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PAPER 2:QUESTION 5: AQA

WRITING AN ARTICLE & EDEXCEL


REMINDER: YOU WILL BE ASKED TO WRITE ONE OF
THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR EXAM:
Newspaper
A Letter A Leaflet
Article

Writing an article will be our focus for


this lesson!

A Blog A Speech An Essay


EXAM QUESTION:
’Cycling has no place on our roads.’

Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper arguing either for or


against this statement. [40]
FOR OR
Befor
e
AGAINST? After

Before After
Congested Calmer
No space for pedestrians Wider pavements
Lack of greenery: not very Lots of greenery
inviting
Promotes healthy forms of
Promotes polluting cars transport
FORMULATING OPINIONS:

1. More 1. Easy to get 1. Lots of


1. Cyclists vs around by car pollution
efficient
pedestrians 2. Much faster 2. Busy with
2. Low rates
2. Slower than 3. Lower cars
of obesity
via car chances of an 3. Not
3. Healthy
3. Scary accident sustainable
4. Sustainable

Cycling infrastructure in Cycling infrastructure in the


Amsterdam UK
SAFETY?
DON’T FORGET
THE COST!
EXAM FOCUS
’Cycling has no place on our roads.’
Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper arguing either for or against
this statement. [40]

Examiner tip: always identify: Form, Audience and


Purpose (FAP)

Audience: ‘broadsheet’
implies a formal, older Pur
p
a p er audience arg ose:
ew sp ue wr i
ting
rm :N to
Fo
cle
Arti a
f p
Structure Headline: tells the
reader what your
CYCLISTS CAUSE CHAOS!
article will be
Cycle lanes have been said to cause despair and distress about
Strapline: tells the
reader a bit more By Harish Kohli
about the article. It
Many people have suggested that the implementation of cycle lanes is not worth the
should try and financial strain and that money is better spent elsewhere. Introductory
’hook’ the reader in. paragraph: introduces
Hate at first sight!
According to residents of a local town that has had cycle lanes the reader to what
implemented, they have caused nothing but delays, pollution and will be discussed in
injuries. Many have even suggested that there is now even more the article.
Subheadings: often pollution due to the perilous new road layout.
a useful way of
Businesses are ‘bewildered’.
splitting up your Local shops are extremely upset and frustrated due the construction
article. Usually they works causing people not to visit their local town. Many businesses have
are humorous. either been forced to let staff go or even close down altogether.

Cheap as chips (not!)


At a time where schools are underfunded, where the NHS is ’dying’ and Notice: the
where the police are under-resourced, many have criticized spending paragraphs are
extortionate amounts of money on new cycle lanes. It has been
suggested that more than £989 million has been spent on cycle lanes in not too long. They
the past 12 months alone. However, many schools in north London for are coherent and
example, cannot even afford printers! succinct.
’Cycling has no place on our roads’.
Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper arguing either for or against
this statement. [40]

Source:
AQA
Consider the
following
article:

Good points?

Improvements?
OVER
TO YOU!

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