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At Home: Directed Writing Article - Safeguarding The Environment
At Home: Directed Writing Article - Safeguarding The Environment
Your school has organised various programmes in conjunction with ‘World Environment Day’
and one of the programmes is an essay-writing competition. You decide to take part in the
competition. Based on the following notes, write your article.
AT HOME
Plant trees and other types of plants
Cut down on electricity consumption
Switch off lights and fans when not in use
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs
Avoid open air burning
WHEN SHOPPING
Buy products which can be reused and recycled
Reduce purchases of products which generate wastes
Buy recycled products
Bring your own shopping bags
ON THE ROAD
Use public transport whenever possible. (e.g. MRT, buses, trains)
Use your car less.
Walk or cycle if it’s a short distance.
Carpool.
[35 marks]
SAFEGUARDING THE ENVIRONMENT
by Ali bin Abu Bakar
Everyone wants to stay in a clean and healthy environment. However, our world
has been undergoing a lot of development and modernisation in the recent years and
this has led to massive destruction of natural ecology as well as serious cases of
pollution. _____________________________
_________________________________________
We can change our lifestyles to suit the needs of our environment at home and
also at our workplace. We can plant trees and other types of plants.
_________________________________________________________. We should
also cut down on electricity consumption. Switch off the lights and fans when they
are not in use. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of the ordinary
incandescent light bulbs as they would help to save energy. We should also avoid
open burning because it will pollute our air badly.___________________________
________________________________________________________________.
Always buy products which can be reused and recycled such as the plastic
containers, bottles and tissue papers. Reduce purchases of products which generate
toxic wastes. The government has also encouraged us to buy recycled products.
___________________________________________________________________
______________________
In addition, there are ways to preserve the environment when we are on the
road. Road users are encouraged to use public transport whenever
possible.____________________________________________________________
__________________________ Besides, we should also use our car less. It is
advisable to walk or cycle if we are only travelling a short distance. Not only it is
environmentally friendly, it is also a good form of exercise for
us._________________________________________________________________
____________________________. Car pooling would not only ease traffic
congestion on roads but it would also mean less carbon monoxide being released into
the atmosphere.
This will provide us with fresh and clean oxygen as well as beautify the spaces
we dwell in.
As one famous native American Indian once said, ‘we do not own the earth; we
merely borrow it from our children’, we have the responsibility to keep and
preserve a beautiful world so that the future generations can also enjoy it.
Our country is well-developed with LRTs and monorails, and our public
transport system is also efficient enough to cater to all the residents especially
the ones in the urban areas.
All of us have our individual roles to play in order to safeguard and protect our
world from further destruction for ourselves as well as for our future generations.
Besides doing our parts at home, we have to change our lifestyles when we go
shopping also.