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Topic B: Dan was a stunt performer of the new and upcoming movie, “ Avengers.”
He played with his diamond (which costed an arm and a leg) in the bathroom and accidentally flushed it down. When it was time for his stunt, he stood into space and walked slowly, feeling sad as he knew that the shoot would be delayed. The director asked him about the diamond and Dan blatantly said, “ I flushed it down the toilet .” Thus, the shoot was delayed to purchase another diamond. After the shoot, he used his salary to buy another diamond for the director for his trouble.

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Topic A: Write about an occasion when a special family meal produced unexpected results.
Topic B: Write about a time when you made a mistake which upset other people. How did you try to put things right?
Steps:
a) (reg no) Name as the subject
b) Indicate Topic A or B
c) Write out your plot.

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Next steps: Do by Monday on foolscap paper.

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Next steps: Do by Monday on foolscap paper.

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Please look at your own padlet submission.

1)  Write out your introduction paragraph.

Success criteria:

a.   I can write about the main characters and setting

b.  I can include necessary, vivid descriptions and details

2)  Select a part of your recount in which you can “show, not tell” a particularly emotive part of the event in the form of a dialogue

Success criteria:

a.   I can punctuate correctly

b.  I use vivid “say” words

3)  Write out the Concluding Paragraph:

Indicate clearly the learning about yourself through the reflection
Success Criteria:

a.   I can relate to the event

b.  I can relate the learning through the reflection

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Topic A
Sunday evening, the family gathered to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday over dinner at my place. Grandma had led a ------ life and we wanted to mark this special event with ----
The intention was for ---- but ----

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Topic B
family members and friends were encouraging me and giving me encouragement for prelim examinations coming up. Parents paid a lot of money for extra tuition lessons just for me to do well. but I did not do well for the prelim examinations in the end. Everyone was really upset that I did not do well and that feeling made me take a major setback. After awhile, I decided to study and work even harder for the next examination that was even more important, which was PSLE. After months of stress and hard work, I managed to improve from me Prelim examinations by 20 marks, and I won the most improved grades award for the year. I managed to make my parents and friends proud and also managed to get into the secondary school that I wanted to get into.

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Topic B: mistake that upset
I teamed up with my friends for a group project and we decided what we all needed to do, and my role was to bring the things we needed for the project. But I did not listen carefully and brought the wrong things the morning that I had been told to bring the materials, and we couldn't do what we planned to. My friends were angry and disappointed at me for this. I decided to make a mad dash for the nearby stationery shop to buy what we needed.

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Topic B: mistake that upset
Due to our laziness, we have been dragging this project for a whole week. Everyone was either typing away on their laptop or jotting down notes on their worksheet while I was dozing off. Feeling the need to hydrate myself, I dragged my feet towards the kitchen to grab a cup of green tea. Since I was fatigue, I tripped over my own feet and fell forawrd, my green tea splashing towards the table like a waterfall, making the research papers wet. Everyone started throwing agitated remarks at me and I felt very guilty. To make up for my mistakes, I stayed up all night rewriting our research papers.

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Topic A : At my grandmother's 70th birthday party, my father announced that we would be moving to Sydney for a few years because my father's company arranged for him to work there. My grandparents, uncles and aunts were a bit sad at first, but my parents reassured them and they supported them. I was utterly shocked and devastated upon hearing the news. I felt sure that I was going to lose all my friends. After revealing the truth to my friends, they convinced me that we could keep in touch no matter what, even if we were miles apart.

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Topic B:
It was a chilly friday afternoon.I had just got home after an exhausting day from school.As I took the dimly lit elevator up to the 6th floor, I noticed that my keys were missing from my pocket.I immediately contacted my mother and told her what had happened.As both of my parents worked far away from our house,my mother had to travel from her workplace to our home just to unlock the house.When she arrived,she was extremely furious with me.I learned to be more careful next time and to take care of my things better.

