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Video Games: Pros and Cons for Kids

The document discusses the impact of video games on children, presenting both positive and negative arguments. Proponents argue that video games can enhance creativity and provide entertainment, while opponents claim they lead to laziness and addiction, potentially exposing children to violence. The conclusion recommends that parents should carefully select appropriate games for their children due to the greater disadvantages associated with video games.

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Video Games: Pros and Cons for Kids

The document discusses the impact of video games on children, presenting both positive and negative arguments. Proponents argue that video games can enhance creativity and provide entertainment, while opponents claim they lead to laziness and addiction, potentially exposing children to violence. The conclusion recommends that parents should carefully select appropriate games for their children due to the greater disadvantages associated with video games.

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Discussion Text

Definition

a discussion text is a text that presents both sides of an issue or argument.

The purpose of discussion text is to inform readers about a particular topic, issue, or question
by presenting different perspectives, opinions, or arguments.

Generic structure of discussion text:

 Issue
 arguments for
 arguments against
 conclusion/recommendation.

Video Games

Issue:

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’ life. Nevertheless, there is an
argument whether video games bring good or bad influences on children.

Arguments For:

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.

Arguments Against:

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. Two years ago in the USA, for example, a student shot his teacher
and some of his friends. Newspapers said that the boy was deeply influenced
by the actions in the video games he used to play with.

Recommendation:

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.

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