观点类大作文，社会类话题
Many young people today spend much of their free time in shopping malls. Some people think it has many negative effects on both young people and the society they live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
题目来源：2017年1月27日亚太雅思大作文
题目大意
当今很多年轻人喜欢花大多数业余时间逛商场，有些人认为这会对年轻人和社会造成很多负面的影响。问你是否同意。
思路解析
这是一道观点类大作文，月半鸭刚看到这道题都震惊了，现在年轻人好可怜，逛个商场都逛出负面效应了……不过这道题目提到“much of free time”，所以我们建议从反对的角度来切入。下面就来探讨下，年轻人逛街购物有哪些好处。以及年轻人花那么多业余时间逛街，究竟会有什么负面影响。
首先，我们来看好处。
对于年轻人来说，逛街买东西可以作为一种休闲方式，在这个过程中可以放松自己，并且买到一个东西并拥有它的时候可能会让人产生愉悦感。
对于社会来说，年轻人逛商场买东西既可以增加当地的人气和活力。同时也可以拉动消费增长，使得商家或者相关企业增加了客流量和收入，商家和企业有了收入可以投入到新的商品生产或者提供更好的服务给消费者，以及雇佣更多员工提升就业率。这样就使得整个经济进入更好的正向循环。这也是为什么去年疫情过后国家通过发放优惠券的方式来促进大家消费，大家有兴趣可以找下相关的介绍
那么，我们再来看年轻人花费过多时间逛商场会有什么坏处
对个人来说，年轻人经常出入商场，经常在商场里看到各类商品，以及看到其他人买了或者用了同样的商品，容易产生冲动性消费，并且由于信用卡、花呗之类能够透支的支付工具存在，年轻人可能消费的支出远超自己的收入，进而形成负债。而且，年轻人花太多时间在商场里，容易过度注重物质生活和当下享受，而忽略了长期的积累和精神生活等方面。
对于社会来说，短期内的消费可以促使经济增长，但年轻人长期支出超过收入，一旦无法偿还债务造成债务违约，可能引发连锁的金融危机，对整个社会经济造成影响。（还记得花呗诱导消费的广告被禁止的案例么）而如果个人一旦经济破产或者整个社会产生经济危机，则极易引发年轻人失业，或者通过违法手段来获益，对整个社会的稳定性也会造成负面的影响。
提纲
范文示例
Malls are attracting a growing number of young shoppers by creating favorable perception of the mall in terms of convenience, variety, awareness of brands, aesthetics and hedonic factors. I personally agree that too much exposure to an enormous range of products and services in most categories has more negative impacts on both young people themselves and the society as a whole.
Admittedly, shopping is often regarded as a way to relieve negative feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger and so on, but little do people know that the relief is ephemeral and damages are likely to occur, especially in the case of young people. In fact, one obvious phenomenon nowadays is that people are losing the ability to live a life without materialistic joy. Worse still, if excessive time is spent in shopping malls, the younger generations who are prone to behave irrationally will fall into the trap of impulse shopping, which may well result in over spending and shopping for things that are not necessary. Unless they have got decent income or fantastic savings habits, those consumer goods will sit on their credit card for a long time.
Meanwhile, society is unavoidably sharing the risk of the youth spending too much time in shopping mall. As the youth are increasingly surrounded by various products and service there, their desires of material grow as well. Despite a temporary boost in the economy, in the long run financial problems including bankruptcy, debt and even theft will occur when young consumers find themselves in big debts and financial crises when they are unable to pay back and the economy and stability of society will suffer accordingly. For example, many young people turn unemployed when they are less motivated or unable to perform their duties as they are paying more attention to over consumption or substance abuse. Cases where young people have to steal from their boss or the company’s money to cover up their expense are no longer rare.
In conclusion, although it appears to be a harmless fun for young people to go to malls more frequently than before, it is evident that if they are not better equipped to quash down any emotions that try to convince the rational part of their brains, especially when they are not financially comfortable, both the individual and society will be negatively affected.
