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COLLOCATIONS FOR 6.5+ | ORGANISED VERSION TOPIC 1. EDUCATION Advantages/For Disadvantages/Against Giving children - work independently away - have an obligation to homework every day
from the environment of schools complete the homework while => proactively apply the having to deal with an
knowledge that they have learnt excessive load of knowledge in the classroom at their school + constant => gain a deeper examinations => sacrifice understanding of the subject their sleep to meet academic demands => - do home assignments exhaust the child + reduce => have the opportunity to
their interest in studying => revise the lesson taught to suffer from depression. them in the school => retain information more - Return home with excessive easily => reduce the exam amounts of homework=> stress considerably
reduce children’s after-school time for other extracurricular and leisure activities => unable to develop necessary soft-skills Teaching history - have a thorough insight into - Learn history subjects
the history of their own country => be forced to memorize => understand their dates and events from the
hometown’s traditional values past
and develop a national identity => rarely use them in
=> take pride in their origins and people’s lives
treasure the life they know today
=> be of little relevance to the future and today’s society. - accumulate knowledge of this
particular field at an early age
- (historical events) be seen in
=> enhance their understanding different perspectives and about various aspects of the interpreted in different ways world
=> (students) normally learn => can work for foreign the subject through only one enterprises source => discount its importance as a subject for learning. Focusing on Science - Focus on scientific subjects
- (A major in science) consists subjects such as biology, mathematics, of related subjects with a
physics and chemistry => ensure great amount of specialized that any knowledge and skill knowledge and tough gaps in the economy are
experiments => require a lot
covered => increase the overall of diligence + patience +
GDP of the nation => improve a
intelligence => put students country’s future prosperity. under great pressure in order to understand and handle the
- attain science degrees => be tasks well. provided with foundational knowledge to adapt to the - (some countries) have fewer fast-moving technological employment opportunities
development => increase their
available in science fields => future employment prospects.
have little chance to get a job after graduation despite spending a huge amount of time and effort on this
particular subject => increase the employment rate. Making art & music
- learn art-related subjects => - be already burdened with a compulsory
enjoy learning through enjoyable regular academic curriculum and creative methods =>
=> (perform art) enhance that enhance fine motor skills,
study load => decrease their hand-eye coordination and academic results.
problem-solving skills => assists children in attaining better - be of the mindset that art learning outcomes. does not contribute to the advancement of human - be more interested in society => be generally
non-academic subjects => get considered as a hobby rather hands-on experience in these
than a professional field =>
subjects at an early age => give opt for other vocational students a platform where they subjects such as science or can develop and perfect their commerce stream, which
artistic skills => become easier have jobs available in
for them to pursue their creative abundance. career in future. Reason Result Parents putting pressure on Reasons: Problems: children to perform well - (parents) experienced - encourage their children to
difficulties during their times acquire an occupation that
or lived in poor conditions => they do not have passion for
not want their children to face
=> (children) not express their the same predicament =>
own ideas and desires => not assess them and keep them feel the real sense of job in an enormous study satisfaction => have an timetable to gain success undesirable life. - put pressure on the youth to - engage their children only continually achieve higher for future achievements + scores => apply to top omit the entertainment part of schools => get degrees or
the youngsters => (children)
professional certificates =>
be exposed to great stress => secure future employment affect their mental wellbeing opportunities. and cause psychological suffering. Cutting music and art to For: Against: teach information - Exclude music or art from - opt for different arts and technology the formal educational course
musical subjects => think out => reduce a great deal of of the box + produce some energy and time that students unique ideas => sharpen the spend on them => focus cognitive skills of youngsters pupils’ attention on more
=> be well-prepared for their important and complicated future prospects. subjects => improve their grades. - be taught music or cultural subjects => reduce heart - have a technological-based rates and blood pressure => educational background => find their inner peace + broaden their knowledge support them in doing other
about the technology tools => activities and facing be more likely to acquire a
challenges => balance out the good position in the job pressure of science and market of reputed companies. technology - related subjects. Doing educational activities For: Against: during free time - Solve puzzles => take - Spend time on different approaches to try
extracurricular activities like and solve a problem since
cricket and football => burns
there’s a lot of trial and error more calories than typical
involved => learn the value of workouts => build physical formulating theories, testing
strength => build confidence hypotheses, and changing
