1. What’s the best way to learn a foreign language ?
Most people in the world learn foreign languages. Everyone has their definite way to learn them. I also know many ways to learn a foreign language, which are the best in my opinion. First way: we could be reading magazines or newspaper in English. Thanks to this we learn a lot of words. It’s very interesting and nice. Second way also very good is listening to music. Another way is also have a penfriend from abroad. It’ a pleasant way to learn a language because you write letters in English. Next way could be this that you could go to an abroad. It’ very good way to learn a foreign language, because you have to use it all the time. For example: When you ask somebody, do shopping or when you ask for a time. You can hear it all the time on the radio, the television. But this way is more expensive than previous ways. In my opinion this way is the best.
- speaking with somebody
- listen to English radio, tv
- using computer, internet
- thinking in English
- travels
- reading English books
2. Should young people receive money ?
In my opinion young people should receive pocket money. It’s only the way to conquer some independence. Everybody has needs. Young people also. They sometimes need to buy something for themselves. For example: to buy records, sweets, magazines or clothes. But they often spend money on alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Then they shouldn’t receive pocket money. But thanks this money , they don’t have to steal. Sometimes young people spend money in short time. But thanks to pocket money, they could learn how to save money and how to spend it. I think that is very nice have your own money, and do with them, what do you want. But my mother gives me money always when I need it.
- entertainment
- cloths
- we learn how to be responsible
- we can plan our expenses
- a lot of needs
3. What to do during the fob interview to make a good impression ?
Job interviews are never easy. But most of people must cross for them. There are many ways to make a good impression during the job interview. If you are woman you should be smartly dressed, but you shouldn’t wear too much make-up or jewellery. This could annoy employer. If you are a man you should wear a suit. This is very important. You ought to be punctually. If you are late you will have a problem to get a job. The next thing is interview. You should know what you have to talk. You shouldn’t think too long because it will annoy employer. But you must be careful. You shouldn’t talk too fast. You ought to say clearly, what do you want to do. You must also show that you are the best for this job. During interview you should smile. Employers like bright people.
- be self confident
- smart suit
- not to be nervous
- smile
- talk that you are the best
- not talk about money
- good experience
4. Which do you prefer: shopping in a large department store or in a small shop ?
These days people have a large choice of shops. Starting from small shops, finishing in a large department store. I prefer shopping in a large department store. There is a big choice of articles. For example: You find there clothes, food, shoos and something else. Everything is in one place, in one building. You don’t have to go and look for shops with clothes or food. You don’t loose your time for this. Another cause is that there is a car park. In a department store is a security office. On every floor is bodyguard, so you feel safer. Another nice thing are small bars or cafes. When you are hungry or thirsty you can buy something to eat or drink. There are many tills, so people don’t have to wait so long to pay for a shopping. And what could be very important is air conditioning. If out the door is warm, there is cold. In this conditions doing shopping is a pleasure.
Small : atmosphere is friendly, shop asistans are polite and helpful, in the center, near us
high prices,
Big : situated in the suburbs, big parking place, low prices, a wide assortment of articles, fast food, credit card, clearance sale, to stand in a long queue
5. What causes marriage problems ? What are the best ways of solving them ?
Very often a boy loves a girl and a girl loves a boy, they get married and they are happy. But sometimes after some years these people get divorced or they live in separation. In my opinion there are different causes of divorce and marriage problems. Very often betrayal causes problems. If husband cheats on wife, she will distrust him and if wife cheats on husband also he’ll distrust her. Because the best of good matrimony is trust so that marriage has a little chance to survive. Parents who interfere in marriage cause sometimes marriage problems. There are many way of solving marriage problems. Husband and wife should be more trusting and tolerant. They ought to learn forgive and go on compromise. They have to accept their own partner. They should solve owns problems by themselves. In my opinion if people love each other they will solve problems.
