Some people think secondary school students should study international news as one of their subjects. Other people say this is a waste of valuable school time.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
The world today has become quite dynamic and news stories develop almost every minute. Some people think reviewing the news need to become a high school subject while another group disagrees.
Reviewing global news could have a number of benefits for students. Firstly, this would definitely improve their general knowledge in areas like geography, since the news come from around the world and often include lots of details about different locations, their customs and manners. Therefore, they would possibly gain a better understanding of the world and its features. Secondly, studying the news can develop the students’ ability to analyse sophisticated situations because when they follow a story, say, about a political rift between two countries, they could observe how it develops or escalates, how the parties involved act and what consequences are.
Nevertheless, there are some arguments against teaching international news at high schools. Most importantly, the violence portrayed in many of today’s news stories could affect students’ conduct. For instance, almost every newspaper and news website these days is filled with images and stories of the Syrian civil war, which are likely to make youngsters feel insecure or make unreasonable judgements about any Arab friends they might have. Furthermore, reading and analysing the news would probably be a time consuming activity which could lead to less time remaining for more important subjects and activities like sciences, math or physical education.
In conclusion, I personally believe it is wise for secondary school students to study global news at school, but it would be wise if stories are chosen and adapted for the class by a group of educational experts and psychologists to avoid the negative effects discussed above.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4982078853 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85333926202 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.655913978495 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.5959608464 49.4020404114 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.454545455 106.682146367 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3636363636 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8181818182 7.06120827912 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193274997107 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688811492199 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0561128146886 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120372004957 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327390984657 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.63 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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