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People are eating a variety of foods these days which encourages the flow of food from every corner of the world to a local supermarket. Do you think this is negative or positive development? Why? As a consequence of the globalization, it is normal to have products from every part of the world. Indeed, our multicultural societies are demanding it and we are accepting it without complaining because we take advantage on it. From my viewpoint, the growth of international food has both positive and negative developments. Nowadays, people can get to know different products from abroad coming from several cuisines like Far East cuisine. Indeed, people do not need to travel to foreign countries in order to experience new tastes. They can buy the foreign products they want in the local supermarket. Furthermore, currently people can eat products out of their specific season. They do not need to wait to a specific time to eat products from that period. For instance, we can eat tropical fruits during all year because tropical countries are producing in more quantity to export them to the entire world. However, there are also drawbacks that people should be conscious about. For example, supermarkets and retailers may buy cheaper products to international producers instead of purchasing those products to national producers. If retailers and supermarkets buy local products, they will improve their own country’s economy and it will avoid future economical problems. Adding to this, several products produced in foreign countries are produced under undignified and underpaid job, without job quality and job conditions being supervised and controlled. In conclusion, having products from around the world is not only good for global economy but also is good for individuals’ taste because they have more choice of products to try. Nevertheless, people must be awareness that local products are also good (even better sometimes) and those products might help improving local economy. (281 words)

You have recently moved to a different house. Write a letter to an English-speaking friend. In your letter Explain why you have moved Describe the new house Invite your friend to come and visit ​ Dear XXXX, Hi there. How are you? Are your studies going well? Are you enjoying the London lifestyle? I’m writing to you to tell you some news about my girlfriend and me. As you know, our last apartment was too small for us, so we decided to move to another one near the center, more beautiful and with plenty of space. This new flat is in Areeiro with a lot of facilities nearby. It has two bedrooms, both with plenty of space and each of them with a large wardrobe, which is really important to get our clothes in. It also has a wonderful living room where we, finally, can through some parties and invite our friends to have dinner with us. This new living room has one wall only made of windows that fills it with full of sunny light every day. Isn’t our new flat great? We are wondering when you are going to come and visit in order to see our new flat. We miss you a lot. Why don’t you pay us a visit next August, during your school holidays? Let us know if you decide to come around. We will be glad with your visit. Kisses, «me»

In many countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. Does this trend have more negative effects or positive effects on society? At present our life expectancy is increasing. Our health has improved so much that we can live longer than in the past. With this increasing life expectancy, elderly people can assist their families bring up their grandchildren. Also, the elderly can contribute with their knowledge to our society, helping the younger ones to make better decisions and supporting them in their life experiences. Moreover, if they still feel healthy and able to work, they can contribute more to society working for more years and contributing to the income of governments by paying their taxes. However, on the one hand, a longer life span can bring about varied problems and difficulties to society. Year after year life expectancy and the number of elderly people are increasing proportionally. As more senior people get pensions from governments, more efforts are necessary from this party to be able to afford those. Moreover, this will bring up a serious problem to hospitals and health centres. I am sure they will have less capacity to take care of the increasing number of patients; they will be really over-crowded without sufficient medical staff for patients and will be also necessary medicines to all of patients. Having said this, of course governments must have a radical attitude to be able to afford all those costs. I am sure the only way is to increase taxes over the working people. They will have to pay more taxes to support governments on their duties. It is a fact that this attitude will not be well accepted, bring about dissatisfaction among them and it could also cause strikes in some countries. In conclusion, I am sure we want a better life for all of us, more health, more happiness and more quality of life. Yet, from a social and political view point, having more senior people living only with pensions from governments might bring more negative effects to society than positive ones.

Today more people are travelling than ever before. Why is this the case? What are the benefits of travelling for the traveller? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Indeed, the tourism has become an important industry, the newest one of last century. On some countries, this industry can move a lot of money and provide with many job positions. From my point of view, nowadays the people will of travelling have increased, comparing with the past. Secondly, the wages are higher. People have more economic availability to afford travels prices. Adding to this, the number of low cost companies has increased also, therefore people can more easily buy a fly ticket. Finally, with the airplanes development increasing, distances become shorter and travels become more comfortable for travelers. People are no longer afraid of make long distance trips. Due to this people have more benefits than ever. With such improvements on travelling it is normal to have an increase in travel demand. Travellers can get to know more cultures, more civilizations and more languages than before. They can be more aware of differences between cultures. Also, making travels can be really enjoyable. Most of people, who make a trip, do it in order to have some fun and to spend quality time during its holidays. Moreover, who travels can enrich their culture and their life experience among other civilizations. For instance, most of people want to know how Mayan civilizations lived and built their buildings or want to get know how nature relies in Amazonia rainforest. In conclusion, travelling is really important for everybody and for the tourism industry. For everybody because they can enrich their knowledge based on other cultures and for tourism because it moves millions in global economy.