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GCSE AQA B Topical Articles and Dialogues with Audio

Bring Religious Studies to life!

Exciting teaching method specifically for GCSE AQA B. Students read and/or listen to the articles/dialogues, then complete tasks and exam-style questions – thoroughly preparing them for the exam.

Unit 3: 18 exam-relevant articles provided both on audio CD and as a booklet. Religious responses from all 6 major religions discussed.

Unit 4: 18 lively dialogues provided both on audio CD and as scripts.

  • Comprehension tasks ensure students get to grips with the issue or debate answers included
  • Exam-style questions allow them to practise applying the issue
  • Includes mark schemes and key advice on each question type

  • Reinforce key issues for the less able
  • ‘Taking it Further’ activities provide extension work for the more able

  • Ideal for auditory learners!
  • Give to students for iPod revision
  • Great for cover lessons & self-contained homework

Unit 3: Listen to an article right now for free!
Sample discussion questions are provided at the end - see the printed resource for more detailed questions.

You can also view an inspection copy of the printed articles.

3 articles per topic – full specification coverage!

Matters of Life: 'Babies for Everyone?', 'Unlocking the Mysteries of Human Life?', 'Kidneys for Sale?'
The Elderly and Death: 'Old and Lonely?', 'Right To Die?', 'Are Hospices Just For Religious People?'
Drugs: 'Drink and Teenagers', 'Drug Misuse: A Crime or a Health Problem?', 'Buddhism and Recovery from Addiction'
Crime and Punishment 'My Gang, My Family', 'Is a Jail Sentence Enough?', 'I Was In Prison And You Visited Me'
Rich and Poor in British Society ‘Does Belief Make You Rich?’, ‘No Christmas for Katie?’, ‘Religion and the Lottery’
World Poverty 'I Wish For Rain', 'You Will Always Have the Poor among You', 'My Shopping Basket Can Change the World’

Unit 4: Listen to a dialogue right now for free!

You can also view an inspection copy of the printed dialogues.

Atheist, Theist and Agnostic views - full specification coverage!

The Existence of God: 'The Cosmological Argument', 'The Teleological (Design) Argument?', 'The Argument for God’s Existence from the Occurrence of Miracles', 'The Argument from Religious Experience', 'The Argument from Morality'
Revelation: 'General and Special Revelation', 'What is Learned about God through Revelation', 'Is Revelation Real?'
The Problem of Evil and Suffering: 'Evil and Suffering', 'Responses to Suffering and Evil'
Immortality 'What Happens When We Die', 'Can We Prove Immortality?', 'Dualism and Monism'
Miracles ‘Do Miracles Really Happen?’, ‘Arguments Against Miracles: David Hume’
Science and Religion 'What is Truth?', 'Origins of the Universe and Life on Earth', 'Can Science and Religion Agree on Anything?’