Discuss the impacts of tourism and its resulting

interconnections on the local people and site of Machu

Picchu.
How to write a paragraph:

Writing a paragraph is like making a burger. You need an opening sentence and a concluding
sentence to hold your explanation and example (the meat of your paragraph) together.

Use the key words and your notes to complete the scaffold. You will bring this with you on the day of the
exam
Introduction:
1. Use the words of the question to write an opening line: e.g. The impacts of tourism can be both positive
and negative. Its resulting interconnections on the local people and site of Machu Picchu can be shown
through….
2. Next identify a few of the impacts that you will write about: e.g. social impacts, economic impacts,
environmental impacts. Or be more specific such as; educating the world about an indigenous culture,
impact of rubbish and pollution… (PICK THREE)
3. Each impact should be its own paragraph explaining what we know about it and what evidence tells us
You do not need to go into much detail in the introduction.
Write an ________________________________________________________________________
introduction.
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3
Pick at least
features to ________________________________________________________________________
write about. ________________________________________________________________________
The KEY WORDS
are there to ________________________________________________________________________
help.
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Your first point
Always begin ________________________________________________________________________
your first
paragraph with ________________________________________________________________________
a topic sentence ________________________________________________________________________
that uses the
words from the ________________________________________________________________________
question.
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Try to use ________________________________________________________________________
evidence from
the annotation ________________________________________________________________________
to show what
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this feature was
like

Your second point

New paragraph
means you need
to have a new ________________________________________________________________________
topic sentence. ________________________________________________________________________
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Your third point

New paragraph
means you need
to have a new ________________________________________________________________________
topic sentence. ________________________________________________________________________
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Conclusion:
1. Very similar to your introduction. Use the words of the question to write an opening line: e.g. In
conclusion the impacts of tourism can be both positive and negative. Its resulting interconnections on the
local people and site of Machu Picchu have been shown through….
2. Summarise your key points, once again very similar to your introduction.

Conclusion:
A conclusion
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should
summarise all _______________________________________________________________________________
the key points
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that have been
made linking it _______________________________________________________________________________
back to the
_______________________________________________________________________________
question.
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