My students in form 12a and 12b!
Best wishes you in the year 2009!It's time for us to do our best for preparing for coming exam in English.So, therefore, I'd like to ask you all be ready to share with your opinion here,- in my blog!And so:your task is to give arguments (in about 150 words) to support your view on this statement:
"Technological inventions don't make our lives better. They simply create more products we're expected to buy".
Yours EK

I don’t agree this statement. I think technological inventions make our lives much faster. Before some years we drive by horse and send letters to friends. To Riga need drive 3 days, and wait answer from friend some weeks. But now to Riga drive one and a half hour and friend get mail after second. And that’s others products simple make our life easy. I am glad when I am born in nowadays. I could not leave without internet and fast life.
But there are lots of bad things. People start to fatten. Life without moving destroys our immune system and we are started to feel tired and get illness much faster than healthy people.
At last I can imagine what happen after some years. People will be much lazier and year by year made lot of things to help their make life easy.
Valdis

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Teachnological invention don't make our live better I think its not absolutely wright, ofcourse there are some negative aspedts and positives aspects. For example- take the most popular inventions- computer. That is only communication way for some people. They dont write simple letters and postcards and sometimes forget about wright writting. Spending much time using computer- its damage health especialy sight.Young people use computer almost there free time, and dont do sporting activities.
There are some inventions which are used in household. Forexample- vacumcleaner, mixer, touster. Using thease we spend electric power and its quite expensive. Many years ago women do many works in kitchen by hands.
Of course people think they have better lifes with teacnological inventions but if we count together all negative aspect it is not so.

Inga 12.a

My opinions differ on this issue. I do not share this view, because many inventions have improved our lives. For example, different means of transport, if we do not have them, it would take a long time to get set in place. Even kitchen appliances improves our lives, without them we would lose time. This inventory may continue for a long time. That is to say that technological innovation spared time for people. But agree with this view, because there are many such inventions, which really is not necessary and damaging human health. For example, a gaming facility as Playstation or Xbox. It is not essential items for people and take our time. In this unnecessarily spent time at the place people could make much more significant things, such as study or contact with other people.

I agree and disagree this statement.
I agree because some technological inventions doesn't have any special role in our life, but we just buy new things for formal look, because generality have it. And I think that isn't good, because than we think like most people, that's like we don't have our own opinion about new fashion or something like that.
Also I disagree, because there are many new technological inventions that make our lives better, why than we do not buy it?! We just need to know which of those inventions are important for us or which of them are not important.
I can only say that we need think and make mistakes, because we all are learning from our mistakes!
Sintija Eglīte 12.a

Of caurse I agree my classmates arguments that almost every tehnical invetion, exspecialy such as computer, selffones and difrent tipes of gaming cansoles, have negative sides, but in other side are many other tehnical things who we need, and I,d like to say things without todays people can,t normaly live their lives.Things like cars,TV,radio,Washingmashine,refrigerator,wachumcleaner and even selfones and computers.In truth I don,t nove enyone who don,t have selfone expect my granparents.Today some of us think then in past was beter live, people read much more books and did much more sports activities, and life was beter, but I think after about ten jears in futere some peoples will think the same,because invetions are developed very fast and in that time people will thing ower time beter.

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wtf?

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I agree with this argument, and disagree, because without the technology people to live without amenities. Today the people can not develop without the technology in medicine. development of science, developing the technologies that make life easier - facilitated by some of the physical work of doing. But compared with developments in technology and diversity of people remain idly and young children, is confident that all will make their place.
however, any case is both positive and negative aspects.
Madara 12.a

Let's look at Latvia's economic crisis. How seriously is it?
Work, unemployment,-only?
'There is not so bad that something good doesn't come from it.'
Does the present situation motivate us? How? What for?

I'm interested in your personal judgment on it.Please, give arguments to prove your opinion. (200-250 words should be written)
Good luck!

