Posted by Michele Peters on September 22, 19102 at 11:52:38:
In Reply to: 157 In the future, students may have the choice of studying at home by using technology such as computers or television or of studying at traditional schools. Which would you prefer? posted by lyh on September 19, 19102 at 13:11:42:
Your essay is well written and well structured. Giving a disadvantage and showing how the advantages outweigh the disadvantage adds to your argument, however you should give one more advatange. Or you could say that although studying at home could be distracting, you could shut off the phone or tell everyone not to disturb you. Or you could say in school, the students are distracting. By adding something like that, you are providing an advantage.
: It is said that in the future, students may choose to study at home by using technology such as computers or televisions, or to study at traditional schools. There may be one or two disadvantages of studying at home, however, in my point of view, there are far more advantages. The following are my reasons and examples.
: First of all, one of the minor disadvantages of studying at home is that someone may disturb me during my class. For example, a friend of mine may call me, a salesperson may come to visit. Another drawback of studying at home is that if something was wrong with my computer or television, I would miss my classes and fall behind my classmates.
: Even though there may be one or two disadvantages of studying at home, the advantages far outweigh them. I need not to commute between my home and my school, especially when the weather is terrible. I can still remember clearly that winter morning when I was a high school student. It snowed heavily the whole night, whatĄŻs more, it kept snowing in the early morning. I decided to go to school much earlier. When I went out I found the snow on the street was so thick that cars and buses moved very slowly and difficultly. I knew I couldnĄŻt take a bus to school, then I had to go on foot. It was not easy for me to walk fast in the street covered by thick snow in a snowy cold morning. It took me an hour to get to school, while it usually took me twenty minutes. If I study at home I wouldnĄŻt have such sufferings, and I could save much time and much money on transit fare. IsnĄŻt that wonderful?
: Another advantage of studying at home is that I can listen to the lessons again and again by saving them in my computer or recording them with VCR. ItĄŻs possible that I canĄŻt understand everything that my teachers taught in class. I canĄŻt ask my teachers in person either, because I study at home. However, if I saved the files or recorded the lessons in cassettes, I could easily go over the lessons whenever I wanted, and as many times as I needed. In addition, itĄŻs the most useful materials before exams!
: Although I agree that there may be a couple of disadvantages of studying at home, I feel that the advantages are more obvious. By studying at home I need not to commute to school. Moreover, I can save or record the lessons to review them and prepare for exams. ItĄŻs so convenient. In my opinion, I prefer to study at home.