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!