary should reflect people's dedication and job responsibilities. However, sports figures, who do not benefit society, generally earn millions of dollars. I think this is wrong. Measures should be taken to change this situation.
If we take a sports star like Tai Sen as an example, it is hard to say how he benefits the society. In fact, he set a bad example for young people by not obeying the rules of the game, and his abandonment encouraged people to try sex and violence. Besides, his job does not require special skills or years of training and education. Although he can entertain and inspire the audience, I don't think he has reason to accept so much money. His work can be considered essential.
On the other hand, the income of most people engaged in "ordinary" occupations, such as nurses, doctors and teachers, is only a small part of the income of these "stars". However, if we look at these occupations carefully, we will find that they not only need special skills and years of education, but also help people and the whole society. For example, teachers spread knowledge to the society; Doctors and nurses give patients good medical care and prolong their lives. They are more useful than sports stars and actually more important to society. Without these "ordinary" occupations, our society would stop progressing. Their wages should be linked to skills, education or personal value to society.
Measures should be taken to make wages fairer. A lot of money should be given to people who deserve it more. It seems that the only solution is to impose heavy taxes on those who earn too much. (28 1 word)
Improper preparation method of IELTS writing
As mentioned above, many candidates often neglect the training of language knowledge and practical application ability in the preparation process, so what are the common "undesirable" preparation methods? Candidates can come and see if they have been shot.
1. Topic preparation, favoring one over the other:
Education and science and technology topics are usually the protagonists of IELTS writing question bank, especially education topics, and the test frequency is relatively high. For example, two of the four themes in Jane's writing are education. However, this has also caused some candidates to be biased when preparing for IELTS writing. They only prepared educational and scientific topics and frantically recited related vocabulary, expressions and material views, but ignored other topics, making other topics feel awkward. In fact, throughout the IELTS writing test in recent years, social, environmental and media topics have always been first-line actors, with the same high appearance rate as education and science topics, while other topics (such as globalization and vulnerable groups) have also been constantly reaching the top. Therefore, candidates should understand the IELTS writing test question bank and the law of writing questions in recent years, master the writing methods and skills for different questions and topics, and accumulate relevant vocabulary expressions, sentence structures and material viewpoints to ensure foolproof.
In addition, when preparing for IELTS chart composition, students should not only practice writing charts, pie charts, bar charts and tables, but also pay attention to flow charts and map questions, and be familiar with related phrases and expressions indicating time sequence and geographical orientation. In particular, the frequency of map questions has shown an obvious upward trend in the IELTS test in the past two years, with "historical changes" as the main type. The so-called "historical change" means that a place has undergone some adjustments or changes after a period of time. It may be that the buildings on the map are from scratch, or that the location of the buildings has changed or the scale has expanded or shrunk. Students are required to dig out the corresponding information from a given map and present it to readers logically in appropriate language according to time and spatial order. The Test 1 in Nine Swords presents us with a "change problem". This kind of chart is not difficult, but some children's shoes have little contact and preparation in the process of preparing for the exam, so it is impossible to write it in the examination room. In fact, if we memorize the words and expressions that express our position when preparing for the exam, carefully analyze and practice this kind of topic frequently, we can better master the writing skills and methods of this kind of topic and avoid being confused when encountering this kind of topic in the examination room.
2. Memorize "templates" and model essays by rote:
Cambridge IELTS series can be said to be the "artifact" of IELTS preparation, which contains many examiners' essays and high-scoring essays, which has high reference value for our usual IELTS writing. However, some students always hold the idea that it is not ridiculous to look at these model essays from a distance, blindly recite them and worship them mechanically, but they have not learned to use these resources correctly and reasonably. In addition, there are many IELTS writing guidance books on the market, which provide you with different writing templates, so some students become die-hard fans of templates, thinking that having templates is like having God's help, so they spend a lot of time memorizing these templates before the exam, and then apply them mechanically in the examination room, but the final results are disappointing and unsatisfactory. The reason is that there are too many template marks in writing, which may be judged as similarity or plagiarism by the examiner, leading to low marks.
So, how should we use templates and model essays correctly?
For students with low English level, when they are new to IELTS writing, they can practice writing by applying templates, so as to have a general understanding and understanding of the frame structure, common phrases and expressions of different IELTS writing questions. At the same time, we should memorize common sentence patterns and turning conjunctions, accumulate vocabulary and expressions of big topics, and gradually master the skills and methods of IELTS writing. With a certain amount of language accumulation and writing practice, everyone can try to get rid of the template gradually. According to the questions and topics of IELTS writing, design a personalized writing framework, build a template that conforms to your own language level, sort out ideas, organize opinions, make reasonable arguments and clarify reasons.
For the use of model essays, remember not to mechanically recite, mechanically copy or blindly imitate, but to choose paragraphs or articles suitable for your own level, selectively read them intensively, and analyze how examiners plan layout, arrange structure, organize paragraphs, develop ideas and arguments, and learn from useful material viewpoints, wonderful vocabulary expressions, sentence structures and connection means.
3. Blind pursuit of quantity and speed when practicing calligraphy
There is no denying that students should do a lot of writing exercises before the exam. However, some students put a lot of pressure on themselves from the beginning, blindly practicing in a limited time and blindly pursuing the quantity of writing, because they are convinced that "you never know how good you are at pushing yourself". That's true, but how to prepare for the exam and how to carry out writing training depends largely on the writing level and writing ability of children's shoes.
If some students have just started the IELTS test, their writing level is relatively low, and they have no way to start writing, or there are problems in sentence-by-sentence writing, then I suggest you practice common phrases and sentence patterns in IELTS writing first, accumulate vocabulary on different topics, and master important phrases and common expressions. Among them, expanding reading can help us achieve this goal. Writing is the process of language output. If there is not enough language input, the quality of the written article can be imagined. In the process of preparing for the exam, you can learn high-scoring model essays, analyze the organization, structural arrangement and argumentation methods of articles, draw lessons from some useful material viewpoints and lexical sentence patterns, and also read more articles in the reading part of the IELTS series in Cambridge, because there are many articles in reading that are similar to IELTS writing topics.
In addition, you can also try to read some English newspapers and magazines, or browse English news websites to learn about hot topics in today's society, get familiar with the vocabulary and expressions of related topics, absorb useful material views, open up ideas, activate thinking, cultivate English language sense and understand English thinking habits. Everyone should learn to make full use of these resources, be familiar with common phrases and expressions in IELTS writing, master key sentence patterns and structures, and lay a good foundation for IELTS writing.
Next, according to different types of questions and topics, we can take unlimited training, study the rules of writing questions, master the methods and skills of examining questions and conceiving, and focus on practicing paragraph writing, such as practicing the writing of the opening paragraph or the main paragraph, so as to master the composition, writing methods and skills of different paragraphs. On this basis, everyone began to practice argumentative writing within the specified time, practice IELTS writing real questions for different topics, accumulate material views on major topics, and constantly improve the writing speed.
In addition, to improve the writing level of IELTS, we should not blindly pursue the amount of writing, but make scientific, reasonable and effective preparations. In the process of practice, we should choose different questions and topics, learn to examine and conceive questions, clear our minds, plan the layout of the article, list the outline, and then write the article. After writing, you should check, revise and summarize the mistakes against the model essay, or ask an expert to correct them, and then make corrections on this basis to avoid the recurrence of similar mistakes and improve the proficiency and accuracy of IELTS writing.
In short, in the process of preparing for IELTS writing, I hope that candidates can make reasonable use of model essays and templates, carry out targeted writing exercises according to their English level, and make full preparations.