TOEFL® essay example: Playing games teaches us about life

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing games teaches us about life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

In the daily life, people always update knowledge and information to be able to adapt to the life. Each person usually have an own way to approach knowledge. Many people think playing games will help them a lots in getting the knowledge of the life. However; playing games make people uncomfortable in getting knowledge.

People will spend much time when playing games. To be expert in any game, players always have to spend much time to play it or to be familiar with it. It is not good for a person who live in a modern life. It is better for them to spend this time to learn anything from the others or from the real life. Moreover; spending much time beside computer will make people feel stress. It is not good for their health. Thus; after playing games, they usually feel tired and not ready for any thing. For example, with a boy, he plays games all day and do not want to go out. He do not have time to contact with the others and can not approach the knowledge or update the news from the lfe.

Besides, playing games makes people less dynamic. As many people know, the life always changes day after day. People have to update information and get the knowledge every day to get used to the life. While, games are softwares which simulate the life in a fix time. When playing games, people still know one situation about the life. Thus; it is obvious that, they hardly ever can to solve their complicated problems in the life, because they do not have enough information or experience to be able to catch up the life. Furthermore, playing games will get from players much money which can be spent for many benefit things, for example : buy new books or tools for their study. It will help people easier in getting the knowledge or experience about the life

It is clear that, playing games is not a good way for people who want to approach knowledge about the life. They can have many suitable ways to update information than playing games. For instance, they can spend time reading books or doing exercise, or something like that. It will make people dynamic and ready to get any information about the life