A letter By Avsam Fuad, Iskandhar School Grade 7

Narrative Writing NARRATIVE WRITING Imagine that you were an adopted child. Narrate the incidents that took place in your life in the new home. I was lying wide awake in bed. I was still not used to sleeping early. I could hear my brothers playing games downstairs.it was all new to me .beds, designed plastic plates, games, computers, laptops, I never knew anything about that. I had been recently adopted by some rich people. I don’t know much about them even though I have been living with them for the past few months. Only thing I know is that I am now part of a much respected family. The first day I came to the house, I felt very awkward. Everything was new to me. The first few days were terrifying .i spent all day alone in my room. I missed my friends a lot and the only thing my brother did to me was staring blankly at me. After a few days, I had become a bit familiar with the family rules and culture and I finally had the courage to go out of my room. The house was huge. Suddenly, something started running around my legs. “Are there vicious dogs here too? “I thought to myself. It took me by surprise and I was just standing there for seconds. It took me a while for me to get back to my senses and do what I do to all the vicious dogs in the orphanage. A well-aimed hard blow to the side of the dog’s head. Then I heard a cry “what did you do Jacky?” it was my sister and I just realized what I had done.Ofcouse the dog was not dead.it was just out cold for a few hours. I was only grounded for a few days because I did not know anything about pets. The day after I realized that something was missing from my life.it had been weeks since I had done it. My hobby, cockroach hunting. Everyone in the orphanage had this same hobby and I was the best one. Two days later, I went into the garden this time on the guard for the dog. One hour later I returned to the house to get a plastic bag to put my cockroaches. I had had a good hunt. At least I would be able to impress my family by showing how good I was at this. Grounded again. Since then I had done nothing except learning the rules of the family further. After that I thought it would be better to stay in my own room. I barely go out of my room now. I only come out to eat. Life was starting to get boring, but my adoptive parents tell me that life will not be so boring after I start going to school next year.

Narrative Writing By Avsam Fuad, Iskandhar School, Male' , Grade 7H

Narrative Writing NARRATIVE WRITING Imagine that you were an adopted child. Narrate the incidents that took place in your life in the new home. I was lying wide awake in bed. I was still not used to sleeping early. I could hear my brothers playing games downstairs.it was all new to me .beds, designed plastic plates, games, computers, laptops, I never knew anything about that. I had been recently adopted by some rich people. I don’t know much about them even though I have been living with them for the past few months. Only thing I know is that I am now part of a much respected family. The first day I came to the house, I felt very awkward. Everything was new to me. The first few days were terrifying .i spent all day alone in my room. I missed my friends a lot and the only thing my brother did to me was staring blankly at me. After a few days, I had become a bit familiar with the family rules and culture and I finally had the courage to go out of my room. The house was huge. Suddenly, something started running around my legs. “Are there vicious dogs here too? “I thought to myself. It took me by surprise and I was just standing there for seconds. It took me a while for me to get back to my senses and do what I do to all the vicious dogs in the orphanage. A well-aimed hard blow to the side of the dog’s head. Then I heard a cry “what did you do Jacky?” it was my sister and I just realized what I had done.Ofcouse the dog was not dead.it was just out cold for a few hours. I was only grounded for a few days because I did not know anything about pets. The day after I realized that something was missing from my life.it had been weeks since I had done it. My hobby, cockroach hunting. Everyone in the orphanage had this same hobby and I was the best one. Two days later, I went into the garden this time on the guard for the dog. One hour later I returned to the house to get a plastic bag to put my cockroaches. I had had a good hunt. At least I would be able to impress my family by showing how good I was at this. Grounded again. Since then I had done nothing except learning the rules of the family further. After that I thought it would be better to stay in my own room. I barely go out of my room now. I only come out to eat. Life was starting to get boring, but my adoptive parents tell me that life will not be so boring after I start going to school next year.

Letter By: Shaaif Thoufeq, Iskandhar School, Male' Grade 10S1

Your Teacher recently planned a special trip to an uninhabited island for your class. During the weekend, you were able to take part in various activities that you normally do not do at school. Write a letter to your friend explaining:- • Where you went • What you and your classmates thought of the activity weekend • Any funny or sad incident Dear Robinson, Just a quick letter to let you know about my trip to the New World. As you know, I had butterflies in my tummy, but it turned out to be a very excitingly enjoyable trip. The others were pretty friendly and caring too. And by others, I meant my classmates. You know that, as a couch potato, I wouldn’t want to go on school trips a lot. Anyhow, the teacher told us we were going to be graded on our attendance to this trip to the uninhabited island, and since I’m a little down in my studies, I thought it would be a good idea to come. We stayed in some kind of a cabin, which was rustic and weed-grown. Fortunately, we came with some tents and portable water-beds, so we didn’t have to worry. Each day I chose a different activity from an incredibly varied program. On Friday, I’d be hiking around the New World, and on Saturday I’ll be trying to fish Barracudas from the reef. Speaking of fishes, you’d never guess what I caught. It was a red-finned crestiflarious! (That’s English for Specilipicanthropi) The sad thing was that the 10-feet long fish was able to sink its teeth into my right leg. The Chaperone, Mr.Faisal, said it wasn’t fatal, but I wouldn’t be expected to use my injured leg too soon. Even now, I’m stuck in my bed, trying to write this letter to you. But don’t worry; I’ve been in worse situations before, as you know. Letting go of the grudge against Crestiflarious, the activity weekend was fun for all of us, and I’m sure our class is going to be bragging about this trip for a whole month! I hope we would be able to do mire kinds of activities like this, because I’m sure everyone would love it, including you! It’s really stimulating, and you get to do a lot of things you surely can’t do at school. As for me, I don’t think I’ll be attending school for a month, thanks to this leg. Love, Crusoe

