14 Task 2 questions on media. Click any question to open the full task, writing tips, and a link to practise your own answer.
About this theme
Television, social media, advertising, news bias, celebrity culture, regulation of online content. Media prompts test whether you can separate the medium from the message. Avoid the trap of arguing that "social media is bad", the band-7 move is to specify which behaviours on which platforms produce which outcomes for which users.
FAQ
“In their advertising, businesses nowadays usually emphasise that their products are new in some way. Why is this? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?”