Essay 2 - Should "dead" languages such as Greek and Latin be re-introduced in school curriculum? Anciente languages such as Latin and Greek are languages are being proposed to be re-introduced into school. This essay agrees that understanding the ancient languages and its history can help understand our current language. Firsly, this essay will discuss the negative points and secondly the positive points of adopting ancient languages in school. Adopting ancient languages at school can interfere the development of the main language of a child. It is extremely difficult for ones to learn a language and if that language cannot be used in other situations it could be useless. Furthermore, putting one more difficult subject for students to learn can damage their educational development. On the other hand, studying an ancient language can improve the sense of understanding for some of the derived words and expressions we know today. Learning from the source of where the language we learn today can be helpful in many aspects. Thus, understanding the origins and the context where the language evolved until nowadays can help us have a deeper understanding of language. To conclude, this essays supports that studying ancient languages such as Latin and Greek can help broader our understanding of language. It is recommended that this introduction must not be compusorial, so that students can choose what they find most important for them to study.

Essay 1 I am writing an essay text. Here is the theme: 'Schools should prepare students for university. rather than for work,' How far do you agree with this Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience or observations. Here is my answer: At first, schools should prepare students for life not just university or work. Both university and work are important and I can argue that they are extremely important. Being more practical, we all know a lot of people that are successful without having an university degree. Some examples are Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Steven Spielberg. They had a vision where more practical skills were important to succeed. I can say that they worked a lot to achieve this. On the other side, university prepares students to have the theoretical foundations of academic knowlege such as science and technology. This kind of knowledge are important if you want to do research or be in the edge of knowlege to produce theoretical articles, books and so on. In the meantime the world is not made only of books and theories. Although modern computer simulations can forecast many situations the world provides us many more possibilities as we saw in recent disasters such as tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes. In other words, more practical knowlege are required to face the world and succeed. To summarise, life requires a wide range of knowledge we have to focus in the details of real life to improve our skills. University studies are important, but to succeed in a fast changing world we have to look catch the moving life which cannot be captured in static books. ======== I appreciate any comments/suggestions/corrections. Thank you very much! :-)