观点类大作文，教育类话题
The best way to teach children to cooperate is through team sports at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
题目来源：2015年11月14日大陆雅思大作文
题目大意
教育孩子学会合作好的的方式是让他们在学校参加团队运动。你同意还是不同意？
思路解析
这是一道观点类的大作文，如果有一直关注我们的考鸭，还记不记得之前在讲审题的时候，留过这道题作为课后作业。今天我们就正式来看下这道题该如何写作。
首先审题时找到“the best way”，题目但凡有持反对会更好写。这道题上我们只需要论证在达成“培养学生合作”这个目的时有更好的办法，即可说明“团队运动”不是好的办法。
为了回答好这道题，我们可以分为三个层次来思考：
一是团队运动是否有利于培养合作？
二是为什么它不是好的方法？
三是还有什么方法也能培养合作？
首先，我们可以肯定团队运动是培养合作的一个有效方式。团队运动本质上是需要一群人去达成一个共同目标，比如赢得比赛，这个过程中势必会需要团队中的成员互相配合，所以能够培养孩子合作能力。
但是，团队运动会有两个问题。
一是有些学生不可避免的在团队中想表现得更加出类拔萃，或者家长等外部环境也会鼓励孩子做的比团队中其他人做得更好。为了表现得更好，学生就会去做应该其他成员负责的事情，或者抢夺其他成员的机会来表现自己。这就导致了学生学会了竞争而不是合作。
二是有些学生可能因为先天疾病或者其他原因，无法参加运动，你如果强行让对方参与运动对他毫无好处，反而可能造成危险。所以对他们来说，团队运动不是培养合作的有效方法。
那么，除了团队运动。想要培养合作还可以通过什么办法？一是可以在学校布置小组作业，让学生共同完成某个项目或者任务，在这个过程培养合作意识，而且这点从过程到结果，和团队运动是一样的。二是可以日常学习生活中营造合作的环境，一旦孩子产生了合作的行为，即加以赞美和鼓励，以此来激发孩子合作的积极性。
提纲
范文示例
Nowadays, children’s participation in sports at school is widely advocated and encouraged, as it is considered the most effective way for children to learn cooperation at an early age. However, I would argue that the value of sports activity in terms of facilitating collaboration is overestimated, and the adverse outcome may well appear.
It is recognized that children are naturally inclined to compete, and games are usually made to include a competitive factor. Sports, obviously and unfortunately, are competitive by nature: only one win and the rest lose. It adds to children’s stress by pressuring them to be outstanding within the team and win over the other side and undermines the accessibility of cooperative thoughts and behaviours. Especially in the current social context, winning has been widely accepted and allowed to become a prominent part of the mainstream. As is often the case in sports, parents or coaches or even the audience on the sidelines cannot help shouting to urge children to win and compete rather than cooperate.
Therefore, simply counting on sports to cultivate a sense of cooperation and collaboration seems to be far from satisfactory. Instead, more attention needs to be drawn to create an environment that inspires collaboration and a joyful experience. Children learn character mainly through imitation. They listen, observe and learn skills by watching the words and behaviours of parents, teachers and peers. Family and school projects could be devised to include everyone and make everyone feel needed. Parents and teachers could guide the children to recognize that everyone has something valuable to offer in a group, and show appreciation for their contributions. By deliberately practicing these skills and recreating such an atmosphere, we manage to teach children behaviours that will ultimately benefit themselves.
In conclusion, sports activities can be a platform for a negative type of competitiveness and sometimes exacerbate it. It is more effective to turn every day into boundless opportunities to emphasize the importance of cooperation and fuel children to exercise and practice the art of cooperation.
