Council of
Europe
You are going to watch a video about the raising
participation of youth in Europe in the last 40 years. We would like you to
give your opinion about these questions in order to post them in our English
language blog.
Guideline:
- What is freedom for you?
- Are you free? Do you feel free to express your opinions in your family, with your friends and in your country?
- All different, all equal? Do you agree?
- Things you would like to change / revise about social rights.
- Would you like to participate in finding solutions to the problems that are facing today?
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ReplyDeleteAndrea & Agueda (G3): hrgurhuwthurksgsgsu
ReplyDeleteFor us, freedom is when you are able to take your own desitions. We think that we are free in part, because we are able to take our own desitions but, sometimes, people or laws don't let us do it.
ReplyDeleteWe feel free to express our opinions with our friends and family, although sometimes they don't agree with us. But with my country I don't feel free because we don't have all the rights we should have, the society isn't equal.
"All different, all equal."
We agree because, for example, Paula has got browned greened eyes and Sofia has got greened blued eyes. Their external aspect is different but inside they are persons, they are human.
We would like equal rights to women and men, for riches and poors, and for all the different races.
Of course, we would like to participate in finding solutions to the problems that are facing today, and fighting for what we want and think!
Sofia López and Paula Segura (Practical English Group 2)
We are agree with you in everything that you have said less in your opinion about "all different all equal", becouse althought you are human it doesn't mean that everyone has the same rights.
Deletesalute, Laura Juan and Alejandro Urbaneja (group 3)
The liberty it's the ability to express your opinion for something to other people. The liberty for people are have rights humans.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when you like express your opinion, other people forbade express your opinion, because they not think like you or are disappointment with you.
People are different, have different opinions and different thoughts. But what makes them equal are human performs have feelings and rights.
I think we should change give more voice vote and listen to people, not just politician. We love to contribute ideas and these problems of society, providing some support.
Hugo Adame & Judit Mafe Coloma (Practical English Group 3)
For us the word freedom means: You can do a lot of things that anybody say anything and you take your decition. We aren't free because we have obligations and we can't do all that we would like.
ReplyDeleteWe feel free to espressour opinion with our family and friends but in the country, we aren't free because other people think different that us.
We don't agree about all different, all equal because some people have many privilegies about other people.
For us there are something that we would like to change, for example, there are poor people that need some resources to survive.
We would like to participe but there are a lot of problems with the police and the politicians don't hear us.
Maria Marí and Javier Puerta(Practical English Group 2)
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DeleteWe are agree because you can take your decision but we have obligation too. We think the same.
DeleteÁgueda Tarín & Andrea Román (G3)
In our opinion, freedom is a form to describe your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteWe feel free because we can say that we think. We have freedom with our family and with our friends, but we can't do all that we wanted to do because we can can go to prison if we do a lot of things that we can't do.
All different means that we are differents persons and we haven't got the same thoughs, but we have the same rules and laws.
We would like to change the laws because sometimes they are injust.
We will like to participe to find solutions because we think the society is in bad conditions.
Marta Cuesta & Carlos Mancha ( Group 1)
We agree with all your opinionbecause everybody has equal rights and equal laws and we have freedom in so many situations in our life that we can explain that we think and we feel. And we think too that this societyis sometimes unfair, and we want to change it.
DeleteErik Araque and Carmen Torralba (Group 2)
Freedom is when a person has the capacity to make decisions for himself. We feel free sometimes because we make decisions in a part of our life but in another situations we don't make decisions.
ReplyDeleteWe feel free to express our opinions with our family and friends because we know them and they think like us.
The young people in Europe are different because each people have the same rights but they have different opinions.
In this moment we are agree with the social rights. We would like to participate in finding solutions because we would like to change the situation of the young people.
Juan Antonio Muñoz, Carles Cerrillo y Jordi Cózar. (G3)
We are agree about you said what is freedom, but we don't think the same when you talk about you would like to make changes, because we know you and you won't do it.
