Advantage and Disadvantage essays

Advantage and Disadvantage ESSAYS

These kinds of questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement. The problem is that there are 3 different types of advantage and disadvantage question and they each require a different approach. If you answer them in a different way then you risk losing lots of easy marks. This lesson will look at each of the three question types and suggest a standard sentence by sentence. Structure for each of them. There will also be samples answers for each of the three questions to help you compare and understand the three approaches.

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  Question 1
  

In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decided to do this.

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  Question 2
  

Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary schools rather than secondary school.