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Topic A:
In the middle of the family meal, which was meant to be happy and peaceful, parents broke the news to the child that he/she was adopted. Child was shocked and didn't understand. Parents explain about past. Child angry for a while, after that understood why his/her parents did so. Grateful to parents.

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Topic A:
My big brother passed on, after he went on, we never had dinner together again.So today,it was the first time having reunion dinner without him.The table was atmosphere was cold and gloomy.My eyes lit up, "what do you call a three humped camel? Pregnant!"

Bang! "Daniel!" My father yelled at me.My father's palms were red.My mother covered her face as she stood up and went to her room.My father followed after her footsteps, patting her back in an effort to comfort her .My siblings shot me with glares and shook their heads.

My eyes stung and I ran and slammed the door of my room!I did something wrong again.I just wanted to lighten up the mood, just like big brother always did! It's always my fault.Ugh! I such a burden
But I felt so wronged.Using the pillow i muffled my embarassing  sobbing sound. Suddenly,I felt a pat behind me. "GO AWAY!I KNOW YOU GUYS HATE ME!"
"No, we don't."my elder sister gently said.
" Yes you do!Especially because big brother died because of me!"
"Let's have a chat..."

I was left in the bedroom to think about what my elder sister just said.

I took a deep breath and walked out of the bedroom with my pitiful and pathetic red face.

"Sorry mum,dad...i know it's my fault...that big brother died..." I said holding back my fountain of tears.

My mother's eyes widen before softening."We never blame you,honey" I winced at the way she called me "honey".
"Y-you never"
One by one my family members said " I never did"
" You see..."my father started...

We had a sad dinner but all our misunderstanding was clear.At least mine was, always thought it was my fault, so i wanted to make up for my brother's absenced.But i realized that my family never blamed me and that they never thought that it was my fault that big brother died.

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Topic B
It was life-long dream, to be part of the national volleyball team. I was all pumped up and adrenaline was coursing through my veins. I had prepared my whole life just for this day and I was not going to waste it. Looking at the opposite team, our chances of victory was inevitable. For the first set, we were dominating them. Their spikes were weak and their communication was off. It was a guaranteed win. I was grinning to myself and started to make fun of them, even teasing them. During the break, everyone on my team were giggling to each other about the unique names I had given the opposing team. However, rumours always travel fast and of course, the opponents heard it. In the end, they were so disheartened that they decided to forfeit the second set. Seeing how badly my actions could hurt other people, I regretted all the name-calling and went up to their team to confess my mistake and profusely apologised to them.

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Topic B:
It was the day of the relay race, all competitors lined up to get into their positions. I was feeling confident we would win, we have practiced for this practically all our lives. But during the race, we came in fourth, meaning we lost and wouldn't even get a medal. I got mad and broke into an argument with me opponent saying it wasn't fair and blamed my other team mates for running too slow at the start. Later, I realised that it wasn't my team's fault, everyone had tried their best and I shouldn't have blamed them. So I went back and apologised to my team and together we work hard for the next competition.

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Topic B: mistake that upset
Me and my friends had planned a day out to go to universal studios Singapore . We had preordered these tickets for that day. I was in charge to bring them on that day. We had planned for this trip for very long already so we were all very excited for this day. However on that day I did not bring them. We met up at the location which was an hour away from my house. We excitedly headed towards universal studios Singapore. At the entrance I searched for the tickets, I searched everywhere but I could not find them. The day we had all planned for was ruined by that one mistake. My friends were all looking at me disappointed. I tried but luckily I remembered that I had online tickets so I told them. We ended going and I treated everyone to lunch as a apology.

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Topic A: our family was never close to each other, my father being a ceo running a huge company and my mother helping him. my uncle also had his own company to take care of. Therefore there was no time for the family to have a proper meal together. This time we finally got the chance to have a meal together. grandpa used to run the business dad is running now. He gave it to dad as his birthday present a few years ago. The company is running very well now.  Now that grandpa has passed away, hidden jealousy rises. My uncle, dad’s brother was always jealous of dad, he wondered why dad got the company and not him. He decides to frame dad in a scandal so that dad could step down and voluntarily give the company to him, since he was immediate family. That was the reason for getting  together for that dinner, to brainstorm ideas on how to fix the problem. Obviously, uncle was no help. We eventually found out that uncle was the one who framed dad. We brought this up to court and uncle was sentenced to jail, for defamation.

