Individual talk (candidate 1) Topic: My Town
The topic of my individual talk is “My Town”. The given chart represents information of a survey “What are the biggest problems in your town / neighbourhood?”. From the first glance at the chart, I can claim that the majority, to be exact 54 percent, of the respondents see litter on the streets as one of the most important issues in their towns. The numbers reveal that people would like to have more sports grounds in their neighbourhood, this issue was chosen by 31 percent of the respondents. It can be seen from the chart that broken pavements also disturb people’s everyday lives, this problem was marked by 20 percent of the respondents. And the same percentage claim that homeless cats and dogs is one of the biggest problems. Thus, the biggest problem in towns is claimed to be litter in the streets.
When it comes to my town, I do not see litter on the streets in my neighbourhood, this problem isn’t occurring us. I can be proud of the system of recycling in our town, containers for paper, glass and plastic are almost in every street and easily reachable. However, I miss some attractive places where young people could meet and talk about things: we only have one good pizzeria, where we can enjoy our time and eat tasty pizzas or salads, but it’s full almost every time. Thus, in my opinion, the biggest problem in my neighbourhood is a lack of good pizzerias and restaurants.
Talking on the whole, I think that there are several things that could make our neighbourhoods more attractive. The first think we could do is making more places for young people to spend their free time together, not to become virtual people, who spend their time communicating with their computers. For example, how I...