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Skills @KS4 Writing 1
Health
Persuade Me
In this session you will:
Plan a persuasive task of your choice
Being able to speak and write persuasively is a
key life skill if you want your opinion
heard clearly
Your ability to persuade might
give you the edge over your
competitors
This will be picked up by college and
university recruiters and by
employers
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After reading and discussing Actors and Weight Loss ….
• Discuss the kind of written task you could plan to show that you understand how to write persuasively
• Either plan one of those tasks, or plan the points that you might use to gently persuade a friend, relative or acquaintance to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
5 Top Tips for Effective Persuasion
Create your list here!
Skills @KS4 Writing 2
Health
Bake-Off Technical Challenge
In this session you will:
Show that you can create a set of instructions from a basic list
You will need to make sense of
documents and reports which don’t always
follow a logical order
Your ability to skim-read and to scan important
parts of a document is an important life-
skill
At interviews for college and
employment you are often given documents to
scan and answer questions on
Depending on where you work, you might need
to write texts for different types
of people
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On your marks, get set…..
1 tin of chopped tomatoes, 1 chopped onion, 2 cloves of
garlic, 250 g minced beef, 2 tbsp tomato puree, seasoning, parmesan, 200g spaghetti
Skills @KS4 Writing 3
Health
In this session you will:
Show that you can write for a specific purpose and organise your thoughts into a coherent structure
If you don’t know why you have been asked to
produce a report, an explanation or a set of notes, you
will get the purpose wrong
Your ability to decide quickly the tone to take when
writing letters/emails is
an important life- and literacy skill
In the next year or two years you will be writing formal letters, personal statements and applications for
jobs or for further education
You may have to write differently according to the
person/company/institution you are
writing to
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Guide to…
What is guide?
• A guide is a informative report which informs and advises.
• Top Tip: it doesn’t have to bore the pants off your reader
Parent's Guide to Hygiene
PLAN a guide to hygiene in schools for new Year 7 students
• Introduce the school – make it personal. • Set yourself up as the expert on hygiene (after
reading the Bacteria CSI article)• Explain all the benefits of being extra safe at
school• Create a list of Dos and Don’ts
PLAN the points you would make for these sections
Skills @KS4 Writing 4
Health
In this session you will:
Show that you can consider the purpose (WHY) and the audience (WHO) when writing
If you don’t know why you have been asked to
produce a report, an explanation or a set of notes, you
will get the purpose wrong
Your ability to decide quickly the tone to take when
writing letters/emails is
an important life- and literacy skill
In the next year or two years you will be writing formal letters, personal statements and applications for
jobs or for further education
You may have to write differently according to the
person/company/institution you are
writing to
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Argue that…
After reading the Pyschopaths article…
• Discuss whether psychopaths are ‘evil’ or ‘ill’ – create a bullet-pointed table to show your ideas
• Turn this into a two-paragraph argument which shows what you think, aimed at someone who takes the opposite view to you.
• You could also write a paragraph for each point of view if you want to take a balanced view.
Link up with…
• Someone in the group who has taken the opposing view
• Discuss/read your paragraphs
Skills @KS4 Writing 5
Health
In this session you will:
Show that you can write for a specific purpose and organise your thoughts into a coherent structure
If you don’t know why you have been asked to
produce a report, an explanation or a set of notes, you
will get the purpose wrong
Your ability to decide quickly the tone to take when
writing letters/emails is
an important life- and literacy skill
In the next year or two years you will be writing formal letters, personal statements and applications for
jobs or for further education
You may have to write differently according to the
person/company/institution you are
writing to
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Explain why…
List…
All the reasons why teenagers can be called ‘trouble-makers’ or ‘anti-social’, from the point of view of other people. Can you come up with an argument for each of these statements?
Example:
‘They always go around in nasty groups!’
‘‘….but that doesn’t mean we’re a gang, it means we like to be with
our friends!’
Are you stereotyped?
Explain why….
• Teenagers should not be viewed as ‘trouble-makers’ or ‘anti-social’.
• Imagine that this explanation might be published in a local newspaper to be read by residents who have complained about you.
• Your explanation should take each point in turn, and persuasively explain why it is wrong.
Skills @KS4 Writing 6
Health
In this session you will:
Show that you can write for a specific purpose and organise your thoughts into a coherent structure
If you don’t know why you have been asked to
produce a report, an explanation or a set of notes, you
will get the purpose wrong
Your ability to decide quickly the tone to take when
writing letters/emails is
an important life- and literacy skill
In the next year or two years you will be writing formal letters, personal statements and applications for
jobs or for further education
You may have to write differently according to the
person/company/institution you are
writing to
links
Advise me…
Remember the article
on binge-drinking?
The Kidney Urban myth….
One night a student went to a party. She had only been at college for a few days so didn’t know anyone there. Someone at the party gave her a drink, but she soon felt faint and passed out. When she woke up she was in a bath full of ice in a strange hotel. Realising that something was seriously wrong she looked down and saw a huge scar on her side. She began to scream. The noise attracted attention. Eventually an ambulance came. The medics said that this was not the first time that this had happened, and it was likely that she had been drugged and her kidney removed to be sold illegally on the black market.
Advise me…
• Create a 10-point checklist for teenagers staying safe at Christmas
• Decide where this checklist could be displayed or who it could be handed out by