Angielski

## Essay...?

"The friends you chose are more influential than the family you're born into, or any other influence. Do you agree?"

The people around us strongly influence who we become. In childhood, parents have the greatest impact because they teach us values, behavior, and discipline. Since children spend most of their time with family, parental influence is extremely important in shaping personality and worldview.

However, as people grow older, friends often become more influential. Teenagers and adults spend more time with their social circles and naturally adapt to their habits, attitudes, and goals. Friends can influence ambition, lifestyle, and decision-making, sometimes even more than family.

I believe influence changes over time: parents are the strongest influence early in life, while friends become more important later. Although family creates the foundation of a person’s character, the people we choose to surround ourselves with often shape our future the most.

## Revision & Feelings

1. The quote proposes that the main drive behind our choices and thoughts isn't logic, but feelings.
2. The sentence shows that we can choose any action to relieve stress, no matter how foolish it may seem.
3.

## Living small

### Exercise 2 (Match Paragraphs)

1. B (how to make the most of limited space)
2. A (factors leading to move to smaller properties in some countries)
3. D (refers to a person nostalgic to a time when they had less space)
4. G (summarize answer to question asked in title)
5. F (describes negative social impact of living in an outsized house)
6. E (explains that in some cultures too much privacy is viewed negatively)
7. C (outlines the findings of investigation into implications of living with others in an enclosed space).

### Exercise 3

1. Smaller pay, less waste, and being more ecological, less excess possessions (improving own resource management), better social relation (and childhood)
2. Planning, use of deep wardrobes and cupboards, foldable beds, repurposing rooms (eg. bedroom -> living room)
3. People get better on forced together than retreating into privacy.
4. the sense of community and being close too others (24 people crammed into one tiny house)
5. Learning to respect and negotiate
6. big houses limit interactions with children and parents and removes the need to go outside since everything of need is at home 

### Exercise 4

1. excess
2. spacious
3. confined
4. compact
5. densely populated
6. airy
7. vast
8. cramped
9. medium-sized

### Exercise 5

1. densely populated
2. confined
3. medium-sized
4. excess
5. spacious
6. compact, vast
7. airy
8. cramped
9. compact

### Exercise 6

1. In smaller house there's gonna be less electricity (eg. lightbulbs) and they provide for larger % of the space
2. I agree. Considering a somewhat larger house, the changes and quantity of meeting 
3. A little. Whilst I understood the positives of compact houses, I grew up in a rather spacious one and I can't help but to cling to the comfort they provide.
4. Most definitely. Aside the topic, as shown in eg. "Crime and Punishment", growing up in poverty influences and twists your mind and morals.
5. 1-loc, 2-own room, 3-community, 4-space, 5-view