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English PT3 Part 2 – Theme: Environment

Introduction
• Monsoon season last year – village hit by floods
Body
• Villagers gathered personal belongings – evacuated to nearby village
• After floods subsided – returned to village – everything destroyed – had to rebuild
homes from scratch
• Village chief suggested building longhouse – faster – villagers agreed
• Men, women and children – worked on building longhouse
• After one week – moved into new homes
Conclusion
• Change of lifestyle – villagers happy with new concept of living
Model Answer

During the monsoon season last year, our village was hit by terrible monsoon rains
which unleashed floods and destruction throughout the village.
When the floodwaters started to rise beyond a metre, we knew we had to abandon
our homes. We salvaged the few personal belongings we could gather and evacuated
to a nearby district.
When the floods subsided, we returned only to find that our worst fears were
realised. The floods, which had lasted five days, affected all the houses, the mosque,
school and community hall. No one’s property was spared and all the villagers were at
their wit’s end as to how we would rebuild our homes from scratch.
The village chief then gathered everyone together. He advised everyone to be
calm and to devise a plan to rebuild the village. The villagers debated on how we
could rebuild our homes. Finally the chief had a suggestion. Instead of each family
rebuilding their respective homes, he suggested that we all work on building a longhouse
which could house the thirty-odd families. This would certainly be faster to complete
than building individual houses. The villagers were impressed with this suggestion.
We immediately got to work – men, WORDBank
women and even children, and we were
able to move into our new homes within unleashed – something that is released to
show its full effect
a week. Although it was a lifestyle change salvaged – saved something from being
for us, we were able to accept the change lost or destroyed
and we found that we quite enjoyed our devise – to plan a complex procedure
new concept of living. The effort also
fostered a greater camaraderie among the IDIOMS
villagers and we become more united as at one’s wit’s end – to be so worried that one
a result of the community effort. does not know what to do

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