I do not agree with the statement that playing computer games is a waste of time. I believe that it actually can be beneficial for children, since it lets them to experience technology and understand how the computers work to some extent and it gives them some time to relax.
Even though it may sometimes be harmful for a child to spend so much time playing computer games rather than studying, these games let them get used to the available technology we have. This provides an easy adaptation for the children to other technological tools we use in our everyday life as well, such as online courses, printers, scanners, at school; television, kitchen equipment at home, or even vehicles used for transportation anywhere.
Studying and succeeding is important for children throughout their education, but they can only do this if they also have some free time to relax and have fun. Playing computer games provides this opportunity for them. Besides, they can also make friends while playing computer games. Having friends and also free time provides motivation for the children to study more. That is why the time for playing computer games is not a time wasted.
One other point is about the development of the children’s brain. It is obvious that technology and thus the computers are used a lot in today’s world. Hence, a child playing so much computer games is also, maybe without knowing, getting ready for the skills he/she is going to need later in his/her career. I have a friend who have played so much computer games as a child and who still does. Last semester, we took a programming course as a group of friends which required us to do coding and none of us had coding experience before. That friend of mine became the most successful one in the course and it was mostly due to his earlier familiarity towards computers.
To sum up, I support that children should be allowed to play computer games, if that does not cause them to ignore their other responsibilities such as studying or if that does not take more time than necessary. By having the chance to relax and have their own free time, they can happily succeed and furthermore develop their technological skills.
- Tpo 9. Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past.I completely disagree with this claim that nowadays children are less creative than they were in the past. Here you can see my reasons. 66
- Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them. 73
- Seals, seal lions and sea otter populations started rapidly declining a few years ago. Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage. 73
- Archaeologists have recently found a fossil of a 150-million-year-old mammalknown as Repenornamus robustus (R. robustus). Interestingly, the mammal'sstomach contained the remains of a psittacosaur dinosaur. Some researchers havetherefore suggested that R. 73
- TOEFL T P O 10 - Integrated Writing Task 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, furthermore, hence, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 52.1666666667 65% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1834.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 378.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85185185185 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69170761516 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521164021164 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.7983010011 48.9658058833 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.882352941 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2352941176 20.6045352989 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.29411764706 5.45110844103 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.423225799171 0.236089414692 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.158200920181 0.076458572812 207% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135037554365 0.0737576698707 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257629645934 0.150856017488 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.086578673557 0.0645574589148 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 86.8835125448 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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