To what extent do you need to have a lot in common with people to get on with them.

     Being unique became popular nowadays. People tend to expose their individuality, eccentricity, originality. But for some reasons it is still valuable to get on with people in modern society. So, to what extent do we need to sacrifice our individuality in order to live in harmony with other people.

     In my way of thinking, the more intelligent person (and his circle of contacts) is the less he needs to seem or be alike to others. As smart people know that only the distinction of opinions and positions bring them closer to truth. Therefore, they are always tolerant and enjoy communicating with people who are different from themselves. 

     But in real, fast and mad life, where is no time for thinking and being patient and tolerant, we should have a lot common with people you keep in touch. Same interests, usually same purposes and ambitions, same opinion and way of thinking, same motivation helps to understand each other and be more attached.

     All in all, being one and only may be not so bad, if you do not mind risking to be left alone. But in case you would like to be demanded among other people you should have much mutual with them.

Letter "Summer camp in Ireland"

Dear Ms Lake,

     I am writing in reply to your advertisement offering job in summer camp in Ireland published in yesterday's The Times. I find this work suitable for me and I am interested in getting it.
     I am a 18 year old student from Estonia. My friends consider me as a sociable, reliable and friendly person.
     You will not regret if you apply me for this job, because I really like to work with children and I spend a couple of years giving them rhythmic gymnastics classes. Moreover, my experience of working with children is good enough, because of having two younger brothers.
     However, I would like to apply for this job, because I am planning to study children psychology next year at University, so this kind of experience could be useful for me.
     I wondered if it were possible to tell me what exactly spare time activities do I suppose to organize.
     Would you be so kind and let me know where the camp is situated, when it will start. If it is comfortable, could you please inform me about the salary?
     I would appreciate further cooperation. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Your sincerely,
(signature)
Mari Mets

Minu elukohas on head tingimused vaba aega veetmiseks.

Selleks, et olla lõbus, terve ja elurõõmus igaühel peab olema koht kus saab oma vaba aega veeta. Minu elukohas on selleks palju võimalusi, aga minu arvates, võiks olla veel rohkem.
Kuna mina elan vanalinnast mitte nii kaugel, ma alati saan jalutada oma sõpradega kitsate tänavate mööda ja nautida värsket õhku ja keskaegset atmosfääri, mis seal alati peremehetseb. Ma elan ka lauluväljakust ja Piritalt lähedal, seal saab rõõmu tundma isegi meeldivast vaadest merele ja lindudele, mis elutsevad kallastikul. Kuid jalutamine ja vaatlemine ei ole ainuke asi millega siin tegeleda võib. Siin on olemas ka spordihallid, basseinid, bowlingid, piljardid, mõtlen, et igaüks leiab minu elukohas endale midagi huvitavat. Arvan aga, et siin on vähe taimestiku, kui seda oleks rohkem, siis oleks palju meeldivam õues oma aega veeta.
Enamik tallinnlastest ütleb, et linnaosa kus ma elan on morn ja ilutu, kuid mina kindlusega ütlen, et see on meeldiv ja siin on palju tingimusi oma vaba aega veetmiseks. 

Society today is noisier that ever.

Modern world is full of different, various noises. Motors, aircraft, railway stations, animals, displeasing human, music playing in bar. Anything can create it. Nowadays people practically do not hear silence at all, that is the problem because noise pollution affects both humans heath and behavior.
Furthermore unexpected sounds can damage psychological health and hearing abilities, to cause annoyance and aggression. To compare with previous generations, which did not catch these crazy amount of technologies we are much more subjected to depression, we are much more aggressive and offensive, noise influences blood pressure, it increases making us act like that. 

I could say that government should make something to reduce this amount of noise pollution, but everyone knows that government has a lot of other different things to take care of. Curfews are in the past, no one would listen and obey these kind of rule or law, because today's people are much less disciplined.
In my opinion the problem is in us. We do not respect each other shouting and speaking loudly wherever we want. We can not declare of those benefits that our technological world gives, but respect each other is in our power. If people were more well-wishing towards each other, there would not happen neighbors problems and any others too. If we save our world from arguments, I am sure that we will make it much more quieter.

p. 63 (ex. 4,5,6,7)

Ex. 4. 1) F; 2) T; 3) F; 4) T; 5) F; 6) F; 7) T;

Ex. 5. 1) boisterous; 2) catchy; 3) susceptible; 4) baffling; 5) distinct; 6) involuntary; 7) hereditary; 8) excessive; 9) rowdy; 10) pointless;

Ex. 6. 1) f; 2) a; 3) d; 4) b; 5) c; 6) e;

Ex. 7. 1) put up with; 2) set off; 3) take on; 4) mix up; 5) showing off; 6) getting rid of;

Do our children need to learn more languages in the future?

