To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Do you agree?

The role of a school is to make students ready to take on jobs when they graduate instead of preparing them to attend university. I fully agree with this sentiment because most high school graduates do not go into full-time college education. While some of them immediately start full-time employment, others combine further education with part-time work.

Body paragraphs:

The main reason why school education should be job-centric, in my opinion, is that not everyone attends university. Although more and more individuals are joining colleges after high school, a vast majority who enter the job market need practical skills like operating computers, basic accounting, filing documents, meeting deadlines, and behaving appropriately in the workplace. These attributes help people function better in their careers. However, if secondary schools operate like prep schools for universities, students will be taught about abstruse concepts and standardized tests which often are inconsequential in real life.

What is more, part-time employments and internships have become part and partial of career development in the modern world. On the one hand, many high school graduates want to experience a working environment before joining college or instead of joining college. On the other hand, even while pursuing a university education, holding a part-time job or an internship has become the norm for most students. They do this in order to earn a living, partially fund their tuition fees, or to make a head start in their careers. Therefore, school teachers should devote their time teaching functional and pragmatic lessons in place of just academic concepts.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Some people claim that environmental issues are better managed at government level as compared to individuals taking actions on their own. I could not disagree more. Apart from the fact that small private initiatives work wonders when tackling big issues, huge bureaucratic projects have the tendency to become inefficient.

Body paragraphs:

As far as I am concerned, grassroots movements are more effective in instituting change. Through awareness and education, it is possible to make people realize the vulnerability of our ecosystem and habitat, and how individual actions can safeguard the environment. For example, citizens can control pollution by disposing their wastes appropriately or by recycling. Similarly, we can use energy-efficient devices in our homes to save energy or use unleaded petrol in our vehicles to limit carbon emissions. Beyond that, environment can also be helped by planting trees and curtailing the use of plastic bags for grocery shopping. Such steps, if undertaken by a large number of individuals, can reduce human impact on the environment much better and quicker than any government-backed program.

Another reason for my disagreement is a general distrust of the legislative process and bureaucracy. Environmental problems build up slowly and gradually, so there will always be a lag between the time an issue springs up and the time it festers enough to grab the attention of lawmakers and bureaucrats. Then, the political process – which involves research, consultation, deliberation, promulgation, budgeting, and implementation – is a lengthy affair, and it may fail to stitch the problem in time. Finally, even when actions are taken, corruption and incompetence of public officials might still be setbacks to the project. For an instance, community forests in Nepal managed by the local community have been more successful in ecosystem regulation, watershed conservation and carbon sequestration compared to the national parks which are under the control of the federal government.

The role of a school is to make students ready to take on jobs when they graduate instead of preparing them to attend university. I fully agree with this sentiment because most high school graduates do not go into full-time college education. While some of them immediately start full-time employment, others combine further education with part-time work.

Body paragraphs:

The main reason why school education should be job-centric, in my opinion, is that not everyone attends university. Although more and more individuals are joining colleges after high school, a vast majority who enter the job market need practical skills like operating computers, basic accounting, filing documents, meeting deadlines, and behaving appropriately in the workplace. These attributes help people function better in their careers. However, if secondary schools operate like prep schools for universities, students will be taught about abstruse concepts and standardized tests which often are inconsequential in real life.

What is more, part-time employments and internships have become part and partial of career development in the modern world. On the one hand, many high school graduates want to experience a working environment before joining college or instead of joining college. On the other hand, even while pursuing a university education, holding a part-time job or an internship has become the norm for most students. They do this in order to earn a living, partially fund their tuition fees, or to make a head start in their careers. Therefore, school teachers should devote their time teaching functional and pragmatic lessons in place of just academic concepts.

Conclusion:

To conclude, I am of the opinion that university should not be touted as an end-all and be-all to every student. In addition to scholarly knowledge imparted to school students, practical lessons on securing, performing, and holding jobs should be instituted in schools. Twelve years of school education should be enough as a stepping stone for a vibrant career.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Some people claim that environmental issues are better managed at government level as compared to individuals taking actions on their own. I could not disagree more. Apart from the fact that small private initiatives work wonders when tackling big issues, huge bureaucratic projects have the tendency to become inefficient.

Body paragraphs:

As far as I am concerned, grassroots movements are more effective in instituting change. Through awareness and education, it is possible to make people realize the vulnerability of our ecosystem and habitat, and how individual actions can safeguard the environment. For example, citizens can control pollution by disposing their wastes appropriately or by recycling. Similarly, we can use energy-efficient devices in our homes to save energy or use unleaded petrol in our vehicles to limit carbon emissions. Beyond that, environment can also be helped by planting trees and curtailing the use of plastic bags for grocery shopping. Such steps, if undertaken by a large number of individuals, can reduce human impact on the environment much better and quicker than any government-backed program.

Another reason for my disagreement is a general distrust of the legislative process and bureaucracy. Environmental problems build up slowly and gradually, so there will always be a lag between the time an issue springs up and the time it festers enough to grab the attention of lawmakers and bureaucrats. Then, the political process – which involves research, consultation, deliberation, promulgation, budgeting, and implementation – is a lengthy affair, and it may fail to stitch the problem in time. Finally, even when actions are taken, corruption and incompetence of public officials might still invite setbacks to the project. For an instance, community forests in Nepal managed by the local community have been more successful in ecosystem regulation, watershed conservation and carbon sequestration compared to the national parks which are under the control of the federal government.