- betroyal, lover, bad finance condition, hidden illnesses, jealousy
- honesty talk, go to psychology or guidance service, separation, holiday, romantic supper
6. What the more useful inventions in the 20th century ? Give some examples.
20th century is century of science. Not all inventions are useful but without some them we couldn’t life these days. For example: computers. We have access to a lot of information. Everything what we are looking for is in one machine. Computers do many things for us. We could relax with them, play games. Another example could be television. It’s one of invention, which most people have in the world. We can’t imagine life without TV. Thanks to TV we can see the whole world. Big part of our life represents radio. Sometimes we can’t watch TV because we must clean than we can listen the radio. We can hear new songs, interesting interweaves. Another very useful invention 20th century is car. It’s one of many ways to go to the holiday. But with this invention is a one problem, the petrol is expensive. The more useful inventions could be: x-lays, electrical microscope. They are also useful.
computer, tv, mobile phone, medicine, transistor, laser
7. Is smoking bad for your health ?
Many people in the world smoke. Smoking causes addiction. Every day you sink more and more into your habit. And you can’t net free from this. Smokers kill themselves and people who are near them. Smoking causes much illness. It could be a cause for heart attack. It’s very wrong. Smoking very often could result into mouth or lung cancer. Smokers very often have bad fit, and yellow skin. True is also this that smokers breath is not fresh. Wrong is also this that very often small children suffer. They could be seriously ill. But now in a public place there are prohibitions for smokers. It’s one of way to protect people who don’t smoke from smoke of cigarettes.
premature deaths, bronchist and lug cancer, smell from your mouth, cough, risk of heart disease
8. Does honesty always pay ?
Nowadays less and less people are honest. More and more people win job, money, education dishonestly. Often dishonest is in school. Often students cheat when they don’t learn for the test. Then they play truant or they cheat on the tests. But I think in the future they can feel effects of own dishonesty. Sometimes students fake excuses. But if parents or teachers find out about it then that student will have problems. People are dishonest also at work. Sometimes if they want to get promotion they will not be honest. But later they’ll feel bad and can’t enjoy success. Very often we are dishonest for relatives in family. But I think that honesty in family is more important.
9. Should businesswomen get married ?
I think that she should. First of all – I think that will be dishonest if we said that she shouldn’t get married. Businesswoman is a normal person like all of us and if she wants to get married she can do it. It’s a free will for everybody. But often she doesn’t get married because she wants to be attractive and she also wants to earn a lot of money. Thanks to this she can support her family. I think that businesswoman should get married because every human being wants to have family, children, to have somebody when she will be old. But from the other side she could not have time for her family. She could also often go to another country and lives her family for a long time. But I think that is not enough reason to this that she couldn’t get married. I think that she could balance work and family life.
10. What are the worst event(s) you’ve ever experienced ?
All of us have ever had bad events. Although we want to forget about it we can’t because we have in memory for a long time. I also have the bad event, which I remember today. When I was five years old I lost my mum. We went shopping in a large department store. My mum wanted to buy a blouse. When she tried one I wanted to go to toy shop. After the one moment, I saw that I’m lost. I didn’t know how I come back to my mum. I felt scared and I didn’t know what I should do. Fortunately my mum found me. It was horrible for me, but I will remember that I shouldn’t go away from parents. I have experienced many bad events and I think that such events may teach us.
11. Your idea of perfect happiness.
Nobody knows rule of perfect happiness. But many people have ides on this. I have too ideas. If I had many friends, I would be very happy, because could talk and spent nice time at parties or at the cinema. I would be also very happy if I passed exams, which I will have in a near future. They are very important for my future. They will decide what I will have to do for the rest of my life. Really happy are people then, when they have happy family. If I had happy family my life would be happy. It’s also nice if you could relax yourself and do everything what you want. Then I will be happy.
12. Why do young people leave home ?
There are many causes, why young people leave home. They want to be independent from parents. They want to make living by themselves. Sometimes causes are this that they want to escape from parents plan they lives. They want not to do, what their parents want. They want to have the satisfaction of organizing their own life. But sometimes they are depressed and do this. For example: problems at home like alcoholic parents or violence at home. When parents are divorced or separated then they don’t care about them. Sometimes cause could be also problem at school. Young people are scared of parents, because the parents want too much.
13. Is camping a good way to spend summer holidays ?
Summer holidays people spent differently. Some of them spent them at the sea, others in mountains. Others spent summer holidays in a camping. I think that camping is a good way to spent a summer holidays. You a far form city and civilization. You are friendly with nature. But not everybody likes camping. On the camping you haven’t got electricity or running water. You can’t use microwaves or watch TV. Many people couldn’t live without there things so they hate camping. I’d like go on camping because I relax thanks to this. I live only with nature and I can count on myself. Thanks to camping I forget about problems. Camping is a place where I live like I want. Nobody tells me what I should do. I thin that camping is a good way to spend summer holidays.