in a player both on and off the their perspectives when field => perform better in something doesn’t work out
school, career, family life, and according to plan => become friendships. more innovative and adaptable employees. - engage children in creative activities such as singing, - Spend a long period of time
dancing, painting etc => take
playing at a computer => lead the time and energy to to hand and eye strain => develop their own ideas =>
leave them physically tired => discover and realize their affect their performance at habits, impulses, and desires
school or work => lower their
=> be better able to express personal attainment. themselves to the world on a regular basis. Free education for all For: Against: - (the weaker section of the - Lend more support to the population) are provided with studious and determined free education => solve the students instead of offering monetary concerns => freely available education to prevent the inequality everybody => be able to between students of different
allocate the rest of the budget income levels => increase
to health care, public facilities, their chance of finding a and so forth => ensure the dream job. basic fundamental rights for citizens of a country. - (free courses and study programs) be given to - (Learners) pay some everyone irrespective of their amount of tuition fee caste, wealth, and race => => (university) be able to have greater intellectual, obtain state-of-the-art problem-solving skills and equipment such as projectors
civic-mindedness => create a and computers potentially more productive => enhance the learning and educated workforce => experience of their students. increase the literacy rate + improve the growth of that country. TOPIC 2. FAMILY Causes/Reasons Problems Rising divorce rates - get married at a young age - men and women have to → face financial distress as
adjust to their new single lives they have to satisfy needs of and deal with several issues
a married life → more likely to → life quality of both get a divorce decreases significantly: + Many women still depend - suffer from stress in the tightly on their husband workplace (jobs now are very for financial support → demanding), people spend divorce means reduction long hours at the workplace of financial supply → compared to the past → confront difficulties spend less time at home with tackling life expenses families → there is no room + Divorced men lose the for affection → lead to physical and mental break-up nourishment from their wife → life becomes - Earlier, people were humble miserable to each other and men were the sole breadwinners in the - children become the household → today, both are innocent victims → lose the independent and dominating care and support they
→ pay less attention to their supposed to have from their partner’s advice when parents → negative influence confronting difficulties →
on the child’s discipline and irreconcilable differences and personality development → ego clashes happen → lead cause negative, long-lasting to divorce effects in their own future relationships, inside and outside the family Spending less time with - fast pace of modern life → - members do not receive family prioritize the pursuit of fame proper support their and fortune over family’s immediate family → precious moments → lead to experience emotional
significant reduction in family distress, feel isolated or time rejected - cope with increasing - parents do not spend demand of work → be obliged enough time with their to finish heavy workload on children → children lack of daily basis → parents’ appropriate care and attention overworking → lack time for → be likely to follow a path family towards criminal behaviors → exert negative effects on - technology and social media the society in general undermine family relationships: - less mutual understanding development of technology and less happy laughter in the and online social media → home → experience reduced members all engage in their levels of happiness → broken own social interaction, and families are seemingly not real family conversation, inevitable even in family gatherings → exacerbate the physical and emotional gaps between family members → gradually no longer devote time to family Advantages Disadvantages Parenting classes - Provide mothers and fathers - most parents struggle with in-depth knowledge financially → usually work about how to raise a kid at overtime to make ends meet different developmental → attending in parenting stages → have a better classes takes up their understanding of their precious time and money →
children’s needs → take the adversely affect their work best care of them and their life - parents are equipped with - disagreement over what
basic medical training → have good parenting entails → the better preparation at child idea of a parenthood safety and injury prevention preparation course that suits → be able to deal with everyone is impractical → emergency situations more eventually, these parenting effectively courses can be unworkable and largely pointless Couples choosing to have - not need to handle the - choosing to have no children no children
expenditures of raising a child → miss the mental and → decrease financial burden emotional support when the
of every family significantly → couple gets old and infirm → enjoy their life free from any make them feel isolated and extra financial stresses depressed, even miserable in
the twilight years of their life - neither spending time on pregnant period nor taking
- decreasing birth rate → lack care of children → means of labour force in the near fewer responsibilities for a future → huge economic and couple → invest time in social problems occur getting higher education and later job promotion → spend
their life fulfilling their dreams and accomplishing their aspirations
