Task 2 Writing task

Course: English 3

Student:
María Nélida Montes Palomá

Tutor:
Sary Rocio Ospina

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia – UNAD

CEAD – José Acevedo y Gómez
Escuela de Ciencias Básicas Tecnología e ingeniería- ECBTI
Noviembre del 2022
 To develop this activity,
you must follow these steps:
 Step 1: Undertake a prior revision of the E-book, modules 5 to 8.
 Step 2: Then read the text “A fable for tomorrow” by Rachel Carson, on the
next link: https://bit.ly/3CCgQeR
 Step 3: After reading the text, in the forum, you must answer the following
questions related it:

1. How was the town at the beginning?

At first the village was a beautiful place with harmony in its surroundings
with thriving farms, grain fields and orchard slopes. Along its path, laurels,
viburnums and alders, large ferns and wildflowers with countless birds
feeding on the berries and seed heads of the dried weeds that rose above the
snow.
2. How is it now?
Now the village is a sad place, full of plagues on the orchards, with diseases
on the animals and people, the birds disappeared, the sheep, chickens and
pigs got sick and died, the trees did not bear fruit. The roadsides were full of
withered vegetation as if swept by fire, even the streams were dry, lifeless,
all the fish were dead.
3. How is it predicted to be in the future?
The future will be even worse than it is now, not only the people but the
world will worsen, animals will become extinct, water will be the scarcest
and most expensive element and we will all suffer for it.
4. A fable is a story with a lesson; so, in your opinion, what is the lesson
that this fable teaches? (One or two lines)
The lesson this fable teaches us is that we must take care of natural resources
if we want to continue using them..

 Step 4-Brainstorm: “A Fable for tomorrow” shows how people intervention or

settlements have caused irremediable consequences in a town; nowadays,
overpopulation and consumerism has accelerated the development of factories
that pollute and overexploit non-renewable natural resources, causing irreparable
damage to our environment.

To reflect about that issue, you are going to complete the following chart with
your own ideas that will guide you in your composition. Then, share it in the
forum.
Step 5-Composition: According to the information above, you must write a fable with
the following conditions:
1. The fable must have three paragraphs where you explain how overharvesting or
industrialization have affected the region where you live.

2. Use pictures to illustrate your fable (you can take as example the text “a fable
for tomorrow”).

3. The fable must have a teaching at the end of it.

FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

 Once upon a time in a town in the south of Tolima, all the people lived in peace
without worries about the bread on their table. Where each family had a vegetable and
fruit garden in their house, never lacked water and although the water did not seep no
one got sick, all the people enjoyed good health and a long life. The arrival to the
village was majestic and each side of the road was full of trees that adorned it without
counting the majestic hill of Pacandé, so big and impotent, full of mysteries and many
stories.

It was then when water became scarce, people ran to the Magdalena River to wash and
collect water from the manas to drink and use for food preparation. The overexploitation
of land by mining produced irreparable damage to the land, their land became arid and
their water-filled holes began to generate diseases such as dengue accompanied daily by
an imposing sun. The river and streams dried up, the fish disappeared and the crops
were lost.
But this was nothing more than the consequences of greedy industries desperate for
riches regardless of the risk of losing everything.