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5E
Writing
A letter to a newspaper
64 Rights and wrongs
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SPEAKING
Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
1
Why do people write to newspapers?
2
If you wrote a letter to your local newspaper, what would you write about?
2
Read the newspaper article and answer the questions.
1
What is the main aim of the curfew scheme?
2
What do you think about the scheme?
3
Do you think it will be effective? Why / why not?
strategy
Making suggestions and expressing results
When you write a letter to a newspaper, you might have to make suggestions and express results.
In order to do this, you need to:
understand the problem and its cause.
prepare suggestions on how to solve the problem.
support the suggestions with possible results.
use specific phrases to introduce the suggestions and results.
3
Read the strategy. Then read the letter that Jon wrote in response to the article and answer
the questions.
1
What problem is he writing about?
2
What does he think about the scheme?
3
What suggestions does he make?
4
What possible results does he mention?
4
Study sentences 1–8 in the letter. Which ones make suggestions and which express results?
Local police announced yesterday that they
are planning to introduce a curfew scheme
during the school summer holiday period.
Under this scheme, anyone under the age of
sixteen will have to be home by 9 p.m.
According to the police, the aimof the scheme
is to cut the risk of teens becoming victims
of crime or becoming offenders themselves.
‘If we see teenagers on the streets after this
time, we’ll take them home,’ said PC Davis.
‘Most teenage crime takes place early in the
evening and this scheme will certainly help
to stop it. If it’s successful, we’ll introduce it
into other parts of the country.’
Curfew for teenagers