Text 1: How much do Australians lose on gambling?

Access the article via the link, read through the article and pay attention to purpose, audience, and key features. Once you have read the article answer the questions below.

https://www.savings.com.au/savings-accounts/gambling-statistics-australia

In text questions:

Question 1:Where has the author of the article attained the statistics?

Question 2: How much money did Australians bet in 2017-2018?

Question 3: Averaged out per person over 18, how much are they losing per year?

Question 4: What has gambling been related to in terms of costs and harm to individuals, families, and the government?

Question 5: Who is most likely to place sports bets?

Question 6: In 2017-2018 how much did sports betting increase by? Why do you think this is?

Text Analysis questions:

Question 7: What do you think the main purpose of the text is and why? Discuss what the underlying purpose of the article is and why you think this?

Question 8: Discuss the features of the article; how has the information been provided to achieve their purpose?

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Question 9: Who is the intended audience of the article and why?

Question 10:Provide two examples of factual information from the text.

Question 11: Provide two examples of when the author has made an interpretation.

Question 12: What conclusions does the author make and do you think they align with the purpose or underlying purpose of the article?

Text 2:

The Big Gamble: Four Corners - Monday 20th May 2013

*These are excerpts from the ABC Four Corners TV program.

JEFF KENNETT, FORMER VICTORIAN PREMIER:

This promotion and advertising of sport betting has more potential to disable more people in our lifetime than anything else. We're actually educating a whole generation of Australians, not only is it alright to bet, but you're a mug if you don't. And I think that is a terrible message for community to be sending out. I'm not opposed to gaming, I'm not opposed to betting, at all. But I think adults can make their choices, wherever appropriate, but to be actually forcing this promotion down the throats of children from very early ages is self- destructive. I'm not arguing against gambling. I gamble myself. What I'm arguing against is a community allowing sports betting agencies to advertise so openly and direct their advertising not at you and me but at young people from the earliest ages possible. Young families go to the football, three, four, five and six, they're seeing all these signs. They're seeing their father, betting on their phones. That's what I'm so opposed to.

Question 1:What do you think Jeff Kennett meant when he said, "This promotion and advertising of sport betting has more potential to disable more people in our lifetime than anything else."

SAMANTHA THOMAS ASSOC. PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG:

They spoke a lot about gambling becoming embedded within their peer groups, that it became part of their match viewing experience. A lot of young men talking to us about the fact that if they didn't gamble they felt isolated from their peer groups. So those sorts of new patterns, those new cultural norms, they're associating gambling with sport, are really starting to make us concerned. When you're watching a sporting match you'll see commentators talk about the odds, you'll see screen crawls, you'll see pop ups, you'll see logos on jerseys, signs around the hoardings, you'll see commercial break advertising. Then if you go to your mobile phone you'll get email alerts, text alerts, pop ups...

Question 2:What do you think is meant by "new cultural norms" in this statement and why are they causing concern?

Question 3:What do you think the overall purpose of these panel comments on the Four Corners program is?

Question 4:Who is the intended audience for the Four Corners Report?

Text Comparison

Discuss in detail the similarities and differences between the texts. *Focus on purpose, audience, messages, structure, language, tone.

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Opinion:

Question 1:In your opinion, discuss with examples, which text is most effective in relation to the intended audience and purpose.

Question 2: what is your opinion on gambling?