14. Is important to show people near you that you care for them ?
It’s important to show people near you, that you care for them. They care about us too. They know that we are good and want to be with us and talk. We are their friends. They trust us and know we are honest. They could say their secrets to us and know that we don’t tell them to other people. I think that it is good when people care for others. They see that we are not egoistic. They look for help from us when they have any problems. When other people see that we care for them they want to spend more time with us. It’s very nice when other side believes in us. It’s very important that people trust each other. That very nice help and care about other people.
15. Why do people practice sport ?
Sport is very important in our life. We spend a lot of time on learning, working, watching TV, using computers. Sometimes we feel bad, tired and often we live in stress. Then we need sport. It is a good way to relax. When we work in the office or if we are students, we often sit on a chair for a long time. In this situation, we should run or play football, tennis, basketball, volleyball or other after work.
Sport has been a part of people’s life for many years. lot of people like watching sport on TV. We can often see many basketball and football matches there. Other people go to see football matches on stadiums. For me sport is important. I like playing football, volleyball and running. But many people in Poland forget about the practice sport. Sport is very useful in our life. It helps us to relax, it can be our hobby. When we have spare time and we don’t know what to do, we may, for example, go to play football with our friends or keep fit. I think that all of us should practise some sport because it makes us healthier, stronger, it gives us satisfaction, may protect us from illness and helps us to relieve stress.
16. Is it important to have a good relationship with your neighbours ?
All of us have neighbours but not everyone have similar relationship with them. Some people treat neighbours like friends, sometimes they invite them for a coffee or tea. But sometimes people treat neighbours like enemies, they don’t like them. I think that good relationship with neighbours is very important. If we have good relation with them we will count on their help. Sometimes when we don’t have something and the shops are closed or we haven’t money we can borrow from neighbours. If we leave on holidays we can ask them peek on our home form time to time. In my opinion people who have good relationship with neighbours feel safe because they know that just next door is someone who helps them. If sometimes we help ours neighbours, if we are polite we will have a very good relation with them. Usually is enough that we tell “good morning” or we are smiling.
17. What kind of job would you like to do in the future ?
This question is very difficult. I’m not sure yet, what I would like to do in a future. But I think, that I could be a scientist. I know that it’s very hard job. But I’d like this. But it’s very hard to become a scientist, but I would like to try to become person like this. Another job, which I could do is a tourquide. It’s very interesting job. I like traveling. Thank this I could meet many people, it is a good way to see world culture of other countries. And what is important, I can practice my language. I couldn’t see my family often, because I would still be traveling. Job like scientist is also dangerous, specially if you are a chemist. I think that the tourquide is very interesting, but not so useful like a scientist. It might be my job in future.
18. Should animals be kept in captivity ? Why ?
In my opinion animals shouldn’t be kept in captivity. Wild animals should live in a natural environment because if animals are kept in captivity species are endangered. They can’t multiply. And whet is important animal suffer. Some people said that the wild animals are dangerous. Yes but only then there are in captivity and when people provoked them. They are more aggressive. In natural environment they aren’t so dangerous. If small animals are in captivity and they grow up there. When they are finally free, they don’t know, how to live, how to find food. They stop to be themselves. If we kept animals in captivity, we cause that they stop being wild animals.
19. What are the causes of stress ? How do people relive stress ?
We can meet stress everywhere. For example: at school, at work, at home – everywhere. I think that many situation causes stress. Children fell stress because they are scared of tests or teachers. If they have bad notes they’ll be scared of parents. At work people all the time fell stress. At home stress is caused by marriage problems, deficiency of money. All people feel stress because all people have problems and needs. All of us are stressed and we should think how we could fight with it. I know some ways on stress. We should forget about problems and make something what we have ever wanted to do. We should sometimes go for a walk, go to the cinema or we should talk with friends or ask someone about help. Stress may be the worst enemy of people and may demolish our life.
20. The influence of press on people’s lives.
I usually don’t read magazines. But I think people when read them, the journalists influence their opinion. For example: When they read some information about famous people, we usually believe they are true. Press attacks often famous people. They haven’t private life. Also if we read advertisements in the press then we want to buy advertised items. Very often we can’t watch TV or listen radio then we read newspaper and them the press is a source of information for us. Press has big influence for woman. Woman reading magazines often change their lifestyles. Different sexes read different magazines. I thin that press has big influence on people’s lives.
