Here is an IELTS writing task 2 essay question about advertising to children in schools. This was reported a number of times in the IELTS test. Below are some ideas for your answer.
IELTS Essay Question: Advertising to Children in Schools
Don’t forget that although IELTS recycle essay topics, they usually paraphrase the question.
In some countries, fast food restaurants and companies give money to schools provided that the schools promote their products to school children.
What do you think is the positive and negative of this in the development of children?
This type of question is a Direct Question which requires you to give your opinion of whether the development is more positive than negative or vice versa.
Ideas for Essay Topic
Positive Effects of Companies Promoting in Schools
- Companies will donate to schools as a form of advertising. This could be food, equipment or resources. Children benefit from the additional resources and facilities that schools can afford due to the funding from companies
- Children can learn the value of money in order to buy the products being promoted
- learning to manage money is a useful life skill
- children learn to be selective about what they buy
Negative Effects
- Allowing companies to promote junk food to children encourages a poor diet.
- poor diets, which include high quantities of salt and sugar, can be harmful to a child’s health
- this sets children up to be unhealthy adults which can be expensive for the state in the long run
- Advertising and promoting to children can be exploitative and unethical
- they are easily influenced
- they are not able to criticise or form their own opinion
- this form of advertising is aimed at the parents through their children
- children are unable to distinguish what is promotional and what is educational
- Advertising expensive products can encourage children to demand luxury items from their parents which may be beyond their finances.
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Junk-food selling restaurants and businesses are major sponsors of schools in exchange for promoting the sales of their foods and services to the students. This can have both merits and demerits to the students’ development as would be discussed below.
Firstly, a major merit is availability of enormous funds to the school administration for their activities. Examples include; sponsorship of quiz competition and prizes, sport competitions and cultural performance events . In addition, funds are provided as donations to schools in the form of equiping its library and sick bay. All these helps to improve the school and students wellbeing.
Of concern, is the detriment to the students health . This is because , junk-foods have been linked to obesity and other illnesses in children. Obstructive sleep apnea is a major cause of morbidity and death in school children as a result of obesity from consuming junk-foods. Furthermore, these foods are unnecessarily expensive and addictive. They end up exhausting the student’s finances. Eventually, affecting the student’s stability in school and their development.
To sum up , this is a case of giving with one hand and snatching back with the other hand. Therefore, schools administrators need to weigh the pros and cons of such skeptic generosity by these companies while protecting the overall well being of their students.