Lifestyle then and now - A compartive study BY: Ruhushana , Ghaazee School, Hulhumale' Grade 10S2

THE LAVISH LIFESTYLE
As the days are passing by, our lifestyles are also passing by. When we see a better style we are saying ‘adios’ to our previous lifestyle. Cell phones, high-tech devices, fast food, microwaves, plastics, these are just a few many modern day lifestyle conveniences which we use every day. Our lives have changed dramatically over the past 100 years.
Going back to the days of the 60’s, we had to live without electricity. However, in a blink of an eye this has changed. A life without electricity would be difficult for us to fathom. Along with the electricity, the once-empty sites are covered with tall buildings. To me, it seems more like the building blocks I used to play with while I was in kindergarten. As the buildings are rising, people are competing with each other in this field. Without a doubt, the life style nowadays is bizarre.
While our great-grand fathers lived on the Earth, they communicated by sending letters to each other by a pigeon. But now, we find it absurd. Why send letters when we have cell phones and many other networks? Likewise, it is amazing how people walked as a way of transportation and did not suffer from most of the diseases we know today. Albeit, they didn’t have many options back then, since there weren’t cars, buses or bikes. There were just feet.
In the present world, the one which has changed the most is our clothing. Most of us would believe that the clothes which our ancestors used to wear were a laughing stock.
To conclude, I would like to highlight that there was a time when we used to listen to slow songs. Back then, the bands would perform music casually, often with a guitar. But today, we are living in a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. We are living in the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. We surely aren’t crawling nowadays, we are flying.

Opinion Writing : By Adam Naamy , Ghaazee School, Hulhumale' , Grade 10 S2

Question
There is a proposal in your country to raise the legal age for learning to drive a car by five years. Do you think this is a good idea? Write a letter to your local newspaper, giving your views. You should write about 150 to 200 words.


Dear Editor,

I would like to bring to your consideration about the issue of rising the legal age of learning how to drive a car. As a citizen of this country, as well as a youngster, I would like to voice my disappointment on the government’s new idea of ruining our life.
Basically, I would describe this issue just the same as banning mothers to breast feed their children. First of all, the place we live is a rural area without any way of transportation within buses or trains. If young folks are to walk each and every place they want to go, or depend on others to take them, that will undoubtedly waste a huge amount of precious time.

In addition, a huge majority of people who does not fit the legal age of learning how to drive are more mature and responsible compared to higher age groups that have the legal rights. Above all, as a human age, his or her power of sight and the ability to think decreases. On the other hand, we young fellows who are deprived of the right to drive have greater power sight and higher ability to think which are both necessary for a matured, responsible driver.

Finally, I hope that I have shed sufficient amount of light on this matter for you to consider this as a top level issue. Our wish is that the government to think wisely and cool down our tensions that we have inside our brains.

Yours faithfully,

Leo Naamy.

Opinion Writing -- By Shafra Hassan, Ghaazee School, Hulhumale' , Grade 10 S2

Question
There is a proposal in your country to raise the legal age for learning to drive a car by five years. Do you think this is a good idea? Write a letter to your local newspaper, giving your views. You should write about 150 to 200 words.

Dear Editor,
I would like to express my concern on the issue of raising the legal age for learning to drive a car, by five years. I do not think that this is a sensitive idea and I am sure that many of your readers feel the same way.

Firstly, we have to take into consideration the conditions of the area in which we live in. As train and bus transportation is not frequent in this rural area, driving to places is essential. So the idea of raising the legal driving age is not a good one, and cannot be supported.

The government expects a reduction in the number of traffic jams and road accidents along with the amount of pollutants emitted to the atmosphere. However, raising the legal driving age is not a solution to reach the expectations. This adds another reason, not to put the ‘proposal to raise the legal age for learning to drive by five years’, into action. Furthermore, this proposal takes away a perfect way for young adults to learn to become independent. Taking away this opportunity seems unfair.

We all know that different people have different maturity levels and it has almost nothing to do with age. As this is the case, seventeen year olds should be able to drive to their hearts’ content, as they can sometimes be more mature than thirty year olds.

In brief, I believe that this proposal should be discarded, as soon as possible since it has no benefits or whatsoever to the locals. I hope you would support me on this and bring this serious issue to the government’s notification.

Yours faithfully,

Shafra Hassan

Friendly Letter By Ruhushana , Ghaazee School, Hulhumale' , Grade 10 S2

Dear O.T,
It’s high time since I received a letter from you. I heard that you finally got to see your island. It must have been so great, meeting all your childhood sweethearts.
My holiday was the nastiest holiday ever. Just as the holiday began my television broke down. And you know what the worst part was? I was watching my favorite reality show when it went black!! Couldn’t that television wait for a few more seconds? That boy up there was just about to win his $100,000!! And my loving television broke down! I was so angry. Even when I write about it, I feel like I could almost tear this paper apart. Doesn’t it have an ounce of humanity towards me? It took two weeks to repair it. For those two weeks I was so bored. I was so missing my television. My heart was crying out.
When my television broke down, my mom said I should study until the television is repaired. That is way ridiculous right? Who would want to spend her entire holiday stuck with some books?? Fish!! But I really tried to study. The thing is, when I sit near my books I feel so sleepy. I got to have a nice beautiful sleep.
After a few days of sleeping with my books, I had to go and babysit two of my cousins. Not that I hate them, but they are total monsters. Both of them almost cost me my death! I swore to myself that I would never babysit anyone again! You want an advice? Don’t ever babysit anyone who writes ‘V’ for ‘A’. Put your feet in my shoes and you will know what it feels like.
Thanks to a broken television, I got to learn so many great things in my life. I actually loved it without that television. Write to me soon.
Yours friendly,
Ruhu