Task 2 · · 18 samples

In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the countryside is decreasing. Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?

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Ideas to explore

  • Population loss can affect rural shops, schools and informal support.
  • City opportunities depend on housing, transport and service capacity.
  • Respect for individual choice can coexist with balanced regional investment.

Suggested structure

  1. Give an overall positive or negative judgement with any necessary condition.
  2. Explain the effect on the communities people leave.
  3. Explain urban opportunities and capacity pressures.
  4. Weigh the effects and conclude consistently.
Useful vocabulary & examples
rural depopulation
a decline in the number of people living in countryside areas

Rural depopulation can make local services harder to maintain.

urban capacity
a city’s ability to accommodate residents through housing and services

Planning should increase urban capacity as demand grows.

balanced regional development
improvement that considers the needs of different areas

Balanced regional development can preserve meaningful choices.

Sample answers

AI-completed learning example

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Nowadays, in the number of societies, individuals living in villages are more likely to move the urban areas than staying in their rural town. As a result, it will decline the population of villages. Although this issue may have a benefit, it seems to me that this is an undesirable trend. On the one hand, moving can offer education and jobs that are not available locally. However, the continuing loss of residents may…

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AI-completed learning example

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It is no secret that nowadays more and more people move from living in the countryside to living in cities. It can be tricky to determine whether that is a good thing or not, I believe there are two main ways to look at it . The first one is about the quality of life for the people who move, while the second concerns the communities they leave. I believe continued rural decline is mainly negative when the latter cost…

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AI-completed learning example

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A lot of countries around the world suffer from the decline of population in the countryside compared to the cities. I believe this decrease has a negative effect on those countries, leading to the increase of crowd and rise of demand of products which results in the rise of cost of living. Having more people in a city can increase demand for housing and transport. At the same time, villages may have fewer customers …

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