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1L Supporting a cause: Children and advertising

 LE PADLET POUR REDIGER VOS ARGUMENTS: 3 arguments chacun!
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Ethics debate argument preparation:
Prepare your arguments and be ready to respond to potential counter-arguments
Use supporting a cause (p.36 manuel+HELP p.245) to help you:
Watch this video seen in class for ideas:
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Role 1: You are the manager of an advertising agency and recently you have been responsible for advertising children’s toys.
Your company took the decision to advertise a range of popular toys on TV during the period before a popular national holiday.
NOTE – you do not work for the toy company, you are in advertising and the toy company is using you for publicity. But some parents are angry with you. They say you have deliberately exploited their easily-led children with such persuasive advertising that they have demanded toys that the parents cannot afford.

Prepare your case. Here are some of the things you might say: • You do not force anybody to buy the products • If the advertising is so bad, why let children watch TV at these times? • You believe that your products are educational and necessary for the children’s intellectual development • You deny that your ads are over-persuasive
-Now think of some more things you can say:

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Role 2: You are the parent of two young children, 7 and 6 years old. You are a devoted parent who would move mountains to make your children happy, but you have a limited budget, and to be honest, the recent advertising campaign to sell children’s toys has caused you problems. Because the ads are so persuasive, your children are demanding toys you cannot afford. So you go to see the manager of the agency to argue the case of parents everywhere.

Here are some things you can say: • You think it is scandalous that so much pressure is put on innocent children to be in with the crowd • You think that it is unfair that so much money is being made when parents such as you are struggling • You think the adverts should be later in the evening so adults can decide what to buy without pressure from the children • You want the manager to understand that children do not realise that their parents have limited funds
-Now think of some more things you can say:

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