You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Some people think that professional athletes make good role models for young people, while others believe they don’t.

Discuss both these points of views and give your own opinion.

Write at least 250 words

Sports are popular all over the world and professional sportsmen become heroes for many people, expecially teenagers. They would like to emulate the way these stars dress, act and live their lives. Although many top athletes are good role models and responsible citizens, others are not deversing of their role model status.

Beside being good for their health, young people are excited about sports because they admire their sportsmen whose characters help them to learn about valuable life lessons such as teamwork, goal setting, the reality of dealing with success and failure. Moreover, these personalities can make them undestand the importance of working hard to achieve a goal or practicing regularly to become good at something. It can be said that this is a good example for the youth to follow their idol.

However, it is undeniable that a few great athletes can make young people misunderstand about the sportsmanship. For example, many top sportsmen reached a level of fame which make them attract media attention or social attention, or even earn large financial benefits. As a result of this, teenagers love sports because they focus on the fame and wealth rather than on the fun of the games or on the challenge of learning how to play well. In addition, some sportsmen behave badly, including some cheat to win their compitors or taking drugs to improve their perfomance. Eventually, this kind of behaviour can send wrong messages to children.

With all above arguments, I think that young people can make an attempt to catch all good figures of their favourite sportsmen but they should not try to repeat all of their idols’ lives because every professor has good and bad characters. All of people can agree that there is no an ideal person in the world.