reflection

We have started our semester on 10^th of February 2013. Mr. Hedley Butterfield was our teacher and I am going to write a reflection about our course from beginning up to date.

In this semester we have known a lot about Mr. Hedley like: his life as a teacher and as father/grandfather, which kind of assessments we will have in this course, how to create blogs and he also teaches us how to write a summary.

When Mr. Hedley started to give us some passages to write a summary I didn’t like it because one of my weaknesses is reading. But day by day I was trying to improve my reading skills by reading some newspapers and trying to do summaries. Then Mr. Hedley gave us some practice about how to write a summery. Then we began to do some summaries and we made three summaries as well. We wrote about the desert horsemen, car accidents and pearls in the Arabian Gulf.

In my conclusion, I would like to thank you Mr. Hedley because I really learned how to write a summary after some practice which you gave us as I was weak on that. And thank you for giving me some techniques about the main points to write any summary.

 

 

 

Ali Shuaib AL Hammadi

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In the 20^th century the Arabian Gulf was the largest diving economy. Pearling boats in the 1950s were commonplace. However, EMEG and Jumairah group have jointly formed a new pearl diving eco tour in waters off Palm Jebel Ali.

The pearl tradition in the UAE will not be forgotten even if it has gone. Swaidi invited reporters from Gulf news on a pearling dive to a secluded protected cove where the media learned about pearl diving.

The oyster hunters aren’t rich and the dhow outing was about the journey. The Arabian dhow was made of wood and it was the length of it about 60 feet. Before a lot of people were searching for the pearls but nowadays the number of people has decreased to be much less.

Long ago people went sealing and looking for the pink pearl as it is hard to find it. People were saying “from each 100 oysters maybe you can find only one pearl”.

Now, in one of the biggest hotels in Dubai they are doing a diving for pearls as an activity to attract the tourists and if anyone found a pearl he can keep it as a souvenir.

 

 

Ali AL Hammadi

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According to Dubai Health Authority the traffic accidents are the lead cause of death 14 years and younger.  And it is the major problem in the UAE because a lot of people are never use a seat belt.
 
Souad Al Merri believes that all the authorities should make an effort to give the advice to the people to use the seat belt. And she believes that 96% of children are not seated properly in there seats.
 
Nowadays, they create car seats for the children to be relaxing in their seats. Research from Philadelphia found that booster seats reduce the risk of injury for children from four years to seven years by 59% compared to seat belts.
 
Some people are believing that people are not using car seats for the children because they are crying and the children are not comfortable with the seats.
 
The RTA has taken the action for the importance of child safety in the vehicles and to teach the parents about safe habits. In the past ten years 2,134 people have been killed and 23,082 injured in traffic accident in Dubai alone.
 
 
 
ALI AL HAMMADI