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Topic 1 Example Task: Topic 1: Work and Careers

The document discusses two topics: work and careers, and education and schooling. For topic 1 on work and careers, it provides an overview of issues covered including opportunities, problems at work, work-life balance, and career choices. It then provides an example task on whether employers should subsidize gym memberships for employees. For topic 2 on education and schooling, it provides an example task on whether the internet will replace traditional course books in schools. The document provides band 9 model essays for both example tasks that present arguments on both sides and reach a conclusion.

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Topic 1 Example Task: Topic 1: Work and Careers

The document discusses two topics: work and careers, and education and schooling. For topic 1 on work and careers, it provides an overview of issues covered including opportunities, problems at work, work-life balance, and career choices. It then provides an example task on whether employers should subsidize gym memberships for employees. For topic 2 on education and schooling, it provides an example task on whether the internet will replace traditional course books in schools. The document provides band 9 model essays for both example tasks that present arguments on both sides and reach a conclusion.

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Topic 1: Work and careers

About Topic 1
The Work and careers topic includes issues of opportunities and problems at work, ways of
motivating and rewarding workers, the work/life balance, changes in patterns of jobs and work (for
example, the growth in working from home), career choices and training, and occasionally the
relationship between government and businesses or industries.
You are not expected to know any vocabulary connected to specialised areas of finance,
marketing and so on.

Topic 1 Example Task


Some employers offer their employees subsidised membership of gyms and sports
clubs,
believing that this will make their staff healthier and thus more effective at work.
Other employers
see no benefit in doing so.
Consider the arguments from both aspects of this possible debate, and reach a
conclusion.

What should do

1. Introduce the topic

2. Present two or three ideas on each side of the discussion

3. Give conclusion

Band 9 model essay

Employers are always seeking ways to enhance their employees’ productivity and subsidizing healthy
pursuits may be one way of achieving this. There are arguments on both sides, however, which we will
discuss here.

On the one hand, it might be said that if workers are fitter and less stressed, their working time will be
more efficient, leading to higher levels of output and service. Furthermore, the work/ life balance of the
staff will hopefully be improved, because their leisure time will be more fulfilling. This may even be more
motivating than pay increments, perks, or financial rewards such as bonuses or incentives which may
hard to attain. Finally, feeling healthier may lead to better job satisfaction which is in-itself a motivating
factor.

Conversely, the problem with such leisure-based subsidies is that their efficacy is virtually impossible to
quantify. For example, with target-related payments, employers can at least see whether the objectives
are reached or not. It might also be said that, if this budget was spent on (for instance) on the job
training or day release programmes, the employees would achieve better career progression and have
better job prospects. These matters are all easier to measure, especially in performance reviews and
appraisals, and may even help to reduce the risk of redundancy if the company restructures, downsizes
or outsources its workforce.

Overall, it seems that, while health-related subsidies are superficially attractive, the lack of
measurability is a substantial drawback. Spending funds on ongoing training would appear to be a
better use of company or human resources budgets

Pay incements: kenaikan gaji

Perks: keuntungan

Attain: capai

Efficacy: keuntungan

Day release programmes: system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to

study a subject connected with their work

Appraisal: penilaian

Redundancy: pengurangan

Workforce: tenaga kerja

Superficially: sangat terlihat

Topic 2 Education and schooling

Example task

The internet will never replace traditional course books in schools. How far do you agree with this
prediction?

Band 9 model essay

There is a huge range of resources available to the modern teacher, and the right selection is crucial in
delivering effective lessons. I agree that there will always be a place for course book in the school
curriculum, despite the many benefits of the internet.

Firstly, course books (whether conventional or digital) have been developed by a pedagogical-experts
and designed to be incorporated onto a subject syllabus, leading to testing procedures such as formal
examinations or continuous assessment. This meant that they are proven to improve student’s
academic achievement, enhancing their potential; for progression to further or higher education.
Furthermore, the use of modern course books allows pupils to coordinate their studies as formal
examinations or continuous assessment. This means that they are proven to improve students’
academic achievement, enhancing their potential for progression to further or higher education.
Furthermore, the use of modern course books allows pupils to coordinate their studies as part of group
work, hopefully making their lesson less teacher-led and more about autonomous learning. This is itself
teaches study skills such as independent research and synthesizing sources, rather than old-fashioned

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