Education.

Many people say that the only way to guarantee getting a good job is to complete a course of university education. Others claim that it is better to start work after school and gain experience in the world of work.

I can partly agree with both views, but also I suppose that higher education is not a guarantee of getting a good job. And we can see a lot of examples and confirmations of that in real life. To become a specialist in some wide industry it is much more effective to have a basic knowledge at the beginning, improve it from time to time and fix them practicing.
In my opinion, some of us, if it is possible, should try home-schooling system with individual teacher, because according to statistics home schooled students are about two-grade years ahead of their neighbours in government school. Then, I think that every person should have right to choose timetable and curriculum they want to study or work. And every country should give us a possibility to study and work in rhythm, timetable, periodicity we want. And after that we will work with pleasure and smile on our faces not with a disgust and objection like almost all workers do nowadays.

To sum up I have to say, that both views have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, we have to choose on our own what do suit us best.

The letter of application.

Dear Sir/Madam,


I would like to apply for the position of the translator which I saw advertised in Daily news. One of my reasons for applying is my concernment in foreign languages. I would like to become a linguist so it could be much easier to work after practicing and proving my language skills as a translator.

I am 16 years old and I am from quite small Baltic country Estonia. And I live in Tallinn, which is beautiful, historical capital of this country.
At present I am a student at faculty of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication.
I have a reasonable command of English, Russian, French and Estonian languages.
I have a good knowledge of computers, but I regret I had no experience of translating some persons orally, only in written form.
For the last years I have been studying and having a dancing trainings. So I have a good experience of communicating with people of other countries, because of having dancing competitions in foreign countries.
Now a little bit about my character. I feel I would be suitable for this job, because I am sociable, positive person and I like to work with interesting people, I am also curious and I always like to learn something new.

I would be able to attend an interview from 15 September from 17,00 till 21,00 o'clock. I hope you consider my application.
I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.



Yours faithfully,
Pakk Valeria

Estonian Education.

Nowadays, a lot of Estonian students want to continue their education abroad and complain about the system of education in our country, but I will try to prove, that studying in Estonia has its own advantages.

At first, a little bit of history. The first primer in the Estonian language was published in 1575. The oldest university is the University of Tartu which was established by the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf in 1632. In 1919, university courses were first taught in the Estonian language.
For the second, accustomed form of education in Estonia is subject-centered curriculum and only a few educational institutions have a student-centered one. The education system is based on four levels which include the pre-school, basic, secondary and higher education.

In my personal subjective opinion I consider the subject-centered form of education as more effective. But being a pretty lazy I would prefer a student-centered one, because you always have a right to study what you are interested in. The subject-centered form gives you no choice what to study, but gives you a basic knowledge in every kind of science, so your mind will not be limited. Eventually, if you develop your personality you could compare your knowledge with the big, strong, branchy tree with a strong roots, which is impossible to neither flex nor brake.

I absolutely approve getting higher education abroad, but I also suppose that we should come back to our beautiful, small and proud country to make it step-by-step better and richer not with money, but with interesting and aware people of all ages.
We all could not to like and criticize everything about Estonian education, but the progress and improvement of it in future is in our hands.

Homework 07/09/11

page 11 ex 8.

1. - c
2. - e
3. - f
4. - a
5. - d
6. - b


page 10 ex 2a.

1. Do you live, live, are looking for
2. do you get on, tells
3. Does anyone annoy, always takes
4. do you go out, go out, I'm studying, go out only
5. Do you like, gets

The letter of complaint.

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am writing to complain about the mp4 player which I bought from Sony electronics store on 1 April 2011 for 280.50$. I enclose copies of the receipt and guarantee.

In your guarantee, you claim that this player can be used during a year without breakage and any other problems. I have been using it carefully for a month. I read and followed all the instructions which were put in a package.

I can also say that the product has a poor quality. The headphones stopped working normally after a couple of days. However, I continued using this player with my old ones. As you can remember the player has 8 GB of memory, so I started to use it as a flash card. I moved all my files from my personal computer to memory of this player. And the worst of all, I do not know why, but all my files were somehow removed out of this memory. So I have lost the hole files and documents that I needed for my work.

When I took the mp4 player back to the shop, not only did manager refuse to refund my money, but he was also really impolite discussing the problem with me. He argued as if it was my fault that the player had broken.

I would like you to compensate the damage as soon as possible. If I do not get the satisfactory reply I would have to take a further action and get in touch with my local consumer protection office in order to ask for advice.


I look forward to hearing from you,


Yours faithfully,
Pakk Valeria

The only way to cut crime in our country is to make punishment more severe.

I decided to discourse a little bit on theme are the current punishments in our county fair enough to all citizens. The issue has never been easy to resolve, but I would like to try share some of my views with the others.

I suppose, that it is extremely unjust to let some rapists or murders out of the prison after a couple of years. But you can never be sure about the motive of any criminal act you watched on TV or heard by radio, cause you have never been a part of it. You cannot find out every possible detail of this crime. And I guess you do not even interested in it. You are pretty indifferent to fate of others. Have you ever tried to imagine yourself on a place of some assassin or murder, or may be just a pickpocket. The point is that the most of judges and public prosecutors do not regard the circumstance of humans lifes and often make the mistakes in considering is that a willful murder or it was just an accident or there might be some serious reason for the offense. In this instance they often make wrong decisions about the punishments. Have it to be more serve or not depends only on personal conditions. And it of course demands rigorous hearing.

All people who are somehow connected with justice and law should always pass for the consequences of theese persons lifes who they are sorting out.

The Letter.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to ask you for more information about your travel agency's offer of a deep-sea diving tour in the Indian Ocean. I am very interested in holiday, but I would like to know some details.
My first question is about accommodation. I am not really demanding about conditions, but I wonder some clarifications. I would prefer to stay in simple, ordinary hotel without any excesses, because I am traveling to India not to stay there, but to enjoy the depth of cultural development of this country and, of course, to explore the and magnificent abyss of mysterious Indian Ocean.
It also does not matter to me what kind of room would you provide to me single or a double one. I am not against of new meeting and even living with some interesting persons who are visiting India with the same or similar purposes as I am.
I would be grateful if you could inform me about the exact prices of that pleasant journey and additionally about the diving equipment.
I am traveling to India for the first time, so I would like to know more about the insurance, can I be sure about it's safety?
Like in every southern country India is abounding different foreign vegetation and dangerous animals and insects, could you advice me something to keep my health under the control.
I look forward to hearing from you.


Yours faithfully,
Pakk Valeria