Drunk Driving

Stanley

25/4//2011
Lessons in Life
I am an S.4 student in English Course Queen Elizabeth School HKCT. My name is Kar.

The book I read is “Lessons in Life”, published in the year 2006 by Chameleon Press, written by Elsie Tu.

About the Author: The writer was born in Newcastle Tyne, England. She was a teacher and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Elsie Tu has been living in Hong Kong for 60 years. She speaks Cantonese and her husband was a Chinese.

The Content of the book: This book contains 40 articles on politics, moral, saving our culture and heritage, the changes of old and new Hong Kong, and so on.

The Message of the Author: The writer is not only sharing her experience of life with readers, but also inspiring people to take care of others, treasure their family members and learn from hardship.

My Opinion of the book: I learn from the book that we should tolerate everyone if we want to live with others peacefully. Actually, life is not all fun; we should keep a sense of humour to manage difficulties whenever we face problems, hurdles and obstacles. After reading the book, I think that Hong Kong students should work hard in English, write in sentences carefully and learn English everyday by reading with their eyes as well as mouth if they want to get good results.

Recommendation: This book is very good and useful to read. I would recommend it to students. They should read more books outside the school syllabus to widen their minds and sight.

That’s all of my presentation. Hope you enjoy listening. Thank you.

Sharing

30/12/2010
Princess Diana

(Kar) Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) was quite beautiful, kind and accommodating. She led a remarkable life. Also, she was popular with persons all over the world. Wherever Diana went, crowds of people were eager to see her.

Princess Diana had a fairytale romance with Prince Charles and married him in 1981. Next year, she gave birth to a baby boy: Prince William, who is the heir and will be a future king of England. In 1984, she gave birth to her second son: Prince Harry. Her family seemed complete and happy, and she was even the luckiest woman in the world.

However, in fact, she felt angry and lonely because of her husband’s lack of attention. Furthermore, she was less delighted with the rigid rules of the Royal Family so she began to revolt against them to show that she was quite unhappy. In 1992, the Prince and Princess of Wales had agreed to separate and four years later they divorced.

Diana had done a lot of works to help many charities and had supported more than 100 of them before she divorced. She was especially interested in the homeless, disabled people and children & people with AIDS.

Attending to a campaign of ban on the manufacture and use of landmines, she visited Angola to propagandise the suffering of landmine victims in January 1997. Diana had spoken several conferences on landmines in London and Washington DC. She met both the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister to ask for their help with the anti-landmine campaign. On the other hand, horrified and shocked by a United Nations report, which estimated about 110 million unexploded landmines in the world, she was also concerned that more than 2,000 people were killed or injured by landmines each month.

Although she and Prince Charles divorced, people around the world continued to be fascinated by her. Photographers often followed her and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed. They even chased the couple on motorcycles hoping to get some photos of them. Photographers were quite dangerous to do so because a good photo of the couple could be sold to magazines and newspapers for as high as US$1,000,000.

Unfortunately, on 31 August 1997, at just 36 years of age, Diana died in a traffic accident since her chauffeur had tried to escape the photographers by driving very fast, the car went out of control and crashed when it was travelling through a tunnel in Paris, France.

If Diana had not been so popular with people in the world, she would not have died, in order to escape the photographers, in the accident.

Princess Diana

28/11/2010
Princess Diana

(kar) Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) was quite beautiful, kind and accommodating. She led a remarkable life. Also, she was popular with persons all over the world. Everywhere Diana went, she was adored by crowds of people eager to see her.

Princess Diana had a fairytale romance with Prince Charles and married him in 1981. Next year, she gave birth to a baby boy: Prince William, who is the heir and will be a future king of England. In 1984, she gave birth to a second son: Prince Harry. Her family seemed complete and happy, and she was even the luckiest woman on the world.

However, in fact, she felt angry and lonely since her husband’s lack of attention after a couple of years of their marriage. On the other hand, she was less delighted with the rigid rules of the Royal Family so she began to revolt against them to show how she was quite unhappy.

In 1992, the Prince and Princess of Wales had agreed to separate and four years later they divorced. Princess Diana had done a lot of works to help many charities and supported more than 100 of them before her marriage ended. She was very concerned for the homeless, disabled people, children and people with AIDS.

