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Dear Mr Loh,

I am Sara Laws from class 4S and I am here to write to you to tell you wether teenagers nowadays are respectful to others and or themselves.

The times have changed and I have noticed teenagers behaving in a manner in which some do not like the sight of. Many teenagers, due to the influence of the Internet, bad company and society, have become indifferent to other people's feelings, particularly their elders including parents and teachers.

These days the life of teenagers is very easy, they do not have to struggle for material things. They take things for granted and they have a sense of entitlement. Because of the Internet and mart phones, today's teenagers do not interact with others as much as earlier generations.

As a result, they have become obsessed with themselves. Which results sometimes in dangerous behaviour like drug abuse and self harm.

Thank you for taking your time to read my letter.

Yours Sincerely,

Sara

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Teenagers this days, sometimes are getting more rude. Based on my exprience, they would sometimes shout are their grandparents or parents. They think that they are annoying and naggy. There are even news articles where teenagers went to the extreme to hit their parents or grandparents.

But there are also some teenagers who are also quite close to their their grandparents or parents as they have a close bond since young. Their grandparents would encourage them in their decision. So I think that they have both good and bad attitude towards the elderly , depending on situation .

Written by : Sammie and Jamie

Date: 24/7/2015

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I feel that teenagers nowadays are being too unfilial and disrespectful towards their elderly and to those that are older then them. I've seen people not giving up their seats and pretending to sleep on the reserved spaces in the public transport. Now kids are even talking back to their parents just after getting told off and they run away from home in the slightest thing even after getting tipped off.

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I personally feel that teenagers nowadays are being way too disrespectful especially towards the elderly and their parents. I observe that rather than giving up seats to the elderly, they tend to pretend that they are sleeping or even listening to loud music when they are on bus or train. As for parents, instead of obeying, most of them tend to talk back to their parents because usually they find them annoying whenever their parents are nagging at them. They actually do not appreciate how bless they are about having their parents showering them with love and care every single day whenever they need them and yet, even complaining about their parents not giving the things they want.

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I personally think that some of the teenagers are actually really rude cause they do not listen to their parents and even worse they disrespect them. They disrespect their parents by talking back at their parents or even shout at them. I actually feel disgusted just by looking at them disrespecting their parents because without them the boy will not even be here.

Teacher's comments: I think everyone will agree that shouting back at parents is one of the worst things a child can ever do. I hope the class agrees.

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Good morning mr Loh, vice principals, teachers and fellow Commonwealthians.

I am Umi Kalthum from 4S and I would like to give a presentation about ways to help the poor, elderly and the handicaps as when we were younger, we were brought up in a good environment but unfortunately, some people do not.

From my own perspective, students could raise funds by conducting a small charity in their school so that the money that they have earned could be donated to the needys. The students could sell hand made items such as friendship bracelet or a badge and also food and beverages like cupcakes and smoothies during their recess time or they could also donate clothes that are still wearable too. We could also give out flyers to the residents near our school to provide social awareness towards the elderlys and the handicapped. To me, even the slightest help could possibly make a huge difference in their life. Thank you for taking your time to listen and I hope that our school would conduct a small charity.

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Dear Mr Loh,

I am Sharul Izami from 4S , i am here to tell about teenagers perspective towards their parents.

Teenagers nowadays are unacceptable as they think about themselves but not their parents , they are now rude and disrespect to their parents while their parents have took care of them when they are sick by staying up all night taking care of them. When their parents are sick , they ignore their parents as if they are like walls. Teenagers shouldn't be like this towards their parents. They should be more caring and have respect towards their parents by taking care of them , have a family bonding or even buy them items that make them happy.Thank you for listening to my speech.

Yours Faithfully ,

Sharul Izami

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,some teenagers now are unacceptable because the teenagers now disrespectful towards their parents and teacher when the teenagers grow up some of them even never go and visit their parents . And While teacher is teaching the children is not even listening I think the children need more disclipine

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Are we respecting the elderly's?