- decline in the national/global birth rate → ameliorate the governments’ burden of the social welfare system → invest less budget in education, medicine or entertainment that are aimed at children → increase investment in other sectors TOPIC 3. TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES Online shopping - shop and buy things on the
- go shopping online => form Internet => customers can judgements about the select the products and make products based on the the purchase from home => information (texts, images,
eliminate the need to travel to videos) presented on the the stores => save time and
websites => get real products dedicate time to more that differ from the online important activities models (in terms of appearance, quality, quantity) - engage in online shopping => customers are
=> buy things through apps or disappointed => lose their e-commerce platforms => trust in the brand and give more likely to get discounts, unfavorable product reviews
special offers or free delivery => the brand fails to have
service => obtain the items at loyal customers and attract bargain prices => save prospective ones. money for other purchases - go shopping online => perform transactions online => have to reveal bank account number/ID number and other items of personal
information => vulnerable to cyberattacks => lose money and live under constant threats to one’s life Social media - run blogs, post pictures on - use social media to read social media outlets... =>
news, chat with friends,... => deliver messages about become obsessed with social social issues (environmental media and spend too much pollution, teenage behaviours,
time surfing the Internet => career crisis) to more people
lead a sedentary life + looking
=> raise public awareness on at the computer/mobile these issues => help people phone’s screen for too often have a proper attitude => develop obesity and towards things around eyesight problems them/connect and sympathize with minority groups/raise - use social media to seek efforts to address global friends/sexual or romantic problems partners/job opportunities... => reveal too much personal - use social media as a information in (to attract channel of brand marketing people who can help them => run online ad campaigns fulfill these purposes) => => reach prospective some people may exploits customers from far and wide this information with bad
=> likely to boost sales and motives (committing a crime, increase more revenue
stealing your money) => your life is put at risk AI/Robots - Artificial intelligence - AI is widely applied in technologies carry out factories to automate complex tasks like humans industrial production
but with virtually no errors => processes => no human can be applied to in workers are needed => healthcare industry => human workers become perform surgeries with greater redundant and face risks of
precision => save more lives unemployment => resort to
crimes to earn their livings => - artificial intelligence can cause losses/threatens the understand complex human lives of innocent civilians messages and be responsive => help computers better - AI are widely used in many process users’ commands
aspects of lives => terrorists and execute them with great may exploit AI for bad complexity to achieve the purposes => manage to fully optimal results => can be manipulate many people’s
installed on virtual courses to lives and make themselves help students better interact less detectable => innocent with lesson content, get their people suffer greater
tests marked automatically => loss/face more serious threats increase study efficiency Cybercrime Causes Solutions - the inception of the Digital - avoid uploading important age and the growing personal information online
popularity of social media => => cybercriminals are less people do most activities such likely to have attractive as studying, applying for job,
targets to aim at => criminals communicating with people,... fail to gain from cybercrime in the cyberspace => people => they are discouraged and have to publish personal and stop engaging in cybercrime important information online => people with bad motives - governments set out to see the potential in such enact stricter cybersecurity information to earn them laws => compel online
influence and wealth => give sites/platforms/ channels to rise to cybercrime tighten control on Internet users’ private information + - cybercriminals can steal the introduce heavier data without making physical punishments for detected efforts/leaving evidence => cybercriminals => challenge they can carry out the crimes
criminals’ access to personal without getting exhausted or
information => criminals lost
being detected => cybercrime interest in launching further provides a more secure cyber attacks alternative and guarantees greater chance of success for criminals => more and more people want to cybercrime TOPIC 4. ENVIRONMENT Advantages Disadvantages Using fossil fuels - There are many countries - A dramatic increase in the with abundant natural
frequency of exploitation => resources => fossil-fuelled the resources of fossil fuels stations can be built almost
are running out => take many anywhere => cost for years to form again without transportation and
the intervention of humans => construction is cheaper. lack of energy supplied to the - generate more energy than world. other plants => lower price - The combustion of fossil
and be more efficient => more fuels is a major source of favorable than other types of increasing atmospheric energy carbon dioxide => harm the environment seriously => cause more natural disasters such as acid rain => damage the habitat of both humans and animals. Using alternative energy - alternative energy resources - cost for settings is very resources
are renewable => able to use
expensive => not widely used
it for a long period of time => around the world, especially reduce excessive worrying for developing countries =>
that the natural resources will cannot completely phase out run out.
