Exam code: 8700
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Question 5
'Christmas should be about spending time with family and loved ones, even if you’re not religious. Christmas these days has become too commercial and only seems to be about buying presents and spending money.'
Write an article for an online news site in which you explain your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy
[40 marks]
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‘Students have no freedom to study anything that isn’t in the exam. Schools are a form of prison, that limit students’ learning and education.’
Write an article for your school magazine in which you explain your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]
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'Holidays don't need to be faraway and expensive. They just need to give people a break from everyday life and the chance to relax.'
Write an article for a magazine in which you argue your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]
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'Our addiction to cheap clothes and fast fashion means young people in poorer countries have to work in terrible conditions to make them. We must change our attitude to buying clothes now.'
Write an article for a magazine or website in which you argue your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]
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'People have become obsessed with travelling even further and faster. However, travel is expensive, dangerous, damaging and a foolish waste of time!'
Write an article for a news website in which you argue your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]
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'All sport should be fun, fair and open to everyone. These days, sport seems to be more about money, corruption and winning at any cost.'
Write an article for a newspaper in which you explain your point of view on this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]
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‘Parents today are over-protective. They should let their children take part in adventurous, even risky, activities to prepare them for later life.’
Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in which you argue for or against this statement.
24 marks for content and organisation
16 marks for technical accuracy
[40 marks]
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