title 1 or title 2 (discuss)

i love to read what my students say in their essays.

today i gave them two titles to choose from.

number 1 was: "young people should take an active interest in politics".

number 2 was: "is english really the language of the future?"

here are some extracts of what some of them wrote.

(i) "...politicians change their country' s situation in the world. politicians' behaviour is very important for their country's image. first of all, as a country - we want to become better. but to do this we should choose younger politicians. in today our politicians are very old and terrible. also, they put their feelings first in how they manage the country. they always argue. so, they are bad and ridiculous ..."

(ii) "...i don't like this situation...while we are speaking and learning english, i guess we forget our language. today if you want attention - everything is english word. for example cafe's name, supermarket's name, restaurant's name...and another things. i like english. it is a pleasure to speak english and i need to speak english very well..."

(iii) "...we can ask ourselves - what is the thing made english very important and so common? i think the answer is in the establishing of U.S.A. - because U.S.A. became a big power since of their beginning. thus, they forced other countries to speak english and england supported this process because of dominating france. french was the most important and common language until 18th century. that's why they don't like to speak english today. they also do not like the people who speak english or try to. in addition, they also still imagine that french will be the language of future generations. in my opinion this is impossible..."