These eight original questions get harder as you go. Write your own answer first, then open the explained answer. The section overview is at personal and family responsibilities.
Questions
1. Name one value shown when a person keeps a promise even when something more fun appears. Give a reason.
Answer
Responsibility: keeping a promise means others can rely on you, and breaking it makes them plan without you.
2. Lina’s mother asks her to tidy the living room before guests arrive. Lina wants to finish her video first. State what she should do and why.
Answer
She should pause the video and tidy, because responsibility means doing what is needed when others depend on it. If the room is untidy, her mother may feel embarrassed in front of guests.
3. Why is “nobody will find out” a weak reason for hiding a mistake at home?
Answer
Honesty does not depend on being caught. Hiding a mistake also keeps the family from fixing it and can damage trust if it comes out later.
4. Hadi borrows his brother’s bicycle and scratches it. His brother is asleep. Explain what Hadi should do and one consequence.
Answer
Hadi should tell his brother when he wakes and offer to fix or pay for the repair. Honesty and responsibility apply together. His brother may be annoyed at first, but he is more likely to trust Hadi with things in future.
5. Grandfather asks Mei Ling to read a letter aloud every evening. Mei Ling has a lot of homework. Suggest a fair response.
Answer
She can agree a fixed time with her grandfather, such as after dinner, and finish homework around it. Consideration for her grandfather, who depends on her, and responsibility for her own studies are both respected. He gets his reading and she still finishes her homework.
6. Two siblings both want the family computer at the same hour. One has an assignment due tomorrow, the other wants to play. Compare two responses and choose one.
Answer
Response A: the one who asked first keeps it. Response B: the sibling with the assignment goes first, and the other plays afterwards. Response B is fairer because the assignment has a deadline and the game does not. The younger sibling still gets a turn, so neither is left out.
7. Write two consequences if a student does not help with agreed household chores for a month.
Answer
Parents may have to do extra work and feel unsupported. The student may lose their trust and find it harder to be believed when they promise to help in future.
8. Rewrite this lecture sentence as a reasoned one about Zahra, who left a younger cousin alone at a playground: “Children must never be left alone.”
Answer
“Zahra should stay with her cousin because responsibility means looking after someone who depends on her. A small child alone may get hurt or wander off, and her aunt would worry.”
The rewrite uses the person, a reason and two people affected.
If you got these wrong
- Unsure where to start: read analysing a personal responsibility scenario.
- Stuck between two values: read comparing fair responses to a family dilemma.
- Forgot the people affected: read explaining consequences for affected people.
- Answers sound like a lecture: read writing a reasoned response without moralising.
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