Model Answer for Recent Exam – IELTS Writing Task 2 (Copying Famous Personalities)
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Question:
Ordinary people try to copy famous personalities by seeing them on TV or reading about them in the newspapers.
What is the reason for this?
Is it a good idea to copy famous personalities?
Give reasons for your answers along with relevant examples from your experience and knowledge.
You can now solve this essay in at least 250 words.
Now compare your essay with the model answer below and find out whether you have used good vocabulary similar to the one used in model answer below or if you have framed your body paragraphs appropriately.
Model Answer:
In this modern era, it is often seen that common people who are fans of popular celebrities try to copy them when they watch these famous persons on TV or when they read newspaper articles about them.
To start with, there are several reasons for the increased craze among people to follow the celebrities. One reason is that people who call themselves fans of celebrities, such as actors or sports stars, also have the desire to be famous in the society. For example, a person who wears a shirt like his idol actor, Shahrukh Khan, thinks that he would gain more attention among his friends by wearing so. Other than this, there are some people who feel that if they follow their role models, they would also be able to achieve the luxurious lifestyle and huge success in their lives in terms of endless wealth, expensive cars and other such possessions. .
Though the trend of copying others is very common, it is really not an admirable thing. It is due to the fact that one can actually gain more happiness with one’s own style rather than copying someone by wearing similar clothes or possessing similar luxurious items which can only bring temporary happiness. Moreover, it has been found that one can live more comfortably and confidently in one’s own way. For instance, a woman wearing high heel in her office, by copying a TV actress, would find it cumbersome to rush for catching a bus or train.
On the whole, it is true that many people try to imitate their favoriate TV actors, which is not right. They should rather try to follow only good things from others such as principles and values.
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Following are some of the words/phrases that are good for this kind of essay:
Useful Vocabulary:
- In this modern era
- To start with/To begin with/To commence with
- One reason is that/ It is due to the fact that
- Moreover/ Other than this/Furthermore
- For example/ For instance
- On the whole/To sum up/To conclude with
- Possession
- Admirable
- Imitate
Comments:
The first pie chart shows the percentage of housing owned and rented in the UK in 2007 and second pie chart shows the same for the year 1991.
There has been a drastic increase in number of houses in UK from 22 million homes in 1991 to 27 million homes in 2007. In the pie charts, the mode of procurement of homes is categorised into four types, they are home ownership, social renting, private renting and social housing.
Home ownership accounted for major share of the pie in both years and social housing got the least share in both years. There was a considerable increase in home ownership from 1991 to 2007 and the percentage of homes under social renting and social housing were halved in 2007 from 1991 figures. However, the percentage of people living under private renting remained same in both years.
Overall, more people have moved to owning a house than living under social renting and social housing which indicates that economic status of people living in UK has improved over the years.
It is true that in some countries people spend long hours at work and it happens for several reasons including development of economy, market competition, maximisation of individual wealth, etc. I feel that there are both positive and negative ways of looking at this. However, the negatives outweigh the positives.
People work for long hours in order to achieve great things in life. Long hours of work has helped people to become billionaires. People like Jeff bezos, Jack ma, Elon Musk and Gary Vee have spent most of their waking hours working. In fact, there was a time when Elon Musk used to sleep for just one hour a day and that hard work has paid off. He is one of the most richest people on Earth. It is fine for people living in developed countries to work less, but people in developing countries like India, China and Brazil, work for longer hours in order to survive. The companies in these economies want to work longer to dominate the market and to have an edge over their competitors because of the universal rule, who works more, achieves more.
However, it is unfair that people have to work this hard and long. Why do we live? People these days are born to work until they die. Is this how the system is supposed to be? I don't think so. People must be able to spend time with their family and friends which is becoming uncommon these days. Even entrepreneurs like Elon Musk have said that people should not work this hard. It is not true that people who work less don't succeed. Take examples of countries like Norway, Denmark and Netherlands where people work for lesser hours and still enjoy life as good as people who work for longer hours in countries like India and China.
In conclusion, I would like to say that people should not keep working for major time of their lives. They must spend time with their loved ones more than they spend time at office. In fact, recent studies have shown that people who work for several hours together are less productive.
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In today's society everything needs to be done as fast as possible with good quality. Many people choose to work long hours because of a few reasons. It can be because of supporting their family's needs, getting higher position in the company they work for or the need of being busy all the time. Reasons for that can be differentWe for everybody. There are good and bad sides of that and some of them will be shown in this paper.
What we know is that with hard work and many hours in the office or our work place we can earn better position with higher payment. With that comes more responsibilities but more benefits as well. We are able to afford more trips, own a home, provide better life for our children and live a life with less worries. It can motivate us and to give us passion about our work. Depending on the job we do it can make us feel good about ourselves and to help the people around us. For example working for NGO as Green peace it helps many people and our planet. However there are many good and bad sides of working more than our usual hours.
The negative side it can be bad mental health, often feeling tired and with less energy at home. Partners can split or divorce because of too much ambition at work and less time spend together. If the expectations after many working hours are not met then the person would be disappointed and out of inspiration. That would affect everyone around us and it can lead to the use of alcohol or other addictive things.
Overall we have to find the balance between healthy working hours and free time. Ambition is never a bad quality to have unless it gets dangerous for us. It can take us far or change our lives in bad direction.