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Topic A: It was during my great grandmother 95th birthday celebration. We were all very happy to meet each other and had the chance to eat together. However, my parents said that we are moving to Australia to continue our journey there as my father had to go there for work and would be easier if we all move there. My great grandparents, uncles and aunties we sad at first but supported us at the end. Hearing the news, I was devastated and shocked. I felt that I would lose all my friends and all the memories of us together would be gone and there will be no one who entertain me when I am bored.

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Topic B: So there was once during a Sunday morning, I was doing a project with my Primary school friends, but on that day, I needed to go to the hospital as someone was ill. Feeling frustrated against my mother's constant nagging, I soon could not take it and yelled at her that I was busy and needed to concentrate. Yes, before this she knew that I had a project but she also could not stand me taking up some of my time to visit someone ill. Soon, I saw a hand flying towards my face. Bap! Soon, a war between me started with me and my mother, each hurling vulgarities at each other. The loud screaming and cussing then made the family upset. I just knew I had to end the "war." This was when I apologised to my mother and gently told her that I would really like to go but was too busy. This resolved everything and made everyone calm down, especially my mother who then clearly know why I could not go.

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Topic B: mistake that upset
My parents had to work overtime in the office so they made me pick my younger sister up from day care for that day.  After I finished my homework, I turned on my computer and started playing games. As time passed by, I started getting engrossed with my game until I lost track of time. A few hours later, the game finished. I stretched and looked up at the clock. It was seven thirty in the evening. Suddenly, realisation hit me and i realised that I was one and a half hours late to picking up my sister. I panicked and quickly ran out of my house to the day care, even thought i already knew that it was too late. By the time i reached the day care, i was completely out of breathe. To my dismay, the doors were all closed and the place was deserted. Fear rised inside me as I contemplated on who could have taken my sister. With a heavy heart, I trudged back home. When i reached home, i saw light coming out through the windows and wondered if my parents were home. I peaked through the door and saw two figures sitting at the dining table. I slowly walked into the house, wondering how i would explain everything to them. My parents saw me and immediately started scolding me for my irresponsibility. I realised that the daycare had called my parents when no one showed up to pick up my sister. My parents then had to rush down from work to pick her up instead. I felt very guilty and apologised profusely and promised to be more responsible in the future

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Topic A
We were going to celebrate my grandfather’s birthday. I was feeling sad that day as I lost my favourite plush toy that my mother who had past away gave me. When we reached the restaurant, I tried to put up a happy face but it was very fake. I greeted my grandparents and immediately my grandfather knew something was wrong. After dinner, my grandfather asked me to follow him for a stroll in the park. He asked me what happened and I told him why I was upset. He told me his story about the time where he met this type of situation. After his story, I feel comforted. We then we back home.

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Topic B: mistake that upset

It was the annual dance concert, we were doing so well. Our first few moves were perfect, immaculate, in sync until one of our members screwed up the remaining choreography. We knew we will embarrassed ourself if we continue to perform so we stop performing and went backstage with disappointed looks on our faces. At backstage I immediately told her off and blamed that member of ours saying it’s all her fault. My instructor and the other members threw a disappointed and upset look at me. I knew I had done something wrong, I reflected that I shouldn’t have say all those to her. Instead, I should have encourage her. Later I went to apologise to her sincerely.

