Vincen't Wong
Junior Member
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2015
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Afrikaans
- Home Country
- Taiwan
- Current Location
- Taiwan
I know that i may be quite annoying, but i really want to improve my english for the further studying in university. If you have spare time, please help me.
I am appreciating your help.
Topic:
Your school principal has told the tuck shop to stop selling 'junk food', such as fish balls and soft drinks, in response to the government's campaign to promote healthy eating. However, this policy has evoked a strong reaction from some students who insist on their right to exercise freedom of choice.
You are a reporter for the school newspaper and have just attended a meeting between the principal and representatives of parents, teachers and students. Write an article for the school newspaper describing the viewpoints and arguments of the different parties. Give your article a title.
Should we keep selling junk food?
Recently, schools organized a consultative meeting for different parties to discuss whether school should stop the tuck shop from selling junk food. School principal and representative of parents, teachers and students had different opinions about this issue. I would like to report and describe their viewpoints and arguments of them for you. I hope students in our school could thus better understand the current issue.
To begin with, our dear principal claimed that stopping selling junk food such as fish balls and soft drinks could improve students’ health. With the project, students would not only have a healthier lifestyle, but also support government’s healthy eating campaign. Also, principal mentioned that more than 40% of our school kids were overweight. Our tuck shop was selling too much snacks and unhealthy food to students, and students who had no self-control were always buying these foods there. Principal said that she cared of all students’ health because overweight students usually had many diseases like high blood pressure and high level of cholesterol. Therefore, she said that she had no choice but to stop selling junk food for the future of student.
On the other hand, the representative of students highly opposed to the decision that principal had made. He said that all students were not the prisoners, and school was not the jail to deprive students of personal right. Apart from this, he told us that there were more than 80% of students who were disagreeing the project that school had decided. He hoped that school should realize the increasingly disagreeing sounds from students and kindly reconsider if the school should keep running the project of stopping selling junk food.
Moreover, parents’ representative had their viewpoints as well. She agreed with the point of principal that is improving student’s health by the project because children were vitally important for all the parents. Furthermore, she pointed out that students could save much money if the tuck shop stop selling junk food for students. Student could thus have more spare money to buy necessities on academic aspect like pencil cases and mock test papers. However, they were worried that children might therefore lose their childhood memories of eating and sharing snacks with friends as they were used to parents’ childhood memory when they were young.
Teachers had some original opinions. They had a doubt which is the project with low effectiveness. Students could buy snacks or junk food outside despite the fact that they were unable to buy these foods inside the school. Some students could also bring junk food to school and even could share with others in the classrooms. Therefore, the ultimate aim of the project which is improving students’ health might be unsuccessful. In addition, teachers suggested that education was always the best way to let children to have a health lifestyle. They said that they would spend more time to educate kids the disadvantages of eating junk food and importance of healthy eating. Finally, they hoped that parents needed to be role models to teach their children how to have a health lifestyle, and they should put all their effort to supervise the foods their children were eating.
The above-mentioned viewpoints are inspirational for us to think the importance of healthy eating. Will you support the project or not?
I am appreciating your help.
Topic:
Your school principal has told the tuck shop to stop selling 'junk food', such as fish balls and soft drinks, in response to the government's campaign to promote healthy eating. However, this policy has evoked a strong reaction from some students who insist on their right to exercise freedom of choice.
You are a reporter for the school newspaper and have just attended a meeting between the principal and representatives of parents, teachers and students. Write an article for the school newspaper describing the viewpoints and arguments of the different parties. Give your article a title.
Should we keep selling junk food?
Recently, schools organized a consultative meeting for different parties to discuss whether school should stop the tuck shop from selling junk food. School principal and representative of parents, teachers and students had different opinions about this issue. I would like to report and describe their viewpoints and arguments of them for you. I hope students in our school could thus better understand the current issue.
To begin with, our dear principal claimed that stopping selling junk food such as fish balls and soft drinks could improve students’ health. With the project, students would not only have a healthier lifestyle, but also support government’s healthy eating campaign. Also, principal mentioned that more than 40% of our school kids were overweight. Our tuck shop was selling too much snacks and unhealthy food to students, and students who had no self-control were always buying these foods there. Principal said that she cared of all students’ health because overweight students usually had many diseases like high blood pressure and high level of cholesterol. Therefore, she said that she had no choice but to stop selling junk food for the future of student.
On the other hand, the representative of students highly opposed to the decision that principal had made. He said that all students were not the prisoners, and school was not the jail to deprive students of personal right. Apart from this, he told us that there were more than 80% of students who were disagreeing the project that school had decided. He hoped that school should realize the increasingly disagreeing sounds from students and kindly reconsider if the school should keep running the project of stopping selling junk food.
Moreover, parents’ representative had their viewpoints as well. She agreed with the point of principal that is improving student’s health by the project because children were vitally important for all the parents. Furthermore, she pointed out that students could save much money if the tuck shop stop selling junk food for students. Student could thus have more spare money to buy necessities on academic aspect like pencil cases and mock test papers. However, they were worried that children might therefore lose their childhood memories of eating and sharing snacks with friends as they were used to parents’ childhood memory when they were young.
Teachers had some original opinions. They had a doubt which is the project with low effectiveness. Students could buy snacks or junk food outside despite the fact that they were unable to buy these foods inside the school. Some students could also bring junk food to school and even could share with others in the classrooms. Therefore, the ultimate aim of the project which is improving students’ health might be unsuccessful. In addition, teachers suggested that education was always the best way to let children to have a health lifestyle. They said that they would spend more time to educate kids the disadvantages of eating junk food and importance of healthy eating. Finally, they hoped that parents needed to be role models to teach their children how to have a health lifestyle, and they should put all their effort to supervise the foods their children were eating.
The above-mentioned viewpoints are inspirational for us to think the importance of healthy eating. Will you support the project or not?
