ESSAY 1

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Suggested titles for this essay:

1. Lost in the jungle.
2. An unforgettable experience.
3. Describe the most frightening experience.
4. Write a story begins with this phrase : We started off our journey early that Sunday
morning.
5. Write a story beginning with these words : After the SPM examinations, we had made a
plan
After the SPM examinations, we had had enough of studying and books, so we were all set on
going camping. It was supposed to be a two-day camping trip. Never in our ___________1______ did we
imagine that it would turn out to be __________2___________.
We equipped ourselves with the necessary ______3_______ and enough food to last us for the
two days. Then we got onto our motorcycles and _______4________. When we arrived, we parked our
motorcycles and set out to climb Mount Ophir. _______5______, the steep _________6________
sapped us of our energy. _______7________, we reached a picturesque waterfall and decided to camp
there for the night. After nightfall, we sat around a campfire and ______8___________our time telling
jokes and scary stories. Ravi, the ______9_____of the group, entertained us with a
___________10_____________ ranging from sentimental oldies to the latest hits. Since it was a cold
night, we _______11__________ to each other and soon slipped into _____12_________.
The next morning, we went deeper into the jungle and _________13_______up some
_______14_______. After more than two hours, we decided to return to camp for some food.
__________15_________, we realized we could not find our way back. We ____16_________ tried
retracing our steps but ended up going in circles. In the _________17_________of daylight, we tried to
________18___________ back .Hours of __________19__________in the dark drained our last
reserves. We were lost!.
We had no choice but to spend the night beside a lake. An ______20_______ surrounded us.
Fear was ______21_______all our faces, especially since we recalled the stories we had happily told
each other the other night before! I could not help but wish that I were in the comforts of my bed with its
Dunlopillo mattress. Here I was, in some __________23___________ of a dense _________23_______,
with only ___24____insects and wild animals to keep company. All of us were in _______25_______.
Even Ravi was silent and withdrawn. The hours dragged past. The ___________26___________ made
by the nocturnal creatures only _____________27___________.
The __________28____________ brought with it a ___________29___________ of hope. With
_________30__________, we continued to try and find our way back by following the course of the river.
We had gone no further than a few hundred metres when we met a hunting party. They guided us back to
the foot of the mountain.
There we dashed to our motorcycles and made ________31_________for home.
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stumbling
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in low spirits

fading hours

steep terrain

inconspicuous corner

slumber land

cacophonous sounds

snuggled close

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vigour
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gear
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ascent
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wide repertoire of
songs
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just before dusk

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ESSAY 2

intensified our misery

made our way

mountain slopes
wildest dreams

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Student viciously knifed by robber

PETALING JAYA: Running an errand for his parents each morning was routine for 22-year-old college student
Chew Chun Sien but little did he know last Wednesday that he would __1__ death in an encounter with two
___2_____ robbers near his house in Bandar Kinrara 2, Puchong.
For not having enough valuables on him, his _____3_____assailant ___4___ him several times and
_____5_____ serious injury on the youth including an almost severed finger and a stab wound on his neck which
_____6_____ missed an artery.
Chew was returning home after sending a tiffin carrier to a food caterer who delivers meals to his house when he
was ______7_______ by two men on a motorcycle.
"It was just a 200m walk to a nearby food caterer and he was coming home. A robber _____8___ him by the
neck and at knife-point, ____9_____ him to hand over his valuables. So he gave them his wallet but they wanted his
handphone. When he told them he did not bring it along, the ____10____attack began. The robbers ___11__ the
scene when several ______12_____ who saw the attack shouted for help," said the victim's mother who only wanted
to be known as Chin, 55.
She said her son who is____13____ a course in IT at a private college and was bleeding _____14____
managed to ____15____ back home and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was warded.
Chin, an employee of an IT company said that Chew, the eldest of her three sons ____16_____ two surgeries
within the next few hours and was ____17_____ from the hospital the following day.
"His neck, stomach and a left finger were __18__ up. Doctors told us that the neck wound could have been
__________19_________as it was close to his carotid artery. He also had to ___20____ micro-surgery to sew up the
torn tendons, nerves and veins in the injured finger.
We have ____21____ a police report and this has been a _________22______for my family. We are so shaken
up that we ___23__ stepping out of our house. I never thought it will happen to us and we do not feel safe anymore.
There have been too many cases here and despite taking all measures, it seems to be ____24____our control to
stop these criminals." she told the Sun yesterday.
Chin who had lived in the area for 23 years said she learnt from her neighbours that __ _25___to Chew being
attacked, a middle-aged woman was also set upon nearby by two men believed to be the same _______26______.
"The robbers ordered the woman to remove her blouse thinking she had hid her valuables after she told them
she had none with her. They fled when several residents ____27___ a din on seeing her attacked."
The area's resident association pro tem committee chairman Mohamed Nazam Ali said to _____28____such
crimes, ____29____are being made to turn the area into a gated and guarded (G&G) housing estate.
"Residents ______30_____ about safety should support this effort. Some are ____31____ of it as access roads
lead to public schools and shops but all these can be ___32___ out with planning. Had this been
_____33_____earlier, these robberies would not have happened." he said.
Serdang police chief ACP Razimi Ahmad told the Sun that police are yet to ___34____ the robbers but have
_____35_____ crime prevention patrols in the area.
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