Good persuasive verbs

Smoking

1)      If you ______, you will ______ younger.

2)      Smoking _________ lung and mouth cancer.

3)      Smoking _________ the r… of certain types of cancer.

4)      I ________ that some people ________ just to be cool.

5)      If bars ______ smoking, they will encourage business.

6)      The government have ________ smoking in public places.

7)      Passive smoking __________ me because you have no ________ over what you are breathing in.

Uniform and phones

1)      Uniform shows that you _______ to a certain school.

2)      Why do schools ________you to wear a uniform?

3)      Schools should _______ phones in classrooms.

4)      Phones should always be _____ on silent in a classroom.

5)      Schools shouldn´t  ________ children to leave their phones at home.

Mobile phones in the classroom

Sir Michael Wilshaw, a school inspector, said disruption during lesson times was often down to the use of mobiles and that the issue had to be stamped out. In an interview yesterday, the former headmaster revealed a tough new inspection would be introduced in schools from next term.

As a result of the changes, schools risk being marked down for failing to tackle persistent interruptions such as text messaging, receiving calls and surfing the web on their phones.

Referring to his decision to ban mobiles while head of the Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, east London, Sir Michael said: “It certainly cut out all that nonsense that you have in schools of these things being brought in and then a mobile phone going off in a lesson.

The increased focus on standards of pupil behaviour is expected to lead schools to take a tougher approach on the use of mobiles. Few schools currently impose a complete ban on bringing handsets to school. Instead, many require that they are simply switched off.

Comments

1)The way we communicate and connect to the world is becoming more and more mobile, and mobiles should be allowed in the classroom if the school atmosphere is right and teachers encourage them, we are there to educate, let´s educate students the appropriate use of the devices? Mobiles can be used as learning tools and we should prepare students for the 'real' world. I think some people are missing the point and need to see the added value they bring to the classroom.

2) I am going to 'ban mobile phones from my family time. The rudeness of some young people is ASTOUNDING ! Half of the time, heads are down and they are sending or receiving text messages, from others, instead of interacting with others. Surely they can come for a meal, chat, smile, be involved with the rest of the family for one or two hours without having to send useless information to others.?  Parents are to blame.  Schools are the same.

Useful persuasive phrases

Expressing your opinion

•In my opinion/view

•I believe that

•It seems to me that

Knocking down the other side of the argument

•However, it could be argued that …but I don´t agree because …

•Some people believe that …However, I disagree…

More usefulk phrases

1.Yes ……    Yes …..  But have you…

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2.Ask yourself three important questions:

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3.Many people claim…     Yet (how many)

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4.Using though at the end of a sentence instead of but in the middle of a sentence.

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“I like chips but I don’t like gravy.”

“I like chips. I don’t like gravy though.”

Connectives

TIME CONNECTIVES:

Shows the order of your points.

first, then, after, later, secondly, thirdly, finally

ADDING CONNECTIVE:

Adds a further point.

also, similarly, in addition, furthermore, moreover

OPPOSING CONNECTIVES:

Introduces an opposite argument.

however, although, in contrast, alternatively, whereas

RESULT CONNECTIVES:

Introduces a result or solution.

therefore, consequently, as a result

Structure of a persuasive essay

•Intro 

Refer to the question and explain your opinion clearly

   Use a list of three and rhetorical question

•Main body 

Think of 3 different arguments (3 different paragraphs) to persuade the reader to agree with your point of view

 Use connectives to link your ideas and    paragraphs

•Conclusion 

Summarise your ideas and opinion

Queuing

  

Queuing is the most pointless, useless and boring waste of time. Personally, I find it most frustrating in a shop, post office or airport. Why should you have to wait in a long queue just to buy something? Why doesn´t the company just employ more people?

    Firstly, I find this exasperating because I am an impatient person and I really hate waiting. In my opinion, it is a massive waste of time, time that could be used to do something productive, useful or worthwhile.

  Secondly, I think that queuing has a negative effect on business because so many people give up and leave the queue, put their product back on the shelf and storm out of the shop defeated and angry.

    Finally, according to new research, British people spend will spend 6 months of their lives queuing. 6 hours, can you imagine! The average British adult wastes 5 hours a month queuing in supermarkets. I find this appalling. What a waste of time!

Room 101 from the novel 1984

He was lying on something that felt like a camp bed, except that it was higher off the ground and that he was fixed down in some way so that he could not move. Light that seemed stronger than usual was falling on his face. O'Brien was standing at his side, looking down at him intently. At the other side of him stood a man in a white coat, holding a syringe.

Even after his eyes were open he took in his surroundings only gradually. He had the impression of swimming up into this room from some quite different world, a sort of underwater world far beneath it. How long he had been down there he did not know. Since the moment when they arrested him he had not seen darkness or daylight. Besides, his memories were not continuous. There had been times when consciousness, had stopped dead and started again after some time. But whether the amount of time was days or weeks or only seconds, there was no way of knowing.

He was in a cell which might have been either dark or light, because he could see nothing except a pair of eyes. Near at hand some kind of instrument was ticking slowly and regularly. The eyes grew larger and more luminous. Suddenly he floated out of his seat, dived into the eyes, and was swallowed up.

He was strapped into a chair surrounded by dials, under dazzling lights. A man in a white coat was reading the dials. There was the noise of heavy boots outside. The door clanged open.

Negative adjectives

•Hate: abhor, dislike, loathe, despise, detest

•Irritating:  irksome, infuriating, wearing, tiresome

•Disgusting: repulsive, revolting, nauseating, hideous, vile, heinous

•Pointless: meaningless, futile, worthless, inane

•Horrible: atrocious, ghastly, dreadful, dire

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