Date Production

The graph shows the top ten date-producing countries and their annual production in tonnes in 2001. Ten countries in the Gulf region and northern Africa are featured.

First, Egypt took the lion's share of production with over million tones but Iran is a close second with almost 0.9 million. Following them came the UAE and Saudi Arabia, rivaling each other with about 740,000 tonnes each. Pakistan and Iraq, with outputs of approximately 630,000, were not far behind. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around a quarter of a million. In contrast, harvests in Oman and countries in northern Africa are far less plentiful. Finally, Sudan's and Libya's crops yielded under 0.2 million each.

In summary, Egypt and Iran account for the majority of goods whilst Sudan and Libya are in the minority.

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Valentine Day

Valentine Day

The pie charts show Valentine's Day gifts that men and women in the USA buy for each other.

The top three gifts bought by men and women are cards, candy and flowers. As shown in the charts, the most popular gift is cards. Over a quarter of women buy cards while almost a fifth of men buy cards. The second most common gift by women is candy, Which is 21% while 16% of men buy flowers. Also, 11% of females buy Flowers and 14% of males buy candy. However, jewelry is nearly the same for both men and women, 9-10 %. Also, more men bought lingerie 7% and spa/personal care 6% whereas 10% of women prefer a type of gift like perfume/cologne.

In conclusion, flowers are my best gift for Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is a day that men celebrate with their wives or girlfriend.

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The UK government

The pie-chart shows where the UK government spent its money in 1996.

Let us begin with the biggest segment. The UK government spent £100 billion on social security. Then came health and personal social services with £ 53 billion. The education budget was around £38 billion. Also, the industry agriculture and employment budget was the same as housing, heritage and environment, around £13-15 billion. Then Defense got £22 billon. Another spending by the UK government was on other expenditure and debt interest, around £23-25 billon. Moreover, the budget for transport was £9 billion . Finally, low and order was £17 billion.

In conclusion, the total budget is £315 billion. My opinion is the UK government should spend more on Education and health and personal social services and transport. Also, reduce the amount of social security.

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Hedley Trip

Thirty years ago, Hedley, with his wife Mary and daughter Katie, Visited the Niah Caves in Sarawak, East Malaysia. They travelled by car, ferry and boat.

They sat off from Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei and drove to the border with Sarawak. They crossed two large rivers by ferry, stopped in Miri for launch and then continued to Niah, a small river township. Then they took a small boat and soiled upriver to a government rest house, where they spent the night. They ate with the small group of scientists who lived in the rest house and shared the cold drinks they had brought with them in a cool box. It was a remote spot, deep in the jungle. They slept in bunk beds with no air-conditioning. It reached a novel experience.

The next morning, they walked along a jungle path for half an hour until they reached the Niah Cave. Inside the caves, which were very high, they saw men who climbed up tall bamboo poles. The men wore lights on their hats because it was so dark. At the top of the poles they scraped off birds' nests from the roof of the caves. The nests were collected by their mates on the cave floor and put into sacks. These nests were later sold and made into bird's nest soup, a Chinese delicacy.

That afternoon, they said goodbye to their new-found friends in the rest house and set off on the long drive home. It was quite an adventure and one they would never forget.

How to Change a tyer

If you have a car, it's important to know how to change a tyre especially if there is no garage nearby to help out. In this easy, I will write the steps about how to change a tyre.

This is what must be done .First, after stopping and parking in a safe place, the wheel nuts are loosened. This should be done before the car i s raised; using the jack. Then the car is jacked up. Then the nuts and wheel are removed. After that the spare wheel is put on. Then the nuts are lightered and the car is lowered. The nuts are tightened again. Finally, your tools are packed away.

As you can see, changing a tyre is a very simple and straight forward process, but you must follow the above steps in the correct order, particularly the first step of loosening the wheel nuts before you raise the vehicle.

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Reflection 2

Reflection on process writing

When the task is to describe a process using the passive voice/mood, we must use the present passive.

This is formed by using is or are with the past participle, e.g.

Orange juice is stored in a fridge.

The oranges are transported in trucks to the factory.

If we fail to use the passive when we are specifically asked to do so, we are dropped a quarter band, which can mean the difference between passing & failing.

Reflection

I am going to talk about my English writing. I started to write English when I was 6 years old. At that time till high school, my English writing was very bad. All those years I nearly passed in writing. It was really hard to do a good writing. When I joined Abu Dhabi Men's College, and that was in 2003, a big change happened to my writing. First, I started learning grammar, how to make letters, informal letters, emails. Also, in college, I did many writings that helped me a lot. But in the first and second years, I didn't get a good mark in writing. In the third year, I did much good writing and I did get a good mark. I think, I learnt many things about writing in college because, there were good teachers and the English course was easy to understand.

Now I'm completing my study in college and I'm sure that my English writing will improve.

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