Final Writing Test

Final Writing Test

• Part A

Unit 6 It is said that people will often do things in a crowd that they would never consider doing alone. Have you seen any evidence that this is true?

 I think this statement is true. Indeed, being in a crowd makes people feel more secure. They see things differenty, they have a different attitude. Alone, we are faced to our insecuries which creates doubts while being in a group helps us be more confident about ourselves and our capacities. Also, we might simply imitate what the others are doing to be accepted by the group.

Unit 7 When you are treated for an illness or injury, do you feel more comfortable doctor quickly determines what you are suffering from or if the doctor takes a long time?

 This question is tricky. Indeed, it depends of the kind of injury. If the illness is temporary and bening, I would rather take the fastest option. Nonetheless, if the injury is serious and might need a lot of treatment, it is better if the doctor takes his time to determine the exact illness so he can treat it the best that he can.

Unit 10 There are many factors within human control that have contributed to the collapse of past societies. Which of the following factors are most likely to threaten civilizations today?
- the destruction of forests and other habitats
- soil erosion and loss of soil fertility
- water supply and management problems
- overhunting / overfishing
- human overpopulation.
Can you think of any others?

 All the problems above are likely to threaten today’s civilization. We cannot deny these negative actions are spreading and might make our culture collapse. On top of these, we might add that our use of oil, the habit of not recycling and our bad management of waste contribute every day to weaken our environment. It has to cease.

Comedy of Errors Comment on the best and worst of the play with regards to some of the following points: acting, writing, director`s choices, humour, production values.

 I thought that the director chose the right actors. Indeed, they were the best fit for their role. Also, I liked the setting, the props and the costumes. It was good to transport the setting to actuality in Montreal and Toronto. Altough, I did not like the fact that the vocabulary did not match the setting. It made it hard to follow, the contrast between both was too intense to make it realistic.

• Part B

For our final speaking exam, we chose to do a survey presentation on a subject that relates to today’s society, technology addiction. Indeed, technology has become so widespread over time that addictions have started to appear, even though it is still denied by most of technology addicts.

For our hypothesis, we had to compare two groups. We chose young teenagers from ten to seventeen years old, and young adults from eighteen to thrithy years old. We implied that young teenagers were more addicted to technology than young adults. We chose those two groups because we already knew that older people were less addicted to technology than the younger generation. So, we tried to discover who was the most dependent in the youth. We asked eleven questions to ten people from each group. Each of the questions helped us seize the problem of addiction and determine its causes and the people’s opinion and attitude about the subject. For example, we asked them what kind of technology did they use? How many hours a day did they use it? For which purpose? If it was necessary to their lifetyle? Those questions were asked to see if they were addicted to technology. Then, we asked a different kind of questions such as do you consider your age group addicted to technology? Do you think technology is healthy? Do you think it has become abusive with time? Does it make you happy? And finally, we asked them directly if they thought they were addicted to technology. These questions were more about their option on the phenomenon.

Our results were not exactly what we expected them to be. Indeed, both groups answered more or less the same thing. Nonetheless, there was still a difference between both groups. While older people said they had more different technological items, younger people still used them more. They used it up to 5 hours a day and more, which is considered as addictive. Also, teenagers answered more extremely to questions like could you live without technology? The answer “Definately not” was chosen by many. We also noticed that younger people use technology more to follow the trend and because they find it entertaining. On the other hand, older people see technology as necessary and as something that they like. We also noticed that older people were more honest about their opinions. We doubt that the younger people’s answer about if they considered themselves as addicted was accurate. Indeed, even though our statistics showed that they were more addicted, adults were those who said they thought technology was necessary and addicitve.

Finally we can conclude that our hypothesis was valid. We confirmed that toung teenagers are more addicted to technology than young adults. But, we cannot forget that both groups are, in a different way. While the older group thinks technology is more necessary, it is because it is necessary for their work, they use it in a more healthy way. The addiction problem hits the teenagers harder because they use it for pure entertaintment and do so since they were old enough to use it. They spend too many hours a day on it only for fun, since they have more spare time than adults. If we had to do our survey differently, we would surely interview more people. Indeed, twenty people is definately not representative of our society. Also, we should have made a larger gap between our age groups. Seventeen years old are not as diffrent as eighteen years old even though we divided them in two separate groups. Still, this survey showed that the problem of technology addiction is increasing especially through young people who have grown up in it, they are the technology generation.

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