     Learning languages is very popular among youth. We study them hard in different reasons. Some of us plan to go live abroad, some are going to connect his life with tourism, some want to get aсquainted with with different cultures using foreign language. But will it be necessary in the future or not? 

     We know a lot of facts about a globalization and one of these is that amount of languages is slowly declining. Some competent people claim that a lot of languages would disappear in following hundred years so we would not going to need to learn a lot languages to communicate with people form other nationalities, to understand and to be understood. But as I have already said our children might be interested in exploring some cultures like some of us are. In this case, some historical documentation might exist only in some foreign language. In my opinion, history is very important for future generations, because they have to take a mistakes of earlier generations into consideration.       

     To conclude, I would like to say that an ordinary person in future will not need to learn as many languages as we are trying to learn nowadays, but may be for some of our children it will be interesting and useful, because learning languages is a good exercise for brains and certainly not less developing than mathematical logical tasks.

Graafiku analüüs.

     AS Fondes Konsultatsioonid püüdsid välja selgitada milline on inimeste suhtumine oma töösse. Uuringu korraldati nii Eestis, kui Soomes, et võrrelda ja saavutada objektiivsemat tulemust. 

     Uuringu käigus selgus, et tegurid, mis kujundavad inimeste suhtumist töösse on üsna arvukad ja täiesti erinevad aga ettaarvatavad. Mõlemad soomlased ja eestlased peavad kõige tähtsamaks suhteid töökaaslastega, keskmiselt 20% küsitletud töötajatest arvavad nii. Ühine arvamus on soomlastel ja eestlastel ka ülemustega suhete puhul. 17% mõtlevad, et see on tähtis. 

     Ülejäänud tegurid eristuvad. Auahsete eestlaste jaoks on kõige tähtsamad tunnustus, töötasu ja suhted töökaaslastega. Soomlased aga arvavad, et töö vastutusrikkus, saavutused ja suhted töökaaslastega on palju olulisemad. Kõige vähem küsitletud eestlastest peavad karjääri tähtsaks teguriks, soomlaste arvates on aga see töötasu. 

     Arvan, et iga inimese motivatsiooni tõstmiseks peab olema isiklik, individuaalne juurdeminek, kuid see ei ole tavaliselt võimalik. Ütlen lihtsalt, et iga hästi tehtud töö eest peab olema sama hea autasu. Vaatamata inimeste individuaalsetele omadustele uuring näitas kõige tähtsamat, et inimestele oleks mõnusam ja mugavam tööd teha, peab olema sõbralik õhkkond ja meeldivad suhted  kollektiivis.

Valel on lühikesed jalad.

     Meid lapsepõlvest õpetatakse, et valetada ei ole hea asi. Aga kõik meie teame ka seda, et kui kindlalt me  valet ei peida, see ikka tuleb kunagi välja.
     Keelatud vili on magus, seepärast paljud meist vaatamata vanemate ja lähedaste hoiatustele jätkavad valetada ja seetõttu saavad endale edasi probleeme. Valetamine ei mõjuta isikut soodsalt. Kui inimesed, mis ümbritsevad valekotti järsku mõistavad milline inimene nende lähedal on, nad lõpetavad usaldada ja teatavad teisi ette, et nad oleksid ettevaatlikumad selle inimesega. Seepärast öeldakse, et aus nimi on enam kui raha.
    Tänapäevases elus on raske inimestele usaldada ja enamus on lihtsalt harjunud valetada. Valetada endale või teistele, või kasutada hädavalet. Vaidlused teemal kas on valetamine humaanne tegevus või mitte ei ole üldse haruldased. Arvan, et juhtuvad elus situatsioonid, kus vale on hädavajalik. Aga enne rääkimist, üheksa korda mõõda, üks kord lõika, selleks, et pärast, kui see vale avanuks saab ei oleks sul mingit haletsust.
     Aga minu arvates oma lähedaste suhtes on valetamine jube ja aupakkumatu tegevus, vähemalt sellepärast, et silm on hinge peegel, ja armsad inimesed tihti tunnevad sinu valet pilgu kaudu.