Based on my experience, some teenagers nowadays are disrespectful towards their parents and teachers as when they grow up, their parent spend less time with their children and some parents didn't teach them manners and less discipline their children. Some other parents, show bad examples towards their children as when they grow up, they will be like their parents because they think what their parents were doing was the right thing. When some teenagers has less discipline and started to be disrespectful to their parents, teachers and the one that closes to them will suffer as the teenagers will take advantage of them by being rude and all.

Teacher's comments: Ross, who do think should bear the most responsibility of "teaching manners" to a teenager or a child?

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We can help the elderly by doing a lot of thing as we surround by many elderly even they are not our next of kin but we should still show concern to them because they are old and feeble and not able to walk fast so what we can do is. Example when they need to cross the road we can help them to , in the bus or mrt we can give up our sit to them.We also can help them find job and we also can give them some free check up and we also can give them free food

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Dear Mr Loh

I am Brindha________ from class 4S. I am writing to you this letter to tell you about whether teenagers nowadays are respecting the elderly .

I think that teenagers nowadays do not show respect to elderly One of the reasons why it is because their parents is not spending enough time with their child and the will end up join the bad companies.And some teenager send their grandmother and their grandfather to the old folks home because they think that keeping them is a waste of money. And some elderly are send to the old folks home because of their condition of their health that their children do not seem to bother aboutHowever, there is some teenager who respect elderly. Some even volunteer for any community involvement programme that involve elderly like going to the old folks home and spending time with them. Some school even asks their student bring can food and packets drink to donate to the old folks home.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.

Yours Sincerely,

Brindha

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I think teenagers are both disrespectful and respectful towards the elderly. One of the examples of the disrespectful teenagers is when they see the elderly carrying heavy groceries and they intend to ignore and just continue minding their own business and play with their handphones. But some of the teenagers intend to help the elderly by going to the Old Folks home and take care of the elderly. You can also bond with the elderly by doing simple things such as doing paper origami. Creating a bond with the elderly makes them feel happy as they feel more care and loved

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Giving back to the community

Nowadays ,More and more students and teenagers are into helping the community.they are doing it in many difference ways and different types of activities.

I personally feel that teenagers in this new generation are more aware of what is going on in the community.

There are many student and teenagers who do lend a helping hand in contributing back to the community,for example,like students having CCA which relates to serving the community. And students doing Values In Action programmes in their school live.Also more teenagers are joining in community's such as PAYM which does a lot of community service .

I feel that more teenagers are paying more attention to elderlys because of what is taught in school.More students are also more respectful toward the elderly and more understanding towards

I think that this is very good way to get teenagers more into the community and more aware of the other side of life.I also am very happy that the students now are more incline with the community.I hope that more and more teenagers will be able to lend a helping hand toward the community.

Written by:Candice Nonis

Date:24 July 2015

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The helping hands

I think that students can help in many ways. Everyone knows that money is the most important to help the poor , the elderly , the handicap. That's why there are so many association in world to help different people , different needs.

What student can do , visit a orphanage , volunteer to help the handicap , clean an elderly's house , and go to willing hearts to cook food

My personal experience was having an exhibition together with handicap people. I was part of the exhibition and I can say , I made a lot of friends. They may be handicap , but that does not stop them for doing what able-bodied can. They told me many stories , some might look weak in their bodies but their age is so matured. Some of the handicap might look really normal in their appearance , but as you actually bring them out for journey , you will see their weak point. Like this year , I could not believe my eyes as I saw what they did for this year exhibition because it looks like how an able-bodied could do or even better. I can say , I judge them at first, but as I see them more often , chat a little more , laugh so much , my feeling fades away...

Sometimes , money cannot be everything, you need your heart and brain too.

Written by:JiaYan

Date:24July2015

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Teenagers now days

It is more common that teenagers now days are not respectful towards one and other as they think it would be funny to disrespecting someone feeling, someone's property or just simply like to see someone to be sad.with all this reasons I find that those teenagers are just disrespecting themselves.but uncommonly there are a handful of teenagers that are respecting their peers as how they are suppose to be treated,helping out each other and not having any bad blood between them.I have personal experience of people disrespecting another person it just feel that the other party just treat you like a friend to get to closer to it objective,once they have reach their achievement as they will throw you away like thrash. I also believe that their Teenagers out there would

Written by: Owen Nicholas

Teacher's comments: It is a sad truth, I must agree, Owen. However, I do believe there are many good friends around for us to be with as well. There will always be people who abuse friendship but there will be others as well who are more genuine and sincere. Let's have faith that we will find more of these people. Then you will realise that, "Hey, life is not so bad after all." Let's spread this positive feeling.

