You come across cases of throwing food items and eatables in your class dustbins. You feel this is worrying situation. Discuss with your partner: • What other problems do you think this could cause? • What should your reaction be? • How should other students react to something like this? • What could you tell your parents about this? • How would you help to solve this problem? • Why do you think this happened? • What can you say to help your friends change their attitude? • What do you think could be the reaction of others towards the one who throws food items? • How will you change the response of the others to such children?
Answers
This is an ASL prompt for speaking task 3. You can say the
following lines or something similar in your discussion for the prompt:
Candidate A: Well, this littering problem is quite a common sight in our
country, and our class students are no exception. I just wonder why people
litter and waste so much food!
Candidate B: My heart pains when I see so many students throwing their
unconsumed food in the class dustbin. This is not only the wastage of national
food resources, but also very unhygienic for the class! Sometimes, the maids
omit to clean the dustbins, this causes a lot of putrid smell in the class.
Besides, the rotting food attracts flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc, which
are carriers of germs and dangerous bacteria.
Candidate A: How dirty our class looks after the break as if it is a dumping
yard! This throwing of litter and food also encourages other students to follow
suit. How will our parents feel when they come to know that the food cooked by
them with so much of love, affection, and labour is thrown so unthinkingly?
Candidate B: of course they will be hurt! We must do something to stop this
flagrant wastage of food! What are our options? I think we should do something
to prevent this littering and wasting.
Candidate A: Yes, I agree with you. We can do much in this regard. We can bring
the issue to our class teacher's notice. If you feel it right, we can even go
to the principal. What do you say?
Candidate B: We don't need go to the principal straightaway. Class teacher will
do first. We can talk to our classmates ourselves on the issue and reason with
them about the negative effects of this littering and wastage. Most of them
will surely listen to us.
Candidate A: Yes, we can also have some posters on 'Stop Littering' or ‘Keep
our Class Clean’ put up in the class, which will serve as reminders to the
students.
Candidate B: Very bright idea. We can also request our school counselor to give
a seminar on class cleanliness in which she can specifically talk about
class-litter problem and teach students how to maintain cleanliness even during
the break.
Student A: If in spite of all these measures our classmates don’t mend their ways, we will seek the principal’s intervention.
Student B: Let's go to the class teacher and start working on the mission.
Follow up questions and answers:
How easy/difficult do you think it would be for you...?
It is going to be a difficult task as students are habitual of throwing litter in the class. But as I said in my discussion, talking to them; putting on notice and posters concerning maintain cleanliness in the class will help.
Do you think the teacher can...?
Yes, teachers can really play a great role in maintaining the cleanliness; especially the class teacher, she can start imposing fine on students who litter during the break. This will really have positive effect.