2021年9-12月 雅思口语 Part 3 Topic 2 利用网络解决问题

1.What do people do online in their free time?

Many people nowadays choose to spend their free time browsing the internet. There are all sorts of different things one can do on the internet. The most popular activity by far has to be visiting social media websites. Social media is a huge part of modem life and many people will spend hours on different social media every day. There is social media for catching up with friends, for sharing your ideas, for posting photographs you have taken online and many other things. I would say that social media is particularly popular with younger generations and also with people that do not have too many responsibilities.

2.What impacts does the internet have on schools?

The internet can have both positive and negative impacts on schools. On one hand there are many ways in which the internet can be used as a resource to improve the quality of teaching within a school. The internet has huge amounts of information as well as many fun and interactive ways to teach facts to students. Therefore, when applied correctly, the internet can be a very effective tool for teaching. However, there are also many ways in which the internet can negatively affect schools. The internet is a very risky source of distraction to many students across the world. Social media and video websites can often distract children from their studies and cause them to lose focus in class.

3.Do you think many people waste their time online?

There are many ways in which the internet poses a large risk of distracting people from their work and studies. Nowadays, with mobile phones most people are always connected to the internet wherever they go. This means that a lot of people waste their time online instead of focusing on important things they have to do. Often during class students will browse through social media on their phones. Similarly many people spend their free time browsing content on the internet when that time could be better spent on self-improvement or socialising. I think this problem is particularly poignant (深刻、 尖锐的）amongst people who live in large cities. People in cities often feel very isolated from one another and therefore spend a lot of their time alone on the internet. In contrast to this, people in *all villages have a better sense of community and thus would rather spend their time doing interesting activities with friends.

4.What can people do with the internet in the future? And how?

It is very hard to really predict what people will do with the internet in the future. The internet is a rapidly changing social space and its potentialities could be limitless. The internet also offers different tools for different groups of people. For businesses, the internet may become a huge platform for them to connect to their customer bases. There are many companies already using the internet as their primary space to sell products such as Uber or Alibaba. For these companies the internet will probably develop to engage in new and exciting ways with the physical world, commerce and trade. Yet in contrast, the internet will offer very different developments to people who appreciate art and music. The internet is becoming a large cyber gallery for artists to place their artwork and music on display for people to appreciate.