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Focuses on how well you have completed the task, in other words, if you have answered the question.

Focuses on how appropriate the writing is for the task and whether you have used formal or informal style appropriately. For example, is the style right for a magazine article?

Focuses on the way you put together the piece of writing. Are the ideas logical and ordered? Have you used paragraphs and linking words?

Focuses on vocabulary and grammar. This includes demonstrating the range of language that you know, as well as how accurate it is.

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Category Archives: Upper-Intermediate

Here is a list of upper-intermediate ESL lesson plans on a variety of topics for English conversation class. Note that there are many lessons at this level, so be sure to click the ‘ older posts ‘ link at the bottom of the page to see more. If you’d prefer to see a list of lesson plan topics, please view the topic list .

Olympic Athletes & Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) – Upper-Intermediate

A lesson on Olympic athletes with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) with reading & speaking activities for upper-intermediate ESL class

Angus Barbieri’s Fast (Upper-Intermediate Lesson Plan)

A lesson on on dieting, weight loss, and Angus Barbieri’s 382-day fast for upper-intermediate (B2/C1) ESL student speaking practice.

Amazon Tribe Gets Internet (Upper-Intermediate Lesson Plan)

A lesson on how the arrival of Starlink Internet access affected a remote Amazon tribe. The lesson includes speaking & vocabulary activities.

Utopia (Upper-Intermediate Lesson Plan)

A lesson plan on the concept of utopia and utopian societies. The lesson includes speaking and vocabulary activities for ESL class.

What Europeans Think of Americans (C1 Level Lesson)

A video-based lesson on what Europeans think of Americans. The lesson contains speaking activities for upper-intermediate/advanced (C1) ESL.

Trad Wives & Gender Roles (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on the trad wife trend spread on social media that promotes women returning to traditional gender roles. (B2/C1 ESL)

Dan Saunders & The ATM Glitch (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson about an Australian man who withdrew 1.6 million dollars after discovering an ATM glitch. The lesson includes speaking activities.

Dating & Finding Love (Upper-Intermediate Lesson Plan)

A lesson on the evolution of dating and dating trends (AI, dating apps, etc.) The lesson includes speaking activities for B2/C1 levels.

The Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Experiment (Upper-Intermediate)

A lesson on Jane Elliott’s Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes experiment that aimed to teach students about discrimination. This lesson is for B2/C1 levels.

Communication with Gen Z in the Workplace (Upper-Intermediate)

A lesson on communication conflicts at work with Gen Z employees. The lesson includes speaking and vocabulary activities for B2/C1 levels.

AI Girlfriends & Companions (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on artificial intelligence (AI) girlfriends and boyfriends. The lesson includes speaking and vocabulary activities for B2/C1 ESL.

Etiquette Rules for Visiting Japan (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on etiquette tips for visiting Japan. The lesson includes speaking and vocabulary activities for conversational ESL class.

Travel the World as a Pet Sitter (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on pet sitting around the world, focusing on the travel benefits and responsibilities of being a pet sitter. (B2 ESL level)

Neighbor from Hell: Russian Businessman Alexei Zakharov (Upper-Intermediate)

An ESL lesson about a terrible neighbour and bully for conversational English class. The B2/C1-level lesson includes roleplays and debates.

Milgram’s Obedience Experiment (Upper-Intermediate)

A lesson on Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience and authority. It includes speaking and vocabulary activities for advanced ESL class.

Breakfast Around the World (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on breakfast food around the world based on a YouTube video by Insider Food. The lesson includes vocabulary and speaking activities.

Escaping Reality to Avoid Life (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

ESL/EFL Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2/C1) Lesson Topics: Diversions, Escapism Skill Focus: Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours Lesson Plan Download: signs-escaping-reality-upper-intermediate-032024.docx Lesson Overview: After warm-up questions, students read a 241-word passage (based on this C2-level YouTube video) that describes six signs that people are avoiding reality. These signs describe ways that people dive into diversions […]

Friendship in the 21st Century (Upper-Intermediate Lesson)

A lesson on friendship, loneliness, and the friendship recession that includes speaking & vocabulary activities for B2/C1 ESL levels.

Neuralink Implants Brain Chip (Upper-Intermediate)

A video-based lesson on the successful implant of a brain chip into a human by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink for upper-intermediate ESL class.

