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Explain this quotation about admiration. Do you agree with Read the article. Find passages where the writer has:
it? Why?/Why not?
1 addressed the reader.
We always love those who admire us, but we 2 used a rhetorical question.
do not always love those whom we admire. 3 used: (a) a chatty, personaI styte (b) a more formal styte.
Top of the list of people I greatly admire
comes my great-grandfather, who, at
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the age of 97, is still living a full and
Writine an article
g an article
active life. lf you were to meet him,
When writing an article, it is important to consider:
you wouldn't believe he's only three
: 1 the target audience, i.e. who you are writing for. years shod of a hundred.
r 2 the purpose of the articte (e.g. to entertain, Throughout his long life he has battled
I to persuade, to inform, etc). against adversity and misfortune. He
: 3 the appropriate styte (e.9. formal, informal, 'chatty' lost both his parents before his twelfth
I gnd p:l'ol1!: lh. use of heg!y191, nufft ooin!s, birlhday, and on top of that his elder brother
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died in the First World War. As a young man in the 1930s he was out
of work for long periods and really struggled to supporl his young
Read the Writing tip and the tasl< below. What is the target
family. Then, just as things began to go better for him, he was called
audience? What is the purpose of the article? What style
up to fight in the Second World War. He joined the RAF and was shot
would be most appropriate?
down over France in 1944. Not only was he badly injured, but he was
also captured and spent the rest of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp
Someone I admire After the war, he opened a small garage, doing repairs and servicing,
Write an articte about someone you admire. lt could and selling second-hand cars, and through sheer hard work built it up
be someone you l<now persona[[y or a public figure. into a successful business. However, the business ran into difficulties
. lnclude information about their [ife. during a recession and he went bankrupt.
. lnctude information about their achievements. All this was long before I was born, of course. But what's he really like
. Exptain whyyou admire them. as a person? ln the years that I have known him he has shown other
great qualities besides the courage and determination which helped
The three best articles will be pubtished in the school
him through the difficult times. He's kind, willing to listen and offer
magazine next month.
a word of advice - but he never forces it on you. What's more, he's
great fun to be with and very witty.
The opening of the article should grab the reader's attention
He's one of the wisest and most tolerant people I know, and l'm very
and draw them in. Which of these openings worl<s least wel[? lucky to have him as my great-grandfather.
whv?
An article needs a good title. Choose the best title for the
i' i'-lhuru ,re u numbarlo{ pooPlc l-admiit; btft ons article in exercise 4.
(O, parson *tandg:out{rorn allilhr bJhore':
"" 1 A long tife 4 My great-grandfather
2 A lovely old man 5 Someone I admire
Fatience, wisdom and qeneroeity are three qualities 3 BattLing against adversity
(!)
*at t value greai;ly, antl my friend guean hae allthree
ln the article, find two of the nouns below and three
in abundance.
adjectives formed from the nouns below.
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''j persoal T adwire nuosl is wy elder brott*er,
dosepbt. Ue's rea.Ilff ad*irab!.X p.rso.yr.
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li ihrrs'* nne pe.rnrn th*t ambodio* aii that t I Form adjectives from a[[ the other nouns in the box.
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-. Wh ai,t'nikeA u s a d nira; paopio?,, Aften :it :is;l'' ffiffitrffitffi Work in pairs. Mal<e a list of five well-l<nown
(!), people whom you admire. What are the qualities and
because'they nave bamirable quiit iu; *ni"in
' wedan:toursafveopooges6. ,:i , ,,il achievements that you find admirable? Use the nouns and
adjectives in exercises 6 andT to help you.

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