In ancient times, major population thrived in a small communities where everyone knew each other. In these days, most of the people live in urban areas such as capital cities and are not much aware of other people around them. What were the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small communities?
city's culture is busier than anybody can imagine which eliminates the scope of mingling and familiarization within society,
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in old times, where most of the population preferred to live in rural areas, where. the favourable outcome of Linking Words
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practice in rural areas was that was everybody always ready to help each other, but on the other ,hand it limited the person's private activity .
Harmony within society is always proven to provide help and support each other in difficult in older times. community, Linking Words
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, would run from their beds when there is a fire or any help needed by their neighbours even in the middle of the night, Linking Words
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familiarization yielded good understanding between them, on top of that, they thrived on the support of each other when there were no new technologies available. Linking Words
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, small communities benefited each other in difficult situations either affected financially or by natural calamities.
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, on the flip side, there was very less private growth of the person where they can understand themselves better. Linking Words
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, small neighbourhoods provide the image of happiness on a surface level but failed to provide it at individual levels.
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proved to be problematic for individual private life. So, in some ,aspects the people gained a lot from each other but were not able to give time to themselves.Linking Words
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic
IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.
Answer structure for the type of essay
- Introduction
- Body paragraph 1 – advantages
- Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
- Conclusion
Examples to start your body paragraph:
- The main advantage is...
- The disadvantage of this...
- The main benefit...
- Despite these advantages...
- One possible drawback...