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Should children learn sports from a young age? Why or why not?

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Should children learn sports from a young age? Why or why not?

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Siblings are nuisances in our lives. Do you agree?

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Siblings are nuisances in our lives. Do you agree?

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How do you spend time with your best friend? Tell me more.

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How do you spend time with your best friend? Tell me more.

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Do you prefer reading on mobile devices or print materials?

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Do you prefer reading on mobile devices or print materials?

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Do you think mobile phones should be banned in school? Why or why not?

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Do you think mobile phones should be banned in school? Why or why not?

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Should children learn sports from a young age? Why or why not?

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Should children learn sports from a young age? Why or why not?

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Siblings are nuisances in our lives. Do you agree?

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Siblings are nuisances in our lives. Do you agree?

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How do you spend time with your best friend? Tell me more.

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How do you spend time with your best friend? Tell me more.

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Do you prefer reading on mobile devices or print materials?

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Do you prefer reading on mobile devices or print materials?

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Do you think mobile phones should be banned in school? Why or why not?

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Do you think mobile phones should be banned in school? Why or why not?

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You have been put into groups. Your job is this:

1) In the column assigned to your group, you are given a spoken interaction prompt.

2) Using the Burger Model, consider how you will answer this prompt. Remember that your responses must be personal, with specific examples and written clearly and coherently.

3) Each of you will come up with one full response. You are supposed to discuss first to think about what point each of you is going to write about, and what information you can include, before starting to type.

4) Every person must type one supporting paragraph. This will give us a range of answers to a range of topics.

5) During the last 10 minutes of the lesson, we will take turns reading our responses. Your partner will give you feedback on how you have spoken

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Taking part in sport and exercise is great for your health and fitness an any age, yet there are specific benefits gained by starting young. If you’re competing in team sports at an early age, this will help kids develop mental agility as well.

Children’s soccer is one such sport in Singapore and the fitness training that accompanies team sports will help foster a healthy outlook in the way children grow up to look after themselves.

If you have young kids, you know how much energy they need to express during the day. Being a parent can be exhausting, when you factor positive playtime into your kids’ daily routines. So, let someone else help them do the running around, while you sit back and watch your children engage in a physically challenging and socially inspiring game of football on the field every week.

Cosmo United Football Academy in Singapore provides soccer coaching for under 3s to under 16s, girls and boys, with a coaching team comprised of former S-League and national team players. Our qualified coaches and trainers can help bring out the best in your child. As such, we have provided a list of some positive reasons to start your kids young when it comes to playing sport.

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I spent time with my friends by playing mobile games, board games and play favourite sport which is football.
I play mobile games with my friends to relax and get to know each others strength and weaknesses. When i am playing games, we would usually test each other on our strength snd weaknesses to win the game. Games also help us relax together and release stress. The next thing i am going to share about is playing board games, similarly to mobile games. Instead, when you play board games, you also can relax. But, you can spent time with all of your friends at one go instead of three. In mobile legends, you can only play with a small group of people which is maximum about 5. So, while playing board games, it is less fast and you can relax more. The covid pandemic has changed many things. Before covid, i was able to go out with my friends to play football. But now, we cannot. I lost contact with my friends and had to chat with them online. If there was no covid, I would have gone to a park to play with my friends football once every two to three weeks. So, I think playing sports together is a good way of relaxing with my friends.
To summaries all my points, I feel that spending time with my friends is very important, and not to feel lonely. That is how I spent time with my friends.

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Travis : Yes because they distract students like when the teacher is teaching, a student can use his/her phone distracting himself and possibly others. Also, Without the use of phones In school, students academic performance would increase. When students don’t use their phones in class, it would help them to be less addictive thus, the time use on phone could be instead use of or studying and doing other productive activities. Another reason why phones should be bam in school is because the phone can be used to cheat during test or exams. Even sometimes I have the urge to see my messages during class so the banning of phones in school would help my friends and I. There are also sometimes when I feel bad for the teacher that he/she has to keep on stoping the lesson because students keep using their phone. So even the banning of phones would help teachers

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I prefer reading on a mobile devices because it’s more easier to use. We do not have to use our spectacles when reading because we can just zoom into it.
For print materials, it is going to be much more harder as we need to use our glasses to read it. It is going to be really tiring because we have to stand up and take our glasses.
Sometimes, I prefer using print materials to read. Print materials do not need any data and can just read it for free whereas for mobile devices, the battery percentage will go down and make my mobile devices become hot as I use it too long for reading

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I prefer reading on printed materials because it provides me with more clear details help me process the words on the page of the printed material.Also, I may rush through the online texts and will not be able to be fully absorbed the text in the online text.Also,I found out that I am able to remember the story of the book if I read it on a printed book and will be able to have larger and more clear details about the book and not on mobile device.For example I asked my brother to read a passage online and I read the same passage and I was able to to remember the text more than my brother so that my conclusion is that reading on a book is better than reading online

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I spend time with my best friend by going out to a fast food restaurant to dine in together and chat with each other after school.We would talk about our lives and catch up with each other. We also go out together to shopping malls to buy things such as stationary and notebooks for school.After that we would go to the park to hangout.We would play games on our mobile phones such as Call Of Duty at one of our houses if we had nothing to do to spend time with each other. By playing this game it helps us bond because the game is about teamwork. I feel that spending time with your best friend is important because spending time together would not break the bond between us.If we don’t have time for the person we trust the friendship bond would not be the same.