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Topic B.
There was a music competition. We had to compete in groups of 5 so I asked friends to come and participate with me. We had assigned roles on who plays which instrument, I was incharge of the piano to play the base. I practiced a lot for a few weeks. A week before the competition, my cousin informed me that the second part of a game I really enjoyed had just came out so I decided to download it and play it. I was so engrossed into the game that I ad totally forgot about the competition. I did not take care of myself and ended up with a terrible fever. The worst part is, I had gotten this fever on the day of the competition. I had told my group I could not perform and they were so angry with I thought they were going to explode. They scolded me for not taking care of myself and being too addicted to games. They had to pull our group out of the competition at the last minute. Although they forgave me a week later, I still feel very guilty for what I had done. I learnt to not be selfish and think about others next time.

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Topic B
I am having a dance competition team competition in a weeks time and i am confident that i will be able to do well in the competition since i had benn approved by my teacher. This made me think i that i am good enought and thus, during that whole week, all my teammates were practising assiduously except for me. During the competition, my brain suddenly go blank and in the end, you had guess it, we lost. I felt disappointed knowing all the failure were cause by me. From that mistake, i had learnt that we should not be too confident, continue practise even if you are good. So for the next competition, i had learnt from my mistake and practise hard for the competition and finally, our team had won the competition.

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Topic B
The table tennis competition was coming up for the c division .I thought i was already very very good and thought i did not have to train for it, even though my teamates couch and my seniors reminded me to train.Thus during the training sessions i would just laze around and use my phone.On the day of the competition i lost miserably .From then on i trained hard every training session and won all the competitions

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Topic B:
There was this important group project that I needed to do. Me and my group member's did not do very well for our other tests so this group project could determine whether we pass or fail overall. My groupmates kept on reminding me to do my part of the project but I kept making excuses and saying I would do it the next day. Soon the project was going to be due in a few days and I had not started and my groupmates were all almost done with their parts of the project. I ended up rushing my part of the project and my part did not turn out very good. The day before the project was due me and my groupmates met up to put our parts of the project together but when my groupmates saw my part of the project they got disappointed seeing my part as it was very obvious I had rushed it. We ended up spending the time we were supposed to use to prepare presenting the project to redo my part of the project.

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Topic B:
Me and my friends were deciding to have picnic at the East Coast park and I volunteered to bring the snacks and drink.One day before the picnic,my mother knows about it and remaindered me to go and purchase the snacks and drinks but because I was so into playing my games that I told her that later I’ll do it but that later never comes this every time my mother remind me to go and do it now I’ll always reply with a “later”.That day was over and I forgotten to purchase the snacks and drinks for the picnic and just went to meet my friends at the East Coast park.Then when they asked me where are the things I’m suppose to bring,I then remembered that I didn’t purchase it at all and I apologised to them and quickly went to a nearby convenient shop to purchase the snacks and drinks.

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Topic A: It was on the day of Chinese New Year’s Eve. My family was going to have a family reunion dinner. So, my father went to the nearby supermarket to buy the ingredients for the meal. When he got back with all the groceries, my mother started preparing and cooking the dishes. However, when she was about to prepare the soup, she realised that the pork bone stock was missing. Apparently, my father had forgotten to buy it. Hence, my mother was angry. It was also too late to buy the stock from the supermarket as some of the dishes were already prepared. But my mother still prepared the soup. When we were having the soup, the soup was indeed bland and tasteless. However, my father said that the soup was perfect. Its because my mother still cooked the soup with love. And the point of a reunion dinner is to reaffirm our love and ensure the solidarity of my family, and I believed that that was true and will forever be.

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A few years back, my friends and I decided to go to the library to read a few
books. It was the school holiday, and we wanted to maximise the amount of fun that we could possibly have. The library was quite near our homes, and we were all over the moon as we were able to see our friends even over the school holidays. We chose a comfy location to start reading and after finding beanbag chairs, we settled right in and started flipping the pages. However, after about twenty minutes of reading, I spotted a spider on the ground. I did not expect a spider to be in an environment like the library, so I yelled out. Long story short, the librarian kicked us out and my friends were extremely mad at me. Fortunately, we were in Orchard and there was more than one library. After finding another one, we happily read and borrowed and had a great day.

