Unit 8 Writing Assignment | MUHAMAMAD LUQMAN BIN MOHD RADZRI
Sun Nov 25 2018 19:53:21 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time)
Writing Task
In this assignment, you are going to write a persuasive essay. As you prepare your essay,
think about the Unit Question, "Why is it important to play?" Choose one of the topics below:
1. Write a persuasive essay about how video games are helpful or harmful to children.
Remember to present at least one counterargument and give a refutation.
2. Are toys and games today better for children's development than toys of the past? Write a
persuasive essay responding to this question. Remember to present at least one
counterargument and give a refutation.
Student Writing
The Harmful Effect of Video Games
Everyone knows and heard about Super Mario, FIFA Online and others. Most people often
spend their leisure time to play this games especially children. Their many kind of video games
in this century like PlayStation, Xbox, computer games and others. With advance of technology,
these games can play in multiple player which is can connected with Bluetooth or WI-Fi. This
kind of games can attract children to play it anywhere and anytime. Some human kind said,
video games can give bad influence for children, while some people claim video games are
helpful for children’s life style. The questions is how video games are helpful or harmful to
children? In my opinion, video games can give harmful to children.
First and foremost, in aspect of education, the academic performance will be decline if children
play video games uncontrollable. This is happening because children are more spend their time
to it instead of use that time to do exercise and revision. Children neglect their study because
playing games is more interesting and fun than doing exercise and revision. Some children are
lack of sleep because of play the game until late night. Consequently, children sleep in class and
they cannot give full attention while teacher is teaching. As the result, children get bad result in
examination. It is clear it is not good if children play video games more than study.
In addition, playing video games can make children become lazy to sport. They always spend
their time with video games and do not have much time to sport.They stop exercise and eat
junk food while playing games. Consequently, they more prone to health problems like neck
pain, diminished cardiovascular skills or weight gain with their bad lifestyle and their physical
condition become decrease. Children who play games in longer time may prone to high
definition rays can put in eye diseases. A lack of exercise can make children weak and do not
enough energy, as the result they always sleep. Hence, playing video games can make children
lack of exercise.
On the other hand, in aspect of skills, video games is a medium to be used for develop
children`s teamwork skills. By playing video games, it is vital to cooperate and work together to
achieve their goals which is to win the games. For example,like Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds
games, every team member must help each other, work together to kills enemy by interacting
with each other’s. In real world, children can learn arrange the strategy by working together with
team members like, decide to use great resource to do the project, implement project in the
time given, divide the work to team members and others. Consequently,the project that they
implement is perfect and high quality.
Although,playing video games can improve teamwork skill, they also come with lack of social
skills. Parents who are busy their work give the games equipment to children for they enjoy
while parents go to work. For instant, children play the games in dinner time. What happen to
family dinner? Actually, at family dinner, we can communicate and discuss our problems to
each family member indirectly, the bond between family members is strength. Interaction
between friends also affected.Children tend at home to play games instead of play with their
friends at outside. This action can give bad consequent in long term.
In conclusion, video games can give harmful to children because it has more consequence than
benefit. Parents can take a vital responsible to monitor their child and give their suitable time to
play games. Children also can make timetables and manage their time to study and play games.
I hope parents and children work together to handle it properly with great solution to produce
children who can devoted to our country. For who are spend more time to play games, try to
reduce it. Otherwise, you definitely regret it in later.
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