Personal Response 5 : Earthquakes

1. Earthquake is caused by the motion of tectonic plates - individual sections that make up the Earth's surface like panels on a football.Immense strain accumulates along fault lines where adjacent plates meet. When the rock separating the plates give way, sudden seismic ground-shaking movement occurs.
2. People can hide under furnitures and use their hands to cover their heads. Refraining major injuries or they can go to a safe place where it is not affected during the quake as soon as possible.
3. Yes. The scientist did not use any instruments but they can tell when earthquakes happen if plates move towards each other.
4. Well, earthquakes happens in many places including China, America, Afghanistan
and many more.
5. These countries have earthquakes because the motion of tectonic plates.
6. Yes sooner or later. You won't know the world is changing like the price increase for the rise because the weather around the world is changing so the grains can't grow so that is why the price of the rice increases.

Personal Response 4: Child Safety Belt in School Buses

1.Well, I do take a mini-bus back home from school because I stay very far from school so I need to wake up early if I am taking bus to school and usually, in the morning, my father does not go to work so early so he can fetch me to school. Both my parents are also working to feed my family if not I wobn't be seating buses.=)
2.Mostly,will talk to their friends and create a loud din in the bus. Some just take out a book to read to kill their time in the bus.
3.Well, I agree with Ms Karen Koh because children who are in the bus are usually playful and talkative. Accident might happen when the bus brake suddenly and maybe those children will fall and they might get minor or major injuries.
4.I do not agree with Mr Leow Beng Kiong's view that installing seat belts because even with 15 minutes, accident will happen and life is priceless you cannot bring a person back to life.=(
5.Well, maybe install a cctv in the bus and so that the school can monitor those children who are playful to prevent accident to happen or maybe hire more bus assitants to take care or monitor the students.=)

Personal Response 3 : Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

1.Hand, Foot and Mouth Diease is a diease that can spread to everybody of all age but young children below five years are particularly susceptible.
2. When my friend has a fever, sore throat,ulcers in the throat, mouth and tongue,headache,a rash with vesicles (small blisters, 3-7 mm) on hands, feet and diaper area. The vesicles are typically on the palm side of the hands the sole side of the feet and very characteristic in appearance and lost of appetite.
3.No is not true.Both adults and children can be affected, but young children below five years are particularly susceptible.
4.I prevent by washing my hands before eating, after going to the toilet and I prevent from going near a person contracted Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
5.No I don't know anyone who has contracted this disease.
6.They can avoid crowded places such as the market, schools, shopping centre and public transport. The family members are advised to follow good hygiene practices, including frequent hand washing, to limit the spread of the infection.
7.I would tell them to wash their hands before eating, after going to the toilet and after trowing the rubbish.

Personal Response 2: Courtesy

1. Courtesy means respecting other people like the birds from 'How The Spirit Of Neighbourliness Began Among Birds.' The birds from the story courteous unlike other birds, they start to quarrel when they meet each other.
2. 'Kong Rong Rang Li' impresses me most even though I read this story before, I sensed that this story is interesting and I think that Kong Rong did the right thing to give way to elders by giving them the better quality of items or the elders give way to the younger ones like a sister giving her younger silblings the better quality of items.
3. I think the pupils in the class should be courteous because courtesy is very important without it there will be quarrels, fight and may be severing ties with a relationships. The pupils must give way to the others when they exit/enter the classrooms. Sometimes the pupils did not give way to others sometimes they even purposely block others way of going.
4. We can give them the best quality to items while we take the lousier quality of items.

Personal Response 1: Racial Harmony

3. a) I think racial harmony is a time when people from different religion communicate, make friends with each other and study/work together.
b) Misunderstanding can cause quarrels, fights and or maybe the chinese, indians, malays and eurasians might have their own town in Singapore like back in the 1980s.
c) If there are no races, other people could not know each other's traditional food, clothes and rituals.
d) We can encourage them by playing together, helping them and studying together.
e) We should organise games, talk about each different race and their culture