Are you admiring media and sports stars?

Topic: Nowadays young people are admiring media and sports stars, even though they do not often set a good example. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Outline (for negative development)

Vocabulary: (admiring media and sports stars)

• Stars = celebrities = public figures = household names = popular athletes or entertainers
• Bad example = misdeed = misconduct = misbehavior = wrongdoing = inappropriate behavior
• Admire = be a huge fan of = idolize = be loyal to = support = follow
• Copy = imitate
• Boycott / turn away on stars
• Professional failures / career crash
• success grounds to a halt

Introduction (admiring media and sports stars):

• Background statement: the phenomenon of young people crazy about their role models is nothing new.
• Thesis statement: being irrational fans of media and sports celebrities is bringing about numerous detrimental effects on young people and the society.

Body (admiring media and sports stars):

• Disgraceful manners conducted by popular public figures can be imitated by their admirers.

+ Young people tend to copy their idol’s haircut or clothes even though the fashion style is not suitable for them at their age.

+ Unhealthy lifestyle of stars (abusing drugs, sexual misconduct) can be justified and followed by loyal fans.

• Misbehavior, if not leading to severely damaged career, can grow to be a widespread phenomenon among people in showbiz and sports.

+ If celebrities do not need to worry about a public boycott because of their misdeeds, mistakes they make are very likely to become norms in the entertainment world.

+ If a sport star uses doping to boost their athletic performance and then is easily let off, many other stars will begin to cheat in the same way.

• Idolizing famous people with inappropriate behaviors can lure the society into believing that it is absolutely fine to have an immoral lifestyle if everyone loves you.

+ When a scandalous singer still owns a huge number of fans and he is still at the height of his career, people will probably downplay the importance of morality in realistic life.

Conclusion (admiring media and sports stars):

• Though supporters can be inspired by the talents of sports or media stars, bad behaviors from celebrities can also encourage them to follow suit.
• The public should be critical and rational so that misconducts cannot be expanded among the society, either in entertainment world or

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Võ Minh Sử – Chủ sáng lập Homeschooling English Center