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b) Teacher : Do you think it’s good idea to abolish the national exams?
Student A : No, I disagree because they can be used to evaluate the education system in
our country.
Student B : But the national exams will only encourage schools to give tasks that
develop students’ abilities to answer typical exam questions.
Student C : Despite criticism of the national exams, schools across the nation still plan
to hold the final exams.
Student D : I personaly believe that the national exams can be used only for evaluating
the education system and to determine its weakness.
Adapted from:Pathway to English book

Activity 5

Study the structure of the following discussion text.

Text
Structure Text Feature
Title The Internet on Education: Pros and Cons Social function

to get a balance on a picture
and point of view about the
role of the Internet in
education
Issue You know, we can’t deny the role of the Internet in Sign indicating an issue
education. But actually there are several positive
and negative impacts of the Internet in education. • You know

Sign indicating a

controversy

• Positive and negative

Argument One of the positive impacts of the Internet in Grammar used
“for/pro’ education is when you are curious about something.
You can find out the information to feed your The present tense
Elaboration ‘learning huger’ immediately from the Internet. So,
if you are curious about the ants in your backyard The use of modal
or if you want to know more about dinosaurs or any
other prehistoric animals, there is abundant Connective words
information at your fingertips and you can improve
your knowledge.
Argument Well, on the other hand, some would argue that Sign indicating an argument
“for/pro’ Internet degrades the quality of research, throwing
Elaboration people into area where the answer they find are Grammar used
low-quality guesses, at best. Since, the Internet
allows anyone to publish anything, finding high Contrastive connector
quality information is sometimes difficult. The

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