Fewer and fewer people walk on a daily basis. What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend their time walking?

Question 1

Fewer and fewer people walk on a daily basis. What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend their time walking?

Answer 1

Introduction:

• People seem to be increasingly reluctant to have a walk regularly. (To be reluctant to do something)
• As there are certain causes of such a trend >< solutions are also available to encourage people to walk more.

Body:
- A number of reasons for the lack of people’s interest in the walking activity.
+ the convenience of modern technology in travelling
+ technological applications > support travelling. eg: electric lifts and escalators > common in public places
+ move to the higher levels of a building > better stairs > feel unnecessary to walk
+ walking for exercise > boring > repeat a series of actions every day < different exercising machines at gym < talk with other people.

• some workable solutions to be adopted to raise people’s interest in walking.
  +companies+ gov should run campaign to encourage > to walk < event in form of a walking competition with prizes
  +raise awareness about the benefits of walking to health.
  + Gov should build more sidewalk < convenient & safer