Writing Task: “small families” topic
1、題目：
In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?
譯文：今天，在許多國家，城市裡的人們要麼獨自生活，要麼住在小家庭裡，而不是住在大家庭裡。這是積極的還是消極的趨勢？
2、寫作思路
針對這類主題可以考慮如下寫作思路：
(1). Introduction
誠然，城市中越來越多的小家庭和一人家庭，而大家庭正變得越來越罕見。在我看來，這是一個消極的發展。
(2). Paragraph 2
隨著家庭規模越來越小，傳統的家庭支持網絡正在消失，這可能會對孩子的成長產生負面影響。
(3). Paragraph 3
由於人際交往減少的心理影響，人們獨居的趨勢可能更具破壞性。
(4). Conclusion
最後，我相信，當個人是大家庭群體的一部分時，他們會茁壯成長。所以現在許多人選擇獨居或住在小家庭中，這種現象是令人擔憂的。
3、寫作範文：
(1)Nowadays, urban residents prefer living a solitary life or living only with direct relatives like parents, rather than living in a bigger family. In my opinion, it is a negative fashion.
(1)如今，城市居民寧願過獨居生活，也不願和父母這樣的直系親屬住在一起，他們不願住在大的家庭裡。在我看來，這是一種消極的現象。
(2)Most of the small family groups have only one child, which may bring serious impacts to children. Not like many children growing up together in a large family, children from small families virtually do not have any siblings living with them as they grow up. Therefore, children of small family units who do not have many peers to talk with, to play with would be lack of some important qualities which big families’ children would be easier to gain, such as competitiveness and the co-operative spirit. Furthermore, the only child of a family has all the love and attention of elder family members. Then, it is more likely to foster a spoiled and dependent younger generation.
(2)大多數小家庭只有一個孩子，這可能給兒童帶來嚴重影響。不像許多在大家庭中一起長大的孩子，小家庭的孩子在成長過程中幾乎沒有兄弟姐妹。因此，小家庭的孩子如果沒有很多同齡人可以交談、玩耍，就會缺乏一些大家庭的孩子更容易獲得的重要品質，比如競爭力和合作精神。此外，一個家庭的獨生子女得到了年長家庭成員的所有愛和關注。然後，它更有可能培養一個被寵壞和依賴的年輕一代。
(3)Moreover, there is a bigger possibility that people living alone or living in a small family will have some psychological problems which wouldn’t occur in members of larger families. People of an extended family can always share their personal feelings with other family members whether happiness or sadness. However, the one living alone doesn’t have such interactions; he can only leave the feelings to himself. Once it comes to a habit, people who live alone will lose the ability to share feelings and they will become more and more solitary. There is no doubt that long-term loneliness can cause serious psychological illnesses.
(3)此外，獨居或小家庭的人有更大的可能會出現一些大家庭成員不會出現的心理問題。大家庭的人總是可以和其他家庭成員分享他們的個人感受，無論是快樂還是悲傷。然而，獨居者沒有這樣的互動，他只能把感情留給自己。一旦養成習慣，獨居的人就會失去分享感情的能力，變得越來越孤獨。毫無疑問，長期的孤獨會導致嚴重的心理疾病。
(4)In conclusion, I believe that people as members of larger families can have a better life. Therefore, the tendency of people choosing to live alone or in small family groups is worrying.
(4)總之，我相信，生活在大家庭中的成員會過上更好的生活。因此，有些人選擇獨居或小家庭的傾向非常令人擔憂。
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