     Arvan, et raske valetamisest loobuda isegi kui seda hirmsasti tahad, aga julge pealehakkamine on pool võitu.


 

The world could be a better place if we were all vegetarians

     I partly agree with this statement, even if I can not consider myself a vegetarian. And there are a lot of arguments both for and against this interesting opinion.
     I am sure, that there could be much less animal violence in the world if everyone would keep a vegetarians' diet, but every human needs nutritious and valuable food to stay healthy. I can not agree with people who say that we could get all the nutrients from vegetables, may be the most, but certainly not all of them.
     However, the major of vegetarians claims are connected with cruel and consumer attitude to animals. they believe that we live in a modern world with a lot of facilities and we do not need to treat to our smaller brothers inhuman. In my opinion. vegetarianism and humane behavior towards animals are not connected. I suppose, that it is fair to grow animals for food, bot only widespread and numerous animals. Definitely not those, which are on the verge of distinction. From ancient times people needed to slaughter animals to survive, but thereat they could not realize how much harmful is it for animals population. Now we can, and furthermore we can compensate it.
     It is really important not to make animals a part of fashion and style, not to seek for an opportunity to show your exclusivity by eating uncommon dish made of rare animal or fish, not to wear animals' fur to show off then both animals and human beings will live in harmony together.

We should only buy food which is produced locally.

          I partly agree with this statement. There are too many reasons to eat locally produced food to stay indifferent.
          Of course when we eat the food which was produced in our county we can be more confident about the food value and freshness of this, but still how can we be absolutely sure?
I may seem a little bit selfish and uninterested in ecological problems in modern world, but the most important thing about it for me is the taste. I would prefer to eat delicious food which is brought from abroad, but to keep a various diet. I suppose that I'd better not abuse this kind of philosophy, but I can not deny myself a pleasure to eat what I want. But I am absolutely sure, that it is possible to combine this position with a minimum harm to our nature.
          The food which could be grown in your own country should not be brought from abroad. It is useless, is not it? We save money buying locally produced food, we give stay more healthy and seem not to treat so cold to ecological problems, keep eating anything we want!

The letter to a politician.

Dear Sir/Madam,

     I am writing to inform you that on Saturday 22 February is going to be organised a demonstration on favor of a new community center. This initiative is developed to encourage people to leave their homes and spend their leisure time actively.

In my opinion the opening of this kind of center is extremely useful for our small town. Here we could make some educational events, creative exhibitions of growing talents or some social discussions on different themes. Though our town is not so large, people should know that we have some smart talented persons to be proud of too. Also we want make people of our town move forward and discover new interesting things.

We would like to invite you to join and support us in this demonstration. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,
Valeria Pakk

Report.

Introduction

The aim of my report is to analyze the results of the survey, which was carried out among students of Aru Secondary school. The survey shows what kind of book do pupils of these school prefer. According to results it should be decided what kind and what amount of books school has to acquire.

Girls
At first, the most popular genres among female students are romantic and historical novels. Majority chose romantic novels as their favorite genre and historical novels are a little less popular. They were chosen by 28% of respondent girls. 21% of female students are interested in reading thrillers. And, unfortunately, the least popular is poetry. Only 17% consider it as a favorite genre.

Boys
However, the survey shows that male and female students interests are different. The most popular genre among boys is thriller. This is shown by the fact that 51% chose it as their favorite. Historical novels are also popular almost as popular as among girls. Boys are much less interested in romantic novels than girls are. About 11% questioned boys prefer it. And the least popular such as among female students is poetry. Only 9% of boys are interested in reading it.

Conclusion
To sum up, I would say that a popular genre of literature among all the Aru Secondary school students is historical novel. Based on the survey I would basically recommend to purchase mostly historical novels and thrillers, but still not to ignore other genres, survey shows that some students are still interested in them too.

Sophie Milman.

I would like to talk about Sophie Milman. She is an extremely talented young jazz vocalist that conquers hearts of  fans by her mesmerizing, gentle voice and various repertoire.

