I use this article as an example of speech in my English class. I told the students, even though this is a speech, it can be turned into factual composition if they delete the salutation parts (introduction and conclusion) ad amend some of the sentences to make it less of a speech and more like normal composition. For example, in continuous composition, we don’t use the term like “I would like to urge..” or “I would like to present…”, because both phrases denote “a conversational style” as if we are interacting face to face with our audience which we do when we give a speech. So, if we change that part a bit, we can have a factual composition instead. Easy, right? Yet, some students were struggling to understand the concept. Sigh… This is one of the lowest points of being a teacher because you can’t help from feeling sad when some of your students don’t understand what you are teaching. But, I consoled myself that sooner or later they will get it In sha Allah
Title: Pollution and the effects of pollution
Assalamu’alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh and a very good morning to all of you,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to present a topic which relates to our current concern, which is pollution. What is pollution? The meaning of the word ‘pollution’ means to make things dirty. In another word, pollution is the addition of any foreign or poisonous substances into the environment at very fast rate than the environment natural accommodation. Accordingly, the pollution of natural resources causes imbalance in the ecosystem. Pollution has become a major environmental issue as it has created lots of health hazards to the people and animals of any age group. In the recent years, the rate of pollution is increasing very sharply because of the industrialized waste material mixing out directly into the soil, air and water. In any case, if the serious pollution problems occur, it causes hazardous to the life. It needs to be tackle seriously, otherwise our future generations would suffer a lot.
Pollution is classified into many categories according to the natural resources getting affected such as air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, etc. Rate of pollution is increasing due to the selfishness of the human being to earn more money and to fulfill some unnecessary wishes. In the modern era where technological advancement is given more priority by the people, everyone has forgotten the real discipline of life.
Continuous and unnecessary cutting down of the forests, urbanization and large production through industrialization has involved as a huge cause of the pollution. Harmful and poisonous wastes created from such activities causes irreversible changes to the soil, air and water which ultimately push lives towards pain. This big social issue needs a public level social awareness programme to destroy by its root to get complete relief.
Thus, I would like to urge each and everyone of us to play our roles actively in minimizing the effects of our action to our environment. We can start by recycling and reusing the things that we want to discard in order to reduce wastage. As Vincent Van Gogh once said “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together”. That’s all from me. Thank you. [354 words]