IELTS 7.

EDUCATION

Advantages/For Disadvantages/Against

Extracurricular ✓ Participate in high endurance ✓ Devote extra time and attention to such
activities sports like soccer, basketball, etc activities => Example: drama club
=> train children to focus + build members spend time at the auditorium,
stamina in the face of intense running lines or rehearsing songs and
difficulty => develop the ability to dances => be distracted from other
work well under pressure => have a commitments (assignments, chores...) =>
significant advantage when adversely affect academic performance
studying and taking exams
✓ Engage in community service => ✓ Take up contact sports like roller derby
offer an opportunity to interact with or rugby without a sensible plan => be
other people => expand their social prone to physical pain, from minor leg
network => sharpen their cramps, headaches to as severe as a
communication and leadership concussion or a broken bone => be
skills => valuable for future hospitalized => miss many school days =>
success negatively impact their studies.

Homeschooling ✓ More opportunities to solve ✓ Be homeschooled => be confined in

problems on their own => develop a their homes => be deprived of the chance
strong sense of autonomy => be to socialise with other children in a
extremely helpful in the long term learning environment => hinder the growth
of interpersonal skills (communication,
cooperation) => detrimentally affect them
✓ Apply the homeschooling model in later stages of life.
=> use children’s interests as the
basis for curriculum ✓ choose homeschooling instead of
decision-making => develop public education => bear the additional
intrinsic motivation costs for purchasing the curriculum
needed (materials for projects, field trips,
computer softwares and other resources)
=> put stress on parents who are both
breadwinners of the family.

Learn a new - Learn a new language => have the - Add language tutoring a few times a week
language from ability to communicate across => require a significant investment of their
a young age borders + specialize in a time => have troubles focusing their
particular field => land a well-paid energies on other subjects => bring their
job + improve future career overall performance down.
prospects => receive higher wages
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than their monolingual coworkers. - Be forced to learn a language for which

they are not motivated => fail to pay
- Being multilingual => be better attention to the lessons => prolong the
able to pick up nuances and learning process => feel frustrated + angry
subtleties in any given situation => => succumb to depression.
have more rational decision-making
in many areas => score higher on
standardized tests than
monolingual students, especially in
the areas of vocabulary, reading
and math.

Vocational - Take up vocational training => - (teachers at vocational schools) be

training elevate their skills to the level their primarily hired for their technical
jobs require of them => be better knowledge and not for their teaching skills
prepared and competent at what => find it hard to convey that information in
they do => increase job a way that other people can use and learn
satisfaction. => (students) not able to receive 100% of
the required knowledge and skills.
- Acquiring new skills and
competencies => extend options - (non-academic individuals) attend
for professional advancement + vocational programs => spend huge
offer additional career choices => amounts of money on tools, equipment
receive higher wages than their and also on workshops and materials but
counterparts. receive not as valuable qualifications =>
end up in a lot of debt + be on the lower
end of the pay scale.

Attend extra - Attend extra tutor classes after - attend so many extra classes => lack time
classes school => acquire adequately the to pursue extracurricular activities and
compulsory knowledge that physical sports => be more likely to
children and adolescents normally develop health problems like obesity and
can’t with the limited time they diabetes => adversely affect children's
have in regular classes => be better physical development.
prepared for exams.
- Take extra coaching => be constantly
- indulge in extra classes => consist under intense pressure because of severe
of students from different schools, competition between students => face
different races as well as different higher risks of academic stress => be more
ages => gain experience in dealing prone to certain detrimental mental
with a variety of people => syndromes, such as stress, depression,
effectively improve their social insomnia, etc..
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skills.

Gap year - Delay entering universities for one - Spend one year off school => be
year => have the opportunities to understandably almost impossible for
work with other people who are young people to enjoy their experiences
experts in a particular field => give (doing a job or travelling to a new place)
these newcomers understanding of while arranging a certain amount of time
the job + valuable practical lessons for revision => face the challenge of a
=> possess extensive experience in delay in their academic progress, receiving
life + the occupation => lead to more pressure of catching up with their
greater career success later in life. peers.

- (Graduates) have a year to relax - (Young high school graduates) be not

=> have a chance to relieve stress well prepared for real-life situations => be
from studying => learn new things at risk of being exploited in an exhausting
with a comfortable and willing job => become mentally and physically
attitude => acquire knowledge overwhelming for inexperienced school
more effectively in comparison with leavers.
those who go to university
straightaway.