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I think that students should help the poor,elderly or the handicap because nowadays, i can see many elderly or handicap people struggling as the elderly people had gotten old and for the handicap people, sometimes they find it hard to travel to places they want to go as they are may not be very efficient as they have to seat on a wheelchair. I think that we could help them by helping the elderly people to carry their groceries as they may not have enough strength as they had turn old and for the handicap people, we could help them by hosting a special event which could bring them to places that they want to go.For those people who have financial problem, i think that there would be places in Singapore where they could go and get help from so that they would starve to death or could not find a place to stay.

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Muizz: Good morning ladies and gentelman my name is Muizz Muhammad Bin Mohd Afandi. O'zaki: My name is O'zaki Bin Samsudin. Muizz/O'zaki: And we are from Commonwealth Secondary School. Muizz: It is uncommon to find teenagers nowadays who are respectful towards others. O'zak: It is quite common however, to find those group of teenagers who are disrespectful . In fact, those teenagers who are disrespectful overshadows the existence of those who are respectful. Muizz: Nowadays, we can find a vast number of teenagers who are rebellious. Whether it is towards the authority, teachers, or parents, these group of teenagers has become nothing but corrupted. But amidst the darkest of times however, a new batch of teenagers has risen up from the ashes to give other people in the society the basic respect that each and every one of us deserve. O'zaki: We need more of this people in our society. Muizz/O'zaki: So let's come out and make the world a better place. A new tomorrow that starts today!!! Thank you very much.

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No I don't think teenagers are respectful towards someone who is older then them or someone who is younger or maybe the same age as them.I myself have witnessed teenagers disrespecting or being a rebellion just because they think it is funny to them in some way and I find it really selfish.What I think about them is all they think about is about themselves or how they can entertain their friends by doing stupid things. These kinds of people are going to affect the innocent in some way which may corrupt them. I also feel that these people have disappointed a lot of people, when they do something stupid, they don't realise the consequences that might happen. They think that they should deserve the same respect as like for example a teacher does, and will take back.

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Good morning Mr Loh, vice principal, teachers and fellow commonwealthians. I am Mohd Danial from class 4S. I am going to tell you about whether teenagers nowadays are respectful towards parents or teachers.

Some teenagers nowadays are not respecting their parents or teachers because they are thinking that they must be respected more than their parents or teachers are respected. Sometimes they disrespect their teacher because they would make their friends laugh by making disrespectful jokes about the teacher.

On the other hand, some teenagers nowadays are respectful towards their parents or teachers because they know if they respect other people, people will respect them. Other reason why teenagers respect their parents or teachers because they would want to be an ordinary person in the future unlike teenagers that disrespect their parents or teachers would definitely be disrespectful person in the future. Thank you for having your time to listen and I hope that you have learnt something from my speech.

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Good morning mr loh,vice priciple teachers and fellow commonwealthians.Today i will be talking about whether teenagers are respecting the elderly

We have to appreciate them because they are one of the most friendly people in the world.They took care of us when our parents are not at home but we still dont appreciate them properly.We also can visit them if you are free to see if everything is ok and fine.We have to cherish them before they rest in piece and regret everything by not asking for forgiveness.Thank you for your attention,i hope you learn something today.

Teacher's comments: Exactly, I think we ought to cherish others in our lives before we lose them.u

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We as teenagers can start helping the poor by donating clothes,toys or even books. These are ways to start caring for the poor and not be self-centered. Doing this also have benefits by watching the poor smile because we're doing a favour for them. Even though your donation maybe small, it might mean alot to them. You can donate toys for the children and books for them too. The clothes keeps them warm and clean. So we should donate to the less fortunate. You will feel great about donating and its fun.

Teacher's comments: You are so so right, Akib. Sometimes, what is small in value to us could be worth so much more to another person who is in much more in need or in dire straits.

