First reflection

My first summary was about desert police patrols; the teacher told us to look at the title first then to skim for the main ideas and he told us to focus at the first and last paragraphs and to skip the names and quotations, we did what he told us trying to cover all the important points and get the main ideas of each paragraph.

 

The second one was about car accidents being the biggest cause of child death in the UAE and how people ignore the importance of the child car seats and how it helps them to avoid a lot of problems, however the article has a lot of names and things that have been told by people and we tried to get the main points of the passage.

 

The last summary we did was about touring in the waters of Jebel Ali and pearl diving experience for the locals and tourists and how some people hope to save this sport from getting forgotten. In my opinion it was the  easiest one and the last two summaries we did helped us a lot in our summaries experience.

Tour provides insight into pearl diving

The Arabian Gulf was one of the largest natural diving economies in the world. There were more than 1000 pearling boats which offered jobs for 20,000 pearl divers until the 1950s. The Emirati hunt for the black pearl has not stopped completely. They still do tours in waters off Palm Jebal Ali for the tourists. Taking the tourists in a pre-launch dhow tour and pearling dive where they learn the merits of fetching oysters from the sea bottom and once safe back on board, look for naturally-grown pearls. Oyster hunters didn’t get rich but it was about the journey. Dhows has wooden decks of  60-feet. The local pearl industry collapsed when Far East pearl farmers did the pearl planting. Now it is much easier to get pearls instead of going for months  searching of them. A long time ago pearling was the main source of income but it has gone away for many reasons but some people are hoping to keep it alive by doing tours and make people know about this amazing sport.

 

 

 

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Road crashes main cause of child death in UAE

Road crashes main cause of child death in UAE

Traffic accidents are the main reason of death among children, responsible for killing 63 per cent child aged 14 and younger in the UAE. Although this is a main issue in the UAE , only one law has been passed saying that children ten years and older can sit in the passenger seat wearing a seat belt, yet 28 per cent continue to do this. The time has come for authorities to make a solution towards child seat safety. A very small percentage of child passengers are restrained by car seats or seat belts, 96 per cent of children in the UAE are not seated properly. Child car seat can reduce risks by 50-75 per cent and absorb the actual crash force and at the same time take it away from the child. The child stays in the seat so they aren’t ejected. Today there are a lot of car seats to fit the different ages of children. RTA is trying to solve the problem and reduce the number of children killed by car crashes.

 

 

 

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