Hi, students! And very warm welcome from me,
Chris and Jay.
Jay.
We are from IELTS Daily.
And we're here to give you ideas for the writing task two, the essay.
And this is super useful,
very important, because many students find it difficult to think of ideas.
Today's topic is school education.
Are you ready?
Yeah,
I'm ready.
Let's go.
So today's question, we're looking at education.
And it's kind of relevant to what's happening right now,
with the whole COVID-19 situation,
where everyone is studying remotely.
They're learning online,
they're not going to school, they're not sitting in a physical classroom.
So that this question is,
I think pretty important, as it might be a little bit difficult to answer,
but we'll give it our best and try to give you some really good ideas,
brainstorming ideas.
Chris, you wanna go ahead and read their question?
Certainly.
Some people say that children no longer need to go to school,
since everything can now be learned online.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people say that children no longer need to go to school,
since everything can now be learned online.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The first point that we want to show you is: This is an opinion essay.
It's an agree or disagree.
but every time you read an essay question,
you need to find the most important part.
What do they want your position on?
No longer need to go to school.
I sense that's the correct answer.
They no longer need to go to school
or they need to go to school.
And then we have a look at both sides.
And then you need to decide your opinion on this,
And I'll let you talk about
do not need to go to school,
because that's a bit harder,
I think.
So I'll start with the side,
which is they need to go to school.
Well,
in school,
everything is already prepared.
They have a syllabus,
they have a physical building,
they keep children occupied, their behavior is easier to monitor.
All of those things together would provide the ideal learning situation for children.
And I'll let you talk about don't need to go to school if you can find any.
Yes. So, in the current climate,
we've heard a lot of people say that it's been a really nice thing
having children home.
Number one:
You don't have to worry about paying for child care or anything like that,
If your kids are still staying at home and studying.
Also,
Parents can have a much more fine-tune
control over what their children are going to be learning.
What else?
Is that a good thing?
I would always question that because I'm on the other side.
So if parents are teaching the children
what they want to learn,
are they experiencing all the other things?
And that's important.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
It's cheap, right?
It's much cheaper to teach at home. You don't have to.
I mean,
these are some small supports,
but you don't have to get up and make lunch for your child in the morning.
You don't have to figure out what they're going to wear
because they can just sit in their pajamas in front of the computer.
Would you say that the quality of online teaching,
is as good, not as good as face-to-face teaching?
Well,
I would say,
you probably lose a little bit.
It's not quite as good as face-to-face, traditional classroom teaching.
When you're in the classroom,
you can really focus on the children, you can make sure that they're staying on task.
If you're teaching online,
then you don't know what that student,
what student X might be doing behind the camera.
I have a lot of experience teaching children and students online,
and it is harder.
So my camp,
my position is that children probably still need to go to school.
You can't do everything online.
What's your point?
Yeah.
I agree, just being a teacher as well.
And even maybe from this video,
you might have been able to gather that
Chris's arguments were a lot stronger than my arguments.
So that's another thing.
When you're answering these questions and
you're putting your ideas down,
try to look at which side might be easier or stronger,
in terms of making your decision.
And I think this is a really important point because
many students start writing an essay immediately,
they just start writing.
And this is a problem because you need to decide your position before writing.
You need to have a small plan.
What's one side,
what's the other side?
And maybe you might surprise yourself and say,
actually,
the other side is easier to write about.
Yeah.
Even if that's not really your opinion.
I really enjoyed that. Did you?
Yes,
it was fantastic.
Did you learn anything?
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