3分钟学会一个雅思7分句/段（第160期）

In some countries, old people who retire from work spend the money on themselves (e.g. holiday) rather than save money for their children. 

Is this a positive or negative development? 

本文题型：单主体议论文。审题注意：老人花钱在自己身上，题干里还进行了提示“holiday”，相当于暗示钱是花在“提高生活质量”上，未防止走题，建议顺着“holiday”这个举例的思路走，不要强调把钱花在“刚需”上，比如医疗，也不要提“减轻年轻人赡养老人的压力”。

本文立场：利大于弊 (positive) 

【段落示范】【立论-节选】

1. As a matter of fact, more old age pensioners spend money on themselves, such as travelling, and behind this phenomenon are more gains.

*这一句开门见山，简明指出本段主旨：老人给自己花带来的好处。

2. The first one is about safeguarding the right of the old to make their own decisions. 

分论点1: 保护自己做决定的权力。

3. What usually occurs in reality is that old parents are pressurised under traditional conventions to be children-centred and to put their offspring’s benefit onto the top agenda. 

现实中，很多时候并不是“给孩子花钱”就是正确的，而是“传统惯例”使然，“惯例”本身就是极具争议性的概念。

4. This is actually not fair to the old.

对“惯例”的正确性提出质疑。

5. They have worked hard in their early life to accumulate their own wealth, and naturally they ought to enjoy the right to freely spend their savings in their late life on whatever defines them.

晓之以理，动之以情。

【解析】

1. 内容（Task Response）*** 特别重要 ***

注意题目是单主题，分段内容的总起句一定要直接回应问题：老人留给自己的利弊；而不是[给自己花]一段，[留给孩子]一段。

见文中批注。

2. 组织（Coherence and Cohesion）*** 尤其重要 ***

见文中批注。

3. 词汇（Lexical Resource）

pensioner为可数名词，意思是“领养老金的老人”。归类于“话题高频词”。

safeguard为及物动词，意思是“保护”。归类于“通用词”。

pressurise为及物动词，意思是“逼迫”。归类于“通用词”。

put sth. onto the top agenda为动词词组，意思是“置于重要位置”。归类于“通用词”。

accumulate及物动词，意思是“积累”。归类于“通用词”。

4. 语法（Grammatical Range and Accuracy）

第3句：what引导的主语从句 + is + that 引导的表语从句；表语从句中，and连接are pressurized 后面两个to do sth.