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United Football Academy in Singapore provides soccer coaching for under 3s to under 16s, girls and boys, with a coaching team comprised of former S-League and national team players. Our qualified coaches and trainers can help bring out the best in your child. As such, we have provided a list of some positive reasons to start your kids young when it comes to sports

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i usually spend time with my best friend by going out with them to shop together or call them and play video games together . other than that , we could spend more time with my best friend by maybe having lunch together , not only can we eat together we could also talk about life . we could also watch movies together , call each other and update each other about our day . lastly we could volunteer together , which to me is a very good idea as by volunteering together , it would help us bond and spend more time with each other while doing charity work .

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Aiming for goals, both on and off the field, is a huge part of a child’s personal development. The drive to succeed and compete with friends and opponents on the soccer field teaches children how to set and reach goals. While many parents say, “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose as long as you had fun”, there is a positive element to wanting to put wins on the board as it encourages children to reach their potential. Achievements and recognition go a long way towards boosting a child’s self-esteem and our coaches are experienced enough to help children be able to handle a loss as easily as a win.

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No, they should not ban phones in school that’s because some students might need it to contact their parents. Although there might be disagreements there are positive sides to having a phone in school. Like if we don’t have a phone with us and the Teachers would want to do an activity with us on our devices it would be harder for them to plan it because they would have to collect the computers or iPads and after the lesson they would have to bring it back to the library but if we have a phone it would be easier because the Teachers would not have to worry about the devices, the teacher could just ask you guys to take your phones out and that’s it. Also, like I mentioned earlier students might need to contact their parents like telling them that they have arrived school and their whereabouts, like if you need to stay back after school that day, you can just message your parents but if you don’t have a phone you would worry your parents because you haven’t come home or you would have to trouble your teacher to call or message them. Last but not least if you have unfinished work that you need a device for you can simply use your phone.

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I think that mobile devices are better than print materials. It is because printed books can be torn, wet or mouldy, and it will be harder to see the words written on the pages. For mobile devices, the ebooks are in the device and will not be damaged but u would need money to buy the ebooks.

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• It depends, because if you are in the school team or you are playing for the country, you must train from a young age but if you are a school team u maybe can train a bit later.

• Sport such as gymnastics, must be trained from a young age because u must master the balance if u are standing on the pillar and doing
backflips like in the Tokyo 2021.

• If you are playing sport like soccer u can train anytime because  the skills that we must master is much more easier than balancing on the pillar for gymnastics.

• There was once when I tried to do gymnastics but I would always fail in either balancing or doing backflips. So I feel that we must continuously practice balancing or doing backflips. So that is the reason why I feel that it depends whether we must learn sports from a young age.

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In my opinion I think that children from a young age should learn sports as studies show that physically active children are more likely to mature into physically active adults which will help them in the long run I also think that it will help children from spending as much time on electronic gadgets as possible.For example on why I think that sports is good I used to attend swimming and tennis lessons and I really enjoyed it as it help me forget about my academics and it helped me get more physically active,it also felt very awarding when I had attended a swimming competition I didn’t win any of the matches but just the thought of improving so much to the point of taking part in a competition felt very nice .So in conclusion I think that children doing sports would be good for their body and mind

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I think phones should be banned because students might misuse it,overuse it and might get distracted or addicted to the phone.During class they might also have the temptation to use it under the table during class or might sneak it and play games or scroll through social media.And if Teachers catches them using it the students might face serious consequences due to the addiction the students might have.The students might be able to concentrate class better as their mind might not wonder to a different place thinking bout their phone or devices.They would be able to concentrate better in class and therefore their academic grades and results might be better and might improve too.Even if you do not have a phone or allowed to use it in class the school can provide you devices such as iPads or chrome books to use if needed during class discussions.If Teachers allow students to use their phones during lessons or discussions the students might go to a different app or switch between tabs and get distracted and the teachers might find out and the student will get scolded and might call their parents and the parents might take away their phone and the students might get very upset and wouldn’t want to study because they are very attached to the phone and if they don’t have the phone they wouldn’t want to study and cause their grades to decrease.For me I think I’m one of those students if my parents take away my phone I get quite upset and might not want to study because I’m too used to having my phone next to me when I study but also because my grades were dropping because I was getting too addicted to it and wouldn’t want to study nor do my homework so they took it away becuase they know im getting too attached and addicted to the phone.But i am grateful that they confiscated my phone for 1 week because after that my grades improved,i started to do my homework and study more often again.I think that even if you think you can control yourself from not using your phone but if you were addicted to your phone you might not have the self-contol to concentrate and do your work properly.So i think phones should be banned in school.

