LEISURE TIME 
Do you feel that you have a lot of leisure time? 
What do you do when you have leisure time?
Chinese – Mandarin / Cantonese
In some countries, young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard on their studies.
What do you think are the causes of this?
What solutions can you suggest?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience. Write at least 250 words
Around the world, teenagers / students / adolescents are spending most of their time studying instead of
relaxing or doing other activities. This leads to the fact that many of them are under a high pressure.
Nowadays, many tenageers in different nations feel overloaded in their study which lead to the fact that they
don’t have a lot of time to relax. I will discussion about my view in this essay.
Causes / Reasons of this issue will be addressed in this essay, together with some solutions / measures to help
young people / teenagers / adolescents / students to have more leisure time. Causes: Too many deadlines Enormous amount of homework 1
Teachers assign too much homework for students.
Examples: 5 tasks / assignments per subject students get  overloaded 2
Peer pressure: many students feel left behind
Many students compare themselves with their friends unconsciously.
Many of them aim to enter big universities
 students get under pressure 3 Parental pressure:
Expectations of parents to their children >< capabilities of children 4
Too many academic competitions: universities have high standards -> students have to learn a lot Solutions: 1
Teachers should reduce the number of assignments
Teachers should let students do their assignments in class, instead of them doing tasks at home 2
Students should be aware of their capabilities / competences Manage their time to study
Stop comparing themselves with their friends: everyone is unique, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses 3
Parents should spend more time with their children to understand them and their capabilities
 have more appropriate expectations 4
More vocational schools -> young people have more options
Limit the number of academic competitions
Organise some talent competitions / extra-curricular activities (…)