Some people hold that advertisements should be restricted. Do you agree or disagree?

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You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with not specialist knowledge of the following topic.

Some people hold that advertisements should be restricted. Do you agree or disagree?

You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

You should write at least 250 words.

Sample Answer

Some people hold that advertisements should be restricted. Do you agree or disagree?

Everywhere, and almost at any time, we find ourselves surrounded by all kinds of advertisements. Some people suggest that the government should impose restrictions on advertisements. But on the other hand, there are also many people who strongly advocate that advertisements should not be restricted.

It is quite easy to find reasons for attacking advertising. First, it is extremely costly to put up an advertisement. TV advertising, for instance, costs more than 2.00 million VND per minute during prime time and this cost must eventually be paid by the consumer. Second, advertisements are misleading and dishonest. It is because advertisements have a powerful influence that the profiteer often tricks the public by them. In addition, surplus advertisements have interfered in pe0ple’s everyday lives. Every ten minutes, a television programme will be interrupted by commercials for a couple of minutes, which ruin good movies and exciting television shows.

However, other people argue in defense of advertising. In the first place, it has a valuable informative function, helping potential customers know about the characteristics and prices of products or where they can buy a particular product cheaply. In the second place, we would have to pay a great deal more if advertising did not create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. Finally, advertisements also provide money for newspapers, magazines, radios and TV stations. Some kinds of media perhaps could not survive without advertisements.

ln my opinion, advertisements should not be restricted. They provide us with much useful information. They reduce the price of commodities. What is more, they play a l crucial role in the development of the media.

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