fossil fuels => require more - non-conventional resources investments and research to do not harm the environment make it easily accessible for
=> tackle the threat of climate everyone. change => make the
- Geographical limitations => investments necessary for depends a lot on the
realizing the full potential of environmental conditions of the resource => replace the the countries => are not fossil fuel system. suitable for everyone like
fossil fuels => prevent them from using alternative energy resources. Losses of biodiversity Causes: Solutions - the escalating human - The government should population is increasing its enforce strict laws on illegal pressures on natural logging=> reduce the number resources => lead to many
of trees being cut => prevent problems such as the area from deforestation over-utilization of natural => maintain biodiversity. resources or poaching => do - encourage and provide serious harm to the more campaigns on planting environment => lead to
trees => result in an increase
erosion or loss of biodiversity. in the number of trees in the - The scarcity problem is area => give a helping hand worsened through the act of with the process of industrialization => the regeneration => reduce the surroundings will be exposed potential losses of to chemicals and emissions biodiversity. => impact negatively to the environment => lead to some natural disasters such as deforestation => losses of biodiversity Overpopulation Problems: Solutions:
- Overpopulation => increase
- Provide better education => the number of private vehicles Gain knowledge or
on the streets => increase the understanding about the emission of carbon dioxide world => heighten awareness
into the atmosphere => cause of sex and the impact of air pollution => result in overpopulation => decrease serious environmental the birth rate => slowly degradation. eliminate the overpopulation - Overpopulation => the problem. demand for housing and food - Imposing taxes on will increase => more
consuming products => result buildings and exploitation of in an increase in the price of natural resources => harm
goods => families have to pay the environment because of more money to raise their the emissions from production children => restrict the
=> tribute to global warming number of children in => natural disasters. low-income families => reduce the population rate. Environment Deforestation Causes: Solutions:
- Overpopulation => force the - Inform people about the governments to allow consequences of construction companies to deforestation => make some encroach on woodlands => advertisements on TVs or result in a decrease in the
interview experts => educate number of trees in the area people and raise their such as Amazon forest > awareness about protecting deforestation forests => reduce the - Do not inform strict law on potential of deforestation.
poaching => no securities for - More forest securities
natural forests to protect them should be in place => ban from being harmed => people people from logging where keep on exploiting them =>
the forest is low => solve the cut down trees uncontrollably demand problem by => deforestation
introducing people to artificial furniture instead of using wood => cut down the demand of wood => decrease the possibility of deforestation. Pollution Causes: Solutions: - Do not provide efficient - Invest on developing the
waste disposal for the citizens technology for a better waste
living near rivers or canals => disposal system for those citizens struggle with their living near the river or canal
daily waste => throw it into => introduce them a better
the river or canal nearby => way to deal with their waste rivers and canals are filled => prevent them from with garbage and waste => throwing garbage into rivers water pollution. => reduce the amount of
- City is being filled with too
waste floating on the rivers => many people from different the water in the area will societal background => become less polluted. demand for houses and cars - Make alternative energy
will increase => the city has to more approachable for messily mingle with the
everyone => more people will concrete jungle of brick use this type of energy => houses and experience a discourage them from using growing number of private
the fossil fuels => reduce the cars on the street => amount of emissions from emissions such as C02
fossil fuels => freshen the air coming from these activities will harm the environment badly => air pollution TOPIC 5. ADVERTISING Advantages Disadvantages Advertising Advantages for companies: Disadvantages for + Celebrity endorsement => consumers: make a product more + Exaggerate the quality of
appealing => attract potential the products => misleading customers => information => impulsive boost sales for companies purchase =>
disappointment => return the + Promotional campaigns => products at their own expense increase brand awareness of new products => reach + Persuaded to follow the potential customers =>
latest trends and fashions => increase sales => boost buy unnecessary things => economic waste of money development + TV commercials may interrupt one’s viewing experience => cause Advantages for:
frustration + affect viewers’ consumers: enjoyment of the show + Online advertisements =>
