I have started my course weak in English and didn’t know how to do a summary.

In this course Mr. Hedley helped me a lot in learning how to write a summary, and what information should be in the summary and what should be not included in the summary such as names and facts. I have written four summaries till now with Mr. Hedley. They were about police horsemen patrols, desert survival, houbara bustards, and desert milk. Also Mr. Hedley taught us how to do a reference by looking at Bibme.

In conclusion, I have learned a lot in this course such as doing a summary, making a reference and writing reflections, and all thanks to Mr. Hedley.

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Desert milk, from farm to fridge

This morning a lot of people are drinking milk either with their coffee or tea. And people don’t know that in summer it is too hot for the cows to produce milk happily. But you still find it in the supermarkets and groceries; many bottles of milk that is enough for all, with many flavors. In Almaria industry have 135,000 Holstein cows in 6 super farms. The cows produce about 2.5 million liters a day. Almarai industry makes its own bottles to label the types of milks, yoghurt, and cheese. Almarai  have almost 3000 lorries and vans to send over the Gulf area. Half a century ago, people on the Arabian Gulf were using goats and camel milk which was stored in earthenware jars. The powdered milk is still produced and people buy it but not like before; the cows’ milk is the king now.

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summary 1

In the UAE police departments have horsemen patrols in every place in the UAE. The horsemen are riding Arabian horses and it’s the most powerful horse. The horsemen take with them mobile phones and walkie-talkies only. They ride the horses in the desert to places were it’s hard for the cars to go. They secure the country from the drug users and dealers. They also try to monitor the situation in the winter season when the families go for camping and they try to catch the trouble makers and guys who are chasing girls. The patrol horses are trained not to be afraid of the sound of cars , engines and the taunts of some people.

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summary 2

The houbara bird was getting extinct because of being over-hunted. So the U.A.E made a center to protect them from being extinct. The center, called the Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation, is in Morocco and it’s financed by the Abu Dhabi government. In the breeding season the houbara is inseminated and it takes around 4 days to lay 3 eggs; the eggs are taken to an incubator and it takes around 24 days to hatch. After the eggs hatch 10% of the chicks will be kept for breeding and will be given some human contact. While the others will be kept for 9 months and then will be released in the desert. The houbara scientist monitor what will happen to the houbara after it is released by using radio and satellite transmitters to track their movements.

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summary task 1

Desert survival

The Bedouin people were to eke out limited food, water and shelter to survive in the heat and dryness of the desert. Bedouin were having a tough time to find water and food. The Bedouin were digging under the ground to find water. They named it after the man who dug it because it was dug by only one person with his bare hands. Bedouin are used to walk for many kilometers to find water. If they didn’t find water they would kill their camel to drink the water in the camel’s stomach because the camel has a facility that it can store water in its stomach for many days. The Bedouin used the skin water vessels to store water.

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