portfolio Task 5

The line graph below shows the number of annual visits to Australia by overseas residents. The table below gives information on the country of origin where the visitors came from.

On overall, the number of visits to Australia grew quite steady through these years. According to the chart, in 1975, there were just nearly 10 millions visits. However, just ten years after, this figure became 15 million. The number of visits to Australia grew to double in the early 1990s with 20 million visits. In 2005, Australia even became more attractive and hit the record when more than 30 million oversea residents visited this country.


Meanwhile, the table shows the country of origin that the visitors came from. In 1978, Japanese seemed to visit Australia the most with 3.2 millions (out of 8.8 million in total) and followed by Korean with 2.9 millions. Chinese and American were among the minority since only 0.3 millions and 0.4 million of them visited Australia respectively. In 2005, the similar story happened when we witnessed that Japanese still occupied the top of visits to Australia with 12.0 million visitors, Korea on the second place with 9.1 millions. Chinese still did not prefer Australia as their destiny when only 0.8 million Chinese came to this country.

Portfolio task4

Some people think that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged. Others believe that children who are taught to co-operate rather than compete become more useful adults.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
My Essay:
It is believe that all children are born with equal capabilities but their way of learning and how they are taught makes difference in the end. Children's having competitive skills is a good aspect but they must know how to co-operate.
These skills mostly depend upon their initial training either by their parents or in the school. Children possessing only competitive skill make them a good learner. Most of the time they are very ambitious about two thing, one is academics and other is their career, they try to be excellent in them in many ways. Every time they win, it makes them more confident and energetic to work hard. Competitively also make them to be creative, but if it's not guided properly then it has reversal effect on children. They will lack confidence, always have feared to lose, very selfish and will not be able to play their role in community properly.
On the other hand, being co-operative is much more fun. Co-operative means share, people who have this skill are good organizer and play a vital role as a team player. On lot of occasions they can overcome their weakness by collaborating with others. They definitely reach their goal as teamwork.
To conclude, any of these abilities are created for a purpose. Children must be set free to create their own abilities according to their potential but they must be taught to have balance between competitiveness and co-operation.