I suppose that she earns such success not only because of her amazing vocal abilities, she is also interesting as a person. I would say that she is not famous like for example Christina Aguilera or Mariah Carey and she does not have so many awards as they do, but she still has something to teach and not only as a professional.

Her family was forced to move a lot for some reason. Sophie was born in Ufa, but at the age of 6 she had to come through serious culture chock after immigration to Israel. She became successful there, but soon she had to immigrate again. This time into Canada. I admire this person, because she is never scared to start over and over again. Her biography and creation taught me not to be afraid of changes and try to overcome everything that life offers with maximum benefits for myself. She is also important for me because I have been studying vocal for two years and she is an idol for me not only as a person, but as a musician too.

To conclude I would say that Sophie Milman is a strong and talented woman that deserves respect of her audience and acceptance that she earned.

Et normaalselt elada, tuleb võtta pangast laenu.

Ma ei ole selle väitega üldse nõus. Vastupidi, arvan, et laenuta elamine on palju mõnusam ja rahulikum. Kui sinu raha kuulub ainult sinule ja sinu perekonnale elu muutub malju lihtsamaks ja sundimatuks.
Isiklikult minu arvates ainult pangast ja võlast vaba elu võib olla tõesti meeldiv. Kuid sinu niisugune vabadus sõltub sinu palgast ja eelkõige sinu haridusest. Mõned inimesed ei teeni palju ja nad saavad lubada endale mõningaid väikesi liialdusi ainult laenute kaudu. Loomulikult ma saan nendest aru. Ei saa loobuda igast elu lõbust, kui sul praegu raha ei ole. Aga inimestele, kes täna elavad üle mõned raskused ma soovitaks leida endas oskust rõõmustada väikeste asjade pärast, see on tasuta ja kasvatab teil kõlblust ja häid, suurt hinge. Arvan ka, et peale laenu võtmist tuleb hästi kõik läbi mõelda. Sa pead ette arvestama sellega, kui palju aastat sa oma laenu tagasi annad. Elu on muutlik ja äraarvamatu, mõnikord inimestega juhtuvad hädad ja pärast nende sugulased annavad neid laenu pangale tagasi. See ju ei ole õiglane. Mõtlen, et keegi ei taha oma lähedast tülitada ja ülekoormata.
Küsimus on selles, kas sa oled nii vastutusvõtlik, et saad oma laenutega hakkama või ei ole.

One day my family decided to move to another town. I was really excited about that. New place, new people that is what I needed that moment. With no doubts I can call myself a self-confident girl, that is why I was pretty sure that I will not have problems with striking up a relations with my new classmates. The first day was so common that will not even describe this. Everyone was friendly and and helpful and I exchanged phone numbers and other contact information with a lot of people this day.
When I came home I felt tired, but satisfied with overpast day and started chatting with my new acquaintances. Suddenly, some handsome guy posted me a message not so unusual, but certainly not just polite.
N: ''Where do you live?''
Me: ''Opposite Matthews house. You?''
N: ''Opposite Matthews house.''
Me: ''No way! You are a liar.''
N: ''Wow, that’s heartless, calling me a liar.''
Me: ''Oh, I have a heart. I’m not sure about you though.''
N: '''BRB.''
Two minutes later, my on-door speakerphone rings, and it is him telling me to go outside. I can see him walking up to me. Then he stops near me and pulls out a stethoscope. He puts the earpieces on me and points the listening part to his heart to let me listen to his heartbeats. I listen for a couple of seconds.
N: ''Can you hear it? Do you still think I’m heartless?''
Now we are 18 months together. Studying in the same university and planning our future together. After a while he confessed that he is so glad that his family kept the stethoscope in the car.

The goals of my life.

It is not so easy for me to talk about the purposes of my life, because I am a fickle person and today my opinion may be different from tomorrow one. But anyway I can still try to formulate the main goals.

At first, I want to get at least one humanitarian high education and after that I would like to find an interesting suitable work that just matches special features of mine. Personally I do not want to be famous I just want to figure out who I am and do what I like best and what comes out easily and pleasantly.

Further, I want to bring something into our world. Cause I know that I am not genius and I will not be a an inventor of some useful things and will not develope theories and establish equations such as Albert Einstein. But I guess I can still bring valuable use.
And the last, but not the least thing that I want to be part of is a happy family. I may seem quite idealistic, but I would like respect, understanding and honesty to reign among all the family members.

