Go to the following link
http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php?date=2012-06
Listen to the track two times.
As a summary prepare a mind map and send it by email. (Use the picture below as a reference)
Then answer the following question:
Do you think it was fair for the girl to stop writing in her blog?
Send the mind map by email and post your answer of the question.
Due date: November 17th.
No, because she is free to express herself and talk about what she wants and share it with other people. Also, if she criticizes something that is wrong or not good enough, the blog can be seen as a tool to see what is wrong and try to improve it.
ResponderBorrarNo, because, she just was a little girl, trying to do something good for other children of development countries, she is an example for the of people at the world, by the way, she was not talking bad about the food of her school, she just was giving some comments for the rest of the people.
ResponderBorrarNo, using her blog she was expressing something that concern all the school, she wasn't doing something wrong or illegal she only gave her personal opinion and others follow her
ResponderBorrarNo, she was doing it for a good cause, with no bad intentions but as usual, that doesn't count. Fortunately, people supported the cause and she was able to continue the good labor.
ResponderBorrarNo because she wasn't criticizing her school dinners, she was just giving her opinion. Besides everyone has the right to express themself whenever they want.
ResponderBorrarOn the other hand, school should take that as a positive thing because is a way to know what are the meals that students most enjoy and the things they don't like.
No, it wasn't the best reaction from the school because the school is supposed to be the one that teach the kids how to be a good persons and stuff like that, and the school first reaction was tearing down the Martha's idea, and this idea was actually really good because she was caring and supporting poor kids, the school had to support her idea, it was a good intention, instead of tell her to stop writing in her blog
ResponderBorrarOf course it was no fair, because is not acceptable that the authority refuse the help and the good intenssions of the girl in favor of people that really need the help. And it also is a good idea to keep the health in the schools because they now have to worry about the image that they are giving to the whole world, as a result the children are the winners, because the are going to have better food.
ResponderBorrarNo, because she didn´t expect that her blog became to be famous, and what she did was completely human, she tried to help other kids with economic troubles. Her blog started like a inocent hobby and the it was a tool for help people. It was a big mistake to close her blog.
ResponderBorrarIt wasn't fair, because they are limiting her expression liberty. Specially when she was just writing about the dinner in her school in a blog, where the education managers, can take that information to improve the school dinner in different schools around the country (England in this case). In this situation we can see the influence of the social media to inform about some issue, like the school dinner, and to protest against some situation, like the protest against the bureaucrats who run the education system's decision of banning the Martha's blog.
ResponderBorrarIt was unfair, she could have written whatever she wanted and the bureaucrats shouldn't have stopped her blog, they shouldn't be able to take control of someone's thoughts. Even she wasn't saying anything bad about the school-meals, she just wanted to compare the different meals, even if she was, it doesn't cross my mind thinking that part of the government pass over my freedom of speech right.
ResponderBorrarIt was not fair, I think that nobody can stop the expression freedom, with lees reason if that person is a child, those persons who say what you should or should not to do, should not have this power and authority, they should find something better to do and stop to annoy the people with stupid orders.
ResponderBorrarI do not care if because someone give an opinion, the bureaucrats and all social
administrators get angry, because people could realize that they are doing a bad job
I think the both parts have their own positive part, because Martha's propose was to deal with the foods in the sub development schools or poor parts of the world; all kinds of social movements like this will develop also an analysis of what is going to happen if, and for that reason that why school direction try to stop the issue, in that case i think the girl make a good decision closing the blog and for instants the social media make a better decision making possible the project of this girls, so, that girl is only making a good propose and that why school i think is trying to search.
ResponderBorrarIt was unfair, she has the right to say what she thinks and feels. In addition, she is helping the charity thanks to her blog. It was good that people support her and her blog, she was not doing anything wrong.
ResponderBorrarIt was not fair, she is just a girl who wants to do something good for the world, and in this case, for the children of her country and other places. Reading her blog i found dedication, inocence and empathy to show how important food for children is both in Scotland and around the world. Close her big it was a big mistake, she is brilliant and i wish there were more childrenwho acted like Martha, because they are our future.
ResponderBorrarI think it was not fair because she only wanted to express her self about something that she was truly intersted in. She can blog wahtever she wants because tha website(blog) belongs to her not belongs to the people who forced her to atpo writting.
ResponderBorrarOf course not, she was doing something that she likes and also she was helping others guys in others schools around the world with them dinners. Is not fair how the education system always tries to control everything. Hopefully she continues with her blog, because everybody realizes about what she was doing and what the bureaucrats did.
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