Physical Education and OverWeight People ( IELTS writing task 2 ) The growing number of overweight people is putting a strain on the health care system in an effort to deal with the health issues involved. Some people think that the best way to deal with this problem is to introduce more physical education lessons in the school curriculum. To what extent do you agree or disagree ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nowadays, most developed countries have been witnessing an increasing number of overweight people, whose cause may be found in the rising availability and consumption of junk food. The health care system is striving to prevent the occurrence of this disease through medicines and common sense advice. Frankly, I believe that physical education lessons are necessary but not sufficient in order to effectively manage this issue. Actually, health care system is by far more focused on the cure of related deseases, rather than overweight itself. Heart diseases and high blood pressure are two possible consequences and surely the first ones that must be treated by doctors. In terms of prevention, general advice aimed at restoring a balanced life of a person do not work properly if they feel unmotivated and depressed for their condition. The main problem with overweight is that its causes are personal and linked to the attitudes of a person. Therefore, it is not feasible to provide general recommendations, that may work only for a certain group of patients. It is essential to know the story of the person and work on the reasons that led him to eat in a inappropriate way. Physical education lessons represent surely a valid advice but are not effective for everyone. A step forward must be done in terms of personalization. If a suggestion is perfectly geared towards the behaviour of a patient, then it is more likely that they will feel more motivated and confident to face the problem. In conclusion, I consider physical education lessons only a small part of a more complex and personalized therapy or prevention, that must take into account a wide spectrum of potential causes that root in a person's psyche. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Please correct any mistake and rate my writing according to IELTS criteria !

Computer Ownership (IELTS writing task 1) The graphs illustrate the overall computer ownership percentage trend from 2002 to 2010. It is also possible to inspect the percentage difference by educational level at the extremes of that period. Starting with a percentage slightly above the 50% in 2002, the computer ownership increased slowly but steadily, by 5% per year. The peak is reached at about 70% in 2012. A deeper analysis can be conducted by observing the second bar plot. Firstly, it is evident that the percentage of computer users linearly grew with respect to a higher educational level, both in 2002 and 2012. In regard to the first three levels, the graph recorded an increment of 30%, with a starting percentage respectively of 10%, 30% and 50%. Differently, the ownership growth for graduate computer users features a less remarkable raise of 20. However, they feature a greater starting percentage of about 70%. In conclusion, it’s possible to argue that ownerships have steadily increased over the time period in exam, independently on the educational level of the consumer. In percentage, higher level users tend to own more computers than the other categories.

Material Possession Against Moral Qualities (IELTS writing task 2) In the history of mankind, the goodness of human behaviour has been judged differently depending on many factors, which include religion, race, form of government and culture. Nowadays, modern civilizations tend to assess the value of a citizen by only taking into account their ownerships and social status. We live in a period where appearing is much more important than being, and where a kind action is neglected in front of a good income. In my opinion, the main reason causing this shift in values must be found in the limitation of our privacy. The increasingly available biographic data is spread across the internet and reachable also by unknown people through social media. This makes us fell stressed and concerned about the material possessions to exhibit, because it is the only parameter for being judged by the public opinion. Moral values appear to be no longer valuable if no one gives credit to them. Differently, for low – salary people material possession and economic wealth would represent the direct solution to bring happiness and serenity in their lives. I strongly support the re-finding of the most genuine human moral qualities. The rewarding received by a kind action is surely more valuable than a fictitious ‘like’ received on a social media. However, I am not completely against the material possessions and the social status in general, that may constitute a personal value. I would like to consider them as a plus-value that might help us live better, but those must not replace the actual qualities of a person, measured on how they relate to others. In conclusion, I wish that most of materialistic people would reason about this topic and change perspective about their owns. People don't have to discard them, but reevaulate their importance compared to human qualities.

