Composition 2: an article expressing my opinion about taking a child to an all-English school

Learning a language is always an enriching experience for all ages, but children have more abilities because their brains assimilate the knowledge much more easily than an adult.

Nevertheless, taking a child to an all-English school is not a good idea because our children will not receive the required education to learn their mother tongue properly. They could be confused when they tried to speak in Spanish and even, it would be more likely that they had learning difficulties in writing or speaking their own language. For that reason, I think it would be better to take our children to a bilingual school instead of an all-English one. Moreover, some experts say that a bilingual education has several advantages. Children who go to these schools are more creative and have better facility for solving problems. In addition, they would also have more skills for learning other language and communication strategies.

However, this kind of education cannot be affordable for everybody. Besides, some of the bilingual schools are a bit snobbish and it is necessary to consider if that environment will be the most suitable for raising our children. Due to this, I think we should choose our sons’ school carefully and think not only about what is the best option for their education, but also about what is the best way for becoming a person with good values and feelings.

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MONOLOGUE: EDUCATION

Good morning, my name is Maru and I’m going to talk about education. In my opinion, this is an important topic because a good education is related to an economic and social prosperity. I’ll focus my monologue on talking about my personal experience and the Spanish education system.

First of all, I’d like to start speaking about my personal experience as a student. I went to a religious school until 7^th grade. It was a bad experience for me because I had to go to church every day and I really hated the awful grey uniform that I had to wear. Fortunately, in secondary school, I went to a public secular school where I could go wearing whatever I want.

Furthermore, I remember, although it was such a long time ago, I was a diligent student and I adored doing the homework. I’ve never cheated in an exam; in fact, classmates have always copied from my exams. My favorite subjects were biology and chemistry and I’ve always got excellent marks in these exams. I strongly hated History because I found it extremely boring. I remember that once I fell asleep in a History class and everybody was laughing at me.   

The second point I’d like to talk about is the Spanish education system. We have a serious problem with school dropouts in our country and the government doesn’t take the proper measures to improve this situation. Actually in the last years, the public education has been deteriorating because of the government cutbacks. Nowadays, the public education system has fewer teachers and more students per classroom, which is a difficult situation if somebody has learning problems and needs a personalized attention.

The private education doesn’t have this kind of problems but unfortunately not everybody can afford it. The government has been subsidizing the private education instead of investing in the public one. Obviously, this measure is insufficient to improve the education system because in my opinion the education must be always free and available for everybody.

Well, that’s all I have to say about this topic. Thank you for listening to me and have a nice day.