DeleteWe are Sergio Romero and Natalia Roman(group1)
DeleteIn our opinion, freedom is when you don't have to do actions wich other people tell you to do.
ReplyDeleteWe think that we are free to express our opinion in our family, with friends and in our country because no one forbide us to express or do things.
We all are different, but people shouldn't discriminate other people for being different, for example: people with black skin, the poor or people with different nationality.
We would like to change the political system because there are some rich countries in the E.U, but there are a lot of countries (like Spain) with a bad economic situation.
Finally, we wouldn't like to participate in finding solutions because we aren't interested in it.
Sergio Romero and Natalia Román (Practical English Group 1)
We are agree with you in all the things that you said, but the only thing that we are desagree is that we would like to participe in finding solutions because we think that all the people should participe to make of this, a better world.
DeleteCordially, Sofia López and Paula Segura (Practical English Group 2)
For us, freedom means that you are free to do whatever you like or whatever you want. We are always free to do what we want but sometimes we suffer the consequences of the things that we do because that actions can damage other people. But we know that we must respect others' freedom. We are free to express our opinions but it isn't always easy because we can hurt the people we love.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is different and no one is equal to other person, except in some ways. This ways are our human rights and our rules. We would like real human rights, for everyone, that's what we aren't agree with because in most of the countries this rights are guaranteed, but even in this country there are people that live in bad conditions or without this rights. We also think that everybody's opinion is important, that's why we should express it.
Miquel Moret and Emili Gil (Practical English - Group 2)
For us freedom is to seus, think and do what you want. I think we are free and we can be free in all the places and websites.
ReplyDeleteToday, many people are discriminaded of society for their color, naconality... but it isn't ethical. We have to make an equal society.
There are many things that society has to change, for example, the corruption, the social exclusion of the homosexuals, the big number of unemployed people.
If we want, we can change this society and make it better.
Marc and Álvaro (Practical English Group 1)
We also think that we are always free and that's good, but there're some problems too. The wrong use of or freedom con give us problems and if you do bad actions, probably there will be consequences.
DeleteWe are agree that a lot of people do a wrong use of their freedom, and that doesn't give problems only to the people who do bad actions, that wrong use also gives problems to the people who suffer it.
In our society there are a lot of problems, but there is an easy solution. If people think what they do or they watch out their acts, a lot of problems in our society will be solved.
Our opinion is very important and we can and should do something to change our world or our society and are the courts who have to do what people want but there's a problem and it's that they don't hear us. If we could, we could do our best.
Cordially, Miquel Moret and Emili Gil (Practical English - Group 2)
We agree with you because we think that the wrong use of freedom can give us problems, but we disagree with you because we think that there is no easy solution to the problems of society.
DeleteJuan Antonio Muñoz, Carles Cerrillo y Jordi Cózar (G3)
For us, freedom is when the people have the chance to say or do something that they want without prohibitions, for example: when we are in our family, in our class, etc, we are so free to say that we think, but always with some moral limit. ‘All different, all equal’ we agree with this sentence because each person is different to other, but all the people have the same rights and laws. We change a lot of thing of this society, for example we would judge everybody for equal, don’t care if he is the king, the president or the same Papa. Everybody would have to participate in finding solutions to the problem that facing today, because those problems affect everybody and we can change it and make it better.
ReplyDeleteErik Araque and Carmen Torralba (Practical English - Group 2)
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DeleteWe do not agree with your concept of freedom, because, which you have expressed is, that freedom means doing what you want, but does not follow some patterns corrects behavior, on the contrary, we think that freedom is be able to choose without restrictions to follow within proper limits imposed by the society.
DeleteNor do we believe that everyone in the world has the same rights, like you had said. On the contrary, if you referee to the society in which we were born, we would let you to say that.