To what extent you agree or disagree essay

This lesson will guide you how to write essays in IELTS Writing that ask you to what extent you agree/disagree. Such questions are very common for IELTS Writing task 2. In such essays your task is to say whether you:

and justify your opinion.

In this lesson you will see IELTS writing task 2 sample question + model answer. Also, you will learn the following points:

To what extent you agree/disagree question sample

Let’s look at an example of IELTS writing task 2:

The government’s investment in arts, music and theatre is a waste of money. Governments should invest these funds in public services instead.

To what extent do you agree with this statement?

This is a classic example of an IELTS Writing question that asks you to what extent you agree or disagree.

Choose your opinion & generate ideas

Unlike classic agree/disagree questions, to what extent you agree or disagree questions do NOT ask you to clearly determine whether you agree or disagree with the given statement.

In fact, you have 3 major options for your opinion:

AA: You completely agree (provide 2 ideas that strengthen the statement)
DD: You completely disagree (provide 2 ideas that weaken the statement)
AD: You agree or disagree partly (provide 1 idea that strengthens the statement and 1 idea that weakens it)

After you’ve decided your opinion, generate 2-3 supporting points for it.

Now let’s generate supporting points for each of the opinions:

AA: Investment in arts, music and theatre is a waste of money

DD: Investment in arts, music and theatre is NOT a waste of money

AD: Investment in arts is important, but public services should be financed in the first place

For this opinion, just combine ideas from the previous points.

Band 9 answer structure

There are a lot of ways to structure your essay, but we’ll use a structure that has been approved by many IELTS examiners to be high-scoring and coherent.
Band-9 essay structure:

As you already know, you can write the supporting points of your body paragraphs in the following ways: agree + agree, disagree + disagree, agree + disagree. We’ll use the last option as our opinion is partially agree / disagree.

Let’s take a look at each of these sections in detail.

Introduction
Write your introduction in two sentences:

It is often argued that the government should finance public services instead of spending its budget on arts, music and theatre.

Although I agree that government’s investments in public services play a very important role, I think that proper funding of arts sector is also crucial for the society.

This sentence should contain the main idea of the whole 1st paragraph. In our case we’ll use the reason A: why it is important to finance public services. As we’ll be considering opposite opinions, it is a good idea to use a collocation on the one hand to introduce the first reason:

On the one hand, the government should definitely allocate a large part of its budget on public services.

To explain the reason effectively, you can imagine that your examiner didn’t understand what you were talking about and you have to explain every detail:

This economic sector determines the overall quality of life, ensuring that some basic services, like schools, hospitals and roads, are available to all citizens irrespective of their income or social status. Public services satisfy the primary needs of the society and thus need a proper funding, while artists and musicians are not curing diseases or building houses, so their role is secondary.

It’s always good to give examples in your body paragraphs, even if you’re not asked to do it (like in our case):

For example, any country can live without music concerts, but absence of medicine will create significant problems.

That’s why the government should adequately finance public services in the first place.

This statement should contain the main idea of the whole 2nd paragraph. This time we’ll use the reason D: why it is important to finance public services. As we are considering opposite opinions, it is a good idea to use a phrase on the other hand to introduce the second reason:

On the other hand, arts, music and theatre are not a waste of money, since they are an integral part of the society’s cultural and intellectual development and amusement.

Firstly, art and music draw people’s attention to diverse phenomena and represent the inward significance of things. Quite often a single drawing, piece or song can exhort myriads of people to reconsider their attitude towards some situation. This way, art serves as a major source of nation’s personal and intellectual development. Moreover, visiting museums, watching movies and listening to music are common ways of relaxation and entertainment.

The question doesn’t ask us to give examples, plus we’ve already written a lot in this paragraph, so we’ll skip this point.В

Thus, art sector is also important for the society and should not be neglected.

Conclusion

You can write the conclusion in one sentence that summarizes your opinion + 2 reasons for it:

To conclude, though I agree that the government should allocate a large part of its budget on such urgent needs of the society like public services, I think that arts, music and theatre should also be financed since they play an important role in people’s development and entertainment.

DO NOT write new ideas in the conclusion!

Model answer

This is a full band-9 answer for to what extent you agree or disagree IELTS Writing question above:

It is often argued that the government should finance public services instead of spending its budget on arts, music and theatre. Although I agree that government’s investments in public services play a very important role, I think that proper funding of arts sector is also crucial for the society.

On the one hand, the government should definitely allocate a large part of its budget on public services. This economic sector determines the overall quality of life, ensuring that some basic services, like schools, hospitals and roads, are available to all citizens irrespective of their income or social status. Public services satisfy the primary needs of the society and thus need a proper funding, while artists and musicians are not curing diseases or building houses, so their role is secondary. For example, any country can live without music concerts, but absence of medicine will create significant problems. That’s why the government should adequately finance public services in the first place.

On the other hand, arts, music and theatre are not a waste of money, since they are an integral part of the society’s cultural and intellectual development and amusement. Firstly, art and music draw people’s attention to diverse phenomena and represent the inward significance of things. Quite often a single drawing, piece or song can exhort myriads of people to reconsider their attitude towards some situation. This way, art serves as a major source of nation’s personal and intellectual development. Moreover, visiting museums, watching movies and listening to music are common ways of relaxation and entertainment. Thus, art sector is also important for the society and should not be neglected.

To conclude, though I agree that the government should allocate a large part of its budget on such urgent needs of the society like public services, I think that arts, music and theatre should also be financed since they play an important role in people’s development and entertainment.

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