Cambridge IELTS 4 Academic Writing Test 4

The graphs reveal an information about overseas residents travel to UK and UK residents travel to other countries, and where they visited more. According to the chart of visits to and from UK, UK residents had visited abroad more than overseas residents visited UK. UK residents traveling were increased slightly till 1986, after that, there was a dramatic rise from $20 millions to $54 millions till 1999. In contrast, overseas residents were increased gradually in traveling to UK from $10 million to $28 millions between 1979 and 1999. From the information shown, we can see that France was the most popular country visited by UK residents, accounting for $11 millions. And the others countries visited by UK residents were Turkey, Greece and USA, which were $3, $4 and $5 millions.

Poor student behaviour seems to be an increasingly widespread problem and I think that modern lifestyles are probably responsible for this. In many countries, the birth rate is decreasing so that families are smaller with fewer children. These children are often spoilt, not in terms of love and attention because working parents do not have the time for this, but in more material ways. They are allowed to have whatever they want, regardless of price, and to behave as they please. This means that the children grow up without consideration for others and without any understanding of where their standard of living comes from. When they get to school age they have not learnt any self control or discipline. They have less respect for their teachers and refuse to obey school rules in the way that their parents did. Teachers continually complain about this problem and measures should be taken to combat the situation. But I think the solution to the problem lies with the families, who need to be more aware of the future consequences of spoiling their children. If they could raise them to be considerate of others and to be social, responsible individuals, the whole community would benefit. Perhaps parenting classes are needed to help them to do this, and high quality nursery schools could be established that would support families more in terms of raising the next generation. The government should fund this kind of parental support, because this is no longer a problem for individual families, but for society as a whole.