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Unit 9
Take charge Writing

4 1 dignity 2 contribution
3 aspiration 4 passed away TAKE CHARGE UNIT 9
5 butler 6 pursue 7 misguided 4 VOCABULARY Match the highlighted words in the 5 SPEAKING
SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
8 worthwhile extract with the definitions. 1 Does Stevens have a positive or negative outlook?
1 the quality of a person that makes him or her Give examples.
deserving of respect 2 What can he do to change his outlook? Do you have
5 Monitor but do not interrupt as 2 the part someone plays to make something successful any advice for him?
this is a fluency activity. 3 things you hope to accomplish 3 Is there anything you look back on and regret? Why?
4 died
5 the male head of a household staff
6 try to achieve something 2 ANALYSE Look at the first and last paragraphs
1 Write the following on the 7 wrong because of bad judgment or false information of the article. What technique does Eve use
board: Is it important to get 8 meaningful in each one? What effect does this have on
the reader?
work experience before going
PLAN Choose one of the topics below. What is
to university? What sort of work WRITING 3 your position? What are your main arguments
experience can teenagers get? A magazine article to support your position? Write notes.
Ask students to discuss in pairs 1 INPUT Read Eve’s article and answer • Doing a degree course is a waste of money.
and then discuss in open class. the questions. • The government should pay for all students
to study at university or college.
1 She agrees with the statement and 1 Does she agree with the statement?
2 What are her main arguments to
questions/challenges the reader to support her position? My position
think about their own life.
2 Graduates are feeling the pressure Students should try to get Argument 1
because they are looking for the some work experience
before they go to university
same jobs at the same time. Mature
students with some experience may Do you really want to spend the rest of your life either
be far more attractive employees. studying or working? Wouldn’t you like the chance to Argument 2
do a little more with your life and find out what it is
you really want?
2 She asks questions in the first Most young people who have decided to go to
paragraph, and then uses the university or college go straight from school. A few Argument 3
people may take a gap year to see a bit of the world or
imperative in the final paragraph. This earn some money, but how many take five or six years,
or even longer before they go on to study more?
makes it feel like the essay addresses These days, young people are led to believe that the
you personally, which makes you think pressures in the labour market are so high that they
cannot afford to waste any time doing things that
about it more. won’t directly help them get a good job. They feel that 4 You’re going to write an article for your
school magazine about the topic you chose in
if they haven’t graduated by the age of 22, they will be Exercise 3. Think carefully about how to start
too old to be successful.
3–4 Give students an example on This is simply not true. Graduates are feeling the and finish it.
the board based on the model pressure precisely because so many of them are 1 Think of two direct questions you could use
to start the article.
article. Ask: How would Eve’s looking for the same jobs at the same time and there’s 2 Think of two imperatives to conclude your
very little for an employer to choose between them.
plan have looked? Divide the Anyone who is brave enough to wait some years article.
before they go to university will – as long as they
class into small groups to share have used their time well – be far more attractive as 5 PROdUCE Write your article (200–250 words).
ideas before writing individually. an employee. Their extra experience of life will mean
they can offer companies so much more than any
fresh-faced 22-year-old can. Besides, the fact that
5 If you are short on time, set this they’ve taken time to decide exactly what it is they
wanted to do, shows that now they really want to do it.
exercise for homework. So go on. Be brave. Delay. Go out and find out a little
more about life. After all, you’ve got the rest of your
life to work.
Homework 91
If you are short on time, students can
do Writing Exercise 5 for homework.
If you have done this in class, ask Language note Similes, metaphors and expressions
students to exchange their articles put your feet up – to relax, especially by sitting with your feet off the ground
with another student for them to as happy as a lark – extremely happy. A lark is a bird that is known for its beautiful
read and give feedback on content singing.
and structure. Students could check
if the article uses the same structure in the first flush of youth/success/freedom – to be at the start of something
as the template. They should (youth, success, freedom etc.) at the time when something is new and exciting
also decide which the most/least
interesting part of the article is.
Activity idea
Peer-correction more
Ask students to exchange their
articles with another pair for Practice Extra
them to evaluate on the basis of Unit 9 Master it!
content (How interesting were the
ideas?); organisation (Did each Workbook
paragraph include a distinct idea?); Developing Writing p87
communicative purpose (Were you Tests
convinced by it?); and language Unit, extension and skills test 9
(Were questions and imperatives End of term test 3
used correctly?).
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