My findings must be predictable, but that is what I am, and that is what I want. 

Arranged marriages. (p. 9 ex. 7)

My attitude to that kind of relationship is quite ambiguous. I am not completely for either against that. I suppose that it depends on persons beliefs and opinions the moment they decide to strike up an arranged relationship or marriage. It often depends on experiences or may be frustrating relations in the past.

At first, I want to mention advantages. If you choose your partner only using your mind, he or she is more likely to be reliable. It is very important especially if you are working together. The second thing is that it is much easier for couple like that to solve their problems. They are not driven by a strong emotions, they always can keep their head cool and get as much benifits as they can from the situation happened.
But unfortunately, when your marriage is arranged, you are certainly deprived that special moments that happen only between loving couple. That all-the-time thinking about your partner, that feelings overfilling your heart and soul. But sometimes relations based on emotions hurt too much. 
So that is for you to decide what kind of sacrifice you want to make material or an emotional one.

Burglar sleeps on a job.

When it's nap time, probably it's a good idea to sleep in your own bed.

Tom Fisherman learned that lesson the hard way when he was arrested and accused of breaking into a house and taking drugs.

28-year-old New York native broke the rear window of an apartment on Red Avenue and entered the residence.The person who actually sleeps in the apartment legally came home and saw Fisherman sleeping in one of the rooms. Instead of waking the intruder, the unidentified homeowner called police to give Fisherman a wake up call.

Nothing says rise and shine like the bark of a police!

Memorable place.

The place I am writing about is pretty common. No one ever pampered me with exciting trips in my life, maybe that is why I appreciate every single sally even within my own small northern country. And I still think that even here we have some interesting places to visit.

So the area I want to describe is peninsula, that is situated about 30 km from Tallinn and it is called Suurupi.

I got there accidentally, but at first sight it impressed me with its picturesque views and magnificent aura. I think I could spend hours enjoying the vivid view from the cliff following gentle splashes of water and inhaling the freshest sea air. There are a lot of pebble, stones and boulders on the shore where I like to walk. I always jump from one stone onto another feeling free and happy. One more pleasant advantage of this place is a complete privacy, you do not have to worry about intrusive people around, but if you find some locals they are always polite and hospitable. But my the most favorite part of the day is evening. The sunset you can watch from the crag is unforgettable. Just imagine sitting on the edge of the crag, the variety of rocks you can see from your position the serenity  that fills you and, of course, the multicolored sunset, that scatters its fascinating gleam everywhere. 

It is an ideal place to visit after a laborious busy week in a city center. They way you feel after these solitude residence, freed from stress, pacified, relaxed will help you to be ready to difficulties of speedy city life. 

Heategevus on jõukohane rikkatele inimestele ja arenenud riikidele.

Ütlen kindlalt, et ma pole üldse selle väitega nõus. Minu arvamesest, heategevus on mitte ainult rikka inimese, vaid isegi rohkem vaese, või kunagi vaese inimese asi.
Jõukas inimene, kes pole üldse vaesust tundnud mitte kunagi ei saa kesisest aru, ta võib ainult hea tuju mõjustusel mingi ebavajalik asi teistele ära anda. Ainult see isik, kes teab milliseid pingutusi ja kui palju tahtejõudu nõuab vilets selleks, et ennast midagi kujutada, kui palju raskusi ootab teda teel rikkuseni, see kes käis läbi rasket tööd ja pettumust, ainult see inimene saab siiralt, õilsade eesmärgitega ära anda.
Pole ka tähtis mis riik see on, kas arenenud või mitte, kõik sõltub konkreetsest inimesest või rahvuse mentaliteedist. Arvan, et igas riigis on olemas teadvusega inimesi, kes tunnevad vastutust teiste inimeste, või loomade, või isegi looduse eest ja on alati abivalmis. Need inimesed rajavad organisatsioone ja loovad kaitseprojekte, mis on alati kasulikud, mis meelestavad ka teisi kodanike eeskuju võtta.
Kokkuvõteks võin kahtluseta öelda, et heategevus on igaühele jõukohane. Pole üldse tähtis kas see on väike annetus, või globaalne abi. Isegi väike igapäevane heategu peab olema igaühe kohustus, mis teeb tulevikus nii teid, kui ka inimesi ja maailma teie ümber palju paremaks.