Class Activity (Party
Politics, Paper V – Political Statement Making)
Teacher: “Today we work on copy-paste statements. The topic for
discussion today is high taxation imposed by the government. Half of you will
speak as opposition and half as supporters.
“Here is a bunch of newspapers from the last week. Distribute them among
yourselves. Go through them, find sentences that are suitable for the topic and
cut them out of the papers. Scissors are kept here on my table. Try to get
about 8-10 sentences.
“Once you have them, arrange them in an orderly fashion and stick them
on a sheet of paper. Glue sticks are also kept on my table.
“Now read the text that you have just created by pasting the cut-out
sentences. The text will feel artificial and at times quite incoherent.
“Incoherent is not a problem. That is normal. However, we will need to
work on making them sound authentic. To do that we will need to open a thesaurus,
which is a book of synonyms, and replace as many words as possible with their synonyms.
"Then the finished product will be a political statement on taxation, which is copy pasted from newspapers, but modiefied enough to sound authentic."
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