Influences On The Young

IELTS Speaking Part 3 topic: Influences on the young.
1. What type of people influence the young in your country?

2. Why is it important to have role models?
3. Do you think the education system in your country influences young
people’s behaviour?
4. What type of person (parents, teachers, friends etc) are best to influence
young people’s behaviour?
5. What do you think young people will be most influenced by in the future?
6. Who do you believe have more influence on young children - parents or
teachers? Why?
Q. What type of people influence the young in your country?

Answer: People like movie stars, singers, top-class business executives,
academics, famous world political leaders, famous scientists and
successful sportspersons usually influence the young in our country.
Besides, any other successful persons with money and other kinds of
power also influence the young in my country. However, it all depends
largely on how young people like to see themselves in future.
Q. Why is it important to have role models?

Answer: We all like to fully explore and utilize our potentials in order to
become successful people in our lives, both personally and professionally,
except, of course, we don’t know how to go about it most of the times. For
this reason, it is important for us to have role models in our lives so that we
can receive guidance from their values, wisdom, behaviour and actions to
overcome the challenges and weaknesses.
Q. Do you think the education system in your country influences young

Answer: Yes, I do think that the education system in my country influences
young people’s behaviour. Fortunately, we have a great education system
in my country that teaches young people to be responsible, honest,
compassionate and respectable citizens. But, does it influence all young
people in the same way? The answer is “no” because we all live under
different conditions, and we all have different backgrounds and
upbringings. So, at the end of the day, it all depends on how we choose to
“behave” in a certain situation because we all have a “choice”.
Q. What type of person (parents, teachers, friends etc) are best to influence
young people’s behaviour?
Answer: Ideally speaking, parents and teachers are the best people to
influence young people’s behaviour because they are the ones with whom
young people spend most of their time when growing up as “children”.
And, we all know very well that whatever we learn as “children” at our
houses and schools, they are likely to remain with us for the rest of our
lives. But, again, it all depends on how much time young people spend with
these persons, and what these young people learn from them.
Q. What do you think young people will be most influenced by in the

future?
Answer: I think that in the future, young people would be most influenced
by what they see on the internet because they will spend most of their time
on it. Besides, it is also possible that the young people will also be
influenced by other forms of technology, such as robots, because the
chances are robots will teach the students and young people in the future.
Q. Who do you believe have more influence on young children - parents or

teachers? Why?
Answer: In my humble opinion, parents are supposed to influence young
children more than the teachers because of biological and emotional
attachment. Besides, from the day, a child is born, he or she remains with
the parents. So whatever, the parents say or do, the children pick that up
unconsciously. Besides, there is a “parents’ fear factor” among the
children which make the children learn whatever their parents tell them to
do. Finally, parents usually are the “designated legal guardians” of the
children, and as such, they have the “right’ to teach their children whatever
they find “fit”.
Two-way discussion : Influences on
the Young
 What type of people influence the young in your country?
Well, thank you very much for asking such an important question. Usually, the
youths are influenced by the teachers and sometimes they follow their immediate
superiors. Most of the time they are out of the home and thus they do not have
any close connection with their parents. When they are not in close contact, they
do not show the urge to the directions of the parents. But the scenario is opposite
for the teachers and superiors. The youths spend most of their times at the
educational institutions with their teachers, mates and seniors. So, they are
greatly influenced by the teachers and their seniors regarding their attitude and
learning skills. But the youth issues are of great concern for the parents and the
society as well. The rate of unemployment in Australia has decreased to some
extent in this year but it does not refer that the issue has been solved yet. The
unemployed youths are covering a large portion of the total population and they
are engaged in different unwanted and unethical activities sometimes whereas
they are not supposed to get involved so. Though the rate of such unwanted
events is not rapidly increasing, it is still an alarming issue for all.
 Why it is important to have role models?
Youths always want to follow. They experience a new world before them when
they are out of their homes and consequently get influenced by the external facts.
They need to have role models for several reasons. I think you have the idea how
the youths are influenced by movies or songs and the people who are performing
in the movies. When they see something negative, they try to imitate the negative
issues in their real life and as a result invite disorders for them with their family
and friends. For instance, if they see someone smoking on television or on
cinema, I can bet they will follow the smoking style immediately after enjoying
the movie or the specific television series. They get highly influenced and take
them as role models for them. I’m talking about a negative aspect of role model
that will teach them how to smoke cigarettes. But it could be used for positive
aspects as well. When they will see someone of their ages is having an award for
outstanding contribution to any social sector and the issue will be publicised,
they will be inspired to be like the award-winning youths. Therefore, since they
are out of control of the parents and influenced by the role models, I think it is
important to create more and more role models for them.
 Do you think the education system in your country influences young people’s
behaviour?
Umm! Yes. Education has many things to do with the behaviour of the young
people. The educational system in Australia does not teach the student to read
and write only, it also plays a great role to socialise the students. The course
curriculums are made in different ways to teach them the right manners in
different situations. But there are some youths – wicked by nature, do not follow
the learning. The entire education system is formed in a way that if the students
follow the system properly, they would be considered as assets for the country.
But in reality, the scenario is different. Sometimes the learning process is not
easier as it is imagined. Besides, the teachers are cordial in spreading the
learning and in many of the cases the students are unwilling to learn. As a result,
the education cannot play its role in making law abiding citizens. I think you are
well informed about the issue that education is a two-way process and ‘pushing
knowledge’ on the students cannot bring the desired outcomes. They are also to
be willing in learning newer attitudes and behaviours through the educational
system.
 What types of person (parents, teachers, friends etc) are best to influence young
As I said before, the teachers are the best people to influence the young people
and their behaviour. They usually imitate the attitudes and behaviours of the
teachers and in some exceptional cases, they follow their friends. I think you will
agree on the point why they are not influenced by the parents after my answer to
your previous question. Parents cannot control their kids as they stay less time at
homes and spend more on out of home activities. They have a close interaction
with the teachers and friends. When the teachers order them to do any specific
thing, they perform the tasks happily while this is not possible for their parents
to make them do.
 What do you think young people will be most influenced by it the future?
Great question for me! Well, you know that the ages are advancing. With the
advancement, the kids and youths are getting changed too. When you were a
youth in your time, the global setting was not the same as it is today being
experienced by the youths of the current days. Further, the global setting will be
changed in the future as well. Thereby, it is hard to predict how the youths will
be influenced in the coming days. But I think it would be the mass media that
will have the largest portion of influence on the youths. The idea crossed my
mind. Due to the use of social networking websites, spending time on watching
television events, reading the news websites on cell phones etc. are on the rise
among the youths.

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IELTS Speaking Part 3 topic: Influences on the young.

1. What type of people influence the young in your country?

Q. What type of people influence the young in your country?

Q. Why is it important to have role models?

Q. Do you think the education system in your country influences young

Q. What do you think young people will be most influenced by in the

Q. Who do you believe have more influence on young children - parents or

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