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The Aim of Learning
"Distinguishing and capturing the social function, text structure,
and linguistic elements of several Discussion texts."
What do you think about this phenomenom?
Nowadays, the video games industry is developing rapidly. It becomes a multi-billion dollar industry. Video games have
become an important part not only in the children’ life but also in the adults’. Nevertheless, there is an argument
whether video games bring good or bad influences on children.
People who have a pro argument claim that video games give a lot of benefits, playing video games is a good way to kill
children’s boredom. It can refresh the children’s mind after a tiring school day. Moreover, they also argue that video
games can trigger children to be more creative because the games provide challenging ways to win. In other words, they
believe that the video games can actually sharpen a human’s brain.
Conversely, some people believe that video games make children lazy. They argue that playing video games is addictive.
As a consequence, most of the children prefer playing video games to studying. These children find it hard to
concentrate on their study because they always think about how to spend more time playing video games. In fact, there
are also some children who skip their extracurricular lessons, just because they want to play video games. In addition,
most of the video games often expose too much violence.
It is obvious that video games have more disadvantages than advantages. Therefore, parents should be very careful in
selecting the appropriate games for their children.