Practice: Essay; The environment

"It is imperative that youth from all parts of the world participate actively in all relevant levels of decision-making processes because it affects their lives today and has implications for their futures." — Chapter 25 of Agenda 21, adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

In recent years the scientific evidence supporting the need to reduce gas emissions and other major environmental pollutants has increased. What are the small things that can do to make a big change? How can they all do something to make their planet more sustainable? Simple. We each need to do a little bit. Humans, like animals, also leave an impression as a consequence of their activities. Actions from switching on a light to littering the street, running a tap to travelling by car, all leave some form of impression on the environment. This is known as our environmental footprint.


As I see it, young people is really concerned about it nowadays. The air pollution is growing up in big cities and it is a World-wide problem, in some of them like Hong Kong is a really big issue and the view of the city with these black clouds is really ugly. In my opinion new generations has to lead the environment develop with all kind of activities and I think we are doing well, we are a generation with a better education than the older ones. The climate change is a fact and it will get worse if we don't make that change. In my case, I am not exactly a Greenpeace person but I try to respect environment as far as I can. I drive my car only when it is really necessary, in other cases, I use my bike. Also I try to save petrol with an effective driving of my car. I recycle paper and bottles and I try to concern about it to everyone around me.

We have to start doing these small things that can make a big change for a sustainable development. The youngsters have the responsability of teaching older generations that their actings in the world have consequences and they can also join that movement. These small things can preserve and make this world a nice place to live for the future generations.

Practice: Introduction and conclussion

Introduction: Internet has became very helpful tool for students nowadays. Websites such as Wikipedia are very useful for search information about the homeworks that we have to do everyday but also contains a huge amount of mistakes in their information.


Conclussion: The Internet and Wikipedia give us access to a huge amount of information really useful for the students homeworks but we have to be careful and contrast the information that we get, because it also contains a lot of incorrect information and we have to check wether that information is correct or not in more reliable websites.

Practice: Problems and solutions: Spanish policy and the loss of faith in the system

Nowadays, in Spain, the population is really furious about how policy works in our country. Spain is facing a lot of problems such as one of the worst unemployment rates in Europe, a lot of families are losing their houses and facing hunger problems, child poverty is growing up... On the other hand, a lot of politicians in Spanish government are facing corruption charges and they are also lacking solutions to solve thus problems. All these things are implying a loss of faith in the traditional Spanish politic system and people is starting to get desperated.


In order to solve these problems new political options are appearing strongly like Podemos and maybe if people vote these options, situation could change. Many people thinks that the actual system really needs a change and they see in Pablo Iglesias the person who can make that change, because that system is exhausted and the changes that he says sounds really nice for people and families in an awful situation. Also they say that they work with a really good economist ideas.


But, what would happen if these changes are totally a mess? We are not totally sure about if these changes are realistic and maybe, the situation could be worse than now. Otherwise, you never know if they are also totally honest or they would be also as corrupt as other were.


Another solution could be keep trusting the traditional system with two traditional parties dominating because although they didn't do a good job lately, we already know them and we are not that bad after all. They did good things in the past, Spain experienced a huge development before the 2007 bankrupt so maybe they can do it again.


In another way, they have already made a lot of mistakes. They had a lot of corruption scandals, their ways to solve the crisis are not working and Spain is losing impact in the world as a nation, under the desires of the most powerful nations in EU and ECB.


Eventually, in my opinion, It is time to make a change. We don't know for sure if the new political parties will make a big change and help the people with big problems but I think the current system is finished and maybe it is time to try a new one. I'm not sure if they are the solution but the current politicians have already showed that they are not the solution and they can't solve the problems that Spain is facing nowadays.

Opinion practice: Rugby

A lot of people think that rugby is a really dangerous sport, they also think that rugby is like a kind of war between big monster guys. In fact, it is but it is not as hard as people imagine. It's right that rugby players get a lot of injuries but there is not a big difference with other sports that people really loves to watch like football.

I've played rugby in my city, Orihuela, since I was 15 years old. It is a hard sport and if you want to play it, you have to accept that sometimes you will be hit and get hurt. It gets some time to get used to the hits but once you are used to the hits it doesn't hurt at all. Also, in these 9 years I've been playing rugby, I didn't have any serious injury and I had worse injuries when I was playing football when I was a kid or in normal life at home... The people who plays rugby is also really nice and after every finished game, there is a kind of meeting that rugbiers call "Third quarter". Both teams meet at some bar or something and home team invites the guest team to some drinks and foods.

Rugby is a really funny sport and not much more dangerous than other ones. It could show people that they are braver than they think and also It could help them to reduce stress!

Describe a person: A person who I admire

My favorite sportman is Lewis Hamilton, he is a Formula 1 driver. He is a really hot-blooded person and he can't stand finishing a race in second place. I think his personality is really similar to mine. Also, sometimes, he has problems to control his feelings and he loses his mind. You can feel in these actions that he is a really pure person and he never hides his thinking. Furthermore, I love Formula 1 and he is, in my opinion, one of the best drivers in the business. For all these reason, I admire and support Lewis Hamilton.

Opinion paragraph practice

The history of the United States of America is the history dominated by power, like the history of the most popular empires. The last conflict against ISIS is now involving other countries like UK. The world was stunned about the videos of American and British journalists being murdered on TV, and these countries decided to respond with some attacks against the Islamic State, but the funny thing is that, with these bomb attacks, They are killing innocent people too. As Lenin said: " The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of millions is simply statistic."

Free esay: My trip to South Korea

That's going to be my first publication in the blog. Today I'm going to talk about my trip to South Korea last August where I really enjoyed. I really like asian culture and people so I've been saving money few years to make my dream come true of visiting South Korea. My dream is living there someday so that's the reason why I started learning languages, I really need to learn korean but I think starting and getting a good level of english would also help me there.



It was my first trip abroad so I was really nervous. Also I went there alone so I experienced a lot of things for the first time last summer, I know it might sound crazy but at the end I realize that It is not as hard as It looks. I had some friends there who helped me a lot! That's some pics in Madrid airport minutes before taking the plane. I was so nervous!!!

Once I arrived there, a friend was waiting for me. I'm really grateful to have a friend in Korea because I don't understand korean language and It was so complex for me to arrive to the hostel.









The food was really good but most of foods were so spicy, I really suffered having some kinds of food because I'm not used to have hot spicy food. Anyway, I specially loved the bbq meats!

I was really impressed with the culture and people. The culture and historical places were so nice, with many kinds of korean palaces and so on. The palaces were amazing and I felt like I was in a different world, the feeling was incredible. In the other hand, the people was also cool. They are so different of occidental people, They were respectful, kind and helpful with me during all my time in Seoul. Funny fact: I'd been in Gangnam street, which made famous the song "Gangnam Style".

But the thing which impressed me the most was Seoul night view. Seoul is alive 24/7 and you can see all the night life style and all the lights who make of Seoul one of the most beautiful night views.

After waiting some years to go to Seoul I was really satisfied with my holidays there. I hope go again next summer and who knows maybe someday live there.

Introduction

Hello everyone, this is Alex from 1º Estudios Ingleses and this is my new blog for Prácticas de Redacción 14/15 where I will upload all the homeworks and assignments that we will do in class. I hope everyone to enjoy it and improve my english having fun.


Greetings!