Throughout the world today is the economic crisis in Latvia, but I think it felt the most in Latvia. The protests take place and a referendum.
The economic crisis in Latvia does not just affect people who work, but also those looking for work, and also students. This, in my opinion, is very serious as the crisis has affected me also.
Not only is the unemployment crisis during this period is also inflation.
The export of the country from the crisis the government has to work for young, capable and intelligent people, instead of the old politicians. I think that it would lay off parliament, the new could come into place.
I think that still is not as bad, but if we do not, then Latvia will remain free citizens, because all will come abroad to work there, and could support a family.

The economic crisis is at all world, buti n countries where this problem spot little bit faster- economic crisis do not carrie big problems. But, in my opinion, Latvians goverment is in secound group- who was not smart, whwn started problems.
Economic crisis is very seriously, becouse its is not „nothing special”. Thats not only when unemployment get highter( where I agree,which is big problem too), but example, many schools need to close, and university get highter lerning discharge, the farmers, boss and anybody, who has a loan in bank, can not repay this bigger money, which, actually, encourage to borrow goverment. In Latvia is stated cost of living. Inflation fall, but people cant buy things, who buy befor economic crisis.
I do not see the good think, it this situation. Of course, if I am optimist, I see positive thinks- in this situation we can not bung to people who go away from Latvia, becouse I understand that to them not other way.
In the present situation maybe we need to motivate us, becouse, we need to star doing all job better, if remain in job- do not lose it. To jung people need to learn in profesions which need to future. But the price is for hight...
INGA 12.a

Ther is the economic crisis in Latvia and it is a fact. This is not so bad that something good doesn’t come from it. So we can not say that crisis is only negative. This is a great experience for future political action, and the people can also learn a lot. Maybe now people will learn to dispose more economical with money. Can not be said that in Latvia is only unemployment. Now people have more incentive to learn, because unemployment is the general population with a poor education. People who are in employment now make their work better, because they do not want to lose it. It has finally arrived the situation where people must try. It is a pity that people need economic crisis to try, but if it is a stimulus, then it can be judged positively. The crisis also carries different corporate loss, the loss of a school, but we do not know whether this is bad. Perhaps this is the large number of companies are partly at fault at a crisis arose. I hope crisis will bring us better future, becouse we must learn from our mistakes.

"The World Around Us". (22 March - 5 April )
''There is an old saying, which goes: Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat your money.''
1.Give your comment(in about 100 words)
2.What current environmental problems you can mention in our country.
3.How to be an eco-friendly tourist? Give your opinion.
Yours E.K.

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The world around us is nature, people and technology, but nature is very vulnerable. Cutting down trees and rivers poisoned we losing natural riches, which probably does not ever.
I think that only when you have lost all natural resources, people will understand that to restore them is no longer possible. And then the people will understand that the money should be invested in order to clear the river and planting trees.
In our country, I think Latvia is a natural one problem - the natural contamination in the wood waste is dumped. It does not break down and stand in the ground for years. Not sorted waste, it is difficult to design.
Tourists are friendly to nature only when entertaining outdoors after he leaves the waste land. Tourists could be the model for those around, unless they are with their behavior does not endanger the natural health and natural resource wealth.
Madara Petroviča 12.a

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People and government in developmental countries could not think about future! Their first think is money and it is provided in Latvia. European Union helps our country to fight with poisoned. They gave our country rule what we need accept because we are in EU.
The biggest problem in Latvia is refuses. People did not sort refuses and by that Latvia is much polluted country with social refuses.
Radiation leak refuses are not popular, because in Latvia are not nuclear reactor.
I think eco-friendly tourist year by year will be popular and popular because tourists from other countries involve eco products and life without pollution.

Valdis

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Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat your money - I think that will happen in the future if humans won't start to think what are they doing , how they are ruin world around themselves. If it happen, humans will realize that they need it all back but maybe it will be to late.
In our country everywhere where you look can see the dust. Maybe government should left more dustbin and make an information about this problem in newspapers and TV. Also in our country are acid rain and air pullution. I think the couses of that are industrie, too much cars and other stuffs like that.
To be an aco-friendly tourist person have to use things that are friendly for nature. Also tourist have to clean up everything what they left behind.
Sintija

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''There is an old saying, which goes: Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat your money.''

