1189 Paper 1 Section 2 - Letter to the Editor
[A] CONTENT
You were helping at [1] a children’s charity event organised by your school …
Name of the charity should come with
possible examples such as
Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charity
Hildan Children’s Pocket Money Charity
Red Cross Young Singaporean Charity
Mercy Relief Children’s Charity
Needy Children’s Charity
St. Hilda's Secondary School was the co-organiser
What was the event?
Fun Walk-cum-Run
Fundraising Concert
Fundraising Karaoke Session
Fundraising Food Fair
….when a stranger handed you [2] a very large sum of money and then disappeared quickly into the crowd.
How much money? If you are making a serious report, you must have counted.
USD 10,000 for a single donation was a very large sum of money.
A stranger? If you are making a serious report, you must have sized up “the stranger”.
Gender – Male
Age Group – Middle-aged man in his fifties
Physical Appearance – Sun-burnt. Dark complexion
Race - Chinese
Accent - Spoke in American-accented English
What did he wear? - Armani sunglasses and Hawaiian casual short-sleeved shirt and purple-coloured sports bermuda.
How did he disappear quickly into the crowd?
He had simply wished to donate.
He said he did not have much time and did not have any small notes and he was in a great hurry.
He placed an envelope containing his contribution and jumped into a car with a driver who was waiting for him before I could stop for him to register his donation.
You have been asked by [3] the Principal of your school to write a letter to the Editor of The Straits Times to explain what happened and to thank the stranger.
Your letter must include address, salutation and close. [The format is important in this question.]
Your letter must include the following:
• [5] Some details of what happened
• [6] What the stranger looked like
• [7] How you felt when you realized how much money you had been given
• [8] Thanks to the stranger for this generosity
• [9] How this charity will use the money to help children.
You should include [10] any other information which you think would be helpful.
To The Editor of The Straits Times,
• Identify yourself as a student helper/volunteer of your school which was the organizer of the children’s charity.
• Mention that you have been asked by Mr. Ong Kim Soon, your school principal to explain what happened and to thank the “stranger” through the Straits Times.
• Express your wish to have this letter published in the Forum Page
• Important details - Name of Charity / Event
• Important details - Purpose of Fund Raising: to build a children’s entrepreneurship centre to teach children how to buy and sell things like food, items of clothing and other essential daily items.
• Reveal how you felt when you received USD10,000 from the stranger – happy and surprised / speechless and for a moment did not know how to react / very thankful for the stranger’s generosity
• On behalf of your principal and the organizers and benecfactors of the children’s charity, you offer your heartfelt thanks for his generosity.
• You wish to engage the help of The Editor to relay this message to the stranger.
• You would also like the stranger to contact you at 91123456 as soon as possible so that he may be thanked personally.
• The stranger’s single contribution of USD10,000 will be used to purchase and install a computerized cashier system and to build shelves for the display of goods in the children’s entrepreneurship centre.
[B] FORMAT
St. Hilda's Secondary School
2 Tampines Street 82
Singapore 123456
7 July 2010
The Editor
The Straits Times
3 River Valley Road
Singapore 678910
Dear Sir or Madam
Ronald McDonald's Children Charity Walk and A Stranger's Generosity
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Yours faithfully
[My Signature]
Arella Choo Xing Hong
Student Volunteer
Ronald McDonald's Children Charity
St. Hilda's Secondary School
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