Blog Prompts from News Clip #1

Blog Prompt 1

Prompt: You are a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals and want to raise awareness of the cruelty of whaling in Japan. Prepare a speech to be made at a public forum on the cruelty of the fishing industry to whales in Japan.

Speech: Good morning everybody. I am a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals(SPCA). I am here to talk about the cruelty of whaling in Japan.

I do agree that fishermen need to whale for their income to increase. However, I would like to ask a question. Have you fishermen ever thought of the repercussions of your actions? If you'll keep on whaling, the population of the whales will keep on decreasing significantly and eventually become extinct. As a member of the SPCA, I sincerely hope that the fishermen will minimise whaling as much as possible as I do not hope that the population of the whales will become extinct. It is a cruel thing to kill all the whales until they become extinct. Moreover, if a mother whale just gave birth to baby whales and you fishermen kill the baby whales parents, how will the babies feel? They will become "parentless" and will not have the love and care we get from our parents. At this point of time, even if you pity them, it is too late as what is done cannot be undone.

Therefore, please minimise whaling as much as possible or even better, do not whale at all. Thank you.


Blog Prompt 2

Prompt: As the chairman of the Farmers' Cooperative in Jiangsu, you want to create awareness of the hardships the farmers are experiencing due to the reforestation/conservation project by the officials. Prepare a speech you are going to make during the Governor's annual "Meet the People" session about the farmers' hardship.

Speech: Good morning Mr Lee. I am the chairman of the Farmers' Cooperative in Jiangsu. I just wanted to create awareness of the hardships the farmers are experiencing due to the reforestation project being carried out by the officials.

With the reforestation project, farmers like me are left with less space to plant our crops and with less space to plant our crops, our income will gradually decrease too. We know that you have to reforestate Jiangsu to attract tourists to come and admire our scenery. However, I hope that you will not reforestate until we are left with liitleland to plant crops. We are already very poor, and with our income decreasing, we will just become poorer.

Therefore, I hope that you will end the reforestation project soon so that we will still have some land to plant our crops. Thank you.

Blog Prompt 3

Prompt: Imagine you are one of these older workers. You have been invited by the Manpower Ministry to give a short speech to a group of local businesses to encourage them to hire older workers. Write the speech that you will deliver.

Speech: Good morning everyone. I am one of the older workers who has been hired to work in a local company. I am speaking in front of you as I would like to encourage you to hire older workers.

I feel that older workers should be given the opprtunity to work and not waste their time away at home. It is a good thing that some of you have been hiring old workers like me. Actually, there are benefits in hiring older workers. We are old and do not need much money anymore. Therefore, the salary you'll will be giving us will also naturally be lower. With a low salary to pay, the things you'll want done can also be completed by the older workers. So, it is like killing two birds with one stone. You'll also should give older workers opportunities to work as older workers will have a lot of experience and can complete the tasks, which should not be too tedious, easily.

Thus, please do not have the wrong idea that old people cannot do anything. Please do not despise us and hire us! Thank you.