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S2 Exercise 26: Persuasion (6)

 

PERSUASION TASK 6

 

In order to write an effective persuasive essay you need to have facts and statistics to back it up! Otherwise nobody will take it seriously. The first step to that is doing some research, and the second step is learning how to take down the relevant information! You can't just copy down all of the statistics and articles you read, so you need to quote JUST the important stuff!

 

TASK: Look at the following example of how one pupil made notes from a passage about evacuation.   Then do the same for the passage on cobras.

 

Jenny has to study the topic of evacuation since she expects to be asked questions on the Second World War in her History exam.   Here are some of the notes in her jotter:

 

 

EVACUATION

 

The Government introduced the evacuation scheme to prevent children being exposed to the great danger, sense of panic and possible loss of life which would be experienced in cities during the war.   Children would assemble at their schools and would be taken with their teachers by train to safer, more rural places.   When they arrived, they would be selected by local people who had space in their houses, and taken to their homes where they would be looked after.   There were a number of problems.   Many of the city children found it hard to adjust to a new environment, and some of their hosts expected better manners and behaviour from the children, many of whom had come from deprived industrial area.   However, many of the children benefited from the fresh air and good fresh food, and so they became much healthier.

 

 

 

Here Jenny has reduced the passage to its MAIN POINTS

 

EVACUATION

  • - introduced scheme to protect children from fear/danger in cities.
  • - Assembled at school. Travelled with teachers by train.
  • - Local people with Space took them in.

Problems:      - children found it hard to adjust

                       - hosts expected better behaviour, etc.

Benefits        - fresh air/good food  ® healthier

 

She has decided to use a spider diagram to reduce the information to KEY WORDS which will help her to recall the information she needs in her exam.

BENEFITS                      

Food/air                                                                   Danger/fear in              

                                                                                 cities

healthier                                

                                Evacuation  

                                            

PROBLEMS                                                                                                                                      

Adjustment                                                      School assembly points                                                         

Expectation                                                      teachers
           

Local people - hosts                                          train 


COBRAS 

 

Cobras are found in hot tropical places, such as Africa and India.   When they are angry, they push out their ribs so that the skin behind their heads looks like a hood.  There are many types of cobra.   They are usually less than two metres long, but the King Cobra can reach three metres.

 

Cobras lay their eggs in damp places.   They feed on small mammals such as mice, and on birds an frogs.   They may enter houses in search of food.   They are very dangerous animals, for the cobra’s bite it one of the most poisonous of all snake bites.   A victim might die unless a serum is injected straight away.

 

Cobras with their fangs removed have been used by ‘snake charmers’ the charmers play on musical instruments and the snakes sway to and fro as if they are ‘charmed’ by the music.