[Jenny W] Writing Practice Test 259792

The graphs illustrate the changing of tourism to Australia and Germany between 1960 and 2010. Overall, most travellers who visited Australia mainly came from Europe whereas Asian became to largest group after 50 years. On the other hand, Europian visitors remained the main group to Germany from 1960 to 2010.

For visiting Australia, most people came from Europe with 53% and the second was the visitors who came from Britain with 25% while visitors who came from the United States and Asia were occupied for 12% and 10% respectively. Nonetheless, Asian became the most visiting to Australia in 63% with the British coming after with a slightly decreased to 20%. The rate of Europian dropped dramatically to 10% and the least people came from the United Asia with 7% only.

Europian remained the most in travelling to Germany during the 50 years with a little declined from 45% to 40% while the second most visitors was also the same from American in 2010 with increased to 29%. Asian became the third who paid a visit to Germany from 10% in 1960 to 25% in 2010 and British was recorded the least to Germany in 2010 with a drop from 20% which were noted in 1960 to 6%.

There is a rapid changed in the area of technology in the world with the invention of internet and computers. Lots of computers and tablets are introduced as a teaching and learning equipments in schools for the improvement in education purposes. Some might argued that students became more relying on computers or tablets and even addicted to them. Here are my points of view about the advantages and disadvantages which are brought out by the use of technology in the classrooms.

One of the advantages is that students can learn without the limitation of resources and places with the use of computers. People had to spend a lot of time on searching data and essays from books and journals in libraries in the past without the internet and laptops. However, students can easily search and obtain information and knowledges with the connection of internet throughout the world. They can save time for further learning and experience different areas of interests which they may not get in touch in their schools. Furthermore, under the pandemic, most schools have be forced to close and students have to stay home. Despite the closure of schools, learning is still continuous at home with the online learning process which means students still learn with friends and teachers with webex or google meet.

On the other hand, students can participate deeply and widely in the help of technology. Teachers spread their knowledges on the blackboards or in the way of asking and answering. Those traditional methods are not efficient on testing the learning progresses of every youngsters. Instead, with some apps in tablets, pupils can attend some quick quizzes online and the results can be easily distributed to both pupils, teachers and parents. Moreover, flipped classroom is one of the methods in order to increase the participation and motivation for pupils, it allows students to read materials which are given by teachers before class and start a disscussion and solve problems in the coming lesson.

Despite those advantages with the computers, it is a fact that more and more students get addicted with the world of internet. Most students cannot control and have a well-plan on using the tablets, instead, they often use them for playing online games or watching youtube. Additionally, there is a rise of population of cyberbullying and affect the mental health of teenagers. In my opinions, parents and teachers need to give guidance for their kids in the first time of using tablets or notebooks in order to provide a clear and suitable timetable for using internet and get balance in academic and social areas. Besides, the social media companies have to make action on cyberbullying on their websites, for instances, they can make rules to prevent and avoid the inappopriate posts.

To conclude, more and more schools will use computers and tablets in order to improve the learning environments, while we have to make good use of technology.