Presumed consent: a discursive essay on organ donation
A model essay examines opt-out organ donation. Students analyze sophisticated argument and hedging, then write a balanced essay on food advertising.
C2Adults60 minEssay
About this lesson
A C2 writing lesson (essay). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Essay
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Health & medicine
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Reading text, Multiple choice, Matching, Gap-fill
- Key words
- outstrip, presumed consent, inertia, coercive, counter (that), infer, clear-cut, contend
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Analyze how a discursive essay presents, tests and qualifies arguments
- Use sophisticated phrases for argument, counter-argument and evaluation
- Write a 300–350 word discursive essay on a health policy