Day 7 English Oral

This is a scene of a hawker centre. I can tell that this is a hawker centre since it is near a HDB flat and it has the typical round tables and round chairs that a hawker centre has. There are many people holding brooms cleaning the floor while a woman at the right of the picture holds a water hose while spraying the water on the table. I believe that the woman on the right who is holding the water hose is a member of the Parliament. This shows that the government cares about the hygiene of the public places. The people cleaning the floor with brooms are probably volunteers that care about the public and hence want the place to be hygienic. I feel that people should not throw their rubbish around in the hawker centres but they should throw them in the rubbish bins nearby. They should also return the plates and utensils they used to the respective stalls and not wait for cleaners to clean up after them. There are many people gathering outside the hawker centre with smiles on their faces. This shows that they are happy to see the hawker centre cleaned. This is probably because the hawker centre was very dirty before the cleaning and they are glad that they are able to enjoy their meals in comfort. A man at the center of the picture points at a table at the background of the picture. He is probably asking for volunteers to clean the table. If I were there I would volunteer since I believe that everyone has a part to play in keeping Singapore clean and green. Lastly, I believe this event was organised to spread the awareness of hygiene to the public.

Conversation

2.I think hygiene is very important. This is because good hygiene prevents the spread of diseases such as the recent H1N1. By washing your hands, you can get rid of the possible germs that linger. I believe that it is difficult to have good hygiene when one is preoccupied with something and busy as one cannot possibly be washing their hands at every minute or after every object that one touches. Also, it is difficult to have good hygiene when the facilities around you do not have adequate standards such as toilets with no soaps. When one is too hygienic, one may develop an obsessive compulsive disorder or have no immunity against disease-causing bacteria, hence one would be more prone to fall ill easily.