Excercise 1
What are the stories in the news that you are personally concerned about/want to write about.
1. National or international?
I am interested to international story.
2. Environment, politics, crime, covid-19?
I want to write about covid 19, because something is suspecious about it.
3. Why does this topic concern you/is interesting to discuss about for you?
I am a fan of conspirasy, and I think some of them are wery possible.
How is possible that corona virus wasn't appired a long time ago.
Do you think that pandemys fom the past, but not long ago, like 100 years, is it possible that corona virus is mutated virus of the spanish flu.
When spanish flu appired, people thought that was only a regular flu, but soon enought they saw that was serious ill that killed about 50 million
people.
Excercise 2
1 What is her cause for concern?
Her cause for concern is influencig video games on children.
2 Why does she have a personal interest?
She has personal interest because of her brother Craig.
3 How did Craig use to be?
He had many interests; he played football, he was learning judo, he went out on his bike with his friends.
4 What does research tell us about the addiction?
Research shows that children between the ages of two and five regularly play video games, and that by the age eight,
they spend an average of 25 minutes on them.
5 Do most children become addicts?
This is not a problem for most of children, just a small minority have becoma addict.
6 What concerns Dr Griffiths?
He thinks that children may become so addicted that they stop doing homework, start playing truant, and even steal
money in order to buy the games.
7 What other concerns does the girl have?
She thinks that the violance in the games could cause children to become more violent,
and she warries that sitting without exercise for a long time is bad for children's health.
Excercise 3
1 Look at the words that introduce each paragraph.
Why are they used?
That words are used to split diferent parts of story.
2 Find examples of the speaker talking from her own experience.
"You see, I have a younger brother, Craig, he's 13 years old, and I'm afraid he's becoming a video game addict."
"Now he spends hours every day in front of a screen, in a virtual world, playing games, usually violent ones,
and he becomes really angry if our parents tell him to stop."
3 Find examples where she quotes research.
"Research shows that children between the ages of two and five regularly play video games, and that by the age eight,
they spend an average of 25 minutes on them.
4 How does the girl conclude her talk?
I don't need to read more research to conclude that games cause problems.
He should come and meet my brother. That's all the evidence he needs.