Hedonism & The Experience Machine (Upper-Intermediate)

An upper-intermediate lesson on a TED-Ed video about Nozick’s Experience Machine. The speaking-focused lesson discusses hedonism and reality.

36 Days: A Lesson on Migration (Upper-Intermediate)

An lesson on the perilous journey of 101 African migrants who spent 36 days at sea. The lesson includes speaking activities for ESL class.

ESL003: Upper-Intermediate English as a Second Language

Course introduction.

• Time: 14 hours
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In Unit 1, you will learn how sentences become clearer when tenses agree. You'll practice recognizing tense to make your writing more coherent. Unit 2 builds your vocabulary by exploring synonyms and antonyms. In Unit 3, you will develop stronger reading skills when you practice making inferences and explaining your thoughts on what you've read. Unit 4 brings all these topics together as you write a short, cohesive essay about an article. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe your opinions about the things you read. This course is designed to help you use your new skills to communicate your ideas in a clear, thoughtful manner.

Course Syllabus

First, read the course syllabus. Then, enroll in the course by clicking "Enroll me". Click Unit 1 to read its introduction and learning outcomes. You will then see the learning materials and instructions on how to use them.

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Unit 1: Language Skills

Unit 1 introduces you to sentence agreement and tense consistency. Both of these concepts relate to the correct use of verbs to improve clarity of expression. In English, it is important that subjects match their verbs in every sentence. It is also important that the time of verbs, referred to as the verb's tense, stays consistent in a sentence or paragraph. For example, readers would be confused if a sentence mentioned one bird "walked" but later said "birds" or if that same bird "walked" while also "is walking". Clear writing also relies on pronouns correctly referring to their noun antecedents. In this unit, you'll learn how to match subjects with their verbs and pronouns to their nouns and use verb tense consistently in your sentences or paragraphs to help the reader follow along easily. Finally, you'll practice recognizing subject-verb, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and tense consistency errors in order to correct them.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 5 hours.

Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

• explain subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement rules; and
• recognize incorrect shifts in verb tense and sentence agreement errors for correction.

1.1: Sentence Agreement – Number, Person, and Case

We start Unit 1 with a review of three grammatical features. Sometimes, making subjects and their verbs or nouns and their antecedents agree in English can seem difficult, so this review will provide a basic understanding of how this agreement happens. These materials include information about grammar features to keep in mind for subject-verb agreement. After you read the explanations and watch the videos to learn about verbs, you will have a chance to test your understanding by completing practice activities.

Let's start by first reviewing the three grammatical features that affect the correct match between parts of sentences. Next, we will learn about specific subject-verb agreement rules in more detail to understand how to correctly match them in sentences.

Now that we have reviewed grammatical number, person, and case, let's look at subject-verb agreement in more detail to see how they can always be matched in our sentences.

After reviewing subject-verb agreement rules, let's take a look at pronoun-antecedent agreement in more detail to see how they can always be matched in our sentences.

1.2: Sentence Agreement – Let's Practice

Now that we know how to create agreement in our sentences in English, let's put our knowledge into practice.

These activities give you the opportunity to find out how well you understand how to ensure agreement between subjects and their predicates, as well as pronouns and their antecedents. If you have a difficult time forming and using verbs in the present, you may review and then try these practice activities again.

1.3: Sentence Agreement – Let's Apply

Now that you know about sentence agreement, let's see if we can easily identify those features in a text.

For this discussion, you will choose a couple of sentences from the Present Tense Discussion in Unit 1 of the ESL002 course and practice identifying any agreement used in that sentence.

1.4: Tense Consistency

In this part of Unit 1, we look at how we use verb tense to maintain sentence agreement. Using a consistent verb tense means using the same tense for verbs in a sentence or paragraph. When writing or editing, be sure to keep using the same tense and not change it unless you have a strong reason to do so. These materials include information about maintaining verb consistency when writing sentences and paragraphs. After you read the explanations and watch the videos to learn about tense consistency, you will have a chance to test your understanding by completing practice activities.

Let's start by first reviewing the role verbs playing sentences. Next, we will look at how maintaining verb tense improves sentence clarity.

After reviewing the role of main, or lexical, verbs in sentences and understanding the importance of tense consistency, let's look at improving sentence clarity by avoiding unnecessary tense shifts in our sentences.

1.5: Tense Consistency – Let's Practice

Now that we know how to avoid unnecessary tense shifts when writing, let's put our knowledge into practice.