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I think that teenagers now a days do not really show care/disrespectful towards them as they think that the elderly like to nag a lot for example, when the elderly need help, the teenager will find he or her very troublesome. But on the other hand, there are teenagers who are very helpful to the elderly for example, they help them to cross the road as their eye side is poor due to old age.

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Good morning Mr Loh, Vice Principals, Teachers and fellow commonwealthians. I am Melrone from 4S and I would like to give a speech about how teenagers treat the elderly these days.

I think that teenagers nowadays care for the elderly because i have seen many students helping them do simple things like carrying some heavy bags of GROCERIES. I myself have helped an old uncle pick up his phone after he dropped it, he couldn't even bend down to reach it so i helped him to pick it up. But while i was picking it up, i accidentally scraped his phone's screen on the floor. Some teenagers also dislike the elderly because of they way they talk to people on their phones. During their generation, they had no handphones or smartphones, so they are not used to todays technology. I hope you have learnt something from my speech, thank you for listening.

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I have witnessed teenagers disrespecting their parents and it disappointed me as their parents are the people who brought them to the world, nurtured them to a well and sufficient being that they are and showed them love and care when they needed it the most. so the least that the child could do is to show the parents the same love and care. However, people in their adolescents these days take things for granted, living a profligate life they forget simple things their parents taught them such as manners,kindness how to respect people etc etc

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Good morning Mr Loh,vice principal,teachers and fellow Commonwealthian. I am Hakim from class 4S and today I am gonna share a speech about how youth can help elderly in different ways. I think syudentcan help the elderly by visiting the old folks home to show the elderly how to keep their hand clean. Examples like, wash their hand after using the bathroom, coughing or sneezing, wiping nose and touching common surfaces like handles or table tops. This steps are very useful to them because they can keep themselves clean and tidy and prevent bacteria and germs from their body. For that, I would like to thank all of you to accompany my speech presentation. Thank you.

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Good morning Mr Loh,vice principal, teachers and fellow commonwealthian. I am Ryan Izwan from class 4S here by sharing a speech about yours now a days. I think that youths now a days actually do care about the elderly. That is because, some of the youths actually willing to sacrifice their time and to participate in involving themself with the work fare society. Before they start the community work, they went to the public raise to funds for the folks. They help to entertain the folks with playing some board games, helping out with the household chores, help them go through physio therapy or even have a meal together. To end day, they donate some amount of small cash or extra household needs and sang some songs together with them.With that, I would like to thank all of you who are present and spending your time with me. Thank you.

Teacher's Comment: Great that you observed the positives instead of just looking at the negatives. What do you think are some challenges faced by our youths today that is stopping them from contributing?

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I think that this or at least the generation after us are disrespectful. I feel that they have been brought up wrongly and that only a handful of of them have proper mannerisms. Unlike them, in my opinion I find that the 1990-1999 have strict bringing up or at least some level of respect to their elders. But, however they may be some delinquents among our generation and I think they should not be segregated from us or judged separately because of this.

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Students helping the elderly

I personally feel that there is a small amount of students nowadays hardly help the elderly even though the elderly really really need help.

i think students can help the elderly is by visiting the same old folks home once a week to entertain the elderly at there or do some activities with them. Students can also pair up organisation to help clean houses of the elderly. Students can also help by when they are taking public transport and is during peak hours or is not but they spot an elderly person they can stand up and give up their sits to them. Students can also help when they spot any elderly on the road who need a help they can offer a hand and help them example crossing the road or by helping helping carrying their stuffs if is too many or heavy for them to manage.

Written by: Enzo

Date: 24/07/2015

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Showing respects towards elderly

I think it is crucial thing for us to show basic respects as to lessen the burden of other people needs.

I profess that not all the teenagers nowadays are disrespectful towards elderly or younger people. From what i see, I can say that most of the teenagers out there still also do their part in caring for the society including the elderlies. For example, doing a simple job like helping elderly cross a road or helping them carry heavy stuff such as groceries. This action can be the most influential, as people will idolize such personalities. I also do encounter people from other country helping us pick up litter from the floor and I do admire their such behavior.Therefore, I think there is no excuses for our people to not be respectful towards culture, tradition and authority. I believe that students can do their part in being more observant for the poor, the elderly and handicapped so that to realize the importance of caring for the society. Hence, I think The basic thing we can do is to show empathy towards people.

