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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 
IELTS Writing Task 2: children's upbringing 
Children who are brought up in families that do not have large amounts of money are better 
prepared to deal with the problems of adult life than children brought up by wealthy parents. 
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Here are two quick tasks related to the question above. 
1) Vocabulary: fill the gaps in the following paragraph:
On the one hand, I agree that some children from less wealthy _____ might be in a better position to 
_____ adult life. Children whose parents have less money learn to fight, struggle and solve problems 
on a daily _____. They are forced to rely on _____ because they have less financial help from 
parents and cannot get what they want as soon as they want it. For example, poorer children may 
have to wait until a birthday to receive a toy or game that they have asked for, and this encourages 
them to learn patience. These children will also learn the importance of managing money and the 
value of hard _____, which will be vital _____ in later life. 
2) Opinions: think of some ideas to support the opposite point of view.
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CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
These are the words I originally used in the paragraph (other words might also be possible): 
1. backgrounds 
2. face 
3. basis 
4. themselves 
5. work 
6. skills