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2014-01-16

IELTS WRITING TASK 2 - sports

9.Some people believe that sports should be a symbolic meaning of the national power. However, others believe participating in those sports games individually is more meaningful for people. Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.


Never before in history have people payed so much attention to exercises in the pursuit of personal health. Some individuals argue that sports should symbolically indicate power of a nation, whereas others deem that it is of greater significance to participate in sports for personal purpose. Both views will be analysed in this essay before a conclusion is drawn.

On the one hand, sports do to some extent reflect power of one nation. For example, the number of medals that one country wins in Olympics Games seems roughly in tandem with its comprehensive national power, such as United States, China and United Kindom. This explains why those people hold the view that sports is a symbolic indication of national power. Thus, based on the example above, their arguments seem hard to debunk.

On the other hand, there seems to be an increasing amount of people reckon that doing exercise is more significant to individuals than to a nation. For instance, the number of people taking exercise after dinner is growing rapidly in China in recent years. This trend parallels with the volume of exercising facilities in China, where it used to spend most of its funds on elitist athletes. Thus, the growing awareness regarding personal benefits has been seen, which illustrates why more and more people aggregate towards this view.

To recapitulate, after analysing different views on sports, it can be safely concluded that although both areas are beneficiaries of sports, its significance to individual should be prioritised. Therefore, it is hoped that more and more people would participate in sports.

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