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Firstly, We can FaceTime each other after having a Long day in school  because who doesn’t, almost every girl does that, but they do that to see how their Best Friend is doing and want to hang out using their electronic devices because that’s how they communicate.
Secondly, we go to shopping mall to buy each other gift and ect. We do that because we want to show that we appreciate them for being there and staying by our side.
Lastly, having a sleepover. We do that to spend more time with each other and making the best in our lives. It will become a memory in the future and that we won’t forget.

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I prefer ebooks because ebooks are more sustainable and convient.But ebooks helps with eye strain and some people find more information from printed books.It is convineint as it is easy to access and we do not have to flip pages and use lesser energy for e books

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i think that children should play sport at a young age because it is good for their health and fitness.there are also special benefits like if they join a team sport early,it also help with their mental agility also improved.it also help safeguard young athletes and to avoid burnout.it help reduced risk of obesity and improved sleep and they can learn new skill to use in their daily life.For me i don't like sport as i cant sweat so much due to skin conditions.my parent always encouraged me to go work out.i don't like working out so much as i think it use too much energy and all i get is lose weight where i can just eat less and it don't cause energy at all.but i still go out and run and use that time to relax and let my mind be free.

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Asher

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No because We may find our siblings irritating sometimes because we fight over small matters. They can help with homework ,school work,project work.they can help us with studies.the second reason why they are not nuisances is because they can support in times of a crisis for example you when out trekking in the jungle and trip yourself and hurt your knee and started bleeding.your sibling luckily knows how to treat you and they can save your live some times.we may find them irritating at certain times but in reality they will actually stand up for us.the third thing is that they are our family they can provide joy and love sometimes we may find them annoying but there cool.my personal experience on why siblings are not irritating.there was this one time when my little brother was struggling with his studies so I told him if he needs any help and I helped him with his spelling sometimes we are so busy with our daily lives that we lose quality time of bonding with them.That is why siblings are not very disturbing their kind towards us helps make our day better and also help us relieve stress.

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I think that mobile phone should not be ban in school . Due to these factors .Firstly they allow students to access to the internet to do research or to find information related to the work they are given.Secondly they let us access website such as student learning space  , mentimeter and others. Thirdly it allows student to use tool to allow them to edit and create their own documents such as Google doc , Google slides and many more . The reasons for this is that students might not have enough information to this specific work or need to check whether their theory’s are true or false so they would use the internet to check . Such as one time I have a theory that neither my team or I could confirm if it was true which this event let us to be clueless and helpless Secondly they let students to have access a variety of information on website and videos to guide them in their task given by their Teachers. Like for English class for example my teacher lets us use Kahoot for revision before our weighted assessment Finally student can use Google doc and slides to do project and also it might be even use for exams . Such as for my literature weighted assessments we use Google doc to hand in instead of using paper. This are the reason why school in Singapore should allow the usage of phone.

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Zahirah

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I agree that siblings are a nuisance. I myself, do have younger siblings that are annoying.

At home, whenever I’m doing my homework, or just minding my own business, they’d come into the room I’m in and make noises. It would always be my younger sister disturbing my younger brother, mainly tickling him or just disrupting his time on his personal device.

For me, her just shouting to inform me on something is annoying. I can’t remember the last time she didn’t do that for a day. I’m still glad that I’m able to hear things. Most of the time, they’d only silence themselves whenever my dad is around. For my mom, they’d still continue a little. I have no idea how she endures the ruckus my siblings made.

Once or twice, my parents would confiscate both mine and my sisters mobile phone because of problem only my sister was guilty of. I wasn’t involved and didn’t know she’d done the deed till they pointed it out. I wasn’t able to easily do my work that needed the usage of my mobile phone without permit from them.

Those are the main reasons why I find siblings annoying and I have to endure their ruckus till the very end.

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Yes, because they tend to try to get your attention and fight over useless things like toys or their favourite TV shows. They are also very annoying and trying their best to disturb you in any way possible, but they also like to do stupid things as telling them what to do and misunderstand what you’re saying. But also I find children entertaining and fun too, so I guess it’s a win-win situation. They also like to fight, complain and make a mess and get away with it

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- I do not agree that having siblings is a nuisance because maybe it is a special way of show love and care towards you. Though they can annoy you and disturb but there are times where we need them. E.g. talking to when your not feeling happy, putting the blame on them, and chat and argue with .Though argument won’t solve anything but from time to time, it  might makes you feel that you and your siblings have a special connection and would spend time together.

-There was times where I needed my siblings and they weren’t there. It was when it was camp. I didn’t have someone to share thoughts with , didn’t have someone to laugh and chat with, someone to play with. This experience have thought me to care for my siblings and have some time together, because there are people out there who needs siblings, need support from someone close with but they have no one. So today, I learn to spend time and treasure every single second with my siblings.

- Older siblings are quite good as they have higher standards and knowledge than you. Whenever there is any thing that I don’t know, I would find my older Sister. She told me that in secondary school, don’t trust anyone and call anyone your best friend and share secrets until 1 to 2 years of friendship of friends. It’s takes time nothing canes immediately. She told me and thought me many thing about life, studies, mindset and other stuffs.