Although she and Prince Charles divorced, people around the world continued to be fascinated by her. Photographers often followed her and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, everywhere. They even chased the pair with motorcycles to hope getting a photo of the latter. Photographers were quite dangerous to do so since a good photo of the pair could be sold to magazines and newspapers for up to US$1,000,000.

Unfortunately, on 31 Aug 1997, at just 36 years of age, Diana died in a traffic accident since her chauffeur had tried to escape the photographers by driving very fast, the car went out of control and crashed when it was travelling through a tunnel in Paris, France.

Sharing the Book Report Ex-40

25/9/2010
Sharing the Book Report
Ex-40 Where Can We Hear Good English?

(Kar) It is easy for some people to speak fluent English. However, for me, listening and speaking English are quite hard to do. Therefore, I decide to take an English phonetics course to improve my poor English speaking.

My friend, Billy, who can speak correct English, recently shared with me in his experience of learning English. He said that his English speaking had been poor in the past. Fortunately, his class teacher, who was very kind to all students, encouraged him and his classmates to talk with foreigners so he often brought them to Stanley to interview the tourists here on Sunday. He thought it was a good extracurricular activity for them to improve their English.

Besides, he also took an English phonetics and a conversation course to improve his oral skills. He thought both courses were quite good. Through training, he understood that English uses tones, how to emphasize with right syllables and how to speak English with correct intonation. It was useful that, he could hear someone’s English speaking with right syllables or wrong and was confident to speak with foreigners after the courses.

He often listened to the professional British news- readers on the local English TV Channels. He also watched plenty of English movies and listened to many English songs in his spare time. He thought that it was an opportunity for him to hear good English.

I agree with his views of learning. It is useful for me to improve. I should have a good planning for study.

Pride!

Sharing the Book Report Ex-38

20/9/2010
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Ex-38 The Right to Live

(Kar) Nowadays there are plenty of workers who have very hard lives. It is because that they depend upon the poor salaries to support their families for other expenses such as paying the rent, bills, educational fee and local traffic fares and so on.

The Legislative Councillor, Emily Lau, recently pointed out that there are 190,000 households under HK$4,000 per month. They are difficult to earn their living. Therefore, the third reading of the minimum wage was passed on Jul 17, 2010. The law will take effect in the first half of next year and will protect workers to get the pay reasonably.

On the other hand, learning a bitter lesson during the past economic crisis, Hong Kong workers work hard since they are worried that they will be bounced. Moreover, this is a fact; today almost everything depends on machinery or technology rather than workers.

It is less easy for persons who with low skills to find good jobs since they do not have better qualifications or higher education. Actually, finding a satisfying employment now is very competitive whatever who is the middle class or lower such as the young adults, other professions, the person with low education level and the middle-aged workers, etc.

I hope all of the employers to consider their employees’ livelihood. They should be generous to them during an economic boom since their employees were facing the difficult situation with them together during the recent economic crisis. Being a generous and considerate boss, you will have many excellent employees who are loyal to you.

Sharing Book Report Ex- 37

17/9/2010
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Ex-37 Violence in Today’s World

(Kar) We are luckily living in Hong Kong. It is one of the safest places in the world. Although there intermingle with different people from different nations, they are to live together in peace. There is less racial discrimination since Hong Kong people want peace and respect others.

For example: there were 20 Hong Kong tourists and a tour guide who were hijacked by a gunman, the Philippine National Police who had been dismissed, in Manila, Philippines, on Aug 23, 2010. Yet the Manila Police District SWAT team was so stupid to manage the hostage crisis. Unfortunately, eventually eight hostages were shot dead, four were slightly injured and three were seriously. We felt very sad to learn the news on TV and quite angry with the Manila Police. Even some local employers fried their Filipino helpers to show that how they were wrathful to the Philippine Government. However, the survivor, Lee Ying- Chuen of the Manila bloodbath said we should not angry with Filipinos living and working in Hong Kong since they were also victims of an “incapable government”. On the other hand, other survivors, Mrs. Leung and Mrs. Fu, thanked to Hong Kong citizens’ care and encouraged them living as same as before and should not sad for the past. See! They are very brave, wise, and be tolerance for others. I am proud of them and should learn from them.

