PREPARATION FOR WRITTEN EXPRESSION EXAM GRADES 10 AND 12

In June and August 2014, the yearly written expression exams will be held in Papua New Guinea high schools for grades 10 and 12. Students are required to write on topics set. Resource material is provided.

So the task of the teacher is to give students a basis for writing essays based on social and economic issues in Papua New Guinea. The following are suggested:

Economic issues:  problems of PNG as a developing country, dependence on raw materials for export, dependence on imported products including food and technical equipment, lack of development of rural areas, lack of infrastructure including roads and bridges, unemployment, jobs for young people, crime and corruption and dependence on foreign business.

Social issues:  welfare support for families, nursing mothers, babies and children, old people, disabled, law and order against violence, violence to women and children, violence against men, education for all, low standards of literacy and numeracy, unemployment, informal business for families, health support against sicknesses such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, church and the family, healthy living, alcoholism, marijuana, homebrew, involvement of young girls with mobile phones and sorcery killing.

Role of women:  traditional role, bride price, violence against women, education for young girls, increased involvement in employment, needs of young women in family support, sex working, young women becoming involved with homebrew and marijuana, increased involvement in community affairs and need of support from men.

Sorcery killing:  increased sorcery killing, do sorcerers exist, need to blame someone for deaths, lack of education on health matters, HIV/AIDS and TB are believed to be the work of sorcerers, killing of men and women, often old men and women with no family and large land holding, killing by young unemployed men, how to stop sorcery killing.

Health:  need for healthy lifestyle, low life span particularly for PNG men, importance of exercise, clean water, vegetables, fruit, lifestyle diseases of HIV/AIDS, diabetes and heart disease, need for awareness in the home and schools, stress as a killer of people facing family and work problems, need for peace and happiness, innoculation of children against common illnesses including measles, polio and tetanus, dangers of smoking tobacco and marijuana, support for the disabled, support for the aged, decline of health centres in rural areas and need for more medical support across the nation.

Marijuana and homebrew:  young people smoke and drink, problems with brain damage from smoking marijuana, violence of dementia, marijuana grown in the highlands, a powerful variety of marijuana in PNG, dangers of legalizing the sale and smoking of marijuana, homebrew causing blindness and death with an increase in women and girls drinking homebrew and smoking marijuana.

Payback: an eye for an eye, payback not report to police, tribal conflict on payback also for accusation of sorcery, death and destruction of property including houses, vehicles and gardens and problems for police facing arrest of the suspects.

 

It is suggested that students prepare 200-300 word essays on the topics above in preparation for the Written Expression exam. The exam essays will probably include some of the issues above.


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