TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a claim and a perspective. You should determine whether that perspective supports or undermines the claim. If the perspective could possibly convince someone with different view, it is supporting, otherwise it is undermining.
PROBLEM: claim: Pay state school teachers based on merit.
 perspective: Teachers will have an incentive to improve their teaching.

SOLUTION: support

PROBLEM: claim: We should allow death penalty for the worst of the worst criminals.
 perspective: The death penalty has led to innocent people dying.

SOLUTION: undermine

PROBLEM: claim: The best way to protect Scottish interests in the EU is to vote for independence.
 perspective: Scotland will be unable to survive economically without England

SOLUTION:
undermine