reach potential customers => meet customers' demands and needs => improve customers’ life quality Advantages for online and offline media channels & audiences:
+ billboards on the streets => promote their products => reach a wider range of target audiences (passing pedestrians + drivers)
+ conduct market research => be aware of customers’ needs => improve products quality Advertising for children + upsurge in advertisements + easily influenced by
=> broaden children’s horizon advertisements => of knowledge by providing advertisements with them with useful information inappropriate content may be about the products and their harmful to the development of difference in comparison to children other brands. + pestering or nagging from children to buy things => + advertisements aimed at
pressure on their parents =>
children => parents pay heed overindulgence of children to useful and relevant products during the + a large number of the flashy upbringing of children => advertisements example: nutritious milk => detrimental effect on a
commercials => allow parents child’s academics => lose to keep abreast of which their ability to focus on a product is the most suitable certain task for an extended for their children period of time. Advertising should be + prevents advertisements + governments may restrict regulated by governments from having inappropriate advertisements that has content + content that is not out-of-the-box styles => in line with government policy advertisements gain no =>common in every country intention from customers
=> if advertisement is within normal bounds => the + Governments’ approval government wouldn’t have time for assessing an much to say about it. advertisement is lengthy => take companies’ long time to + advertisement approved by release their advertisements governments have higher => reduction in profits and
credibility => customer’s find reach it easy to make purchasing decisions Methods used in + advertisements appear all + the way that advertisements advertising are unethical over social media channels encourages people to buy and unacceptable in today’s => give people more choices products they may not need society to compare => customers
or cannot afford => Children choose their best option and young people in particular are influenced by + Advertisements creates adverts => put enormous jobs for marketers => raise pressure on the parents to
people’s living standards => buy these products boost the country’s economy + the advertising of tobacco products and alcohol has long
been a controversial issue => alcohol adverts encourage excessive consumption and underage drinking => yet restrictions have not been placed on this type of advertising in the same way as smoking. + an invasion of personal privacy => human beings should have the free will to decide what information they wish to receive => but advertisers have the choice to shove their products down
our throats. => browsing the internet, ads can pop up anytime, one after another and after a certain number of times => become excruciatingly frustrating. TOPIC 6. SOCIAL ISSUES Causes Problems Solutions Competitive job - schools improve the - job market becomes - fresh graduates and market quality of education more competitive => prospective job => acquire more many people are applicants should try learning materials rejected from their running their own and adopt more jobs => become business/doing innovative unemployed => resort startups => avoid the approaches to to crimes to earn their job application teaching => students livings => cause process => suffer are equipped with human losses and less from the impacts more social unrest of a competitive job knowledge/foster market more vital skills => - job market becomes manage to meet more competitive => - students need to basic job application staff recruitment map out their requirements upon standards are raised academic and career graduation (obtain higher => students paths early during academic have to work harder high school years => certifications, (get good grades, have time to acquire demonstrate LoRs, win knowledge, engage in professional internships/scholarshi different activities and competency/experien ps) to land their sharpen their skills => ce) => employers dream jobs => suffer get qualifications, win raise recruitment from health problems awards, prestigious standards => job (depression, scholarships + market becomes obesity,..) familiarize more competitive themselves with intense workload - companies apply AI /heavy responsibility technology => AI + develop special perform tasks more abilities desired in quickly and at a lower their position => cost than human stand out from other workers do => AI applicants when replaces human applying for job + workers at workplace impress the => fewer job employers => earn a opportunities for job in a competitive human workers job market FOOD SHORTAGE - Parents give birth to - food shortage - introduce laws to too many children => happens => people restrict family size => A country population do not enough food to bring population quickly escalates => feed themselves => increase under better leads to suffer from control => lower the overpopulation in a undernourishment => demand for food =>