But there are many cases of inequality in the world. Do You Want examples? Well, here you are: the over-exploitation of people in submerged economies, wage inequality, the dismissals of pregnant women, the exploitation of children, people with more opportunities than the others…and, we don’t want to continue because we want to fit this comment on the page.
Furthermore, we agree with your comment. We believe that if the society is just as we are led to believe, we should have the same opportunities and be as much as accused defended or prosecuted.
Cordial salutation, Natalia Bea & Beatriz Moltó.G3.
For us, freedom is the right that every single person has to choose what they can want, express their opinion, vote without restriction or reprisals…
ReplyDeleteWe believe free because all the prior factors we can do them without nobody limits our thoughts, actions and way of living; as well as, to express or opinion in different areas in a free manner.
Everybody must be aware of the freedom we own, and we are lucky as in many parts of the world, because, freedom is very limited or there is not even that concept. We are agreeing with the expression “all different, all equal”, because of despite the fact that each person is different, everybody should have the same right, opportunities and freedom, as for the moment, it is not the case.
In spite of the fact that governments reiterate and confirm us that everybody has the same rights within the law, in the society we live this is not the case, as in the current time thousands of people, not to say millions, live in a very bad condition. This people don’t have the right to a decent job and with the wage they receive, they don’t have in off to cover their basic needs and, too many people are being used, due to this. As a result of the present crisis, many troubles that we considered a minority, every time are bigger, like the lack of nutrition in children, the evictions of houses (because of the cruel banks). All of these situations are getting worse, and this causes that it leads to extreme situation; not to mention the revolutionary change of the women rights that even so they continue to have the absence of some rights. So that, we think that everybody should be involved helping to rebuild this society, in order to be better, as well as our right and equality; with the purpose to ensure a good, sustainable, free and egalitarian future for tomorrow. Because we are the future.
Natalia Bea & Beatriz Moltó G:3
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ReplyDeleteI think that the freedom is an action that the people have and can express their opinions.
ReplyDeleteI'm free but sometimes we aren't enough free because we are young and we can't express all our opinions
I feel free with my family, friends and no much in our country because the government don't think much in us.
I'm agree with "all different, all equal" because all the people born equal but after all the people think different,but all the people have the same rights
I would like to change the politicians corrupts and the judges that get money of the politicians for save them.
I would like to participe for find solutions,that the people are doing that now but the government don't think in us
Carlos Izquierdo Martinez (grupo 2)
We agree with you in everything, exept in one thing. When you say: "I feel free with my family, friends and no..", we think, we aren't free with the family, because the family commands us.
DeleteMaría Fernández & Ángela Hernández (Practical English - Group 3)
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ReplyDeleteWe think freedom is doing what do you want.
ReplyDeleteBe free depend, if you can choose or you can't. For example, when we choose going with friends or stay in home.
We think, With the friends, we can express better than the family. Because, we don't have the same relation. And we think, with the country, we don't express so much.
We're agree with "all different, all equal", because it is just for all the people of all the countries.
We would like change some things about social rights, we want the youth have more voice for express us opinion.
Finally, we would like to working finning solution to the problems that are facing today, because is a beautiful project.
María Fernández & Ángela Hernández. (G-3)
We are agree about it, because we think that we aren't free with the family. Our family is good but sometimes our parents don't let do things that We like and they don't let us go where we want.
DeleteWe feel free when we are with our friends because we can say everything we think and we can do all we want.
Gema Montoya and Esmeralda García (Practical English Group 1)
In our opinion, freedom is doing what you want, We thing we are free because we can express and say our opinion. In many things we are equal, but in some things we are different. We think that the situation of women should be changed, because in some things they aren't equal, for example salaries. We would like to participate in solving problems like the problems of education, for example going on strikes.
ReplyDeleteRaúl Beltran, Jose Verdeguer and Broja Izquierdo (Practical English Group 1)
We are agree about it, because freedom is doing what you want, but always you aren't freedom because you have got limits that you can't pass. The situation of woman should be changed because her salaries are lower than the man, but when the women is pregnant she can`t work and the boss have to contract another person.
