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Children nowadays spend a great deal of time watching television. However, television cannot replace the book as a learning tool, which is why children are less well‐educated today. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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Easter
Island
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, which is in the Pacific Ocean more than 3,000 km from the coast of South America, has a terrible lesson to teach the modern world. When the
first
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 Europeans visited it in 1722, they found an
island
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 short of food on which about 3,000 people were living in a state of constant war. The Europeans were surprised to find a large number of huge statues, which had been moved over great distances, and which clearly belonged to a great civilization. The people whose / - they found on the
island
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,
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, were poor and backward. The Europeans supposed that these people could not have built
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 large statues, which / meant that some other mysterious people must have done so.
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, modern research has shown that the inhabitants of Easter
Island
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 were responsible for the terrible condition in which the Europeans had found them in. The inhabitants were divided into many family groups, which competed with each other. Their religion involved building huge statues, which consumed time and resources. Their home was a volcanic
island
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 on where few trees grew, and which produced little food. To make matters worse, to build statues they cut down trees, which caused soil erosion. By the middle of the 16th century, the population had reached about 7,000, which was
to
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
too
 great for the
island
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 to support. By
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 time there were no more trees, which the islanders needed to build boats. There was not enough food with which to feed
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 a large population, and they were unable to leave, so the population
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a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
value
. By the end of the 19th
cen tury
a period of 100 years
century
, there were only a hundred or so inhabitants remaining.
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    • Sentence 2 - Detailed background statement
    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
    • Sentence 4 - Outline sentence
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 3 - Second supporting paragraph
    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
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    • Sentence 1 - Summary
    • Sentence 2 - Restatement of thesis
    • Sentence 3 - Prediction or recommendation

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Educational tool
  • Documentaries
  • Passive consumption
  • Critical thinking
  • Imagination
  • Attention span
  • Literacy skills
  • Screen time
  • Parental guidance
  • Digital materials
  • Interactive learning
  • Multimedia resources
  • Cognitive development
  • Reading comprehension
  • Balanced approach
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