WRITING
Writing tips
Tips for expressing your opinion
• Use these sentence starters when you write your opinion.
I think that watching sad things makes people aggressive over time.
I strongly believe that seeing a lot of violence on TV makes teenagers aggressive.
In my opinion, watching sad things can be good from time to time.
• Whenever possible expand your reasons with facts.
In my opinion, watching sad things can be good from time to time. As we know, when you cry, you get rid of stress hormones. So, watching sad things can help you get rid of those hormones.
Tips for paraphrasing
• use synonyms
Acting on intuition can have negative results. - Acting on intuition might bring bad outcomes.
• change word order
If you doomscroll all day long, you open your body to all sorts of stress.
You create a stressful life for yourself when you doomscroll all day long.
• change grammatical structure
I remember acting on intuition from time to time. - There have been times when I acted on intuition.

1 | Read the passage and choose the best answer. The writer gives his opinion on ★★★. a) playing computer games and spending time on social media. b) the disadvantages of spending more time indoors. These days a lot of children prefer spending more time at home compared to past times. This is mostly because of technology. Young people spend inactive time at home playing computer games, watching videos on social media platforms, etc. There are a lot of disadvantages of spending less active time outdoors at that age. It can cause health problems. We know that Vitamin D is very important for the human