 Hello, and welcome back to another GCSE revision lesson. Now guys, I want to begin by firstly saying a massive Thank you for all of you guys who literally send me so much love on YouTube in the comments in my polls, but also on TikTok guys if I don't say this enough and if I don't get a Chance to respond to all these comments that I get from you guys as well as even emails I want to firstly say a massive. Thank you. Okay It's because of all the love that you guys tend to show me that I keep on doing all of these videos So I hope that you're going to find them continuously helpful in your road Securing that amazing grade in your English GCSE exams. Okay now guys One of the things in the poll that I put out that you guys said you really need help on is Language paper two and more specifically Question number five now when it comes to this question, I tend to suggest to students that actually Passing this question is fairly and relatively easy as long as you are aware of general topical issues What people what do people tend to talk about when it comes to what you're hearing in the radio on the news? And so on because it tends to be just general topics that AQA tends to select to test you guys on and to see number one Do you happen to have an opinion on it and number two? Are you able to not only Argue your perspective, but also consider why people might disagree with you in your counter arguments Now what I want to do in this video is to present with you three major topics that I always Suggest students need to have an opinion on and even prepare for as part of the language paper to question number five revision And as you can see behind me, I've basically created Essentially plans to go with these topics and guys if you find this useful, especially because obviously within this video I'm going to be going over just three topics I've literally suggested seven main topic areas And so if you want to see me show you guys more plans for other topic areas and other topical issues Do let me know in the comments. However, what I want to show you guys is say for instance You were asked a question or you were you know, for example in school Or even in your final assessments, you're asked to write about either technology or Social media which is a massive topical issue is technology good for us is social media good for us or not Then this is my suggestion in terms of how you can debate this topic But also another interesting topical area that tends to come up is to do with young people and their attitudes are young people Entitled are they lazy? Are they you know snowflakes and so on and here as you can see I've put together a really brief plan with the main points that you can talk about in the main counter arguments that you can discuss When you're writing and considering this topical area and of course another very popular topical area is to do with travel Is it good? Is it bad? You know, for example, is it too expensive? You know should we all travel or should we just stay at home and you know watch about other countries or other foreign places on TV? Right travel tends to kind of mold itself into different forms of questions And it's actually an area that a QA has asked Exam questions on I believe three times so far. Okay, so I'm going to begin with the topical area Which is to do with technology. This is an umbrella term for for example phones. Are they good for us? social media is it good for us and The argument that I'm going to take and I'm going to show you how you can take this argument and points and made up Statistics and made up anecdotes that you can consider is I will say that if the statement Let's say the statement says, you know technology is not good for us It's bad for us. I'm going to argue that it's actually good for us And this is what you can include and this is a plan that you can kind of memorize when you're writing any Language paper to question five response on the area of technology Number one one of the main major reasons that you can argue that technology is actually really good for us Is because it helps people learn and you can make up a statistic You can say for example 80% of teachers have used some form of technology Google classrooms one note to help the students learn So if anything far from being bad for us technology is actually really really good for us because it enhances our learning and teachers Really rely on it. That's the first point But also the second reason why you could argue that technology slash social media is really good for us is because you could argue That it reduces our sense of isolation even alleviates lifts up our depression, right for example Let's say, you know, and there's kids in school who are getting bullied They don't have many friends that can turn to their phones They can turn to social media platforms to make online friends, right? And you could argue for instance Sally Smith is a year 11 student who maybe suffers from bullying in school actually Turns to tick tock and her online friends to ensure that she doesn't feel isolated Okay, technology has been a game changer for her That's the second point and of course the third point is actually technology is really good for us because it helps us stay In touch with people globally for example Relatives abroad and so on and I'm probably going to argue in this point that maybe you could say, you know BBC in an interview with, you know, John Smith from Cambridge University Stated that actually technology has been able has enabled a lot of families to keep in close connection with each other That's the main reasons that you could argue that technology is actually really good for us slash social media or anything in that area However, of course, you need to consider counterpoints. The first major one is of course that's social media Technology can be very addictive and the made-up statistic and the made-up counter argument can say is, you know Gov that UK found that 85% of teenagers Addicted to their phones are addicted to social media and of course another counter argument is Technology slash social media can cause mental health issues. For example, John Doe who's in year 11 He has lots of sleep problems because he constantly checks his phone at night Okay, that's what you can consider if you're writing about technology and whether it's good for us Whether it's bad for us. Let's consider the topic area of young people. Are they entitled? Are they a spoiled generation? Is your generation a generation of snowflakes now? I'm gonna argue that, you know, say for example, you decided to agree with it Okay, and I'm just saying this it's not necessarily that I believe this However, if you wanted to say argue and agree with that the first