2020年1月18日雅思写作大作文考题分析

2020年1月18日考题：Some people think that children nowadays have too much freedom. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

翻译：现如今，孩子拥有过多的自由，你是否同意这个观点？

话题：教育类-儿童成长

类型：同意与否

关键词：children，too much，freedom

相似题目：剑桥雅思13 Test2：Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? 考察选择太多，类似freedom但不限定于儿童。

解析：这是一道通俗易懂的教育类考题，考察儿童成长过程中是否被给予了过多自由。很多在掌控欲极强的家长手中成长的孩子渴望自由，而很多被放养的孩子又渴望父母的关爱管教，freedom这个词不光对于小孩子，放在人生的任何一个阶段都是值得讨论一番的话题。这道写作题目看似简单，但是其中却隐含着两个难点：我们需要去探讨的社会问题是孩子是否拥有太多的自由，那么1）这个题目中的freedom具体是指什么？2）多少算过多？

1）一些考生的文章很可能会把这个题目写的特别空，特别大，很抽象不具体。可能全文的让步段主体段都在说孩子自由了之后的好和坏，但是并没有把孩子到底怎么自由了给具体展开，比如，你可以具体的写出：在做决定方面- 比如在和谁结交朋友，或者在周末做什么活动时被给予自由等等。 如果你能具体的给出孩子在哪方面获得freedom了，这方面获得freedom有什么具体好处，过多的freedom又会有什么坏处，那么你的文章内容上就不错了。

2）本题的第二个难点在于too much这个词，这个限定词表明可以给freedom，孩子适当的享有freedom没有问题，但如果事事都给予自由，任何事都不做限制那么就出问题了。所以随着社会的发展，孩子现在的确更自由了，但是这个自由能称得上是过多吗？孩子能承受多大程度上的自由呢？要注意如果小伙伴们在文中一些在写有freedom的利弊其实是有点偏题的，你要写的是当今社会中，孩子是否有适量的自由，是不是过度放纵孩子了，过多给予自由了有什么弊端。你要论证的重点不是“有还是没有”而是“过多还是适量”。

小编认为这种带too much限定的题，还是同意too much 写too much带来的问题会比较好些。逻辑就是：我同意孩子有太多自由了-举出一些太多自由的例子- 论证一些太多自由给孩子带来的不良影响。

好啦，分析了这么多，我们来看一些可以在文中使用的论证好句：Most kids have no idea how to handle an excess of freedom（过多的freedom）, even though they’re demanding it.

Here’s the end result when kids get to run the household: They eat only what they want to eat. They watch an inordinate amount of TV（inordinate- unusually or disproportionately large; excessive过量的，过多的-好搭配）. They play an endless amount of video games. They cuss out their parents. They don’t take care of their things. They demand that their parents buy them whatever they want. They have no frustration tolerance. Their wants become their needs. Their needs must be met. Their needs supersede （replace-替代）everyone else’s.

不得不说孩子的确还处在一个immature的阶段，很多生活看起来很爽实则充满隐患。

Kids need parents to restrict their freedom, to narrow their choices and to put pressure on them to meet their obligations. Kids may not appreciate all this restraint. But they need it. And parents need to step up to the plate and provide it, even when it’s so much easier to just give in to the incessant complaining and demanding.

For decades, parents have been hovering over （守护，指父母守护自己的孩子）their children and their freedom. Now these kids rebel（反抗，叛逆）, overuse social media, and disrespect their parents. These kids should be given enough freedom so that they aren’t on their phones every minute they are alone. 

Kids are also more likely to rebel if you coddle them. It will lead to drugs, lies, drinking, or worse（不自由孩子会叛逆反抗，会出现的问题）. If you ground a child for too long, they’ll feel trapped（受困其中） and want to get out, this is the main cause for rebelling and will continue to be until parents see that grounding is a cruel and harmful punishment because now a days kids have to live up to their parents expectations and if they don't than they are usually grounded.