These activities  give you the opportunity to find out how well you can maintain tense consistency in sentences and paragraphs. If you have a difficult time identifying and correcting unnecessary tense shifts, you may review and then try these practice activities again.

1.6: Tense Consistency – Let's Apply

For this discussion, tell a short family story or something that happened to you. As you write and proofread, make sure all your verbs are correct, and the tenses are consistent.

1.7: Putting It All Together

You have learned about important sentence agreement guidelines to write clear sentences in English. This is a lot to take in, for sure! This section will help you review what you learned in Unit 1.

Watch these videos and complete the practice activities to review what you learned about sentence agreement.

Unit 1 Assessment

Take this assessment to see how well you understood this unit.

• This assessment  does not count towards your grade . It is just for practice!
• You will see the correct answers when you submit your answers. Use this to help you study for the final exam!
• You can take this assessment as many times as you want, whenever you want.

Unit 2: Reading to Comprehend

Unit 2 reviews reading skills discussed in ESL002, focusing on making inferences and evaluative reading. Distinguishing fact from opinion and using your prior knowledge as you read will help you better comprehend the texts you read. In this unit, you will practice these skills to improve your comprehension of short articles in English.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 3 hours.

Unit 3: Reading to Improve

In ESL002, we learned about using a thesaurus to learn synonyms and antonyms. We also learned about the importance of matching the meaning of new words to the context in which they're used. This unit in ESL003 will review some vocabulary strategies that help you best use all the new words you have learned. Be sure to complete the practice activities to learn how to continue to develop these skills.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 2 hours.

Unit 4: Reading to Write

This unit pulls together everything you learned in the previous units. In this unit, you will bring together sentence agreement, facts, and word choice to write and share a short expository essay.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 4 hours.

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Take this exam if you want to earn a free Course Completion Certificate.

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Once you pass this final exam, you will be awarded a free Course Completion Certificate .

• B2 Cities of the Future

The essay for B2 First Writing Part 1 is always written for the teacher. It should be well organised, with an introduction, your opinions on the ideas given and an appropriate conclusion.

For essay, you are asked the following question about the city of the future.

The cities that we are living in now are often overcrowded and polluted. What improvements do you think we will see in the cities in the future?

Notes 1. providing more places to relax 2. redesigning the place we work and live in 3. improving transportation systems

More exercises available:

You are required to produce two pieces of writing. The first piece is compulsory and will be an essay of 140-190 words. For the second, you can choose from an article, email/letter, essay, review or report (B2 First for schools the report is replaced with a story) of 140-190 words.

• B2 Article Video
• B2 Book Review Video
• B2 Descriptive Email Video
• B2 Place Review Video
• B2 Short Story Video
• B2 Fast Food
• B2 Following Fashion
• B2 Live Concert
• B2 Pollution Problems
• B2 Taking a Gap Year
• B2 A Work of Art
• B2 Being a Celebrity
• B2 Life Away
• B2 Preventing Crime
• B2 School Improvement
• B2 Shopping Online
• B2 Tablet or Laptop
• B2 The Countryside
• School Canteen
• B2 A School Trip to Italy
• B2 An Important Day
• B2 Forgetful Girl
• The Hidden Beach
• The Lost Photo
• B2 IMDb Website Review
• B2 Jurassic Park Book Review
• B2 Mountain Bike Park
• B2 Romeo and Juliet Play Review
• B2 Ted Film Review
• Scarlett Animation Review
• B2 Berlin Travel Report
• B2 Shops Report
• B2 Visiting Places Report
• B2 Birthday Party Letter
• B2 Computer Games Email
• B2 Favourite Film Email
• B2 Holiday in Thailand Email
• B2 New Attraction Letter
• B2 Place to Visit Email
• B2 Spending Money Email
• B2 Visiting Relative Email

You need to be able to understand a range of texts, including how they are organised and the opinions and attitudes expressed in them. The texts will be from sources familiar to you such as magazines, articles, fiction and advertisements, but targeted at the interests of students.

Students’ use of English will be tested by tasks which show how well they can control their grammar and vocabulary.

• Use of English Part 1
• Use of English Part 2
• Use of English Part 3
• Use of English Part 4
• Reading Part 5
• Reading Part 6
• Reading Part 7

For this part, you practice vocabulary by using words with similar meanings, collocations, linking phrases, phrasal verbs, etc.

