Written expression collection for BEM pupils

Project 01

Algerian mealtimes
Dear Mark,
Thanks you for informing me about the British mealtimes. It’s my turn to give you information
about Algerian mealtimes.
Unlike the British, the Algerians don’t eat more than three meals a day. First, they have breakfast
when they get up, usually at 7 o'clock .It's made of bread; jam butter, and white coffee. Next they
have lunch at around 12.This is the biggest meal time of the day .Dinner is in the evening at about
20:00.
I hope you have now some information about Algerians meal times.

Yours faithfully
Ahmed
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English mealtimes

Hi, Samir!
I am really happy to tell you about food in my country. So, in England we have three main meals
a day.
Breakfast is between (7:00 and 9:00).The traditional English breakfast is called the Full English
breakfast. It’s usually bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes and toast. Lunch is between (12:00 and 1:30
pm). It’s often a light meal of soup, sandwiches and a salad. Most of children have their lunch at
school. Dinner - the main meal – is eaten any time between (6:30 and 8:00 pm). It’s the evening
meal. A traditional dinner is meat or fish with potatoes and vegetables. After that, some people have
pudding, fruits, chocolate cake or an apple pie as a dessert.
On Sundays, the main meal of the day is often eaten at midday instead of the evening. It’s usually
a roast dinner consisting of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and two kinds of vegetables. We eat most
of our food with cutlery (forks, spoons and knives). We pay a lot of attention to good table manners.
Even young children have to eat properly with a knife and a fork.
What about your country? Could you tell me about your eating habits and table manners
especially during the fasting month (Ramadan)?
Waiting to hear from you soon,
Best regards.
Paul
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Healthy Food
Healthy food is good for you. You need it for shiny hair and strong bones. You need it so you
can grow tall and feel good. The best part about healthy food is that it is tasty! You can find grains
in bread, rice, and oatmeal. You should eat four servings of grains every day. Milk, cheese, and
yogurt are also important. These will give you strong bones. Meat, beans, fish, and nuts give your
body iron and protein. You can also eat an egg or some peanut butter to help keep your body
healthy. Fruit and vegetables are good to eat. Eat many kinds each week. Chips and cookies are
tasty, but eat only a few at a time. When you eat healthy food, your body will thank you!

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 Computers
Computer is a new automatic and electronic machine that is used to help man in his work. Van
Newman invented it in 1948.
It is one of the most important inventions of this century. It has a screen, a keyboard, a mouse, a
headphone, etc. It contains five parts: Input, memory, arithmetic and logic, control and output.
Computer can write, play games, perform music and do drawings, etc. It can also store and give
information very quickly; it is able to do the work of hundreds of workers in a very short time.
Nowadays, computers are used in different places: Schools, universities, factories, hospitals and
other public services and even at home; they make our life easier and better.
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Pollution
Scientists say that any city with a population of 50.000 or more has some kind of pollution.
Cars and factories give out dangerous fumes, so people have breathing problems. Many old,
famous buildings are in danger of falling down due to acid rain. Visibility is poor because dirty air
limits how far we can see.
Sea animals are threatened with extinction since oil tankers are releasing thick oil in the oceans.
A lot of fish die as industrial waste is poured into the sea. Because of dangerous chemicals from
factories, all forms of life in lakes are damaged. People catch diseases like stomach aches and
diarrhea because sewage water is dumped into rivers.
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Table manners in Islam
Muslims are required to follow the example of the prophet Muhamed ( prayers and peace upon
him) because he is the best example for this Ummah.

When we eat , we must mention Allah’s name and eat with the right hand. We shouldn’t drink
standing. Muslims mustn’t breathe or blow into a vessel. They should eat from what’s next to them.

We should not criticize food . We shouldn’t speak while eating .We must take small bites only
and keep our mouths closed.

While finishing eating , Muslims must praise Allah, wipe their mouths with a napkin and wash
their hands to keep healthy.

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Recipe (Dolma Batata)
During the month of Ramadhan, Algerians prepare Dolma Batata. You like it, don’t you ?
To prepare it, you need 500g of potatoes, 500g of meat, chickpeas, 30g of minced meat, salt, black pepper, 2
onions and 1/2 a liter of water.
Now, to make Dolma Batata, it’s easy. First, prepare the sauce with pieces of meat, 1 onion, 3 tablespoons
of oil. Brown spices
of simmer with 1/2 a litre of water. Then, peel, empty and wash the potatoes. Next, prepare the stuff with
minced meat, salt, black pepper, 1 onion and parsley. After that, fill in the emptied potatoes with the mixture.
Finally, put the potatoes in the sauce. Cook for 30 minutes. Serve with slices of lemon.
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 Application letter

Casbah Restaurant 24,Ben Badis Avenue, Algiers

12th Ocotber

Algiers
Dear Sir,
I am writing to apply for the job of chief cook advertised in the Chourouk Newspaper of 11th October
2015.
I am 25 years old. I have already worked as chief cook in a small restaurant and would like the opportunity to
work in your famous restaurant. I specialize in Algerian cooking and oriental one.
I enjoy working as part of a team and consider myself to be a friendly and organized person.
I enclose a photograph and my CV and I would be glad to attend an interview at any time.
Yours sincerely,
AmarMouloud
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Letter of complaint
El Anasser, BBA
January 11th, 2017

Mayor of the city

Dear Sir,
I am writing to complain about the living conditions in our city. Some of them are due to the
number of cars.

