Mrs. Potts works as a school dinner lady, preparing and serving meals to students from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm. Her duties include cleaning up spills and controlling unruly students in the lunch line. On weekends, she caters parties and made a profit of £355 after catering a wedding for 46 people at £18 per head. Mrs. Potts enjoys her job but finds the students difficult at times, and looks forward to using her catering profits to take a holiday in the summer.
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GU101 Student Success
Scenarios for Discussion Board Week 2
Scenario #1:
Amaya
Amaya is a 40-year old female who lives with her four children in her mother’s home. She is a single mother who works one full-time job Monday-Friday and works part-time (8 hours) every Saturday at the local supermarket. Her children are 11, 9, and 6 (twins). Her mother is retired and takes care of the kids when they get home from school. Amaya gives her mother money to do the grocery shopping (etc.) during the day when the kids are at school, and her mother cooks all the meals.
When Amaya gets home every day, she eats dinner, helps the kids with their homework, gets them to bed, and then begins her homework around 9:00 at night. She usually can get to bed around 10:30 at night, and she studies every night. She enjoys her online discussions, and she has been able to apply some of what she is learning to her job. She counts on Sundays to do massive work on her papers – except last Sunday was the twins’ birthday, so she didn’t do any work and did not submit her paper. Amaya figured she would finish it as soon as she could.
Yesterday, while her mother was carrying laundry to the washer, she slipped, fell, and broke her ankle. It was her right ankle, and she cannot put weight on it or drive. Although she has crutches and can get around the home a little bit, she is now unable to grocery shop, do laundry, and cook.
Amaya opted to stay in her course. She has not told her professor or her advisor what is going on because she didn’t want to sound like a complainer. She now has taken on all the household responsibilities, is working the same amount, and often cannot begin her homework until midnight. She is beginning to fall behind and is hoping she can hang on and earn some type of passing grade.
Scenario #2:
Bob
Bob is 24-years old and married. His wife is 6 months pregnant with their first child, and she is a librarian at the neighborhood elementary school. Bob is excited to become a father! He currently has a salaried position as an assistant manager at a large retail store he started working at when he was 16 years old, but the company will not promote him to any higher position (manager or above) until he has his degree in business.
Even though his company is paying for him to go to school, he has begun his degree only because he feels he has to do it, and he resents being in school. He does the minimum work possible and spends as little time studying as he can. He didn’t like high school even though he graduated with a 3.3 GPA.
Recently, business at the store has picked up significantly, and Bob has been required to work longer hours. When he finally got home last night around 8:30PM, he found his wife in bed, and his in-laws were there. He learned that his wife had been put on bed rest for the rest of her pregnancy, and his in-laws, who lived 10 minutes away, were there to offer support and help out with whatever they needed.
Bob talked to his wi ...
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1. Reading and writing practise a school dinner lady
English lesson
What will I learn from the English lesson Reading and writing practise?
During this English lesson you will read a short story then answering some questions that are relating
to the story. By the end of the lesson you will have practised reading and writing skills.
A school dinner lady
Mrs Potts works in a school serving dinner to all the children. She has to start work at 6:00 a.m. and
does not finish until 2:30 p.m. Mrs Potts prepares all the food, and serves all the meals. After all the
meals have been served she also must clean up at the end of her shift. She likes her job and she
makes good money, but sometime the students are difficult to control. Some of them try to jump
ahead of the other children when they are standing in line. Some of them spill things on the floor,
and Mrs Potts has to clean up the mess. A few students are slow and hold up the line. On the
weekend, Mrs Potts likes to cater parties. Last weekend, she catered a wedding for forty six people.
She charged eighteen pounda head, and had three hundred and fifty five pound left after paying all
the bills. Mrs Potts is happy when she makes a good profit as she wants to go on holiday in the
summer.
Exercise true or false
Copy and write the questions on some paper and answer the following questions using true or
false
1. ________ Mrs Potts works at a school.
2. ________ after the students have spilt food on the floor, Mrs Pottshas to clean it up.
3. ________ Mrs Potts shift at the school is from 6:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
4. ________ Mrs Potts charged 18 pound a headwhen she catered for a wedding last weekend.
5. ________ Mrs Potts had money left after paying all the bills so she was very happy.
6. ________ Mrs Potts does not like her job very much.
What do you think?
Answer the question below, try and write a few sentences on what you think.
Copy and write the question on a piece of paper and then write your answer
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