• B2 First Use of English Video
• Becoming Famous
• Cycling Scheme
• Film Stars and Music Celebrities
• Going on a diet
• Single or Mixed Sex Schools
• The History of Football
• The Poor and Less Fortunate
• The Special Bus
• Why do we need to play?

For this part, you practice grammar and vocabulary.

• Better swimming
• Cardboard Bike
• Dealing with waste plastic
• Drinking Water
• Fit for Sports
• Following Your Nose
• Growing Bananas
• Holiday with a Friend
• Making Perfume
• The Farm Trip
• The Jobs Market
• Tree Climbing
• Weather Forecasting
• Young Enterprise

For this part, you practice vocabulary word-building by changing different words using a base word.

• Angel of Mercy
• Fast Food Industry
• Life on Other Planets
• Music in Schools
• Mystery Weekend Break
• Pollution Problems
• Understanding Time
• Workforce on the Move

For this part,  you have to express a message in different ways showing flexibility and resource in the use of language.

• B2 First Use of English Part 4
• B2 Key Word Transformation 1
• B2 Key Word Transformation 10
• B2 Key Word Transformation 2
• B2 Key Word Transformation 3
• B2 Key Word Transformation 4
• B2 Key Word Transformation 5
• B2 Key Word Transformation 6
• B2 Key Word Transformation 7
• B2 Key Word Transformation 8
• B2 Key Word Transformation 9

For this part, you practice how to understand the details of a text, including opinions and attitudes.

• Cycling to India
• Hottest Place on Earth
• Living and Working in Another Country
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Wrestler who Wrote a Book

For this part, you practice how to understand the structure and follow the development of a text.

• Benefits of Getting Fit
• Our Polluted World

For this part, you practice how to find specific information in a text or texts.

• Collecting Things
• English Seaside Resorts
• Teenage Summer Camps

Requires being able to follow and understand a range of familiar spoken materials, such as news programmes, public announcements and other sources, but targeted at the interests of the learners.

• Speaking Part 1
• Speaking Part 2
• Speaking Part 3
• Speaking Part 4
• Listening Part 1
• Listening Part 2
• Listening Part 3
• Listening Part 4

In this part you talk to the examiner about yourself and your life, e.g. your name, school, interests and future plans.

B2 Speaking Part 1 Exercise 1 B2 Speaking Part 1 Exercise 2 B2 Speaking Part 1 Exercise 3

In this part, you talk about two photos on your own which you have to compare for about 1 minute . After you have finished, your partner will be asked a short question about your photo. When your partner has spoken about their photos for about 1 minute , you will be asked a question about their photos.

B2 Speaking Part 2 Exercise 1

In this part you express ideas with your partner by looking at a discussion point that the examiner gives you.

This will be available soon.

In this part, you focus on general aspects of a topic with the examiner or you may involve your partner.

In this part, you will hear people talking in eight different situations.

Entertainment Short Conversations Talking about Sports

In this part, you will hear someone being interviewed.

Extreme Snowboarding Future Options Newly Published Book The Talent Show

In this part, you will hear five people talking about different things.

Demonstration Travel Worries

In this part, you will hear an interview.

Protecting the Environment Staying Healthy

• Customs and Traditions
• Entertainment and Leisure
• Environmental and Nature
• Future Jobs and Education
• Identity and Well-being
• Travel and Adventure

Customs and Traditions explores how we celebrate our cultural identity across the globe.

• Christmas Hard Exercises
• Story of Halloween
• Valentine Message

Entertainment and Leisure explores how we spent our free time.

Environment and Nature explores the way humans and animals live, adapt and change on our planet.

• Global Changes

Exploring how different societies create roles for people to develop their skills and knowledge.

• Future Schools
• Sport at School
• School Rules
• Fashion Design

Exploring how we learn and adjust to the world around us. .

• Taking Risks
• Natural Disasters

Exploring how we experience the world through our life journeys

• Travelling around the World

Cambridge English exams are designed for learners at all levels from the pre-intermediate level Cambridge English: Key (KET) to the very advanced level Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE). These exams give candidates proof of their ability to use English in a wide variety of contexts, relevant to work, study and leisure activities.

