The document provides guidance on writing a discursive essay about whether free healthcare should be available to all through the UK's National Health Service (NHS). It includes topics to discuss like the purpose and origins of the NHS, as well as notes on reasons for and against free healthcare. Students are instructed to select facts and opinions, write an essay using the provided structure of introducing reasons for and against with evidence from links and Twitter quotes.

1. The NHS
Write a discursive essay on the NHS.
Should free healthcare be available to all?

2. Knowledge: we are learning about
• The purpose of the National Health Service
• The origins of the NHS
Skills: we are learning to
• Select appropriate facts and opinions.
• Write a discursive essay.

3. What is the NHS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaF2s3t_NYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebRbHDzG3pg

4. Preventing Illness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbgtDtsfBQ8

5. What do our twitter followers think?

6. Give some reasons why it is good that
healthcare is free.

7. Give some reasons why healthcare should not
be free.

8. Now extend each reason to explain why it is a
point worth making.
• Add a connective to your sentence.
• Add an ambitious opener to your sentence.
• Check that your punctuation is correct.

9. Choose some quotes from Twitter to back up
your sentences.

10. Arrange your sentences into two groups (For and
against)
Try to extend every sentence into a
paragraph.

11. Use all these notes to write a quality essay.