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TOPIC 1: EXPRESSING ONESELF
Objectives:
By the end of this chapter you should be able to.
1. Express your feelings, ideas, opinions, views and emotions comfortably.
2. Defend your position in an argument.
People feel differently because of various reasons. For example, if one has
lost his/her parent, he will feel very grieved (sad); but if one has won a
lottery, he will feel excited and happy.
Note:
1. When you say: “I feel or I am ………………………………
(Followed by and adjective like: happy, said, embarrassed, overjoyed, etc) you are expressing a feeling.
(Followed by and adjective like: happy, said, embarrassed, overjoyed, etc) you are expressing a feeling.
For example:
2. If “I feel” is substituted for “I think” then you are expressing a
thought
E.g. I think you are right/ wrong (a thought)
Activity
Read
the passage below carefully and answer the following questions.
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
The main problem of smoking
primarily concerns children. We adults must make up our minds. Often we start smoking
due to ignorance but now we have knowledge about the dangers of smoking. We
must not fail to use that knowledge to help the younger generation. Those who
are often times in contact with children must make an effort to not to smoke or
at least to explain the effects of smoking to their children. Children today
are subjected to environments where smoking is taken for granted.
Clearly, parents who smoke are
at disadvantage in trying to prevent their children from smoking. However the
smoking habit of older people can be linked to some specific period of strain
or difficultly which can be explained to the children instead of leaving them
to think that smoking is as inevitable as eating and drinking.
Considering that it is not
easy to convince children about the disadvantages of smoking especially if they
are used to seeing their parents with cigarettes, seeing them relax while
smoking a pipe and experience the air of irritation when an adult gives up
smoking. Parents are often seen as role models, where does questioning their
habits fall into this belief?
It would be helpful if parents
explained their addiction to their children, parents can also try not to leave
boxes of cigarets lying around as well as avoid handing cigarets for visitors
around children, because this gives them the impression that it is okay to pass
on such unhealthy habits to others.
Exercise 1
Give
the meaning of the vocabulary below:
Strain
Addiction
Outcast
Granted
Scorned
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