I personally feel that materialistic things are valued more than what people can be. People’s emotions are not valued nowadays than how it is used to be in the olden days. People are basically valued when they have so many positions and they are considered to be rich, while people who doesn’t have materialistic positions are considered to be poor. It is an old tendency which is valuing people have changed in our days that people with, as I mentioned earlier, people with more positions are valued more and the value that we are supposed to give for emotions are getting suppressed. People become more materialistic when there is a need for them to be better than the other person. In the world for competition and there is no healthy competition between people, there is a growing trend for more materialistic things and the needs which are supposed to be fulfilled. We can change the society into a better place by loving and appreciating each other and giving the space that we need.
Band 7+: Let's consider people's values in nowadays world. Do you agree that material things are often valued more than people? - Is this an old tendency? Or have things changed since your parents' time? - Do you think that generally people become more materialistic? - Do you think that we can change the society for better by loving and appreciating other people? - Thank you! That's the end of your speaking test.
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I personally feel that materialistic things are valued more than what people can be. People's emotions are not valued nowadays as they used to be in the olden days. People are basically valued when they have many possessions and are considered to be rich, while people who don't have materialistic possessions are considered to be poor. It is an old tendency, but the way we value people has changed in our days. As I mentioned earlier, people with more possessions are valued more, and the value we are supposed to give to emotions is getting suppressed. People become more materialistic when there is a need for them to be better than others. In a world of competition, there is no healthy competition between people; there is a growing trend for more materialistic things and the needs that are supposed to be fulfilled. We can change society for the better by loving and appreciating each other and giving the space that we need.
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