2.8 Self test. Exposition Writing
Social purpose:
Whaling
| Structure | Ladies and gentlemen | Language features |
| Paragraph 1 | The 2existence of the wonderful, natural giant of the oceans, the whale, I 1believe, is continually under threat by the 2persistence of some nations who continue whaling operations in different parts of the world | 1.
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| Paragraph 2 | Even though the International Whaling Commission, made up of many countries, placed a ban in 1986 on commercial whaling, some countries, such as Japan and Norway, still continue their whaling under the 3pretext of scientific research. It is well known that the whales they catch find their way onto the dinner table of thousands of people! | 3. |
| Paragraph 3 | If whaling for scientific purposes continues, the whale 4cannot be saved from extinction. Research has shown that large numbers of species have dropped alarmingly because whales have been killed faster than they can breed. | 4. |
| Paragraph 4 | Once the world probably did need what the whale could offer, namely, blubber for fuel and oil, smokeless candles and flesh for human consumption. Now with petroleum and many other sources of light and energy since discovered and developed, nations do not need the blubber. With the world's plentiful supply of a variety of other fish, there is no need either for whale flesh. | |
| Paragraph 5 | 5Therefore, we 4must join together with the conservationists, such as Greenpeace, to fight the wholesale slaughter of wild life and make the ocean once more a sanctuary for the whale | 5. |