Through this, we can start to show basic respects. And I hope more people out there will start to show in caring for the community.

Written by: Cathy

Date: 25/07/2015

Good observation Cathy. No action is too small or simple if it helps lessen the burden of another. Sometimes, we feel that our action is insignificant hence not worth doing at all. I also agree that teenagers need to be more observant. Instead of just looking down at our phones or being too engrossed in  our thoughts, we should look around us and be more aware of our surroundings.

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I think teenagers nowadays are disrespectful or respectful towards elderly people or younger people.

I am not saying that people who do not help are disrespectful maybe because they are feeling a bit awkward in public. But when someone who is older than you is talking to you politely,the least respect you can give is do not argue back to them if you do that then this is called disrespectful act.

But there are some teenagers are respectful to others around them by helping elderly whenever they need help. This are acts of respectful people who are not shy to help others in public.

Teacher's comments: I think that we ought to be polite in speech at all times, don't you agree, Asvini? And true, sometimes, what stops others is shyness. It's such a pity.

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Good morning mr Loh, vice principals, teachers and fellow commonwealthians. I am Regina Wong from class 4S and i am here to present about how teenagers treat the elderly nowadays.

I think teenagers nowadays are both respectful and disrespectful. I often saw students helping elderly on the street when they need help or facing difficulties and some of us are brought up by our grandparents so we really respect them and feel thankful towards them but some ungrateful and disrespectful people mistreat the elderly by scolding them, talking to them back or even hitting them. I saw quite a few videos online of children hitting their mom or even grandparents who are already quite old. This is obviously wrong and super disrespectful, anybody who do this is a disgrace to the society. We must understand that most elderly do nag a lot or might be unreasonable sometimes but I still thinks that all of us should at least give the elderly the basic respect which they deserve.

Teacher's comments: It's always sad to witness such incidents or to always see videos and pictures of such things on television or in the newspapers. Quite a meaningful sharing, Regina.

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I believe that teenagers nowadays are quite disrespectful towards the elderly or even their own parents as I myself have witness some disrespectful acts by teenagers towards their parents. They would either ignore what their parents are saying or argue and shout back at their parents which I think it is very wrong and very sad to see these kind of acts in public or even in a reality TV show. I think this has to stop as we should love and care for our parents and elderly. They have taken good care of us since we were young, therefore we should repay them with some basic respect and love towards them. But I also believe that there are some teenagers who are respectful and caring towards to their parents and the elderly.

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There are a huge number of teens nowsdays that are being spotted mistreating or disobeying elderly.

We had interviewed teenagers on the streets to ask them on how they feel about younger generations disrespecting elderly. we know that large number of teens usually do respect the older people because they are usually the ones who took care of them since young, and they are always the ones that are supporting and encouraging them in everything they do like in their studies and future careers .

Despite their age barrier They know that that the right thing to do is to treat them right but we have also heard from teens that the main reason why they disrespect elderly, is because they feel that the age gap between elderly and them are rather big. Therefore they feel they will never understand how we are feeling or going through.and sometimes they said they find it annoying that they keep nagging.

A number of teens respect others.However not many teenage realised that yet. Hence, causing them to dislike or disrespect them. but don't you think the least we could do is to show them basic respect that they deserve

written by:Michelle and Jermaine

date:24/7/15

Teacher's comments: You are absolutely right, Jermaine. I think that for all the experience that they have in life, and for us the younger ones who had barely experienced much, we ought to really show respect to them -- or in fact, to everyone else as well.

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Write a short paragraph about either

1) whether you feel teenagers nowadays are respectful towards authority, teachers, parents, friends. themselves, property, culture, tradition, others,

or

2) what students can do to help the poor/ the elderly/ the handicapped.(choose one)

Write in complete and grammatically correct sentences. For the purpose of this task, I need everyone to respond without the benefit of online research. Write no less than 100 words.