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Teaching Notes 14 IGCSE FLE

The document outlines a lesson plan for Cambridge IGCSE First Language English focused on evaluating the internet's role in modern life through various texts. Students will engage in activities such as summarizing, writing blog posts, and evaluating arguments related to the internet. The unit emphasizes critical thinking and persuasive writing skills while addressing both positive and negative perspectives on the internet.

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Teaching Notes 14 IGCSE FLE

The document outlines a lesson plan for Cambridge IGCSE First Language English focused on evaluating the internet's role in modern life through various texts. Students will engage in activities such as summarizing, writing blog posts, and evaluating arguments related to the internet. The unit emphasizes critical thinking and persuasive writing skills while addressing both positive and negative perspectives on the internet.

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Cambridge IGCSE First Language English Directed Writing and Coursework 1

Unit 14: Caught in the web


Topic outline

■■ Main skills: evaluation; persuasive devices; ■■ Materials: blogs; magazine article


selecting material ■■ Texts: Text 14A: Long live the internet!; Text 14B:
■■ Secondary skills: summary; comprehension; Down with the internet!; Text 14C: What’s with the
supporting opinions; discursive writing fake news?
■■ Outcome: summary; blog post / coursework
assignment; *letter; *magazine article

Lesson plan
1 Ask students for their opinion on the role of the 12 Ask students to plan their response to Text 14C in
internet in modern life. Elicit both positive and the form of a blog post or coursework assignment.
negative views. (5) It should engage with some of the writer’s claims
and opinions, and present their own views on
2 Ask students to skim-read Text 14A. (5) the topic and how it relates to their country and
situation.(10)
3 Ask students to re-read Text 14A in pairs and
underline the key points. (5)
Homework tasks
4 Ask students to plan and write a summary, in
their own words, of the benefits of the existence a Write your blog post or coursework piece in
of the internet. They should mention no more response to Text 14C. It should contain specific
than 12 relevant points and write no more than examples of your own to illustrate the concept of
120 words. The points should be resequenced in fake news.
the plan so that similar ideas can be expressed
in the same sentence.  (15) b Write a letter to the writer of Text 14B, evaluating
the quality of the arguments, developing some of
5 Ask students to check their summaries for the ideas, and saying whether or not you share the
accuracy and style. Collect them for assessment. (5) same viewpoint. Use your notes from Task 8.

6 Read out Text 14B while students listen and


make notes of the points being presented. (5) Additional task
7 Give students a copy of Text 14B and ask them Ask students to write a school magazine article
to read it to confirm that they selected all the discussing the role of the internet in their education
relevant points, or to amend their list. (5) and their social life.

8 Invite students to discuss and critically evaluate


the claims made in Text 14B. They should
consider which of the arguments can be refuted,
and, if any can, how. (10)

9 Ask students, in pairs, to study the style and


punctuation of Text 14B and identify the
features of argumentative speech. (5)

10 Elicit features and examples of argumentative


style. List them on the board and discuss their
persuasive effect. (10)

11 Ask students to read Text 14C and write one


sentence to summarise the argument being
presented. Hear the sentences and comment
on their content and expression.  (10)

© Cambridge University Press 2018 Unit 14 Caught in the web

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