Free the Children

This is a book report which we have to in course English 2B. Our task is to read a short book called “Free the Children ” then we must write assignment about it based on guidelines

HaNoi Open University Faculty of Tourism

English Course 2B:

Group members:

Dương Thị Linh

Cung Diệu Linh

Hoàng Trà Linh

Vũ Diệu Linh

Class: A1K16

Table of Content

I Introduction……… 1

II Body………

Part I: Comprehension………

Part II: Research … ………

III Conclusion………

2 3-5 6-17 18 IV Recommendation……… 19

List of References ……… i

I Introduction

This is a book report which we have to in course English 2B Our task is to read a

short book called “Free the Children ” then we must write assignment about it based on

guidelines This assignment is aimed at improving our reading comprehension, note-taking skills, report writing skills and research methodology on a country listed in the book As well as it attends our towards tourism- oriented activities

For this assignment, we work in group of four Our group’s name is “4 Link” Mean

is 4 member whose name is Linh linked together to complete this exercise Include: Dương Thị Linh, Cung Diệu Linh, Hoàng Trà Linh and me Vũ Diệu Linh

My group must read “Free the Children” There is a story about the adventure of a

young boy called Craig Kielburger from Canada to Asia to find out the answer clearly for question “ What is a child slave?” as well as his idea to help children slaves After reading this book, we write a report which has three essential parts: introduction, body and conclusion We shared task as follows: I- Linh Vu write introduction, conclusion, recommendations and improve report because I have just experienced in previous assignment Linh Hoang makes part I Her task will use a blank map to draw Craig’s route around Asia and take notes on the types of ethnic foods, forms of transportation, religions and cultural notes that are presented about each country Linh Duong and Linh Cung make part II Their task writes a short report about Thailand where Craig visited

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II: Body

 Take notes feature of some countries in “FREE THE CHILDREN”

Author: Craig Kielburger Kevin Major

Harper Perennial Publisher

_Chapattis (bread)

Transportation _Visited

Dhaka

_Entered by air

_Took a rickshaw through a street

_Animals walked the streets freely

_ From Bangladesh

to India:

+No transportation leaf the city, +Craig walked 12

km to the ferry boat;

was required special paper

to board the ferry

+Planes to Calcutta were full, had to tried Thai

_Flew from Bangladesh

to Thailand instead of flying to India

_Visited Bangkok _Car drivers got angry driving through crowded streets

_Could come

to India by rickshaw, bus and ferryboat from

Bangladesh _Visited Calcutta;

Varanasi;

Delhi; Madras;

Cochin;

Bombay

_Went by train

to Delhi

_Rickshaw

_Flew over the

Himalayas, the tallest mountains

in the world, from India

to Kathmandu

_Visited Kathmandu

Board a bus for Lahore _The bus was much cheaper than a plane _The drives stoped at a restaurant

if the owners paid them some money And left quickly if they didn’t pay

turn deserves another”

Culture _In Dhaka,

people spoke English

_People greeted by saying

“Salam malekum”

_At meals, men ate first and women ate later

_Children pick up trash, sold food or beg

_Women washed clothes on the street

_People moved to cities looking for work and food

_Houses were made

by boxes

_Standed in a queue to take water from a pump

_Children walked to school for a few hours

_Couldn’t afford for hospital

_Girls:

worked all day, not be taught to read and to write

_ Famous for warm people, for children prostitution

_People could be so polite and gentle

_Put hands together and bow to greet

_Had ‘sex tour’; sex trade:

+Some streets were bright light

at night +Bars were everywhere

+Police made lot of money from sex trade

_Calcutta was poor, but active

_The rich and the poor mix together

_Some people thought child workers are necessary

_Some children were proud to be working, treating like adults

_The poor worked hard but earned a little money

_ Mahatma Grandhi -famous philoshopher was; Mother Theresa - famous humanitarian

_ Had local festival in Madras _In Kerala, 99% children attend high school

_1/15 population lived on the streets; paid for space on the sidewalk to sleep

_Cricket was popular

_Sang in

_Had the helping street children orgnization, called CWIN _1500 children lived on the streets

_“Namaste”

was a common spoken greeting

_Not safe _Had some violence

Hindi.