Essay (exercise FCE) (Text of the exercise: In your English class, you have been talking about the subject of cultural heritage. Now your English teacher has asked you to write an essay. Write an essay using all the notes and give reasons for your point of view. Is is a good thing that countries spend a lot of money on their heritage? Notes Write about: 1. preserving the past 2. investing in the future 3. ________ (your own idea) Write your essay in 140-190 words in an appropriate style). My essay. Many people have done a lot of things in the history and it is a lucky that we conserve many of them through differents forms: museums, books, etc. ¿How important is that we conserve them despite of having put a lot of money on preserve it? It is often said that our past is the responsabilty of what we are in the present. For this, it studies and conserve it, it will let us learn about mistakes in order to not go back to do it and it evolutionate as country. The museums, and the books about our history are one example of this, they give us own identity, and besides, of course it is a pleasure seeing and looking how people live in the past. While is true that, it looks to the future is as important as conserve our culture, our past. If we invest in the future, in te progress, we will recieve the results in a long time in form of better healthy, transport, etc. Technology is one example of this, and all deppends of the government and how much money it puts in the progress, in the technology, From my point of view, preserving the past and investing in the future must be together. I agree that countries protect their identity because it is what deffine as country, as nation, but of course, without forgetting the future, and the progress, what for me, it the most important.