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Dialogue About Load Shedding
Model dialogue between two students about load shedding and its effect on study.
Two students compare their power cuts and agree to write to a newspaper about the lack of a schedule.
A dialogue between Sumon and Rakib
Sumon: Rakib, did your electricity go last night as well?
Rakib: Three times. Once at eight, once near midnight, and again before dawn.
Sumon: The same here. It has been like this for five weeks now.
Rakib: The eight o'clock one is the worst. That is exactly when I sit down to study.
Sumon: And in this heat a candle is useless. You cannot read and sweat for an hour and remember anything.
Rakib: Why is it happening? Is there a shortage?
Sumon: Partly, and partly distribution. But what troubles me is that no schedule is published, so nothing can be planned around it.
Rakib: That is true. If we knew it would go at eight, I would study at six instead.
Sumon: Exactly. A schedule would not add a single unit of power, but it would help everybody.
Rakib: It is not only students, either. The tailor near the mosque loses half his working day.
Sumon: And the clinic has to run its refrigerator on a generator.
Rakib: Can anything be done, or must we simply endure it?
Sumon: We could write to a newspaper. A letter to the editor asking for a published schedule is a reasonable request.
Rakib: Then let us write one together this evening.
Frequently Asked Questions
Give the pattern rather than the complaint: how many outages a day, at what times, and for how many weeks. Then say who is affected besides the speakers — a tailor, a clinic, a shopkeeper. That turns grumbling into an account.
Yes, and the best ones are modest. Asking for a published schedule is realistic in a way that demanding uninterrupted supply is not, and a realistic request makes the whole dialogue sound better informed.
It is an excellent ending, and it connects two questions students often meet in the same paper. Having the speakers agree to write one gives the dialogue a resolution and shows what ordinary people can actually do.
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