UNIT III: PRACTISE WRITING

WRITING: REPORT ON DROPPING OUT FROM SCHOOL

Vocabulary:

seminar: a meeting at which a group of people discuss a subject.

household: a group of people, often a family, who  live together.

household: adj. related to a house.

chore: a job or a piece of work that is often boring or unpleasaant but needs to be done regularly.

Example:

I’ll go shopping when I’ve done my chores. (=done the jobs in or around the house).

revolve around/round sb/sth: have someone or something as the main or most important interest or subject.

Examples:

The conversation revolved around childcare problems.

His whole life revolves around football.

figure: number.

Report on Dropping out from School:

Writing:

1- Study the following table about a seminar on student’s dropping out of school in rural

areas then, answer the questions below.

Organisers	Local Education Authorities.
Topic	Dropping out in countryside schools: causes and solutions.
Date	November 20th.
Place	Town Hall conference room.
Participants	Educators, parents’ associations, political officials.
Attendance	200 people approximately.
Activities	Mini-lectures, workshops.
Main ideas	Some Causes of the phenomenon: poverty schools situated far from houses. children needed in farm work and household chores… Recommendations: encourage drop-out students to return toschool. Support poor families to be able to sendtheir children to school. sensitise parents and children about theimportance of schooling….
Evaluation and Reactions	Seminar : fruitful and successful Participants: some satisfied with resultsothers call for further action.

2- Complete this sample report with information about the seminar.

(title)………………………………………………………..

The town hall conference room was the destination of hundreds of people last ……………… The occasion was a seminar organised by ……………the seminar revolved around an argent topic:……………………….Participants, including ………….………………..…and …………………………..attended the meeting. The audience reached the estimated figure of……………………

The activities included …………………...……….and …………………………

The participants agreed that there were three main causes of dropping out of schools in rural areas. The first one is ………………The second cause is….. …………………………………………………………….And the third cause is ……………………………………………………………………………………..

The participants concluded the seminar with argent recommendations. They suggested that the Ministry should …………………………..……………..and ……………………………………………………………………………………..

All those who attended the seminar agreed that it was………and……....Most of them were …………………… and many others……………….…………….

Reference: Tickets 2 English Student’s Book 2nd Year Baccalaureate pp. 46-47

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