Presenting ideas and giving suggestions What can the government do to reduce the number of young smokers in Hong Kong? Presenting ideas and giving suggestions

Understanding the tasks What are the key words in the question? the government reduce the number of young smokers

Drafting ideas: paragraphing Introduction: Is the problem deteriorating or acceptable/ improving? Why does the government have the responsibility/ obligation to solve the problem? Some suggestions: Give 2 to 3 suggestions and explain why these suggestions are useful Conclusion: What will happen if the government implement your suggestion?

Look for ideas from the passage Actions to take: to introduce tighter measures to increase the smoking ban effectiveness, to designate more public places such as transport interchanges as non-smoking areas, to focus on prevention should increase the tobacco tax

Look for ideas from the passage Adjectives: more effective in deterring offenders, ineffective in reducing the number of young smokers Nouns: Tobacco Control Office, smoking ban, a HK$1500 fixed penalty,

New Ideas Hard tactic: By making polices making/ tightening of the law 1. What can our government do? Hard tactic: By making polices making/ tightening of the law Soft tactic: Through strengthening education at school

Writing Topic Situation: You are entering an article writing competition organised by the school Social Science Society. The word limit is 300 words. The topic for the competition is Reducing the number of young smokers in Hong Kong

Elaboration of ideas How can we expand ideas? Give more examples: such as, for example, like Give reasons: because, since, therefore, so Give results: If XXX happens, then VVV will happen. Unless we can XXX, VVV will never happen.