[IELTS] Having a detailed plan for leisure activities

IELTS Writing Task 2

(Question)

Some people think that it is a good idea to have a detailed plan for activities to do in their free time. Other disagree with this. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Planning

Detailed plan (O)

Why? To use free time more efficiently. Free time is limited -> making plans can use their leisure time wisely. Not wasting their valuable free time. High possibility of having successful leisure time. Can do more activities when they are already reserved.

Not Detailed plan (X)

Already live in a routine life. Need to be flexible. Even making plan makes people get stress. No need to be constrained when they have free time. Detailed plan cannot be successful?

It has been said that having a detailed plan can be a decent idea when people have spare time for doing activities, whereas it has been dissented by other people. While there are benefits of having a detailed plan, I steadfastly believe that making a scheduled activities is not recommendable.

To begin with, there are two supporting ideas that detailed plan is necessary for leisure activities. First and foremost, the efficient use of free time can be achieved, since the amount of free time is mostly limited. According to this, it is the optimal method that cannot make people’s valuable spare time wasted. Secondly, there is a high possibility of having successful leisure time. People who have sophisticated plans can do a variety of activities because they already made reservations for those activities.

On the other hand, I believe that people who think that it is useless to make precise schedule for activities are of the opinion that they are already live in a routine life. For that reason, they do not need to be constrained when they spend spare time for activities. Moreover, even making a strict plan can be stressful since people need to do numerous things to prepare. In fact, it is assumed that people cannot focus on their works due to the various kinds of things to be considered while in the workplace. Furthermore, it is obvious that there are great deal of activities that do not require any reservations.

In conclusion, although well-planned activities can be effective because of the limited amount of free time, I strongly agree that no preparation of activities for free time is far better.

(274 words, 45 mins.)