题目：

    WRITING TASK 2雅思口语话题

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With the pressures on today’s young people to succeed academically, somepeople believe that non-academic subjects at school (eg: physical education andcookery) should be removed from the syllabus so that children can concentratewholly on academic subjects.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

You should write at least 250 words.

   范文：

What young people should study at school has long been the subject ofintense debate and this is a question that certainly does not have one correctanswer.

We need to provide young people the best possible chance of doing well atschool. In traditional curriculum there is a wide variety of subjects with a mixof academic and non-academic subjects. In this way a young person is formed witha rounded education. Non-academic subjects would include sports, cooking,woodwork and metalwork. I believe this is the best form of education. A youngperson should learn things other than academic subjects. Sport is particularlyimportant. Young people have to learn to love sport so that they can be fit andhealthy later in life. If not we will be raising an obese and unfitgeneration.

I totally understand the point of view that education is so important thatstudents must be pushed as hard as possible to achieve their best. It sounds agood idea to only expose the students to academic subjects as then they canspend all of their school hours on studying areas that will get them intouniversity and good jobs later in life. I just feel a more rounded educationwould produce a better individual. We must remember too that a lot of people,maybe even most people, aren’t academically minded and would benefit more from amore vocationally based education. Forcing academic studies onto them would leadto failure and the student leaving school too early.

Therefore I agree that although a wholly academic curriculum would suit andbenefit some young people, I believe that for most students non-academicsubjects are important inclusions still in today’s syllabuses.