IELTS Speaking Part 2 & 3 - Topic: Competition

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PART 2 - Competition topic

Well, it was an inter-department annual indoor sports competition at my office and a mailer was issued for all notifying the event. I was an accountant working for a local manufacturing company of good repute in Argentina. The company manufactures plastic materials for daily use.

My office organizes the competition annually to make the employees feel more relaxed. In fact, it is really tough to work round the year without any reliable breaks. So, different competitions were held marking the event. I took part in chess and cards. There were some other competitions like passing the pillow for the female employees. Table tennis was the other important competition that I did not dare to take part in.

However, the prizes were attractive. The company arranged home appliances as prizes for the winners - a large screen television set for the first prize winner, a washing machine for the second and a microwave oven for the third position. But all the participants received some awards for their participation. Actually, management did not disappoint the participants. I won the third prize and another small prize for my participation. It was an enjoyable event indeed.

The prime motivation behind participating was to check my skills on indoor games. I was skilled in chess when I was a student but had not practiced for a long time. The notice for the annual competition brought the chance for me to hone my skills. Moreover, I enjoy playing chess and cards. And participating in the competition was enjoyable too.

PART 3 - Chủ đề Competition

1. Why do you think some school teachers use competitions as class activities?

Some school teachers use competitions as class activities in order to bring out the best in their students, as well as to realize their full academic potential. Besides, they believe that the sense of healthy competition among the students, if used effectively, will help them remain engaged and interested in their lessons, not only in the schools but also at home since children just love winning things.

2. Do you think it is a good thing to give prizes to children who do well at school? Why?

No, I don’t necessarily think that it is particularly productive for teachers and the school authorities to offer prizes to children who do well at school primarily because the practice goes against the spirit of healthy competition. In fact, those who fail to receive prizes, generally feel inferior to the prize-receiving children, which certainly is not good for the tender minds of those young children. Besides, children should be encouraged to do well, with or without prizes because they should be able to understand that there just may not be prizes always for the things they will do in their lives when they grow up.

3. Would you say that schools for young children have become more or less competitive since you were that age? Why?

I would say that schools for young children have become more competitive since I was of the same age primarily because of the commercialization of education in general. Besides, the children and their parents these days have bigger expectations from schools, in terms of more tests and more activities, even if it means compromising with the quality of education as well as the quality of after-school life of young children.

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of intensive training for young sportspeople?

There are a number of advantages of intensive training programs for young sports people, but the main one is that it helps them become physically and mentally tough to face the challenges in the real world. These training programs also help bring great team spirit among the young people by making them more helpful and generous to others in general. However, one of the major disadvantages of such intensive programs is that they can inflict serious bodily injuries, sometimes life-threatening, on young people. The young people may also suffer from a tremendous amount of stress and anxiety due to the serious nature of these intensive training.

5. Some people think that competition leads to better performance from sports stars. Others think it just makes players feel insecure. What is your opinion?

Feeling a certain degree of insecurity in our society is real whether there is a competition or not. Therefore, in my opinion, when there is a competition, it is only natural that the athletes will nurture feelings of insecurity because they try to prove something to someone by performing better than others. Unfortunately, that very pressure makes it so that failures feel much bigger than their successes. So I believe that healthy competition should be encouraged in a positive way to bring out the best among the athletes, and they should be motivated to rejoice in their personal successes.

6. Do you think that it is possible to become too competitive in sport? In what way?

Of course, I think that it is possible to become too competitive in sports since some players would want to win at any cost even if it means using some unethical means to achieve their goals. That’s exactly why we constantly hear news of performance enhancing drugs, used by some athletes, almost on a regular basis. In fact, it is because of this type of competitive overdrive that we see players abusing each other physically and verbally on the fields, which is absolutely unacceptable behaviour by any standards.

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