Agree or disagree' questions are the most common questions in both IELTS Academic and General Training modules. You can either answer them like a 'for and against essay', looking at both sides of the argument, or you can put forward your own personal opinion and take one side of the argument, i.e. 'agree or disagree

I very much agree with the statement that governments are not spending their

health

budgets in the best possible way. If governments continue to spend

such

large sums of

money

on treating

illness

and disease

instead

of preventing these diseases,

then

perhaps they should rename our national

health

services ‘national

illness

services’! Governments will probably argue that it is necessary to spend a large proportion of

health budgets

Suggestion

the health budget

health budget

on treating

illness

because the general population do not live healthy lifestyles and

so become ill

Suggestion

become so ill

. They would argue that most people do not listen to

health

campaigns.

Also

, they would say it is not possible to prevent many illnesses and diseases

such

as flu and many types of cancer, as well as accidents and emergencies. The problem with

this

argument is that it is very negative because it assumes that people are stupid and refuse to lead healthy lives.

However

, when people have the right information, they often do the right thing – in my country than in the past. I believe that the main reason for

this

is government

health

campaigns, including very strong

health

warnings on the products. In my opinion, governments can do a lot to prevent not only illnesses and disease, but

also

accidents. Why don’t governments spend more

money

on installing speed cameras on roads to make people drive more slowly? That would reduce the number of accidents. To summarise, I really think that there is a lot that governments can do to prevent

illness

and disease to make the world a healthier place to live.

In particular

, rich governments can spend more

money

on scientific research to find the causes of new diseases

such

as AIDS, while governments from less well-developed countries can spend

money

on providing clean water for all their people. In

this

way, the world will have less need for expensive cures and hospitals