Speech Writing
Paper 3
All questions are compulsory
Section 1: Directed writing
1. Read the following discussion and consider the views of both the teacher and her students.
Write a speech for the school Science Club. In your speech
• describe some of the ways children use technology
• precautions children could take for health and safety
• views of older generations towards technology
• give your own views
Base your speech on the ideas found in the discussion and be careful to use your own words.
You should write between 1½ and 2 sides, allowing for the size of your handwriting.
Up to ten marks are available for the content of your answer and up to fifteen marks for the quality of your writing.
After a Communication Studies lesson, the teacher, Mrs Trapido, and three students discuss modern technology.
Mrs Trapido: That lesson makes me more worried than ever about your physical well being. Surely it’s not a good thing that you use modern technology to escape from reality so often?
Bharat: So, what do you do to escape from the stresses of your job? No doubt you ‘up the volume’ on your classical music in the car or watch the latest soap opera on television. Either way, it’s not that different.
Mrs Trapido: Okay, we all need to switch off now and then, but the kids I see are permanently hooked up to some gadget that stops them communicating with others. My son is constantly in his own bubble; if he’s not on the phone to a friend then he’s ‘shuffling’ and focused on his music player, and don’t get me started on these new games and films he watches on a ridiculously small screen.
Katrin: It’s the latest technology. It solves the problem of what film you all want to watch on television. He’s just ‘zoning out’; it’s what we all do. In your day you would have gone to your room. Well, now we can block out situations that are stressful.
Mrs Trapido: What? Like family life? You see that’s what worries me. He’s there in the room with us, but he’s not really there.
All questions are compulsory
Section 1: Directed writing
1. Read the following discussion and consider the views of both the teacher and her students.
Write a speech for the school Science Club. In your speech
• describe some of the ways children use technology
• precautions children could take for health and safety
• views of older generations towards technology
• give your own views
Base your speech on the ideas found in the discussion and be careful to use your own words.
You should write between 1½ and 2 sides, allowing for the size of your handwriting.
Up to ten marks are available for the content of your answer and up to fifteen marks for the quality of your writing.
After a Communication Studies lesson, the teacher, Mrs Trapido, and three students discuss modern technology.
Mrs Trapido: That lesson makes me more worried than ever about your physical well being. Surely it’s not a good thing that you use modern technology to escape from reality so often?
Bharat: So, what do you do to escape from the stresses of your job? No doubt you ‘up the volume’ on your classical music in the car or watch the latest soap opera on television. Either way, it’s not that different.
Mrs Trapido: Okay, we all need to switch off now and then, but the kids I see are permanently hooked up to some gadget that stops them communicating with others. My son is constantly in his own bubble; if he’s not on the phone to a friend then he’s ‘shuffling’ and focused on his music player, and don’t get me started on these new games and films he watches on a ridiculously small screen.
Katrin: It’s the latest technology. It solves the problem of what film you all want to watch on television. He’s just ‘zoning out’; it’s what we all do. In your day you would have gone to your room. Well, now we can block out situations that are stressful.
Mrs Trapido: What? Like family life? You see that’s what worries me. He’s there in the room with us, but he’s not really there.