General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 05 Topic 04.doc 5. The report says that cloning could bring huge changes for good in medicine. One such benefit is to a) make it possible for parents to choose how intelligent their children will be. b) cure many diseases. c) make new people from famous people who have died. d) create a super race of perfect people. 6. Genetic modification is a scientific development in which a) the genetic material of cells is altered. b) cells are reproductively cloned. c) a living cell is taken and photographed. d) plants are copied from a single cell. 7. Information in the report suggests that one positive example of GM could be a) bigger trees that produce more timber. b) vitamin tablets that kill people. c) redder apples that taste bad. d) plants that don't get eaten by insects. 8. People are worried about GM because a) GM foods might not be safe for the people or animals who eat them. b) people might become too healthy. c) there may not be enough food for everyone. d) disease and insects won't have anything to live on. LANGUAGE FOCUS 03 Written reports What is a report? What type of language do we use to write one? Purpose A report is a piece of factual writing (about real things), often based on research of some kind. The purpose of a report is to give information on a particular topic or subject, so it includes lots of facts about that topic. In a report we do not give our opinion. Stages We write a report in stages. 1. In the first stage or introduction we start by saying what the report will be about - the topic. During the last 10 years there have been some big breakthroughs in gene technology … New procedures relating to genes, such as cloning and genetically modifying food, have been developed in recent years. 2. In the body we write about the aspects of the topic, or sub-topics. We write about these in separate paragraphs. We introduce each new aspect or sub-topic with a topic sentence followed by supporting sentences, which give more information. 175 QUESTLANGUAGE
