Topic: Children – Violent games
Children today play very violent games. This must be the reason for the increase in violence and crime in most major cities of the world.
What are your opinions on this?
Give reason for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Model Answer 01 :
Nowadays most children regularly play games on a computer or their television. These games have become more violent over the past few years. In fact, many parents worry about this and the effect these games are having on their children. Some are concerned that playing violent games might encourage them to come aggressive in real life. What we need to establish is whether or not this is actually true.
First, it may help to look back at the games that children used to play many years ago before the invention of computers. In those days children would probably have played popular board games such as Monopoly or Chess, or they may have played card games or some type of outdoor sport. These sports or games would probably only have encouraged children to become more competitive rather than violent.
However, throughout history children have always played fighting games with toy or pretend weapons. Even now many parents will buy a toy gun or sword for their child. Why do we never read reports in the media about the impact plastic weapons could have on children? Perhaps this is because the link between play fighting and actual fighting is not very strong.
In conclusion, the way children play games has changed with the times but the ideas behind those games have actually changed very little. Just as playing at soldiers did not increase violence in the past, I believe that playing computer games will not lead to an increase in violence in the future. I think that if we looked more closely at life in our major cities then we would find there are many other possible causes for the increase in crime and violence.
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Model Answer 02 :
It is fact that, today’s children are involved in dangerous games which increase the rate of crime. This unconscious crime committed by little-aged children considerably increases in some contemporary cities.
It is not easy to keep an eye on your children, especially when you are busy with another issues at home. Children are interested almost in everything at home. However, they are not capable of distinguish toys or appropriate tools for playing and another things which can cause unwillingly bad accident at home. The most important fact about it is to watch violent videos on TV and fighting games on computers. As a result of watching such programmes every child could want to put it into practise. This can also be seen with clothes washing machine. When parents are not home, children generally use forbidden house equipment. To take similar occasion for example, that was in Turkey. Two boys wanted to play with washing machine when their parents had not been at home. One of them wanted to “wash” the other brother. While pressing the bottom to start it, unfortunately, the little brother was a sacrificed of this terrible accident because of parents’ carelessness. To avoid this, parents should take away every risky thing from their children and limit the watching TV or ban violent video games.
In conclusion, I absolutely agree that, some violent games cause children to take a risk in their lives. This unwanted crime committed by children can turn them a real criminal in the future. The way to play such violent games naturally, increase the crime in mean developed cities, which parents work and can not keep eyes on their children as much as they want in it. Instead of it we have to make all of our efforts on bringing them up in safe atmosphere and educate well. We must not forget that, they are our future. That’s why it must the first and considerable important thing to protect them from every occasion can cause frightening accident.
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