Browse IELTS Task 2 positive or negative development questions for trend and development evaluation practice.
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These prompts help learners evaluate a trend, choose a clear judgement, and support it with concrete consequences.
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Academic Writing
Many aspects of the way people dress today are influenced by global fashion trends. How has global fashion become such a strong influence on people's lives? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
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Academic Writing
In many countries nowadays, consumers can go to a supermarket and buy food produced all over the world.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
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Academic Writing
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?
Academic Writing
Some children spend hours every day on their smartphones.
Why is this the case? Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?
Academic Writing
Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor.
Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?
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Academic Writing
In their advertising, businesses nowadays usually emphasise that their products are new in some way.
Why is this? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?
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Academic Writing
In some countries, owning a home rather than renting one is very important for people.
Why might this be the case? Do you think this is a positive or negative situation?
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Academic Writing
Countries are becoming more and more similar because people can buy the same products anywhere in the world.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
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Academic Writing
Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology.
In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make?
Has this become a positive or negative development?
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General Training Writing
Nowadays it's possible for people to buy many products or pay for treatments that help them to look younger.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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More and more people nowadays visit well-known places to take photographs
of themselves, without looking at tl1e place.
Why do you think this is happening?
Is it a positive or a negative trend?
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Some consumers are increasingly choosing to buy goods that are produced in their local area, rather than imported goods.
What are the reasons for this?
Is this a positive or a negative trend?
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General Training Writing
When we meet someone for the first time, we generally decide very quickly what kind of person we think they are and if we like them or not. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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General Training Writing
In some countries, more and more people are hiring a personal fitness trainer, rather than playing sports or doing exercise classes.
What are the reasons for this?
Is this a positive or a negative development?
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General Training Writing
In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centres or malls to do their shopping.
Is this a positive or negative development?
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General Training Writing
It is said that countries are becoming more and more similar because people are able to buy the same products anywhere in the world.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
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General Training Writing
Many people like to wear fashionable clothes.
Why do you think this is the case? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?