Nevertheless, nowadays we still see the war or civil war in other countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Thailand and so on. People living those places are less safe and suffer from the consequences of corrupt systems of their Governments. The innocent civilians often face hardship that there is less food for them and water is also not clean enough for drink. In the meantime, some Chinese colonies in those countries worry that their properties will be robbed.

If peoples of all nations had wanted peace, the World War One or civil war would not have happened. Also, there would be less violence in today’s world.

Sharing the Book Report Ex-36

10/9/2010
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Ex-36 Spare the Rod

(Kar) I wonder whether corporal punishment is a good way to teach naughty children. However, many parents believe that it makes a naughty child into a good one, yet physical punishment is no guarantee of the result. In fact, most naughty children do not improve their behaviour after they have been beaten. On the other hand, some of them are ashamed of scars of the cane on their skins and cover them with sleeves or knee high socks. It makes them to be less confident of the social life.

I remember that when I was in primary 3. The naughty boy, Tom, my classmate, was often tricked with others. He was beaten by our class teacher with a thick ruler after he had done wrong and was sometime punished to stand outside alone during class. Nevertheless, he had not learnt his lesson and kept tricking with others. He even bullied small boys. Therefore, he could not make friends in the class. But he had not improved his behaviour until was in primary 5. He met Miss Lee, his class teacher, who was kind to him with great patience and often explained what he was wrong. As a result, Tom had changed since then. He kindly treated others and never bullied small boys. Eventually, he had many good friends at school and often studied after school together.

I personally believe that training a child with great patience, love and encouragement is very important. Also, it is necessary that adults should not practise corporal punishment on naughty children, and should gently explain that how wrong for them to do instead. I think it is good for them to make the child good.

Sharing Book Report Ex-33

3/9/2010
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Ex-33 Honesty is the Best Policy

(Kar) It is true that honest people are more responsible and trustworthy. They are able trusted because have their good reputations. It is easy for them to build a successful relationship with their friends, lovers, spouses as well as their family members.

Not carrying unnecessary stresses in life, honest people are optimistic and relaxed. Moreover, they often get good results for their work and are rewarded by their bosses, business partners and customers. They also make good relationships with their colleagues. Consequently, we should be honest and stick with the principle; otherwise we might be disrespected.

Those dishonest people often lie to others: couples lie to their spouses; children lie to their parents; students lie to their teachers and employees lie to their bosses. They purposed to hide their dishonesty forever. Nevertheless, they would be found out as lies could not hide facts. Finally they were disrespected because had their poor reputations. Actually, most of the dishonest people who carried a great deal of stresses in life since they worried that their immoral behaviour would be detected.

Personally, I believe that honest people are more confident, happier than the dishonest ones. As a result, it is necessary for parents to set up a model of honesty to their children, and teach them should be sincere, ingenuous to everybody. They should remind their children that do not lie to their teachers, seniors, friends and others. If not, their sins will find them out.

Sharing the Book Report Ex-25

13/8/2010
Sharing the Book Report
Ex-25 The Problem of Domestic Violence

(Kar) What was the main cause of domestic violence? The reason was such as marital argument, or managing the children, or one of the family members became addicted to drinking alcohol, gambling and so on. Generally speaking, those spouses or family members were incompatible, thoughtless, less caring for, to cause of domestic violence or family tragedies.

According to the statistics of child abuse, spouse battering and child sexual violence were captured by (CPR) and (CISDSSV) in 2009. The survey of child abuse cases was 993. It included physical abuse 50.7%, neglect 10.3% and child sexual abuse 33.3%. Moreover, it found almost child abusers who were victims’ parents. It’s so sad indeed. They were quite cruel to their children. If those children had not been abused, they would have been happy childhood. In my opinion, being responsible, parents should be loving, care for, kind, to their children and create warming families for them.

Another survey of battered spouse cases pointed out 3,880 (80.7%) victims of physical abuse. They were almost beaten by their husbands. The reasons for battered spouse are numerous: marital argument about each other’s faults or trivial matters, one of loses control of his temper, or poverty and other immoralities etc. Unfortunately, some of the victims committed suicide themselves and forcing young children to die along with them to revenge on their spouses. They were cruel, selfish, to their children since they too loved them. Yet, this is a fact; it’s less wise of them to do so.

If both spouses and family members had tolerated, respected, of different views of other ones, those tragedies in home would not have happened. If they maintained good family life, there would be less of domestic violence. It’s positive for the whole society.