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Topic B:
Weeks after I received my PSLE results, my family decided to treat ourselves by going to Seoul Garden at Tampines Mall for dinner since COVID-19 restrictions eased to Phase 3. Just an hour after we had dinner at the restaurant on that particular day, a person who had COVID-19 came in with a group. While my parents received the notification on close contact with a person who had COVID-19 at the restaurant. Both my parents were shocked but luckily for me, school-term had ended for the year, so that means I do not have to worry about not being able to go to school. However, as for my younger brother and father, they cannot return to the childcare center and office respectively, and my grandparents were also not allowed to enter our house for 14 days.

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Topic B: There I stood, in utter disgust and mere disappointment in myself. Not only had I let myself down, but also my colleagues, whom looked up to me. I was up late last night, being an absolute wasteman last night catching up on an American sitcom,  refusing to finish up preparing my presentation I was assigned to give my colleagues. Thinking back, I felt somewhat inactive. And this morning, on the way to my work desk, it suddenly dawned to me that I had forgotten to complete the presentation. For a second, I froze, feet adhered tightly to the ground. I knew I had screwed it up. I contemplated my options. Without internalizing it, I made a beeline to my manager's desk. Unsurprising, he was around. I thoroughly explained and sincerely apologized for my ways. He grinned at me, before bursting out in loud, audible, and uncontrollable laughs. "It isn't due today, silly! It's due next week!" He proclaimed. My heart rate returned to normal.

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Topic B:
At the corner of my eye,I saw it coming.I jolted as fast as lightning like i was being chased by ferocious dogs.Beads of sweaty rolled down my oily face.I feel the tension in the stadium changed significantly.When the ball went in the net,I felt the whole world gobbling me up.I turned to my teammates,who were staring daggers at me.I see  their disappointment.Our opponent were celebrating while the stadium were chanting for them.I felt our Olympic gold medal being snatched from us and we cannot do anything about because of me.

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Topic B:
I was in school. The teacher had just given out the compositions we had written a few days ago and we were all comparing our marks with each other. I saw that my friend had spelt a word wrongly and that the teacher had not spotted it. I told my friend about it and he said that it was correct and that it was just another way of spelling it. Shortly after, we got into an argument over which spelling was correct. In an outburst of rage, I called him stupid, which led him to tell the teacher about the matter. The teacher told me to go to him and explain the situation to him. After we explained the situation to the teacher, he told us that both ways of spelling was correct and that I was wrong about my friend's spelling being wrong. After I found out that I was wrong, I apologized to my friend and bought him a bottle of water to show I was very sorry about starting an argument over something I was wrong about.

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Every night my family would seat around the dining table and have a family meal but we would all be talking to our phones instead of talking to the family. One day when the house wifi broke down, all of us could not use our phones to surf the internet or contact anyone, but because every night we had to sit around the dining table, we did not talk to our phones and intead talk to the family about how our lives are living and how school or works was. Soon enough, our father told us that he actually had cancer and he was only left a few days to live and his last wish before he died was for us to talk like that in the family table instead of staring at our phones all day. When our father died we did what he wanted and never allowed phones on the dining table.

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Topic A:
While we were having our family meal, a loud knock was heard from the door. All of us turned our head towards the door. As my sister continued picking at her lasagna, my mother got up from her seat and opened the door, only to reveal two police officers standing there.
"Sorry to interrupt your meal, Madam, but does Peter Johnson live here?"
My mother looked stunned, but she quickly composed herself. She motioned me to come over. I hesitated. It's okay. They couldn't have possibly known what had happened.
The police officer whipped out his handcuffs and arrested me.
"You have the right to hire an attorney, but from now on, every word you say can be used as evidence against you."
"What- I didn't do anything wrong! Why are you arresting me?" I exclaimed.
The police officer sighed, "Denying things wouldn't make things better. Every piece of evidence at the crime scene is all against you."
"I didn't kill Jake! It was an accident-" I stopped as beads of cold sweat trickled down my forehead. I shouldn't have said that.
The police officer sighed and dragged me to his car. "We'll be going now, madam."
My mother looked at me in shock. I hate that face. It was as if she was pitying me.
Looking back, maybe I should have done a better job at cleaning the mess.

