ARGUMENTATIVE - PERSUASIVE ESSAY

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UNIT 3: ARGUMENTATIVE - PERSUASIVE ESSAY (Continued) Subject: Writing Skill

Course book: Writing 2

Students: Second year students.

Students have already known the process

of writing an essay, the format of an argumentative - persuasive essay

Students practise the first three steps in writing an argumentative-persuasive essay

I The aims:

1 Knowledge:

- Enhance students' knowledge of the writing process

- Generate students' understanding about the national entrance examination, its advantages, disadvantages in order to evaluate whether to be for or against the issue

2 Skill: develop the skill of analysing topic, brainstorming and making an outline for an argumentative-persuasive essay

II Preparation:

1 Teaching aids:

- Students: course books, Ao papers, pens.

- Teacher: course book, video clip, computer, projector

2 Teaching methods:

- Presentation.

- Discussion.

- Question - Answer

III Procedure:

3

mins

1 Task 1: Revising the writing process:

- How many steps are there in a writing process?

What are they?

7 STEPS IN WRITING PROCESS

1 Analysing the topic

2 Brain-storming and grouping ideas

3 Making an out-line

4 Writing the rough draft

5 Peer editing

6 Revising the draft

7 Proof-reading the final draft

- What is the format of the outline for an

argumentative-persuasive essay?

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Thesis statement:

PART II: BODY

1 First argument or reason to support your

position:

Topic sentence:

- Supporting idea 1:

- Supporting idea 2:

……

2 Second argument or reason to support your

position:

Topic sentence:

- Supporting idea 1:

- Supporting idea 2:

……

3 Third argument or reason to support your

position:

Topic sentence:

- Ask sts to revise the writing process and the format of the outline

- Show the process and the outline

- Answer the questions

- Review from screen

- Computer

- Projector

- Supporting idea 1:

- Supporting idea 2:

…………

4 Opposing Viewpoint:

- Opposing point to your argument

(counter-argument)

- Your refutation to the opposing point

+Supporting idea 1 + Supporting idea 2

PART III.: CONCLUSION

Summary of main points or reasons/ Restate thesis

statement

7 mins 2 Task 2: Lead-in

- Which country is it?

- Who can you see in the clip?

- What are they doing?

- What is the clip about?

- What do you comment about it?

- Ask sts to watch a video clip and answer questions

- Watch the clip and answer the questions

- Video clip

- Computer

- Projector

- Can you compare with the situation in Vietnam?

- Do you remember your entrance examination to

Hung Vuong university?Tell the whole class about

your experience.

- Introduce the topic:

"Should entrance examination be compulsory for

students to enter a university in Vienam?"

Ask students to talk about the situation in Vietnam and their own experience

examination to Hung Vuong university

- Introduce and write the topic on the board

- Answer the questions basing on their own

experience

- Write the topic on their notebook

3 mins 3 Task 3: Analyse the topic

- What are the key words or phrases of the topic?

They are: entrance examination, compulsory, enter a

university, Vietnam

- What is the requirement of the topic?

To agree or disagree with the entrance examination

to a university in Vietnam

- Ask Sts to read the topic carefully and analyse the key words/phrases

- Ask sts about the requirement of the topic

Read the topic and underline the key words/

phrases

- Answer the question

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mins 4 Task 4: Brainstorming and grouping ideas Possible answer:

A Agree: - not enough places for all students, over

250 universities, 800.000 students

- They motivate students study harder: exams make

people better at the subject, content tested in exams

are random, so people study everything, since it

affects grades, people study harder; there is

competition, people study harder

- They cause stress, allowing people to better deal

with challenges (an extremely useful ability)

- Seclect best students: the university graduates will

be trained for contribution to society in future, best

students should be given privilege to pursue

B Disagree:

- Stress for students: learn hard, exam often in

sumer, hot, exhausted, nervous

- Stress for parents: worried about the results of their

children, Some parents do everything they can to

support their children

- Corruption: Leaking of exam content, bribery,

and other abuses are still being constantly exposed

- Regional discrimination: Students from

contryside or remote areas get bonus marks.

- Exams don't properly assess people's grasp of the

subject You can get higher/lower marks than

you deserve

- It is impossible to test every aspect of a subject

within the short exam time, if a student is lucky and

what he studied for is tested, he will score higher

- It is impossible to set the questions at the same

difficulty every year, if it is easier, he will score

higher

- Base on the marks to evaluate and classify student

levels may lead them to the wrong way in studying

- Divide the class into 2 sections, one agree with the compulsory of the entrance examination, the other disagree with the point of view

- Ask students in each section work in groups of three or four to write down the

words/phrases/questions about the topic and then group the ideas

- Check with the whole class Write on the board all the words/phrases that students find out

- Ask students from section A to add more ideas for section B if they can and vice versa

- Divide the class into 2 sections: section A and section B Each section is then further divided into groups of three or four

- Work in groups to write the idea they have got on the topic then group them in main points

- Representative of each group present their result

They may try any way to get high marks even

cheating…

- Exams are unfair to all students High marks in the

exams really do not reflect exactly how much

knowlege student have got 12 years of studying but

assess the result of only 3 subjects in one and a half

day

- Exams waste alot of money of citizen and the

government People from countryside take their

children to big cities to take exam Most of them are

peasants, so taking 7 to 10 days off and prepare a

majority of money to come to big cities is really a

big problem

- Universities have to organize exam, not enough

room and teachers, they have to hire However,

students registered but not come, so waste a lot of

money

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mins 5 Task 5: Making a simlpe outline

The outline should follow the format as guided:

- The thesis statement:

- Argumentative point 1

- Argumentative point 2

- Argumentative point 3

- Counter-argument and refutation

- Sumary of the main points or restatement of the

thesisment

- Ask sts to work in groups

of three or four to group ideas to make an outline

- Groupwork; write on A0 paper and display the results

- Representative of each group present the results

- A0 papers;

- Pens

2 mins Cosolidation: Sumary what have done during the

lesson Summarize what have learnt during the lesson Listen and review.