60. Are games equally important for adults and children?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Games are as important for adults as they are
for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
『分析』
同意这个观点比较容易写。
成年人也有娱乐的需求，从繁重的压力中解脱出来(escape)
游戏对老年人更是如此。
从游戏中可以学到很多东西(桥牌——团队精神;围棋、象棋——拓展智力)
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『范文』
Games are fun. This is true for adults and children alike. However, games also teach a variety of skills and
they further every domain of a person's development. This is particularly important during the early stages of life.
Through games children learn gross motor and fine motor skills, they practice and develop the ability to use language,
and they learn important interpersonal and social skills. Adults can use games to strengthen these areas, but their
abilities are already much more advanced, and therefore games are more important for children.
In play a child learns gross motor skills such as walking or jumping, which an adult has already mastered.
Pushing a shopping cart, for example, teaches a toddler to balance his/her weight and to use his/her legs to
support his/her body. This activity is game and exercise at the same time, but it would be completely Edited by Lost Lawyer
for adults. Similarly, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination are areas in which a child has much more to learn
than an adult. Thus playing catch with a baseball has a much greater benefit to the young and inexperienced
person.
Language games allow children to practice and strengthen their language skills. Even simple singsong or
rhyming games aid in this development. Needless to say, due to their advanced language ability, adults would not
get much out of these simple ditties. In comparison, adult language games such as scrabble don't build but
fine-tune language ability. Children are not able to compete here because they have not yet amassed enough
knowledge.
Elementary interpersonal and social skills ranging from communication to cooperation are also developed in
play. Children learn systems of social rules when engaging in simple activities like pick-up football games. For
example, they learn how to control themselves and to tolerate their frustrations around others. They also learn how
to work in a team. These, of course, are abilities that are extremely important for adults as well, but, once again,
children have more to learn.
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