A2 Key | B1 Preliminary | B2 First

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Tips to score a good mark in the oral exam

Various topics: Using a Random picker to teach English

Conversation Fillers: give yourself some time to think

Ti ps to give speeches

Some priceless topic-based videos to help students prepare for the oral exam

Personal Identification  

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Customs and traditions

Customs and traditions in Spain (visual)

Present and past

Names and personality questions

Housing & Home Environment  

City life vs country life

The city: Vocabulary and speaking

Hometowns (cards)

Homes and houses

The environment

Daily Life Activities  

Doing housework

Work+vocabulary

Work: Board Game

Free Time & Entertainment  

F ilm cards

Sports 3 (interactive)  

Sports questions (Spark page)

Violent sports

Taking risks

Taking risks (visual)

The Performing Arts

Travelling  

Stereotypes

Travelling 1

Traveling 2

Travelling+vocabulary

Travelling card s

Off the beaten track

Social & Human Relations  

Your dream partner

Families Guided Answers

Racism and immigration

H ealth & Wellbeing

At the doctor's

Health and Illness

Health and Illness Collocations Game

Are exams a waste of time?

Education+vocabulary

Education: Using vocabulary

Shopping & Trade

Fashion and trends

Going shopping

Going shopping+ vocabulary (in pairs)

Online shoppin g

Money and Business (Spark)

Money (in pairs)

Food & Nourishment

Food and eating 1

Food and eating 2

Spinning the wheel game

Language & Communication

Advertising

Truth or tabloid?

Learning a language+vocabulary

Learning English

Do you speak English?

Science & Technology

Mobiles and the Internet

Technology+ vocabulary

Climate, Weather & Environment

Environment

Easter Holidays

After Christmas conversation questions

Goods and services

Miscellaneous  

Phrasal verbs with three parts

The "take" questionnaire

What would you do if you...?

Hüseyin Demirtaş ile İngilizce

Son kez İngilizce çalışın | IELTS, TOEFL, YDS, & Proficiency

Essay Örnekleri IELTS – TOEFL – Proficiency

Essay örnekleri sayfasında Proficiency, TOEFL ya da IELTS gibi sınavlar için farklı seviye ve konularda İngilizce kompozisyon örnekleri bulacaksınız. 

İngilizce yazı yazma becerinizi geliştirecek alıştırmalardan biri de çeşitli konularda yazılmış essay örnekleri okuyup, bu essaylerden notlar almak, güzel bulduğunuz ifade ve yapıları kendi yazılarınıza katmaktır.

Gerek İngilizce hazırlık sınıflarında, gerekse TOEFL, IELTS ve PTE gibi İngilizce sınavlarında essay yazma bölümleri bulunmakta. Bu sınavlara hazırlanmak için her bir sınavla ilgili essay örnekleri incelemekte büyük fayda var.

Essay Örnekleri

Bu bağlamda TOEFL ve IELTS sınavları ile Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İngilizce Yeterlilik Sınavı olan BUEPT’e yönelik yazılmış çeşitli essay örneklerini derledim. Bu sayfanın dışında ek örneklere ulaşmak isterseniz yazının sonundaki kaynaklar kısmına göz atabilirsiniz.

TOEFL Essay Örnekleri

Some people think that family is the most important influence on young adults. Other people think that friends are the most important influence in young adults. Which view do you agree with? Use examples to support your position.

As social beings, we are naturally influenced by those we meet in the course of our lives. This is particularly true for young people, whose character and personality are still malleable. Although friends play a central role in the lives of teenagers, in my opinion, it is the family which has a greater impact on young people. My view is based on psychological, intellectual and financial reasons.

Psychologically, the family is the central grounding factor for a young person, because the parents, brothers and sisters are the ones who actually love him or her. It is through thousands of life situations and family discussions that norms, values, customs, traditions and expectations are passed on to the youngster. The depth of relationship, developed over the years through shared joys and sorrows, place family members in an incomparably close bond which cannot easily be replicated by friends or anyone else.

Intellectually, the family impacts the young person’s ability to think. Parents create the intellectual climate in the home. Whether children develop the habit of reading, studying hard or striving to achieve their goals depends largely on the parents’ example. Whether youngsters agree or disagree with their parents’ political or religious views, the family remains a reference point against which young people develop their individuality. In Asian cultures, where respect for elders is an important value, the family plays an even more central role in shaping the young person’s world view. Financially, the family influences the youngster by providing a certain type of lifestyle. Home, school, friends, hobbies, clothes, holidays and material possessions – all of these are impacted by the family’s prosperity. The same holds true for the youngster growing up in a poor family- a totally different reality will surround that young person. No friend could have this powerful or tangible an influence on the teenager.

