Functional Skills English Writing Level 1: Sample Paper 1

Write a report for people who are not technology experts explaining how technology (for example mobile phones, internet, social media apps) benefits society.

in your report you may wish to include the following points:

Technology in personal life
Technology in business
Technology in the world as a whole
What life could be like without modern technology

Technology growth has contributed to too many world turning innovations, improved services, and improved luxuries because, at the very same time, our everyday lives have changed drastically. Various highly designed, internet-connected devices have revolutionized the manner in which people communicate. Technology allows companies to thrive with reduces pain effectively and successfully and cutting the cost of just doing dealings in business. Through having them linked to vendors, consumers and everyones sales staff, technologies enable company operations. Technological advancement prepared the path for wearable electronics such as the apple watch as well as the mobile phone. Computer systems are becoming bigger, more compact and more efficient than it has ever been. New technologies has always makes our job smoother, quicker, safer and more enjoyable in all those transformations.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)