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Demonstration: Choosing your angle

Demonstration: Choosing your angle

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Demonstration: Choosing your angle

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- [Instructor] Okay, have you done that? Have you chosen your angle? Well here's my angle which is expressed in my new lead. I'm gonna say, "Sri Lankans "will "be able "to "make healthier "choices "about what to drink "after new measures "forcing "beverage makers "to reveal "potentially "dangerous "sugar levels "in their products." Kay? That's gonna be my angle. Now, just for practice, I want you to pause this and come up with another lead for an article that focuses more on the government and its steps to boost the nation's health. So you just wanna come up with a sentence, similar to this one, but where the angle is on the government and its steps rather than the public aspect of it. It's now presenting it from the point of view of the government itself. And, then I'll give you mine. Okay, here's mine: Kay, "The Sri Lankan government will force soft-drink makers "to disclose potentially dangerous sugar levels "in its latest initiative to--" or "as part of its "latest initiative to…

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