Wednesday, October 7, 2015

2 DSE writing tasks: a leaflet and a proposal

Part A.  Leaflet
Become a cheerleader! We want YOU!  Activities cheerleaders take part in

Are you good at making colorful pompom balls and your own musical instruments with bamboo sticks, empty vessels and sand? Are you good at designing great dance moves, easy but motivating slogans to chant and dance together? Do you like designing Tee shirts, hand strings and head bands with beads and all sorts of accessories you shop at Shumshuipo? If so, become one of our cheerleaders!

Benefits of becoming a cheerleader
You will dance and sing in front of a thousand of people in the colourful Tee shirts we design, play the drums or any sort of musical instrument you can make, wear any fancy head bands, wrist bands or necklaces on our school sport day when others can only sit and watch. What’s more, you will make a lot of new friends from different classes. Free drinks and lunch box too!

What kind of students we are looking for
So, if you really love to sing, chant and dance, enjoy watching sports and encouraging others to do sports, come and help your house become the champion! Our cheerleading team still has a few places for fun loving people like you. Don’t hesitate, come to our house counter and give us your name, class and contact no. We promise to give you the biggest fun on Sports Day. (205)



Part B
1.      You are the chairperson of the English Soc. You think most students at your school are weak in story writing skills. You have prepared to organize an acitivity for your schoolmates. Write a proposal to the principal outlining a series of activities, the benefits and the resources needed.
  

Part B. 1 A proposal to improve students’ story writing skills

        As reflected from the DSE record 2012-2013, our students are quite weak in story writing, I, as the chairperson of the English Society, am therefore, seeking your permission to run a series of activity for our schoolmates to improve their writing skills.

After reading all my classmates’ stories written within this year, I discovered two problems. First, they know too little things to make their stories believable. Second, almost none of them could use verbs and nouns to describe things to stir up readers’ appetite. All they used were adjectives and adverbs which do not appeal to our five senses. To remedy this situation, my planned series of activities include two visits with two NETs, one to an old fishing village in Sai Kung and another to an old district in Kowloon where people still make their living with their hands.  

The goal of the activities is to wake students up to their five senses through observing and recording things they do not usually come across in the modern city. The final product should be a story titled ‘City folk and the country folk’. The reason for bringing two NETs along with us is to let students ask them words they want to use in describing what they see. Also, we will not allow our participants to use any adverbs and adjectives in their story, So they could only ask, and this will increase their vocabulary.

The benefits are easy to see, if students are allowed to use only verbs and nouns, they would not be able to describe the life of a fisherman or a shoemaker as ‘poor’, but instead, they would have to describe the shabby clothes they are wearing and the place they are working in. If they want to describe the work is ‘hard’, they will have to talk about the sweat or wrinkles on their forehead and how their two rough hands mend a broken fish net or a worn out shoe. After such interviews, you can see not only vocabulary and  conversational English, but a lot of life would have been learnt.

All that we need is very little, just allow the two NETs to go with us on a Saturday a coach to take us from our school to Sai kung in the morning and from Sai kung to Shumshuipo in the afternoon. I hope you would seriously consider my proposal. Thank you.   (400)


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