playing sports teaches people more lessons about the life.

English as a Second Language Preparation for and help with the TOEFL® Test and
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Good evening Kitos,
Can you guess how many members here who are dearly longing for you? ^^
I’m queuing up, too.
Please check my essay, and I would like to receive more suggestions from you in order to complement my vocabulary. Your last correction was in full-flow with useful words. Thank you for everything.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: playing sports teaches people more lessons about the life.

Definitely sports are among the most popular means of entertainment. However, what makes sports so well-liked lies not only in their recreational purposes but more importanly in meaningful messages they carry. Thus, I’m wholly in favor of the opinion of some that playing sports teaches us lots of lessons about life on account of some following reasons.

In the first place, sports prove the belief that nothing is impossible totally true. That various new records have been setting day by day illustrates this well. Take Anita-an British athlete as an excellent example. Formerly, it was widely believed that running one mile within four minutes was the limit of human race. For a long period of time, not a single top athlete could be able to reach this peak until Vanita took part in commpetition and broke the world record. By endless efforts and strenuous traning, coupled with the belief in himself, he eventually achieved the impossible. Likewise, the moment we take up a new sport is really a hard time and most of us feel like being hopeless at playing it well. Nevertheless, with patience and persistence, we will undoubtedly be good at that sport. Much the same can be said about the Para Olympic for the disabled who are usually considered as worthless.

In the second place, we draw great lessons of success from playing sports. It is by taking part in sports that makes us realize the very things that help us to be successful in our lives, including working hard, team spirit, self-confidence, tatics and so forth. Additionally, famous players teach us to not lose heart and easily give up by their real achievements. Dan Jansen-an American speed skater is a good example in this case. His sister died on the very day he was to compete for Olympic Gold, and he fell in front of the whole world. Not enough, he slipped once again two year later in 1994 Olympics. But instead of disappoiting, he was determined to take the gold medal. In the end, not only he broke the world skating record but also established new Olympic one. Obviously, playing sports shows us what should do to win the match, which are practicablly applied to the real life.

To sum up, from what I have discussed above, we can come to the conclusion that playing sports offer us many valuable lessons about life.

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TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two university instructors

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Good evening Kitos,
Can you guess how many members here who are dearly longing for you? ^^
I’m queuing up, too.
Please check my essay, and I would like to receive more suggestions from you in order to complement my vocabulary. Your last correction was in full-flow with useful words. Thank you for everything.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: playing sports teaches people more lessons about the life.

Sports are without doubt among the most popular means of entertainment. However, what makes sports so well-liked lies not only in their recreational purposes but more importantly in meaningful messages they carry. Thus, I’m wholly in agreement with the opinion of some that playing sports teaches us lots of lessons about life, because of the following reasons.

In the first place, sports proves the belief that “nothing is impossible” totally true. That various new records are being set day by day illustrates this well. Take Vanita, a British athlete, as an excellent example. Formerly, it was widely believed that running one mile within four minutes was the limit of humans. For a long period of time, not a single top athlete was able to reach this peak until Vanita took part in the competition and broke the world record. By endless efforts and strenuous training, coupled with a belief in himself, he eventually achieved the impossible. Likewise, the moment we take up a new sport is really a hard time, and most of us feel we are hopeless at playing it well. Nevertheless, with patience and persistence, we will undoubtedly become good at it. Much the same can be said about the Para Olympics for the disabled, who are usually considered as worthless.

In the second place, we draw great lessons of success from playing sports. It is by taking part in sports which makes us realize the very things that help us to be successful in our lives, including working hard, team spirit, self-confidence, tactics and so forth. Additionally, famous players teach us to not to lose heart and give up, by their real achievements. Dan Jansen, an American speed skater is a good example in this case. His sister died on the very day he was to compete for Olympic Gold, and he fell in front of the whole world. Not enough, he slipped once again two year later in the 1994 Olympics, but instead of being disappointed, he was determined to take the gold medal. In the end, not only did he break the world skating record but also established a new Olympic one. Obviously, playing sports shows us what we should do to win the match, which can also be practicably applied to real life.

To sum up, from what I have discussed above, we can come to the conclusion that playing sports teaches us many valuable lessons about life.
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A good essay Richard.

Kitos. 8.5/10

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Thank you Teacher,

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: playing sports teaches people more lessons about the life.

[Definitely] sports are ([color=red]without doubt) among the most popular means of entertainment. However, what makes sports so well-liked lies not only in their recreational purposes but more importanly in meaningful messages they carry. Thus, I’m wholly[ in favor of ] ([color=red]in agreement with) the opinion of some that playing sports teaches us lots of lessons about life([color=red],)[ on account of ] [color=red](because of) some following reasons.

In the first place, sports prove the belief that color=rednothing is impossible color=redtotally true. That various new records [have been setting ] [color=red](are being set) day by day illustrates this well. Take Anitacolor=red[ - ] an British athletecolor=red as an excellent example. Formerly, it was widely believed that running one mile within four minutes was the limit of human([color=red]s)[ race. ]For a long period of time, not a single top athlete [s]could be able to reach this peak until Vanita took part in commpetition and broke the world record. By endless efforts and strenuous traning, coupled with [s]the [/s] belief in himself, he eventually achieved the impossible. Likewise, the moment we take up a new sport is really a hard time([color=red],) and most of us feel [ like being hopeless ]([color=red] we are hopeless) at playing it well. Nevertheless, with patience and persistence, we will undoubtedly be good at that sport . Much the same can be said about the Para Olympic([color=red]s) for the disabledcolor=red who are usually considered as worthless.

In the second place, we draw great lessons of success from playing sports. It is by taking part in sports that makes us realize the very things that help us to be successful in our lives, including working hard, team spirit, self-confidence, ta([color=red]c)tics and so forth. Additionally, famous players teach us to not lose heart and[ easily ]give upcolor=red by their real achievements. Dan Jansen [s]- [/s] an American speed skater is a good example in this case. His sister died on the very day he was to compete for Olympic Gold, and he fell in front of the whole world. Not enough, he slipped once again two year later in 1994 Olympics. But instead of [disappoiting ]([color=red]being disappointed), he was determined to take the gold medal. In the end, not only [color=red](did he break) [he broke ]the world skating record but also established color=red new Olympic one. Obviously, playing sports shows us what color=red should do to win the match, which[ are ]([color=red]can also ) be practicablly applied to[ the ]real life.

To sum up, from what I have discussed above, we can come to the conclusion that playing sports offer us many valuable lessons about life.