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Topic A: I went home to celebrate a joyous occasion where i had won gold in my competition. We were eating dinner when we heard a window shattering. It was scary and really unpredictable. At first we was stunned but was not curious , and after a while we coped up and started enjoying again. But another 'crash'  has arrived in our backyard. We did not understand what was going on. We quickly ate dinner and went to bed.

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Topic A:

"...Happy Birthday to you!"

Cheers filled the dining room as my sister closed her eyes and blew out the candles. More cheering followed as we started digging into the delicious food that our helper specially  made for Robie's birthday. Little did we know it was more 'special' than we thought. I ignored most of the dishes laid out on the table but there was one that caught my eye: the sausage pasta skillet. My bowl was willed to the brim of it but a minute later, it was wiped clean. That dish almost cost me, my immune system was average for a six-year-old, but the bacteria in the sausages that I failed to notice were undercooked were going to take an onslaught on my body.

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Topic A: We go to dinner at my favorite restaurant to celebrate me getting straight A's for all my exams the restaurant happens to be the one my brother hates but my parents made him follow. throughout the dinner he sulks but right after the food came he took his and threw it at my face. i then screamed a number of vulgarities at him and he punched me a fight broke out and my parents stopped us.

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Topic B:It was the deadline of our mid year project.As I was looking in my bag for my group's research,my heart sank as I could not find the research.My team glared at me as I was panicking rummaging through my bag.Then it stuck me.I had left the research at home.I walked to the teacher and explained the situation.The teacher said that my team would get a zero if I dont sumbit the research by today and I need to figure out of a way.I then slowly walked to my team and apologize to them for my carelessness.They were not too happy about it.After school I rushed home and took the research to school.Luckily I sumbitted the research just on time.

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Topic B :
I was in charge of filling in some forms which were very important for the student council.
I lost the forms on the day that I had to hand them in and was scolded very badly from the student council. The President reprimanded me but I had thought that I already handed in the papers. In the end, everything was sorted out and I was off the hook.

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Topic A or B?

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Topic B:
It was the day of one of my friends favourite concerts and she decided to bring me along. She gave me the tickets to hold on to and keep safe but on the day of the concert I had forgot to bring them and we did not get to see it. I gave her a "I am sorry" card and every day since, tried to get another pair of tickets. A month later, I got tickets that worked for our schedule. I made another "I am sorry card", this time with the tickets and gave it to her. We finally went to watch the concert.

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Topic A
It was Christmas and all my relatives and friends came over for a family meal. Things were all going smoothly until my parents and relatives decided to go out for awhile leaving the kids at home with me babysitting them while cooking dinner. However, in the midst of cooking, I heard a loud bang and realised that my younger brother did not listen to my instructions and went to jump on the bed which resulted in him falling down and hitting his head. His head bled and I rushed him to the hospital immediately while informing my parents what had happened and hoped that he was going to be fine.

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Topic B: It was the finals of the inter-schools football tournament. My team and I were warming up and getting ready for the match that was 5 minutes away from starting. At that moment, my heart was beating extremely fast as i was feeling nervous. When my team and I stepped onto the football field, I could hear my friends sitting in the spectator seats cheering for us. It was at that very moment that i got goosebumps and felt the pressure of having to win to not let my friends down. The match started and we passed the ball smoothly towards each other. I ran forward as soon as I saw my teammate having the space to pass to me and i could get a chance to score. However, being the one on the team who wouldnt want to score without humiliating the opponent first, I attempted a skill to trick the goalkeeper. To my surprise, the goalkeeper did not get tricked and managed to tackle me. My teammates saw what had happenes and were dissappointed in me. For the rest of the match, since our morale was low after my mistake, we could not get a shot in and lost the finals. After the match, i had a talk with my teammates and apologised for my selfishness. They forgived me and we agreed that we would win the tournament next year.