DeleteWe are agree about the strikes because the politicians hear us and sometimes he changes, but other times he doesn't hear us.
Maria Marí and Javier Puerta(Practical English Group 2)
freedom for us is to do what you want when you want because you want to .
ReplyDeleteare usually free to do what we want, but we always have conditions when we do something . As the results of those decisions.
We tend to be more free when we are with our friends when we are with our family , because we have so many responsibilities and not have to care much our language.
On social rights have to say that although it has always been spoken of equality has never been applied correctly. There has never been correct social equality , social groups feel superior to others. Social groups are treated lower than they actually are. Breeds that are simply disregarded by their skin color , language or place of origin , therefore we think that people talk a lot but delivers little.
Our opinion on what we can do to help is that we need to have fewer prejudices , this will lead us to greater social equality and therefore all have the same opportunities and be equally free to make our choices.
Teresa Alós, Maria Algar And Eva Cervera. (Practical English- Group 2)
We think that the freedom is to do what we want but with limits. We are free and we express our opinions everywhere.
ReplyDeleteWe agree that in Europe all people, is different and equal, because all people have the same rights, but other people have more power. All citizens should have, the same rights and not because of the money or the work, we can have more rights than the rest of the people.
We'd like to participate because we want, all people to be equal.
Águeda Tarín and Andrea Román (Practical English Group 3)
We agree about you say of what is the freedom, but, we think the totaly freedom is whitout limits.
DeleteWe agree about the equal in Europe, buy the equality is not for all, the constitucion say that everybody is equal at the justice, but is not the reality.
We also want to participe.
Teresa Alós, Maria Algar, Eva Cervera. Group 1
For us, freedom is doing things you want, without imported other opinions, but whenever right.
ReplyDeleteWe are free and aren't free because often said our opinion but we can't do all want, because they aren't let. We feel free to express our opinions with our friends and family.
'All different, all equal' we are agree with this sentence because all aren't equal, but all are persons, we haven't discriminate a other people for his color, his character, his customs..
We will like to participe to find solutions because we want one society better.
Esmeralda García and Gema Montoya (Practical English- Group 1)
We are agree you say about the freedom, but whit responsibility.
DeleteWe agree about the 'All different, all equal', and we think that your opinion that's true, and not all the people have got freedom
Carlos Izquierdo and Oscar Cano (group 2)
For us freedom is when you can do what you want without someone or something that force you to do it.
ReplyDeleteWe think we are free in part because we have laws that forbid us to do something. In the family we found the same situation, and in the school. But in this country not everyone is as freedom as others and not everyone has the same rights.''All different, all equal'' is a beautiful quote but it isn’t make. Not everyone is treated with the respect they deserve. We aren’t agree because the society discriminate people who is different. We want equal rights for all the people no matter their color, race, language... Finally, we would like to participate because it is a good project for the future.
Laura Juan Checa and Alejandro Urbaneja Sirigu (Practical English- Group 3)
We are completly agree with you because we think the same, we aren't all free because we have laws, but we can do what we want without someone that force.It's true that all the people hasn't have the same rules and the same rights for their color or race, and we want to change it too.
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ReplyDeleteWe think that you do what you want, when you want, respecting the procedure of conviviality.
ReplyDeleteWe are free and we respect the people.
We think than in my country we have freedom because we are in a democracy, in the family when someone not this one in agreement, we say it the same with the friends.
The difference makes us equal.
We Changes the justice in my country because in any things they are not completely correct, but in some things if we agree.
Yes because it is necessary to go to the streets and mobilize us in order that it finds more probabilities of noticing ourselves.
Cristina Chica Navarro, Javier Vicent Ruiz and Ricardo Alemany Escuder ( Practical English - Group 2 )