English, Week 5-

IALT: Write facts about deforestation by summarising information from longer passages.

Task 1: read the text below and research using your topic work from this week too, to research facts and

create a fact file on deforestation.

Use the examples below to help you and the word mat above to help you.

Examples:

Task 2: IALT: plan my writing noting down and developing on ideas, in the form of a chart.

Read the text below about what we have found out about deforestation from uncle globe.

Create a chart on the pros and cons of deforestation and how it affects us as human beings as well as

those animals that live in the rainforest.

Use the example table below to help you:

Pros of deforestation Cons of deforestation

• More Space for Expansions • Extinction

• Materials for Producing • Flooding

• Jobs Opportunity • Climate Change

Describe and write at least one paragraph for each point you have made.

Use the word mat below and descriptions to help you.

Task 3:

Write up a persuasive argument for or against deforestation.

Use the links below to help you, as well as the work you have done this week for English and Topic.

Activity 1: Plan.

IALT: Plan a piece of writing by noting down ideas and developing these through reading.

Use the structure below to help you plan your persuasive argument. Use the template at the end of this

document to also help you if you feel you need it.

Activity 2: IALT: Write a persuasive argument, using different verb forms to consider the audience for

my text.

Verb forms explanation (recap)

Friday 3rd July 2020

IALT: Write a persuasive argument, sing different verb forms to consider the audience for my text

Success Criteria:

1. To include a/ some verb forms.

2. To use the joins and spellings taught throughout the week

3. To write in the 1st person, using a range of rhetorical questions.

Vocabulary: deforestation damage extinct vegetation temperature

climate change layer emergent resources natural habitat

Use the example below and the words mat from this week, plus your research, reading and topic work

to help you to write a persuasive argument about what you think deforestation is doing to people and

the world and whether it should be stooped or not, thinking about how and why.

Should the Amazon Tribes use the natural medicines they find

in the Rainforest?

For thousands of years, shamans (the medicine experts in the Amazon

tribes) have passed on information about the healing properties of the

rainforest’s plants from one generation to the next. All of the world’s

cultures use plants and other growing things as medicines, for example:

aspirin, to cure headaches, came from willow bark, codeine in cough syrup

was found first in the opium poppy and penicillin was first extracted

from bread mould. As forest peoples come into increasing contact with

the outside world, however, they are being exposed to modern medicines.

This has caused them to question their own medicines in the rainforest.

In this text I shall discuss whether they should use the medicines they

find in the rainforest or not.

Firstly, some people argue that the synthetic, man-made compounds

found in modern medicines are based on what has been found in plants.

Therefore, the plants are a suitable treatment for different diseases

and illnesses. More importantly, the shaman has thousands of years of

experience of plants, whereas modern medicine can be developed over

months. This wealth of experience can be benefited from by the people,

which is a good thing for them if they become unwell.

On the other hand, it is important to note that modern medicines are

kept completely sterile, whereas the forest medicines are out in the

open. This means that people could touch them with dirty hands, or

animals could brush against them or even urinate on them. Evidence

suggests that this leads to further disease, which will not help the

patient.

To sum up, modern medicines come from plants, so why not use the

plants. However, plants are not necessarily clean, which could make

someone more ill. After examining the different points of view, I have

concluded that it would be better for the Amazon people to use the

modern medicines that we have developed.

Use the template below to help you form your argument and lay it out with the correct information and

structure, you can use this for your planning if you feel you need to.