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133) If you could invent something new, what product would you develop? Use specific 
details to explain why this invention is needed. Do you agree or disagree with the 
following statement? A person’s childhood years (the time from birth to twelve years of 
age) are the most important years of a person’s life. Use specific reasons and examples 
to support your answer. 
 
 
134) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should be 
required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do so. Use specific 
reasons and examples to support your answer. 
 
The issue that children should help with household tasks is one that is open to debate. On 
the one hand, some people think that children should not be required to help if there is not 
need for them to do part of the household tasks. Some people also say that is preferable for 
children to devote more time to playing, reading and watching interest things on TV. On 
the other hand other people support the idea of teaching children household tasks and 
make them help at home. I adhere to the latter point of view. I base my opinion on the 
following points. 
First, helping in our houses when we are children teaches us of the ways of doing 
household tasks. This might be very useful in our future, even if we can hire someone to 
do those things for us. I have three sisters and my mom always explained to us how to 
cook, clean or iron our clothes. We also had a maid to help us with most of the chores, but 
anyway my mom wanted us to learn. It is well known that is very difficult to correct the 
job of someone else if you don’t know the job yourself. Thanks to this learning, I can now 
handle many of my houses tasks, and when my maid cannot come to my house I anyway 
manage to go to work with my clothes clean or ironed. Moreover, it helped me grow by 
learning that all of us have responsibilities at home, even if it is a minor one such as 
preparing toasts for breakfast.
Second, doing the household tasks helps you be more tolerant with others, put yourself in 
their situation and understand them more. Before I practiced this kind of tasks at home, I 
usually though that keeping a house clean and tidy was a very simple and minor issue. 
Now, I don’t. I’ve learnt to appreciate how energy consuming doing the household can be 
and how many things need to be done before we arrive at home and see everything in 
perfect conditions. This has helped me grow as a more considerate person. I value the job 
of those who work for me. I’ve felt how boring and exhausting cleaning a house can be, 
and I try to recognize through a fair pay this job.
Third, I believe that you can learn household activities and help at home without resigning 
to other activities. When I was a child I helped my mom with part of the chores, but