Session 25 Learning Objectives: - understand and demonstrate how to write to argue to suit audience and purpose.

Obesity epidemic? Equality and Diversity – what social factors might encourage it?

What do you want to achieve today?

Paper 2 Q5: What form…? - letter - article - text for a leaflet - text of a speech - essay.

Last week’s homework:- Plan a speech about keeping animals in zoos and write up 2 paragraphs from the speech.

Recap: persuasive features… Keyword rummy

Register dial – informal to formal

Assessment Criteria – see sheet

Task: “Despite the obesity epidemic, many of us seem unable to break the habit of eating too much food that is bad for us.” Write 3 paragraphs continuing this article for a magazine explaining your views about this statement.

Things to add to your writing to formal writing: Logical cause and effect structures, like ‘If [this]… then this…’/ ‘Because of this … this is the case…’ Modal verbs (that suggest things) – e.g. could be/ might be/ may be/ and qualifiers (that soften things) – e.g. it seems that …/ it appears that …

Plenary: true or false? Persuasive texts tend to use direct address to the reader ‘Writing to argue’ often uses questions (rhetorical or not!) Writing to argue makes frequent use of logical connectives – eg. ‘However’/ ‘Furthermore’/ On the other hand… etc.

Assessment: Spoken Language

Plenary: Independent learning – Write up your notes for your Spoken assessment (29th March)