21. Your idea of perfect holidays.
I don’t like winter well my perfect holidays have to be in summer. In summer is warmer and just better. I have bigger choice of my holidays, because I can spend this time in the mountains, at the seaside, at the lake, in the countryside or when I have money I can go abroad. For me the best way to spend this perfect holiday is seaside. Free time with my friends on the seaside is the most relaxing. I like water-sports so I can go to swim or surf. But the best is watching sunsets, it looks wonderful. Every morning before breakfast go to a beach and run. When the sun is shining we can play beachball on the hot sand, it’s funny. But when we are tired we can lie all day in the sun and just do nothing, it’s great. I wish had those holidays in this summer, after my matura exam it will be very relaxing.
22. What can we do to protect the environment ?
Our earth is very polluted. Everything is polluted: land, water, and air. Air is polluted form smoke coming form cars and factories. Smoke contains carbon dioxide. People use aerosols, which destroy the ozone layer. To protect environment we should use lead free patrol or use bicycles. We should also plant trees. In water is also very polluted by lakes from factories, by chemicals, which we put to the water. But we can protect water from pollution by filters. Our land is polluted by rubbish. We destroy our planet. We shouldn’t use plastic a lot. We should also recycle paper, glass. Everywhere should be special conteners for glass and paper. We should punish people who destroy our planet.
23. Only money brings happiness. Do you agree ?
I don’t agree that only money brings happiness definitely. It’s very stupid. Many people think that if they have much money they will be happy. In my opinion it’s not true. Money can help but never brings happiness, because person who has money but hasn’t got friends can’t feel good. Rich people can have a beautiful house with swimming pool, the best car, he can travel around the world, but he can be alone. They don’t know what to do, they have everything what they can have. All people want to have much money, but I think it’s not the most important thing. Often people who are not rich are happier than people who have money. Money changes people. When we have money life is easier but it doesn’t brings happiness.
24. Watching films is more popular among youth than reading books. Do you agree ?
I think that it’s really true. Watching films is more popular than reading books because young people don’t like reading. They prefer watching films on video rather than loosing time on reading books. It’s easier to watch films than sitting rot many hours and reading book, which is very boring. When we see a film we remember more than when we read. It’s not so tired. Today reading books it’s not so popular like watching TV or using a computer. More people prefer listening radio rather than reading books. I think it’s not so good. People should read books sometimes. Its helps learn language. They shouldn’t forget about this.
25. Are computer a blessing or a curse.
One of the inventions in the 20th century is computer. I think that the computer is blessing. I have a computer. I think that it is useful. Most institutions have computers. Thanks to them everything is happening faster and most exactly. These days people must know how to use computer, without this they don’t get a job. Besides computer are blessing because we have access to a lot information by for example Internet. Everything what we look for is in one machine. Computers do many things for us that is the reason why we use them. For example thanks to Internet we can do shopping without leaving home. Internet enables us to access to a lot of news from the world. But computers don’t use only at work. We could relax with them, listen to music or play the games, which never bored us. These are the causes that computer is a blessing and if we start working with them we couldn’t live without them.
26. Would you like to be on a desert island ?
Many people would like to be on a desert island. But this not for me. I wouldn’t like to be on the desert island. I couldn’t live there because I like staying with people and there this is impassible. I like traveling. And if I was on a desert island I couldn’t do this. There I shouldn’t leave my family, friends, everyone, who are near me. It would be awful for me. And what is important on a desert island there is nothing. You have to do everything what could be useful for you. You live in a hut. I think that isn’t good for me. Sometimes I would like to be on a desert island, away from problems and people. But this is only for a few seconds.
27. Children should always obey their parents. Discuss.
I think that children should always obey their parents. It helps them in them life. When parents see that children are obedient they trust them. Then children can go to the disco in the evening or to the cinema. They can arrive on holidays with friends. Parents know that they come back in time. It’s very important to have a good relationship with parents. When children obey they get a pocket money. When they help, parents are very happy. They are proud of them. Parents help children too. They can go on a holidays because parents give them money. It looks nice when the children obey their parents. But sometimes when we don’t agree with parents we should talk with them and go on compromise.
28. What are the examples of superstitions ? Are you superstition ?
Very often many people believe on superstition because they think that this is way on happiness. Sometimes superstitions are very funny and meaningless but nobody thinks about their sense. I know many superstitions.
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