NAME: Restian Alvaran TEACHER: Ms.

Mae Nilo
GRADE: G12-STEM SUBJECT: Reading&Writing

EXEMPLIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION

Writing Task 1: You are the editor-in-chief of your school’s publication. The school paper adviser requires
you to write a 2-3 paragraph opinion article about the COVID-19 pandemic for a special edition paper.

“Education in the time of COVID-19”

COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new strain of corona virus. ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for
virus, and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel corona virus’ or
‘2019-nCoV.’ The COVID-19 virus is a new virus linked to the same family of viruses as Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and some types of common cold. For that reason, many
countries around the world are racing to understand and limit the spread of the new
coronavirus, as well as the headlines focus on those efforts, a major side effect has been
overlooked: especially the education. Even before the outbreak of the virus, there were 258
million out-of-school children across the globe — principally due to poverty, poor governance,
or living in or having fled an emergency or conflict. In addition, there are programs dedicated
to ending the existing crisis in global education, the dramatic escalation that the novel corona
virus has introduced brings forward two fundamental and urgent questions. First, how can
education be continued during a global health crisis and play a role in mitigating the virus?
Second, what is the role of education in preventing future pandemics? Particularly, the Global
Business Coalition for Education, an organization founded by Theirworld, put forward a
threefold response for education, focusing on emergency provision, safe reopening of schools,
and sustaining healthy communities along with the principles applicable to nearly all public
health crises. The following are relevant today:
First of all is ensuring emergency education provision until schools can safely reopen. If schools
are closed due to a public health emergency, it should be noted that administrators should
realize that teaching and learning do not have to grind to a halt. They can continue through
programs using innovative approaches. Secondly, the reopening of safe schools. School
systems should put in place a transparent plan for reopening schools as quickly and responsibly
as possible. Furthermore, this will include preparing the physical schools for reopening,
providing teachers with accurate information and training on the public health crisis, using
schools as an opportunity to quickly monitor and trace any reemergence, and providing any
additional physical or mental health support that students may need, especially in high-incident
areas. Above all, is the sustaining of safe schools and healthy communities. It is important to
use schools as a way to implement broader public health programming. And it is equally
important to develop contingency plans for future emergencies.

While we hope that children and students in the most affected areas will soon be able to go back
to school and that other schools won’t be affected, let’s make sure that global education is not
forgotten during the crisis or in its aftermath.  Even as there is a critical need for the world to
collectively engage with the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 disease it causes, there is a
discernible lack of leadership at a global level. Unfortunately, there is little global coordination
thus far and nations appear to have adopted a solitary (forget about other countries; violent
competition for scarce resources such as personal protective equipment and ventilators;
blaming and at times abusing each other; etc.) and incoherent (too little, too late; mixed
messaging; etc.) response to the challenge. For instance, there is much that we can do to support
each other. There is much that we can learn from each other. I hope the Journal can play a small
role in helping this happen.
Writing Task 2: You are one of the business proprietors at your school’s on-going Business Expo. An
interested customer sent you an e-mail asking about the different types of products you sell. You need to
respond to the e-mail in 2-3 paragraphs indicating the classification of your products. To encourage your
customer to avail, your message must contain the product’s category, specific features and prices.

First of all I want to introduce myself, I am Restian Alvaran and I am one of the
business proprietors of our school’s ongoing Business Expo.

Thank you for contacting us about our products and I am glad to tell you that we have
different types of products. Firstly, we have facial products like glass skin set and
rejuvenating set and it makes our face exceptionally smooth, even-toned and lustrous
skin that's so flawless it has the appearance of glass. Next, we also sell school supplies
that have a very low price for those students to be able to afford it and coupled with
some pre-loved clothes and not to mention, all of them are very affordable. Unlike from
other products, even if it is cheap, it is easily damaged and has a bad quality. Differing
from our t shirts that has a very affordable and worth the price because of its good
quality.

Thank you for your interest in our products. I hope this information addresses your
needs. If you require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us at
anytime. We look forward to hear from you soon. Thanks again for this opportunity.
I'm happy to discuss the report further if you're interested.