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    WRITING

    LESSONS
    4 Dec 2024
    How to write an
    Opinion Essay
    (Final Exam)
    Your essay will be assessed according to these four criteria:
    CRITERIA DETAILS

    Focuses on how well you have completed the task, in other words,
    1. CONTENT
    if you have answered the topic question.

    Focuses on how appropriate the writing is for the task and whether
    2. COMMUNICATIVE
    you have used formal or informal style appropriately. For example,
    ACHIEVEMENT
    is the style right for a college student?

    Focuses on the way you put together the piece of writing. Are the
    3. ORGANISATION ideas logical and ordered? Have you used paragraphs and
    linking words?

    Focuses on vocabulary and grammar. This includes demonstrating


    4. LANGUAGE
    the range of language that you know, as well as how accurate it is
    FORMAT OF THE OPINION ESSAY
    • Agreeing or disagreeing
    • Giving opinions
    • Giving information or explanations
    • Giving reasons
    • Giving examples
    • Comparing and contrasting ideas and opinions
    • Drawing conclusion
    Using Quotation as
    a Hook

    "Life shouldn't be printed on dollar


    bills." This quote from Clifford Odets
    tells us that life does not necessarily
    revolve around money and material
    wealth.
    Using Quotation as
    a Hook

    Malala Yousafzai, one of the young


    activists of education in Pakistan
    has said that " Education is the
    building block of people's
    success, if they gain education,
    they afford to change their life."
    Using Quotation as
    a Hook

    As quoted from Virgil, "The greatest


    wealth is health." I think that there
    are more significant things in our
    lives that seem to be overshadowed
    by our busy daily lives and worldly
    delights, and they are family, friends,
    health, and true happiness.
    Prepare to write 1: Review useful language

    You should use a range of


    suitable expressions to
    organise your essay and
    help your reader
    understand the connections
    between your ideas.
    Paragraphs Details

    Introduce the topic using a general statement and give your


    Paragraph 1 opinion. Say whether you AGREE or DISAGREE with the
    statement.
    Give the FIRST REASON to support your opinion. Provide
    Paragraph 2 specific justifications for your opinion, using Examples if
    necessary.
    Give the SECOND REASON to support your opinion. Provide
    Paragraph 3 specific justifications for your opinion, using Examples if
    necessary.
    Give the THIRD REASON to support your opinion. Make sure
    Paragraph 4 this is clearly different from the points you made in the
    previous 2 paragraphs.
    SUMMARISE your ideas and repeat your opinion using
    Paragraph 5
    different words to provide a strong conclusion.
    Prepare to write 2: Generate and organise
    ideas
    TOPIC:

    “Teenagers are too young to teach


    other people about anything.” Do you
    agree?
    Example Adults often think teenagers to be
    noisy, childish and violent. Some of
    Introduce the topic using a general
    them even don’t think they have any
    statement and give your opinion. Say
    adult senses or wise thoughts at all
    whether you AGREE or DISAGREE
    but, as a teenager, I think we’re
    with the statement.
    intelligent enough to teach other
    people some things, and, according to
    this, I do not agree with the topic.

    Give the FIRST REASON to support For example, lots of teenagers have
    your opinion. Provide specific better knowledge in technology, so
    justifications for your opinion, using they can teach the older generation
    Examples if necessary. how to deal with gadgets. In our
    university there are special classes for
    the senior people where they are
    taught to work on computers, and their
    teachers are teenagers.
    Moreover, teenagers have the great knowledge
    Give the SECOND REASON to
    in ecology, and they are really concerned on
    support your opinion. Provide
    saving the planet alive. We talk a lot about
    specific justifications for your
    environment on classes, we take part in
    opinion, using Examples if ecology Olympiads and contests for the best
    necessary. ecological projects and often won them, so we
    have a lot to tell the others about environmental
    problems and ways of their solving.

    Besides this, teenagers can teach adults


    Give the THIRD REASON to support
    foreign languages. According to the statistics,
    your opinion. Make sure this is
    50% of adult generation of our country don’t
    clearly different from the points you
    know any foreign languages, so we can help
    made in the previous 2 paragraphs. them to come by the new knowledge or to
    improve that what they have. We can teach
    adults with the English language or some of us
    have basic Arabic as well, so this is definitely a
    plus point for us.
    SUMMARISE your ideas and repeat your To sum up I can say that
    opinion using different words to provide a teenagers have great
    strong conclusion. knowledge in many fields
    of study, so they can also
    teach the people of older
    generation and their
    classmates and friends.
    Prepare to write 2: Generate and organise
    ideas
    TOPIC:
    “Money Alone Cannot Buy Happiness.”
    Writing Activity

    Introduce the topic using a general


    statement and give your opinion.
    Say whether you AGREE or DISAGREE
    with the statement.

    Give the FIRST REASON to support


    your opinion.
    Provide specific justifications for your
    opinion, using Examples if necessary.
    Give the SECOND REASON to support
    your opinion.
    Provide specific justifications for your
    opinion, using Examples if necessary.

    Give the THIRD REASON to support


    your opinion.
    Make sure this is clearly different from
    the points you made in the previous 2
    paragraphs.
    SUMMARISE your ideas and repeat
    your opinion using different words to
    provide a strong conclusion.

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