There are too many cars in our streets. People cannot breathe because of the cars’ fumes. These
fumes cause acid rain which kills animals and plants.
I would be grateful if you can add more buses and improve the public transport.
Perhaps you need to encourage people to use bicycles and walk more.
I look forward to receiving your response.
Yours faithfully
Hichem
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 Project 02

Educational system in Algeria

The pre-university educational system in Algeria consists of three important stages. First,
pupils go to primary school at six. They study there for five years. At the age of eleven, they take
a final primary school exam. When they succeed, they will move to middle school. The middle
school goes for 4 years, from MS1 to MS4. Students take the brevet exam at the end of MS4. If
they manage to get a pass, they will go to the lycée. There are many streams in the lycée.
Students can choose at the end of the first year in the lycée the stream which they like best if they
meet the required standards. Studies in the lycée run for three years. In the third year, they take
the baccalaureate exam. The baccalaureate is a diploma which allows its holders to register at
university.
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The pleasure of success
Success depends really upon your efforts. If you work hard, you will succeed. If you don’t
make efforts you will never feel the pleasure of success. If you don’t work by your own, no one will
give you anything. Perhaps someone will help you once or twice but will not continue helping you
forever.

You are a pupil, start by working to succeed at your exams. It is your last year at the middle
school, so try to get good results and go to secondary school. This will be possible only if you get
good results. If your average is equal or superior to 10/20 which is defined by the ministry of
education, You will be admitted to the first year of the secondary education.

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Technology

Technology has revolutionized our lives completely today we cannot think of live without a
television, mobile phones and the latest addition’ our addiction to the internet. The wise internet
has everything in it, what one wants to know. It not only provides connectivity with others but it
stores houses of knowledge, music and plenty of things.
Technology in education has transformed and changed the way we learn. Now, students can use
digital resources to learn about everything from ancient history to nowadays events.
Medical technology is another way that our lives are better by technology. By developing, more
sophisticated machines to treat illnesses, medical engineering experts have helped us fighting
diseases; surgeons are able to make difficult operations through the help of machines.
We can only guess: it could involve things like new cures for diseases, super computers, robots and
more advanced space travel. Experts believe that the evolution of technology is growing day after
day, which means that the rate at which technology is developing is going faster.

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 Your Rubbish Please !

Each year people throw millions of tons of trash, such as; bottles, boxes, paper, clothing, and
much more. Gradually this has led to major problems: pollution and overuse of resources.

In the 1970’s, European countries began to recycle because glass, plastic and aluminum become
very expensive. Recycling became a solution for both pollution and overuse of resources. Today almost
developed countries have their own system for collecting and recycling their garbage.

However, there are many countries that don’t have a recycling system. People still throw away
materials that can be recycled because there are not any waste banks.

What can be done? We should all keep the 3 R’s in mind. They provide practical solutions to the
trash problem (Reduce / Reuse/ Recycle).

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Life in the past (Used to)
Life in the deep past was very hard. People used to live in caves without electricity or gas. To get
their food, they used to hunt animals with spears which used to be made of stone. In addition,
people of that period used to wear animal skins. Furthermore, they used to be fond of some arts
like: drawing on walls and playing the flute. Cavemen who didn’t use to have doors to protect them
from dangerous animals, used to burn fire in the entrance of the cave to frighten these animals.

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Emir Abdelkader

Algerian nationalist hero, Emir Abd-el-Kader was born on Sept. 6th, 1808, in Mascara, Algeria.
After the French conquest of Algerian territories, the Arab tribes of the west elected him as their
emir, because he was a man of honor, trust, political spirit and most of all he had the qualities of a
real Muslim leader: fair, wise and faithful to his nation. With great perseverance and courage he
waged a long struggle against the French. He was the founder of modern Algeria. He organized a
true state, and fortified the interior towns by putting an end to the tribal differences and mainly
building a well organized army of resistance which conducted historical battles against the
colonizers, enemies of Islam, for about fifteen years (1832 -1847). Unfortunately, the French
overpowered and arrested this brave leader who chose to exile in Syria till his death in May 26,
1883. El emir died respected by both French and Algerians and by many others throughout the
world, and he remains the Algerian national hero.

