BAC 2016                                   WRITING A REPORT ( Ticket to English)                        Mr.
Abdelkarim Foulfoula
A. Study the following table about a seminar.
 Organizers :                              UNECEF Office in Morocco
 Topic :                                   Dropping out from school in rural areas: causes and solutions
 Date :                                    Novemeber 20th
 Place :                                   Ibn Khaldoun Conference Hall, in Rabat
 Participants :                            Educators, parents associations, political officials
 Attendence :                              200 people approximately
 Activities :                              Mini-lectures , workshops, presentations
                                           Some causes:
                                           - poverty
                                           - schools situated far from houses
        Main Ideas :                       - child labor (boys needed in farm work and girls in housework)
                                           Solutions:
                                           - Encourage drop-out students to return to school
                                           - Support poor families financially, so they can send their children to school
                                           - Sensitize parents and civil society about the importnace of education
 Evaluation and Reactions :                The seminar was fruitful, informative, well-organized , and successful
   1.   What was the seminar about ?
   2.   Who are drop-out students ?
   3.   When and where did the meeting take place ?
   4.   Who were the people involved in the seminar ?
   5.   What were the main recommendations of the seminar ?
B. Now complete this sample report with information about the seminar from the table :
                              Title: 
The (1).... was the destination of many people from all parts of Morocco on (2) ..... .
The event was a seminar organized by (3)..... . The seminar was about the uregnt topic of
(4) ... . Participants included (5)........ .
Approximately (6)...attednded the meeting. The activities were varied and they
included (7)... . The participants concluded that there were three
main causes of droping out from schools in rural areas. The first one was (8)...., the second
one was (9), and the third one was (10).. .
Also, the participants suggested solutions to this issue. Some of these solutions were (11)..... .
In fact, the seminar was (12)...and people who attended got a lot out of it.
C. Elements of a Report :
    1. The title should be short and pricise . It should give a general idea about the content of the report.
    2. The introduction sets the scene for the report by giving details about the time, place, and participants.
    3. The body , sually limited to one paragraph, includes the main ideas of the report.
    4. The conclusion evaluates the success of the event and the reactions of participants and attendees.
D. Use information from this table to write your report.
                                                                                   presentations, mini-lectures, watching short
 Topic:           High crime rates among Moroccan youths          Activities:
                                                                                   videos, personal stories, workshops
               Moroccan Youth for Development
 Organizers :                                                                      Causes of criminal behavior among youths:
               Assocaition ( MYDA)
                                                                                   unemployment, poverty, depression, drug use
 Place :       Communal Cultural Center, Rabat
                                                                                   Suggested solutions :
 Date :        April 16th                                         Main idaes :
                                                                                   education, job opportunities for all, promote a
               security experts, criminologists, educators                         sense of citizenship , more youth recreational
 Participants: sociologists, social psychologists, officials ,                     centers
               youth associations representatives
 Attendence :     around 270 people                               Evaluation:      timely, very informative, interesting activities