point you can say is for example Modern life has made things so easy for young people. That's why they are snowflakes That's why they're so entitled, right? And you can give some examples for example, you can talk about technology mobile phones trains How easy it is to travel anywhere at such a low cost and of course are easy access to things like phones This has made young people way too soft today Okay, so in that case you're given some examples a second reason maybe to make this argument is to say that young people have Zero responsibility except to study and you can make up a statistic say from Oxford University Which found that 95% of teenagers have no jobs Hence if they complain about how hard life is then actually that means they're taking just the the easiness of their lives for granted Okay, and the third reason which you could argue that young people are indeed snowflakes is that you know Lots of young people are very coddled by their parents There's even the term helicopter moms moms that you know are constantly at the beck and call of their children and in this case to Support this idea that yes young people are very entitled and they are snowflakes You can maybe make the argument that Sally Smith is near 11 She has a helicopter mom who hasn't really taught her any kind of way to cope with any form of adversity in school And even in her everyday life, however, the counter argument could be Number one many young people today are overachievers if anything, you know you can look at people like Malala use of Psy as Examples of young people who you know started achieving from a very young age, okay? And here for example, maybe you could use Malala as an example or you can make up yet another Anecdote and say, you know John Doe who's in year 11. He studies using his phone and technology, right? So rather than him being this entitled young person. That's really lazy Actually, he uses technology and all the things that are available to him to boost his learning and then the second counter argument could be That actually young people are right to argue and complain about things, you know Life being too hard and especially things like GCSE is being too challenging They are actually indeed quite challenging and life for young people today is harder than it ever has been right and the counter Argument and the counter statistic maybe is to say that God at UK in a study found that you know after Interviewed lots of university undergrads and asked them how difficult, you know when they think about GCSE's a levels in university 80% of undergrads in university found that GCSE's was the hardest and most challenging time in the academic year Right, so maybe you could use that as you made up statistic now Of course the final topic, which is a very popular topic. AQ has chosen it in different past papers It's a topic of travel so say for example, you've got another question on travel this is what you could talk about right and This Argument will be supporting the importance of travel saying travel is good, right? So if you were to take that argument number one, you could argue that travel is enlightening, okay? And then you can make up the statistic that you know, not only does travel help us reduce our stereotypes and prejudices, right? So if you go to a country that you've heard of but actually physically go there you then stop having these prejudices actually Cambridge University totally made up statistic said that travel makes you 70% more likely to have a foreign friend Okay So travel is actually really good for you because it reduces your levels of prejudice the second reason that you could argue that travel is really good Is a lot of people say, you know, oh travel so bad using planes and so on is really really bad for environment But actually you could argue that there's lots of pollution free forms of traveling for example trains And this is actually a real life example Interrail, which is a train service company has low pollution travel across Europe and for a fraction of the cost that it could cost people to take planes for instance and With the very very low levels of pollution. You can see lots of different countries across Europe using Services like interrail. Okay, so that's a really really powerful example that you can use to say that actually travel Not only can it be inexpensive, but also it doesn't have to pollute the planet And of course the third point could be travel is actually really good because it boosts our levels of language learning, right? So for example traveling to places like France, which helps us understand languages like French, right? Especially for people taking fit French GCSE's Germany Spain and so on Travel is essential, right? It actually helps us boost our knowledge of even different languages and become bilingual and here I'm gonna suggest maybe using and making up an anecdote Sally Smith is near 11 found that she learned more in Spending a week away in France right in Paris then she did her entire time She studied her French GCSE's in England, right? So obviously that's a very dramatic example But that could be a good anecdote to use to support the idea that travel is really important and essential And of course counterpoints could be number one travel is really bad because it can actually be really dangerous And of course here you can make up a statistic saying that gov.uk found that people who are under 18 who traveled Were 60% more likely to be kidnapped totally made up statistic But of course that can be the counter argument and of course the next second counter argument as to why travel can be really bad is It's far too expensive and of course You know you can point to a lot of people saying oh, you know You can have discounted train travel But what if you are anecdote John Doe a single dad of say five Something even as inexpensive as a 50 pound ticket to go to you know Spain But if you have to buy 50 pounds for yourself and also for your five children that the costs quickly rack up Right, so that could be a second reason against travel that it's far too expensive for a majority of people Especially people like John Doe. He's a single dad. Okay Anyway guys, that's really it when it comes to the key topic areas Especially technology young people and travel and as I said guys when it comes to language paper, too It's actually fairly easy to do quite well in this part of the paper As long as you're well versed on topical issues that people talk about on the radio on TV and so on Okay And if you found this useful and you want me to go through all seven topic areas that I tend to suggest to all Students to have an opinion on or maybe even a plan on I'm happy to do so in next week's video. Thank you