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Prophet Muhamed (PBUH)

The prophet Mohamed (prayers and peace on him) was born in Mecca in 570. His father died
before he was born and his mother died when he was still a child. He lived with his grandfather and
later with his uncle.
Mohamed won a good reputation for his justice and honesty on his business missions for
khadija, a rich woman that he married later.
At the age of 40, while he was praying in Hira Cave. He received the revelation through the
Angel Gabriel who told him that he was the prophet of Allah.
Thirteen years later, the prophet Mohamed (prayers and peace on him) ordered his companions
to leave Mecca and to go to Medina. He travelled with his best friend, Abu Bakar. Their enemies
tried to stop them but they did not succeed. This long and difficult trip called the Higera.
The prophet and the God messenger, Mohamed (prayers and peace be on him) died in 632.
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 Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina was born in 980 C.E, near Bukhara. The young Ibn Sina received his early education in
Bukhara, and by the age of ten became famous in the study of the Quran and various sciences. He
started studying philosophy by reading various Greek, Muslim and other books on this subject and
learnt logic and some other subjects. At the age of 17, he was lucky in curing the King of Bukhara
of an illness in which all the well-known doctors gave up hope. On his recovery, the king wished to
reward him, but the young phycician didn’t accept. What did he want? He asked for permission to
use the library. On his father’s death, Ibn Sina left Bukhara and travelled to Jurjan. There, he met
his famous contemporary El-Biruni. Later, he moved to Ray and then to Hamadan, where he wrote
his famous book ‘’Al Qanun fi Al-Tib’’. Here he treated the King of Hamadan, for severe colic.
From Hamadan, he moved to Isphahan, where he completed many of his enormous writings.
Nevertheless, he didn’t stop travelling. Finally, he returned to Hamadan where he died in 1037
C.E.

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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18th, 1918. His father was
Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University and
qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in
resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for
treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.
On June 12, 1964, Mandela, was arrested again and sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964
to 1982, during his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely
accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of
resistance against racism. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his
freedom.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself
wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four
decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after
the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his
lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organization’s National Chairperson.
After that, Mandel lived the rest of his life trying to secure and develop South Africa’s prosperity
and welfare. He died on December 5th, 2013.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is one of the most gifted scientists of all time. He is best known for his theory of
relativity which he developed when he was only 26 and which changed the way scientists looked at
space and time.
Einstein was born on the 14th March 1874, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. He studied
Mathematics and Physics at Zurich University and continued to live in Switzerland after finishing
his studies.
He worked in an office, but spent his spare time doing scientific research and experiments. He
became professor at Zurich University in 1909, but even before that, his research had made him
important force in the world of physics. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Einstein genius changed the course of history, since it was the central to the development of
atomic energy.
In 1933, Einstein accepted a position for life at Princeton University. He lived there, dedicated to
the study of Physics, until death in 1955.
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 Project 03
Road accident
It was getting darker, but there weren’t any lights on. There were few cars in the street when I was
driving home last Friday evening. Some drivers were hurrying to get back home, but they weren’t
really driving quickly. Neither was I. Suddenly, I noticed a boy riding his bicycle alone at that late
time. At first, I did not pay much attention, but very shortly, things got wrong. While I was turning
left, somehow the boy lost control of his bike. As I became aware of the boy’s trouble, I attempted to
avoid the bike but it was too late. ‘’While the bike was coming too fast, the boy seemed very
frightened and unable to change its direction’’, I told the police officers later. When the boy fell, I
hurried to help him. Fortunately, the crash wasn’t hard enough, so the boy got only minor injuries.
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Road accident 02
SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
Six people have been killed in a pile-up on the motorway1, this afternoon. Seventeen other people
have been hurt. Six lorries and seventeen cars are involved in the crash.
The accident occurred shortly after 4:00 p.m. when a lorry was hit by another one which was
overtaking it. The two lorries blocked the way, and they were hit then by several other cars. The
cars and lorries caught fire. Some of the people were injured when they tried to escape from the
fire. The motorway hasn’t been cleared yet and the traffic is still being held up.
Ambulances and the fire brigades have been called from neighbouring towns and are converging to
the site of the accident.
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Road accidents (causes and effects)

During the past five years, the number of the Algerians killed annually in car accidents has climbed
to more than 10.000. This needless slaughter on streets and highways can be attributed to three
general causes. Mechanical failures, especially those related to faulty brakes and bald tyres,
account for significant number of fatal accidents. Environmental conditions such as blind corner,
narrow streets, heavy fog, intermittent rain or snow resulting in slippery roads to the grisly
accidents statistics. However, without doubt the most frequently reported factors in car accidents
are errors of human judgment all the way from such follies as excessive speed and drunken driving
to such momentary lapses as failure to signal a turn or a change from one lane to another. He,
Man, behind the wheel is often his own worst enemy.
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Aladdin (Fairy tale)

Aladdin and his mother lived in Arabia. Aladdin’s father was dead and his mother was very poor
but Aladdin was careless and spent his time playing. She was very sad.
One day Abanazar, a strange magician from Morocco, wanted Aladdin to help him find a magic
lamp. The magician told Aladdin to go into a deep, scary cave and find the lamp. Aladdin found the
lamp but refused to give it. So, the magician closed the cave leaving the boy inside. Aladdin found a
way ad got out.
When he got home, his mother rubbed the lamp by mistake and a jinnee appeared, it brought
them meat and rice on gold plates. The lamp had magic powers. They sold the plates for money
and soon became very rich and married a pretty princess.
When Abanazar discovered that Aladdin was alive and using the lamp, he became angry. So he
found a way and stole the lamp. Aladdin travelled to Morocco and killed the magician. From then
on, he kept the lamp in a safe place.

Belayadi Wassim