Price Changes For Consumable Products (IETLS writing task 1) The graph below displays the changes of different item prices over a 30-year period, from 1978 to 2009. Starting from 1979, the trends for all the categories are equally going up, reaching the level of 100% in 1985. From that period on, those start diverging but all still raise until 2009. Carbonated drinks costs were characterized by a small increment of 50 % from 1985 on. By contrast, Fresh fruits and vegetables costs markedly raised to about 325%, featuring some little fluctuations. In the middle range, Sugar and sweets maintained the same growth and went up to 200% in 2009. Similarly, Consumer-price index costs reached the same level in 2009, although it registered a slightly higher change rate over the previous years. In conclusion, the graph results in a general increment of items costs over the 30 – year period, with the growth of Fresh fruits and vegetables standing out compared to other groups. With the support of other contextual information, it may be possible to infer the causes the have provoked such a significant raise.

Scientific Qualification in Malaysia and Singapore (IELTS writing task 1) The bar chart describes the percentage of people holding a Science qualification in two counties, Malaysia and Singapore. It’s evident that most of citizens in both countries do not have received any qualification in science, with a percentage of 60% and 65%, respectively for Singapore and Malaysia. The same discrepancy can be found in the group of High school former students. Singapore features 30% of citizens having obtained a school leaving qualification, while this percentage is again increased by 5% in Malaysia. In contrast, Bachelor’ s degree shows a different pattern. People living in Singapore that hold it double the graduated citizens in Malaysia. Lastly, Master’ s degree exhibits the lowest percentage, with only 3 % of both Malaysian and Singapore citizens. In conclusion, there are in general more Scientific qualified people in Singapore than in Malaysia, at least considering the level of education up to the Bachelor’ s degree. However, Postgraduate people in the two countries do not differ in their percentage and are much fewer than people holding a lower qualification.

Someland's Main Exports (IELTS Writing task 1) The bar chart below illustrates the performance of Someland’s exports for three different products in 2005,2015 and future projections for 2025. Regarding Meat products, the initial 4 USD billion exports had a drop of about 0.5 USD billion over 10 years, and these are expected to steadily go down to 3 billion in 2025. Dairy products featured the opposite trend. The exports peaked 8 USD billion with a growth of 3.5 billion in the same time window as before. Future projections suggest that the profit may slightly go down by 0.5 billion. Lastly, International tourism exports raised to 7 billion from an initial profit of about 6 billion. In the next 10 years they are supposed to reach the same figures as Dairy products showed in 2015. In conclusion, Someland company did not perform well on meat products, whereas succeeded in exporting Dairy products and International tourism. In regard to the future trends, the company is likely to increase the selling of international tourism, maintain the exporting level of Dairy products, and continue to lower the Meat trade abroad.

Reasons for Being Happy (IELTS writing taask 1) The following pie charts summarise the factors why under and over 30 people feel happy. Independently on the age, the charts feature 30% people that are mainly satisfied by their success at work. On the second place, practising hobbies is another source of glee for either the categories, representing respectively 22% and 24%. Next, 18% of under – 30 people take care of having a good appearance, whereas about the same percentage of the elder group feels glad by financial security. With a proportion of 15%, the younger group enjoys travelling, instead over – 30 people prefer being with family. Other factors, that are not explicitly mentioned, constitute 14% and 10%, respectively for the younger and the older group. In conclusion, achievement at work and hobbies persist as the main sources of glee for any age. By contrary, appearance and travelling are factors that only appeal to young people, as the older ones are more interested in supporting the family financially and spending time with it.

Tea & Pieapples trade The below tables illustrate sales of labelled tea and pineapples in 5 different countries in 2010 and 2015. Regarding tea market, all five countries registered an increase of sales in 2015. In particular, France featured the greatest growth, from 2.5 to 21 million euros. Next, Austria doubled the profit in 2015 reaching 8 million euros. Lastly, Germany and Norway only raised the income of 0.2 million euros, reaching respectively 3 and 2 million euros. Concerning piapples market, there was not an overall trend characterizing all the countries. Germany and Norway had a drop of about 1 million euros, whereas France and Netherlands profit went up of about 4 million euros. Finally, Austria succeeded in earning three times more than it did in 2010, peaking the 48 million euros. In conclusion, the tables depict different scenarios for each country, depending on the scale of local consumption and exportation of the two items. It’s remarkable to notice that France and Austria were the most profitable countries respectively in tea and pieapples trade, whereas Norway and Germany trade performance were not flourished, as they had a financial collapse in pieapples trade and a small profit in tea trade.