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Teacher’s Notes
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
Warm-up.
Exercise 3
On the board write the heading:
Shopping malls.
Divide students into two groups. Tell one group to
come up with arguments for building shopping
malls in Polish towns, and the othergroup to come
up with arguments against this. Then ask students
to work in pairs so that everybody could work with a
person from the other group. Tell students to try and
convince each other about whether more shopping
malls should be built in Poland or not. On the board
write the following concepts:
Variety. Comfort.
Employment. Access. Local shops. City life.
Have
a class discussion using the prompts on the table.
Ask students to think carefully about what their
opinion is on the topic from Exercise 1 and write
their thesis under the heading Introduction. Tell
them to write down the arguments they would like
to use in their essay. Ask them to discuss their ideas
in pairs. Ask selected students to read out their
thesis statements to the class. You can also ask
them to present their arguments and discuss them
with the class.
Exercise 4
Individually, students read the sentences below. In
each sentence, they underline the phrase in italics
which expresses the writer’s opinion more strongly
and circle the correct word in bold to make
collocations. Allow students to compare their
answers in pairs. Have a class feedback. You can
also ask students to write fi ve sentences beginning
with the phrases expressing opinion, or you ask
selected students to speak them out to the class.
Key:
1.
I’m absolutely convinced
that / I think that
shopping malls
do
/ make more harm than
good in Poland.
2.
I would say that /
I fi rmly believe that
the number
of people who lose their jobs after a new
shopping mall is built outweighs /
outnumbers
the number of people who get employed in
them.
3.
I have no doubt that
/ Personally, I think that
a shopping mall stops /
gives
opportunities for
students to work part-time.
4.
It seems to me that ... /
I am certain that
...
shopping malls have a negative effect /
impact
on the life of the local community.
5.
To be absolutely honest
, / In my opinion,
shopping
malls will be built as long as there are people
who are willing to
do
/ go their shopping in them.
Exercise 1
Ask students to read the exam task and choose the
correct words or phrases in the statements referring
to the task below. Elicit how this type of essay is
different from a for-andagainst essay (it should
present your opinion with respect to two aspects of
a given problem or situation).
Key:
a. The essay
should / shouldn’t
be balanced and
objective.
b. You
should / shouldn’t
present your own opinion
in the essay.
c. The main body of the essay should consist of
one / two
paragraphs.
d. Each paragraph of the main body can contain
both arguments for and against / either
arguments for or against
building shopping
malls.
Exercise 2
Individually, students read some arguments for the
exam task in the columns below and complete
them with their own ideas. Ask them to decide
whether they could be used as arguments for or
against building shopping malls. Tell them to add
one or two arguments of their own. Allow students
to discuss their answers in pairs. Have a class
feedback.
© Macmillan Polska 2014
www.macmillan.pl
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Teacher’s Notes
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
Exercise 5
selling fresh, good-quality food will also survive as
people
rarely
/barely feel like travelling to a shopping
mall to buy a loaf of bread.
Besides
/However,
shopping malls may lead to people losing jobs, but
they also
employ
/lay off lots of people, creating/
giving
college students and unqualifi ed employees
an opportunity to fi nd some work.
Ask students to match the phrases 1–7 with phrases
A–G to make fi xed phrases which might be useful
for writing argumentative essays and write the
letters in the fi rst column. Have a class feedback.
Key:
1 F
1
according to
A account/consideration
Exercise 8
2 D
2
some people
B of the opinion that
Students read the third paragraph of the essay and
complete the gaps with some phrases from Exercise
5 to make it logical and coherent. Allow students to
compare their answers in pairs. Have a class
feedback.
Key:
1 into consideration/account, 2 the opinion,
3 According, 4 claim/argue/believe, 5 data/statistics
3 E
3 statistics/data
C accepted/claimed
4 B
4
most people are
D argue/claim/propose
that
5 C
5
it is generally
E show/reveal/prove
6 G
6
economically/
statistically
F
statistics/data/experts,
7 A
7
taking ........ into
G speaking
Exercise 9
Exercise 6
Ask students to work in pairs and discuss with their
partner whether they agree with the opinions and
arguments presented in Exercises 6–8 Have a class
discussion.
Individually, students read the introduction to the
essay from Exercise 1. Ask them to decide how
they might make it sound more convincing.
Suggested answers:
Shopping malls have become such a natural part of
our urban landscapes that it is diffi cult to imagine
what life was like before them. A lot of people (think)
believe/are convinced
that they do more harm than
good to us. However, (I think)
I fi rmly believe/I am
convinced/I am absolutely certain
that they are
benefi cial both for our local economies and
communities.
Exercise 10
Individually, students fi nish the concluding
paragraph for the essay presented in Exercises
6–8. Have them compare their answers in pairs.
You can ask selected students to read out their
paragraphs to the class.
Homework
Exercise 7
Ask students to read the task below and write an
essay. Remind students that they can use the ideas
and the language from the above exercises. Tell
them to use the 5-step writing programme to write
their essays.
Individually, students read the second paragraph of
the essay from Exercise 1 and choose which of the
words or phrases in bold matches the text better.
Tell them that in some cases both options are
correct. Ask students to compare their answers in
pairs. Have a class feedback.
Key:
As for the local economy, a lot of people
claim
/
propose that shopping malls have a
dramatic/
signifi cant
impact on local shops which lose
customers
/clients and as a result have to
close/
shut
down. My doubt is what did these local shops
have to
offer
/suggest in the fi rst place? Those local
shops which sell specialised products you can’t get
in shopping malls, like fi shing equipment or second-
hand books, will
survive/pull through
. Local shops
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www.macmillan.pl
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