I totally agree with it! I think natures around of us are very important, because if we don’t have nothing natural world don’t exist.

At the moment I think the biggest problems are about huge west quantity and forests mucks. In Latvia peoples are not sympathetic for waste sorting. If I have the opportunity to sort rubbish I do it and recommend doing my friends to. Because if we don’t do it we drowned in our rubbish.

In 18 of April in all country will be big waste collection bee. I hope in this activity participate many peoples and students and then many places will bee cleaner.

Madara K. (12.b)

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The world around us is all. This is what we breathe, is what we are wandering, and what helps us to live. But now people destroy it by cutting down trees, polluting rivers and air, as well as clear the land of its resources.
Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you can not eat your money. I agree with this saying, because people are too greedy, they think only about their own benefit and not for global problems. When there will not be trees and clear rivers, the man realizes that the he have raven a lot for himself and killed many animals that lived in these resources.
Eco-friendly tourist is a tourist who does not waste the country, which chooses the route to the natural on foot not with transport.
In Latvia the main environmental problem is the cutting down the trees. In Latvia there is not a lot of other exhaustible natural resources. Therefore, trees are a source of profit, but it is no longer enough, so should stop the logging of earning money, but only to cut down those trees that are not healthy.

Good day!
Nature, which surrounds us is a wonderful richness. It is our environment and our home! Old sayings don't lay, believe that if the last tree, then we are the himself, as well as the English man unimaginable without nature, animals, clean air, since this includes all the trees!
The world is a global contamination are a lot of problems such as pollution, depletion of the ozone hole. But all around, and think how badly the world has so many problems, but it is a matter which we do to help solve this problem? In my opinion, people should be educated instead of telling that the waste sorting, which already has heard all the same, but set an example. I offer examples of why I helping nature-sort waste, I'm „green”. Live in rural areas throughout the lifespan, and excited about its environment. In this holiday actively involved with driving a bicycle, and traveled for many forest roads, and I'm sorry to have to directly see how everything is contaminated, the met many forest animals who are no longer even afraid of the people and come on the road, because the forest is not the place ... this is my experiences, but very sad ....
Being for the benefit, ecological tourism is not difficult to find a resting-place, where there are no natural inhibitions, and behind them all up. And the attractions not to be destroyed and the damage so that they remain in the next generations.
Every Latvian and world citizen wish to engage in nature conservation rather than destruction, and the last tree will be destroyed!
Inga

"Our attitude to life is the key to success".
What is your opinion?
Yours E.K.

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"Our attitude to life is the key to success" I agree with this argument, because all of life can be achieved with treatment. Entries will only be successful if they do so with complete dedication and faith that everything will be all right. It is an attitude. With a positive attitude all things are better. For example, a food made with love is palatable for a meal, prepared by the obligation. If the man had hopedand thought positive, he would reach success. Of course, there are works that are unwilling to make and to have negative attitudes towards them, but life needs to try everything, maybe it is not so hard. Maybe you have a friend who likes that work and he is willing to do it in your site. All will benefit, and the work will be done right. Whole life and buoyancy is full of such works. Work is not just physical work. That's all, relationships, feelings, profession, needs.

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I agree with this argument, because the whole attitude of us live from the school up to the family. important is it to teach parents the right attitude.
Our attitude towards life helps us to achieve the desired outcomes - the desired occupation, and education. therefore, if we have the correct attitude, then we can achieve everything.
Life offers opportunities - opportunities that we either use it or not. to determine our attitude.
Must live with the right attitude and then life is positive, and the possibility of full.
Attitudes changing success.
Madara Petroviča 12.a

