Many people work long hours, leaving very little time for leisure activities. Does this situation have more advantages or more disadvantages? Give reason for your answer and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience.

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The majority of citizens spend a great deal of time on their jobs by which they lose their chance to have any physical and recreational activities. Devoting more hours to work,
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has benefits in the short term, including higher income or career advancement, causes the drawbacks of losing the leisure moments which are detrimental and long term. Working for long hours leads to increase productivity, which may enhance the chance of promotion and pay hike. These ambitions lead people to sacrifice parts of their private life for their occupation. These modern-day slaves dream of a respect that will be earned by career advancement or that their future pay-checks will be high enough to live a luxurious life.
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, they do not consider perpetual and the horrid consequences of lack of sport activities and entertainment. An employee of a company who likes to buy a new TV, works for hours in front of the monitor which can entail different types of eye diseases
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as eye strain and blurry vision. Despite the minimal potential advantages of working too long and hard, there are some disadvantages for
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phenomenon which should be noted. Our physical and mental health is irreplaceable treasures that we must use and take care of them for the rest of our lives. Our daily leisure time is the most important opportunity we have to maintain our healthiness. Spending
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going to sports clubs or meeting friends and family will cause health problems
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as obesity or depression. These have a catastrophic power to ruin our lives, because their consequences are serious and the treatments that these diseases require are time-consuming and expensive. No matter how much benefit people earn from working longer hours, it could not outweigh the potential dangers they will face in future. Our mental and physical health is not something we allow ourselves to gamble on.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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