2017雅思写作范文：学生是否需要学习国际新闻

Should secondary students study international news as one of their study projects. one think it is a waste of their valuable study time. Discuss both and tell your opinion.

中学生是否应该把学习国际新闻作为学习项目之一?有人认为这是浪费他们宝贵的学习时间。讨论双方观点并给出你的观点。

思路分析：

1. 不该学： 国际新闻对于学生当地的社会而言太过遥远，和他们每天的学习和生活毫不相关。举例，国外的各种政治丑闻，罢工，或是股票的起起落落，都无法教会孩子们去了解当地社会，或是帮助他们取得更好的学校考试成绩。

2. 应该学： 首先，学习国际新闻开阔了学生的视野。举例，通过学习国际新闻中的国外文化元素，孩子们能掌握一种跨文化理解力，这让他们的海外旅行和留学不会犯二。

3. 还有，国际文化帮助孩子们变的更加成熟。举例，在富裕的国家，孩子们总是花钱大手大脚，因为他们的成长环境太安逸。当他们看看那些关于非洲战乱，饥饿和死亡的国际新闻之后，他们能学会珍惜他们的生活。

参考范文：

The world today has become quite dynamic and news stories develop almost every minute. Some people think reviewing the international news need to become a high school subject while another group disagrees. In my opinion, studying the news across the globe can shape these young viewers as well-informed citizens.

Admittedly, the main reason against such news is that it has nothing to do with students’ daily lives. For example, the breaking news in other countries or continents--such as political scandals, work strikes, ups and downs of stock market exchange, is too far from the regional situations to provide practical knowledge or instructions for local students. All they see and hear from the international news fail to reflect the truth and day-to-day changes of local community around them, or to improve their studying performance, or to teach them self-care skills for dealing with the challenges in a real world. In addition, the negative news from other countries including natural disasters, social violence and crimes, unnecessarily shock these young minds, thus trapping them into nervousness and anxiety. On this level, the assertion about the international news wasting time is proper.

However, I strongly believe the international news is highly valuable, to a large extent. Firstly, it is a wonderful means by which students’ minds can be broadened. For example, the international news reports inevitably contain a foreign culture from a certain country--from social manners to languages, from food to religious rituals. By being exposed to the exotic information, students can build up a cross-culture understanding, and their thoughts would become more flexible, adaptable and patient, when encountering with the cultural diversity in future travelling and studying abroad.

Besides, international news plays a role of catalyst for the maturity of youngsters. Actually, many teenagers in some rich countries are overindulged because they grow up in a peaceful, affluent, safe and healthy environment. More or less, they might squander money with no restraint. However, when watching the pictures and stories about Africa, like the massive starvation, epidemics, and the homelessness and death caused by civil wars, they begin to realize how happy their lives are. Then they can learn to spend money in moderation, cherish food and clothes, as well as turn into kind and charitable people with a willing of giving.

In conclusion, for young students in schools, there are more advantages of studying the global news over its disadvantages. Although it is possible that such studying is unpractical for their academic scores in school education or for daily lives, its benefits in cultivating youngsters as well-qualified generations with open, comprehensive and mature thoughts, can never be ignored.

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