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I agree with that argument, because it is how we get down to life or after we're satisfied with it.
In my opinion, people with high self-esteem, but also with a critical approach to life, abilities, and simply analyzing the benefit of treatment is able to achieve more life goals than people with low attitude, and a pessimistic approach to everything.
Of course it is easier to stop the difficulties ahead, picking up your hands and say: "I am feeding!" But this is not a solution ...
Man, if the smile, happy to be the embodiment of optimism-will be able to achieve their life goals and build the success of a full life, as it also is the key to self-ability to rejoice in the fact that you're in this world and you are given a wonderful gift from God - a life ....
And an easy example of life-every day we "cry" of bad times, things, and look at people who go something is done, the home do not sit tries to rest as near .. They are full of people for success even in these economically difficult times, and their biggest success is that their attitude toward life constitutes a better world and helping other people to recognize their right. And also to wish the all-good attitude towards life, because then your life will become better!
Inga

"Our attitude to life is the key to success" I agree with this argument because all what we are doing makes our life butter or worst. It is attitude each of us. How we image our future! How we make our life or destroy it. I think my attitude to life is normal. I do lot of things what makes my life butter. I work in summers from form 8. By that all year long I can take pocket money how much I need. I am little bit lazy and this is my attitude for the school. I think my attitude is bad. I hope I will pass my English exam well.

Machinery and communication in our lives is very important, without a communications and technological marvels of man can not survive longer.
People have become dependent on the modern world. Earlier, say a century ago was not a man of technical possibility. But passing the time someone wanted to ease himself therefore to be a life of many and various technological wonders.
These things helped the man at the same time, people became dependent. For example mobile telephones. Who can now imagine myself without a phone?
Yes, I agree that the technological miracles of our lives makes it easier. For example the same washing machine, dishwasher and other electrical things that help more quickly to the whole deal. But people are becoming lazy and get used all these miracles.
Therefore recommend that these techniques use the wonders of where they really needed.

The economic crisis in Latvia. This is a serious although occasionally people then tend to exaggerate how bad they are and how they go. This is already evident in so-called good years in Latvia, in the same way, all complained that there was no money and that is bad to live in Latvia, but then it was all good, was working a normal salary, and could even tell a sufficiently strong to very good live. And then it started bad times, so called, that started the so-called economic crisis. Yes of course dropped jobs, decreased wages, but also people with money trashing about quite thoroughly, look the way people shop in stores and at the moment where it seems the so-called crisis. It is a group of people who are really hard to survive in these times. As such the elderly, who ordered the retirement of utility, but it is also the only cities in the countryside people are easier to live in has its own garden which grows potatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables, and there not feel so hard crisis. But I honestly believe that if the real crisis in Latvia is not because people are fed the same way, well dressed drives the machines across streets.There now when wars were then had a crisis, it was not even conceive of, to mention the living, therefore, should not clamor and say that it is crisis, it is a little harder but the economic crisis, it is not exactly .

Yes expression is very good, since it already is that people around us to earn money are willing to do terrible things just are not ethical and it is without any morals.
Our era of people around us have become worse since the era they are putridnes , it certainly is more relevant to our own people on a daily basis that I see and observe. Even small children have become more coarse and unkind. But why is the problem with which it is associated with it that we have a difficult time but perhaps not in its upbringing and moral values in the past.
And talking about all the rest of the people of the natural environment and natural resources, everything is polluted, deforestation, polluted river in need but a new modern factory that carries a lot of money, but the rest are all the same .we create everything around us ugly and
coordinated world.
But all need to think about a world in which live in us but the same breathe as polluted air, dirty float into the sea ......
Therefore, Latvia is not very popular in the tourism and wants to go to the contaminated country ...
But it has changed people thinking and then in the works.

Our attitude to life is the key succes-yes i agree to this opinion.
Because the people his own happiness hammersmith,thats is true.
Because someone with your attitude towards life can be achieved very much, say attitudes towards learning, the more you strive to get better results because it will, as well as work attitude towards work, if you work with a smile and good feeling in the work of rolling the speed and quality. say the positive attitude people have been positively in society, they are accepted without prejudice, they are always welcome everywhere and they have made to their attitude towards life, towards people
That is also why you will be in a better attitude toward life, as you achieve more in life and it is a privilege lock.