托福独立写作题目

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Children should spend most of their time studying or playing; they should not be required to help the family with household chores, such as cooking etc. 

本文立场: 该做家务

【本文思路】

先否后肯：尽管小孩子做家务没那么麻溜，甚至会犯错；而且大部分的时间花在学习和玩上可以为他们日后的学习做好准备。但他们其实可以从错误中汲取教训，于是做家务也是学习；并且他们通过做家务培养了责任心，于是可以学的更好。

【倒装现象】Seldom are children involved in doing housework, either because they are occupied with acquiring knowledge and having fun playing various games, or because their parents want to avoid chaos or dangers. This is not desirable. As a matter of fact, it is in children’s best interest to spend some time doing housework.

☆ 开头段的信息进展不用添加过多无用信息，第 一句写出与自己立场相左的事实；接着开始驳回即可

Children are prone to misbehave. While we expect them to help with housework, we should be aware that since they are too young to be capable, they may bring more troubles than useful aids. In addition, 【with的独立主格】with a majority of time allotted to knowledge acquisition and amusements, children may be better prepared for their future study and may feel delighted. However, it makes no sense for parents or caregivers to stop children from doing housework. In fact, children are actually learning while doing household chores.

☆ 让步段的结尾句作为接下来段落的立论句

Troubles are inevitable, but【善用疑问句】 can children learn a lesson from them? The answer is surely positive. 【举例信号词的多样性】Take cooking, a typical household chore, as an example. Children are highly likely to cut their finger while chopping meat due to their poor eye-hand coordination. However, 【分词做状语】after feeling how hurt it is to be cut by knife, they will learn the fact that knife is a hazard instead of a toy. This is an advantage of housework because only reading or hearing about the threat of knives plays a small role in keeping them away from it. 【前句话没说完的道理接着说完】In other words, children may never truly understand some concepts in books or warnings from caregivers unless personally experienced it.

Besides, chores should be assigned for other purposes like instilling responsibility in children. As is known, a responsible man is able to study independently and stay safe when playing. Without seeing how much upkeep and work goes into running a house, 【善用疑问句】how are children meant to develop a sense of duty towards the mess, and how could they be expected to be responsible for their own safety? On the contrary, if involved in doing household chores, they will slowly and subconsciously become more aware of what mess they leave around, thus feeling responsible for such mess. 【举例信号词的多样性】I am personally convinced of this point, as I had similar experience before, when I was a child who would leave my toys about. I didn’t form the habit of putting away my toys until my parents asked me to be responsible for doing it.【with的独立主格】 With such habits cultivated, my sense of responsibility is largely strengthened, and such traits are transferred into other life events and situations like study and play.

At this point, it is crystal clear that 【倒装】 important as studying or playing is, children should still devote time to undertaking some chores to learn from the potential mistakes and to develop a sense of duty.