Type 1&2: Advantages (benefits) and disadvantages/ Opinion

essay
1. Books and reading
- Benefits of reading and ways to encourage reading among young
people
- Printed books vs e-books
- Books in general and picture books in particular
2. Playing computer games

3. Watching too much TV is bad for children

Advantages and disadvantages of watching TV

4. Education
- Advantages and disadvantages of online learning
- University education vs. vocational training
- The roles of physical education (sports) in addressing children’s
obesity
- Learning a language/history/music/art at school should be
compulsory?
- Studying abroad
- Homeschooling
- Children using mobile phone in classroom
- The roles of teachers in deciding the teaching and learning
curriculum

5. Internet/Computer/social media
- E.g. The benefits of internet in increasing access to information
- The benefits and drawbacks of social media
6. Family
- Nuclear family/Extended family
- Late marriage and childbirth
7. Food and Cooking
- Should girls learn how to cook in the today’s world.
- Eating out vs. cooking at home
- Biotech food; organic food
8. Living in big cities:
- problems of big cities and solutions
- The reasons people move to big cities
- Overpopulation: cause and effects/problems and solutions
9. Advertisement
- Shopping online
- The advantages and disadvantages of advertisement

10. Tourism
- Religious tourism
- Travelling in groups or alone

11. Doing volunteering work/charity

12. Health
- Banning of fastfood
- Banning of smoking in public place
13. Braindrain
14. Increasing crime rates /youth violence
15. Traffic problems (congestion; accidents)
16. Work
- Remote working/telecommuting
- Skipping jobs
17. Deforestation
- Causes and effects
- Problems and solutions
18. Pollution (Noise, air, water)
- Problems and solutions