Task2 Do young people today make good use of their leisure time?

It is well known fact that nowadays young people have much more leisure time than their parents had years ago. But does teenagers use their free time in a good way? I am really sure that the answer for this question is negative.

I know that our leisure time can be sacrificed for almost anything.  But as an adult I am able to see that free time can be used in productive or unproductive way. I truly believe that too much watching television and playing video games is not a good way of spending time. Much more productive from physical and psychological point of view is taking part in outdoor activities. After even one hour out of home you can be really relaxed and de-stressed.

If you are a teenager you spend a lot of time at school. Your body needs physical activities and if you spend almost all your spare time before screens there is a high probability that in a near future you will have serious problems with your backbone and vision. Therefore somewhere outside of home you can meet interesting people, learn fascinating things etc. Do you know any advantages of watching television? I do not. And this is the reason why I do not even have the television at my house. Instead of watching TV I can learn something or talk to my friends or whatever. Anything is better than being a couch potato.   

 To sum up, teenagers spend too much time watching TV or playing computer games nowadays. They should be learnt how to use their time in much more productive way. It is the role of parent to do that.

IELTS Task2 Studying the past

The pace of life is very fast nowadays. It is not easy to learn new technologies especially if you know that tomorrow your knowledge will be out-of-date. So it seems not so strange that people do not see reasons for studying the past.

I disagree with them. I strongly believe that learning our history is necessary and useful. Without such knowledge people will not know who they truly are, what are their family roots, etc. It is impossible to be a real patriot without knowledge about your country, about the place where you were born. Some people say the world is now a global village. That is true. And this is the reason why you should know a lot about you and your country, about your identity.

Without the past it is rather hard to create a bright future. Making the same mistakes other people made one hundred years ago is not what you can be proud of. If you know a lot about the II World War, you will try to do almost everything to avoid potential next war. It is easy to imagine the results of bad decisions.

If children are not taught history, they will not know who they are, what is their identity.           

IELTS - Task1 The contribution of three sectors to the UK economy

The contribution of selected sectors to the UK economy has been changing over the years in the 20th century.

            At the beginning of the last century the most contribution was made by agriculture and manufacturing sectors and was between 40 and 50 percent. At the same time the contribution made by business and financial services was very low. Through the whole period described on the graph the importance of business and financial services was increasing from about 5 percent in year 1900 to almost 40 in year 2000.  In 1950 the importance of agriculture and financial services rose but the manufacturing sector's contribution - declined. There is seen on the graph that in 1975 the contribution made by manufacturing is a little below 40 percent of the whole contribution to the UK economy. At the end of the last century the most important sector from all described on the graph was business and financial services. The smallest contribution was made by agriculture. Manufacturing was important for the UK economy only in about 15 %.

People naturally resist making changes in their lives.

People naturally resist making changes in their lives.

                This is not new for anyone that people do not like changes especially in their own lives.  People love things which they know very well. Even if they know that making a small change can bring a lot of good things, they are still very resistant. Because of that some people make the same mistakes a lot of times. They are like banging their heads against a brick wall and they are surprised that the wall is still standing.  Sometimes making even small change can do a lot, can change the whole life for better. Heraclitus said "The only thing that is constant is change". I absolutely agree with him. Maybe it is not easy to make something in different way. The most important is to make a change in mind, means to be conscious about a change.

To change something for good we have to want it. It is difficult to change our behavior but it is possible. Every day we should think about it. For example if you want to lose weight every day you have to think about what you are eating. It is important to remember about fruits and vegetables, etc. If you want to improve your English you have to learn it almost every day.

Some changes are easy, some not. Changing bad job for better one belongs to this second category. And no one will guarantee that the second job will be better than the last one. This is the reason why people are afraid of change. They have no guarantee that everything will be better or even just OK.  But with that guarantee the life could be boring. Anyway, the world is changing even right now.

IELTS Task 1: Domestic access to modern technology in the UK

The graph shows that the usage of modern technology in the UK increased between 1996 and 2003. The most popular was CD player which usage rose from about 60 in 1996/96 to about 84 percent in 2002/03. There was a steady rise of usage of home computer as well. The increase was from about 28 at the beginning of showed period of time to more than 50 % in 2002. More rapid growth of access to the Internet was seen between 1998/99 and 2002/03. Before 1998/99 there was no Internet and, what is obvious, no usage of it. At the beginning of 1999 10% of homes was able to use it but at the end of 2002 this number increased to about 45%. In 1996 less people used mobile phones then home computers. The trend was the same to the second half of 1999. In that time was seen significant increase of access to mobile phones and more of them was in use then home computers. Between 1999 and 2003 the usage of mobiles gradually increased. 

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