In conclusion, though friends can have a strong influence on a young person, it is finally the family which provides the more powerful backdrop in a young person’s life. The family’s influence is permanent, unforgettable and inescapable.

Essay Rehberi ile baştan sona essay yazmayı öğrenin

81 şehir & binlerce öğrenci writing için Essay Rehberi’ne güveniyor. Yazarken aklınıza fikir gelmiyor mu? Uzun ve güzel cümleler kuramıyor musunuz? Vaktiniz yetmiyor mu? Thesis nedir, outline nedir, body nasıl yazılır bilmiyor musunuz? Essay yazma ile ilgili bilmeniz gereken ne varsa Essay Rehberi‘nde.

IELTS Essay Örnekleri

Some people think that spending a lot on holding wedding parties, birthday parties and other celebrations is just a waste of money. Others, however, think that these are necessary for individuals and the society. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Throwing parties can be expensive. While some people do not find these fancy parties worth what they cost, others believe parties are important to both individuals and the society.

People choose to throw parties for a number of reasons. For starters, parties can make better teams. Project kick-off parties are good opportunities to break the ice and help team members to know each other better. Victory parties create a sense of success and belonging . Companies do not see parties as wastes of money and allocate budget to support such events. Moreover, parties often leave good memories. From our own experiences, we all have happy memories of our birthday parties when we were little. Every family has great photos took on family parties in their album. In addition, contrary to what some people believe that spending on parties is a waste of social resources, parties actually create value, either by employing people in the party planning business or by offering people better party experiences.

The popularity of parties, however, causes some tension in the society. Parties are hard on introverted people who find themselves uncomfortable in parties. This is a clinic symptom which psychologists call it “social anxiety disorder”. There are other ways to celebrate important events that may have greater value for their cost. For instance, companies could send out gifts after successful projects and parents could take their children on family trips to celebrate birthdays.

In my opinion, while a party is a form of social event that brings many benefits to individuals and the society, other choices should also be considered, either to cut spending or to relieve the stress of those who are not fond of parties.

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Animal experimentation.

There has been a controversy between animal rights supporters and scientists about whether it is right to use animals in experimental research. Also, it is very debatable whether using animals for such research results in finding a cure for diseases. From my point of view, if there are no other alternatives, and if it is possible that this will contribute to science, animals may be used for experimental research.

Although the animal rights activists claim that people and animals are equal and thus they should be treated equally, I think that people and animals cannot be seen equal, and therefore the death of an animal cannot be the same thing as the death of a person. For that reason, causing animals to die for science, for the sake of saving human lives, may be considered ethical to some extent if it will contribute to the advancement of science and will be to the benefit of humanity in general.

Furthermore, animal rights supporters label scientists as ‘cruel’ for causing animals to die in medical experiments, while they do not oppose the people, mostly farmers, who kill animals for food, even though they know that 99% of animals deaths is caused by farmers while only a small percentage, i.e. 1% is caused by scientists. The underlying reason for that is they find scientists easier to attack and cannot deal with farmers who are organized and strong.

Another basic argument of animal rights defenders is that people and animals are different genetically and therefore it is useless to use animals in experiments to see the effects of some substances on people. They claim that it will make no good to use animals in experiments because they are too different to be compared to people. Some of them even assert that it is better to use people directly as they think that the results of experiments on animals cannot be valid and reliable as long as the same observation has not been done on man also. However, these people cannot foresee the disastrous results of such a practice. Many people are likely to die until a healthy result is obtained.

People and animals may not be the same, but to some degree there are similarities which can at least give scientists an idea about their experiments. From this point of view, scientists are right to use animal models to provide themselves with information about what is happening at level of detail that could not be achieved in humans. Although there might have been some incidents when animal testing did not prove to be useful and some effects of some drugs observed on animals could not be observed on people, there are also a lot of examples that show that using animals resulted in significant developments and helped to cure some serious illnesses.

On the other hand, there may be alternative methods that should be used instead of animal experimentation. Then, of course, it is cruel and unethical to use animals. For example, in some experiments in-vitro methods can be used as an alternative to using live animals. In such occasions, it is certainly much better and right to employ these alternatives.

All in all, it can be said that using animals for medical research is ethical a long as it contributes to scientific development and helps scientists find ways to improve human health. And this practice is only acceptable on the condition that necessary pains are taken and animals are treated humanely.

Ayse Ipek, Spring 2004 Adv

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