i got a feeling
that this English project's gonna be a good good one

Five people in the group,
-Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
As a group, we will be doing a project on Graciousness.
Our mission statement is
"We plan to change the mindsets of typical Singaporeans and to teach them the importance of being gracious. We want to make Singapore a better place for people to live in whereby most of the population will learn how to be gracious so that they can teach their future genrations how to be gracious and also to attract more foreigners into Singapore to help boost it's economy."




THINGS-TO-DO

*Watch the videos
*Comprehension articles (Theatre slobs) [group]
*Argumentative essay
*Intervention drama
*Project planning [group]
*Debate/Forum
*Formal letter [individual]
*Project blog [group]
*Video [group]
*Posters [group]
*Self and peer review [individual]

Blog

!1st reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
- Jezelyn
- Steffi
- Zul
!2nd reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
- Jezelyn
- Steffi
- Zul
!Argumentative essay Intro
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
!3rd reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
- Zul

Assignments
*Argumentative essay
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Argumentative essay re-write
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Formal letter
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Individual report
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul



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MM Lee Kuan Yew believes environmental consciousness among Singaporeans 'will
take more time to develop'.


ENVIRONMENTAL consciousness among Singaporeans will come about very quickly when
they realise how they will be in trouble when changes in the climate take place.



But attaining a gracious society will take more time, said Minister Mentor Lee
Kuan Yew on Monday at a dialogue marking the 40th anniversary of the think-tank,
the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).



In fact, he believes it will not happen in his lifetime.



'I will not see it, maybe you will live long enough to see it, I wish you well,'
he told 48-year-old economics academic Euston Quah to laughter from the audience
of diplomats, academics and government leaders.



Dr Quah had asked a question about Singapore's progress in terms of social
graces and environmental consciousness just as the country succeeds
economically. It will not happen so fast, Mr Lee replied.



'I think it will take more time to develop and mature culturally as a people.'



Even the British, he said, were 'sitting at a very high level over an empire for
nearly 150 years before they developed their culture and then being invaded by
football hooligans and foreigners who are now joining them and coarsening their
society'.



'So it's very difficult to get a rough society onto a cultivated plane and it's
very easy to bring it down,' he concluded.



Environmental consciousness, on the other hand, will come very quickly 'when
something happens and they say, you do that, your whole environment changes and
you are in trouble'.



On the other hand, the idea of a gracious society - 'where people are
considerate to one another, where you don't make more noise to upset your
neighbour than you need to, where you tell the other motorist, Please have the
right of way' - was 'harder to come by,' said Mr Lee.



'It will take time, but I hope it will come with cultivated living over a long
period of time.'



Mr Lee recalled how, 45 years ago, Singaporeans wanted to take their chickens
with them when they were resettled from kampongs into high-rise flats.



'So it took some time to get them adjusted. A more cultivated way of life takes
a very long time,' he said.



'I will not see it, maybe you will live long enough to see it. I wish you well.'




Source: Straits
Times




By: Dan