Audience Detectives
Who is the intended audience?
"Remember to bring your PE kit tomorrow. Meet your teacher beside the sports hall at 8:00 a.m."
🎤 Spotlight Sabotage: If the team answers within five seconds, it may select one student from a different team. That student must answer the next question without consulting their teammates.
Students participating in a PE lesson or sporting activity.
Which form would be most appropriate for advertising a school talent show around the campus?
A. A private diary entry
B. A poster
C. A scientific report
D. A formal complaint
B
What is the main purpose of this sentence?
"Visit Angkor Wat this holiday and experience one of the world’s most remarkable historical sites!"
To persuade or encourage people to visit Angkor Wat.
Identify the tone:
"Great job, everyone! Your creativity, effort and teamwork made the event a huge success."
❄️ Freeze Ray: Answer within five seconds to freeze one opposing team. That team cannot answer the next question.
Positive, enthusiastic, appreciative or celebratory.
Identify the stylistic technique:
Don’t delay—donate today!
Rhyme. It also uses alliteration and an imperative.
Identify the intended audience and give one clue that helped you decide.
"Your child’s progress report is now available through the school portal. Please contact the relevant subject teacher if you would like to arrange a meeting."
Parents or guardians. Clues include “your child,” “progress report” and arranging a meeting with a teacher.
The student council wants to request healthier food from the company that manages the school canteen. Which form would be most appropriate?
🌀 Form Wormhole: Name the correct form and two appropriate conventions within ten seconds to open a Form Wormhole. The team may immediately choose and attempt any other unplayed question before normal play resumes.
A formal letter or email.
Possible conventions: Formal greeting, clear subject line, organised paragraphs, polite language, evidence, proposed action and formal closing.
A wildlife documentary explains how tigers hunt but also uses dramatic music and suspenseful narration. Identify its two likely purposes.
To inform and entertain.
Identify the tone and one word that creates it:
"Regrettably, several visitors ignored the clearly displayed safety instructions."
Disappointed, critical or disapproving. Words such as “regrettably,” “ignored” or “clearly” create the tone.
Is this sentence written in a formal or informal style? Give two features.
You’ve got to try this place—the burgers are awesome, and the staff are super friendly!
🪞 Mirror Match: Identify the style and two features within 10 seconds to copy the points most recently earned by another team. No points are removed from that team.
Informal style. Features include the contraction “you’ve,” conversational language, the use of a dash, direct address, and slang or casual vocabulary such as “awesome” and “super friendly.”
A leaflet about cyberbullying contains colourful illustrations, short definitions, school-related examples and advice beginning with “Tell a trusted adult.”
Who is the primary audience, and who might be a secondary audience?
The primary audience is school-aged children or teenagers. A secondary audience could be parents, carers or teachers.
Name two features that would distinguish a speech from a written report on the same subject.
A speech might use direct address, rhetorical questions, repetition, emotive language or calls to action. A report would usually use headings, formal language, factual evidence and recommendations.
Identify the primary purpose, a secondary purpose and one piece of supporting evidence:
"Every day, thousands of perfectly usable books are discarded. Donate yours to the community library and give another reader the opportunity to discover them."
🕵️ Double-Agent Challenge:
Complete all three parts within 20 seconds, then nominate a rival team:
Rewrite this angry complaint using a polite but firm tone:
"Your terrible service ruined everything, and I want this fixed now!"
🧪 Tone Alchemy: Produce one sentence containing at least three markers of a polite but firm tone within 20 seconds to receive:
I am disappointed with the service provided and would appreciate a prompt resolution to the problem.
Identify two stylistic techniques and explain their effect:
"The wind whispered through the windows while the frightened house waited in darkness."
Adapt the following message for both audiences:
"The building will be unavailable tomorrow because essential repairs are being completed."
🦹 Audience Identity Theft: If the team produces two clearly different versions and explains one change within 40 seconds, it may steal 2,000 points from another team.
The headteacher wants a detailed investigation of why students are arriving late, including statistics, causes and recommendations. Should the writer produce an article, a report or an advertisement? Explain why.
A report, because it allows information to be organised under headings and presents findings, evidence and recommendations clearly.
What is the writer trying to make the audience think, feel and do?
"If we continue ignoring the rubbish in our streets, what kind of neighbourhood will we leave for future generations?"
Identify the most precise tone:
"The early results are encouraging; however, further testing is required before we can describe the treatment as successful."
A. Confident
B. Cautiously optimistic
C. Hesitating
D. Informally serious
B
Compare the styles of the two sentences:
A: The forest contains numerous plant and animal species that depend on this ecosystem.
B: Beneath the emerald canopy, countless creatures crawl, leap, and soar through a living kingdom.
🎲 Style Storm: Identify both styles and at least three specific differences to unleash the Style Storm. Roll a six-sided die:
1 - Gain 1,000 points; 2 - Steal 1,000 points from any team; 3 - Gain a shield; 4 - Freeze two teams for the next question; 5 - Double this question’s points; 6 Choose any one result from 1 to 5.
Sentence A uses a factual, objective, and informative style, whereas sentence B uses descriptive imagery, emotive vocabulary, listing, and metaphor to create a vivid impression.
A company publishes this statement after its delivery service fails:
"We recognise that recent delays have caused considerable frustration. We are increasing our delivery capacity and contacting affected customers directly."
Identify two possible audiences and explain what each audience needs from the statement.
You must turn an online article about excessive screen time into a formal speech for a school assembly. Name four changes you should make.
🔥 Phoenix Form: Give four valid changes within 30 seconds to activate the Phoenix Form. The team recovers the points lost on its most recent incorrect answer, up to 5,000 points. If it has not lost points, it gains 2,000 points instead.
"Although the new airport will create jobs and increase tourism, residents deserve honest answers about noise, traffic and environmental damage before construction begins."
State the writer’s:
đź‘‘ Throne Swap:
Give all three answers accurately in 25 words or fewer and within 30 seconds to activate the Throne Swap:
Explain the tonal shift:
At first, the expedition felt like an adventure. We laughed as we crossed the river and photographed the mountains. By nightfall, however, the temperature had dropped, our guide was missing, and nobody was laughing anymore.
The tone shifts from cheerful, adventurous and excited to tense, ominous and fearful. The contrast is signalled by “however,” the falling temperature, the missing guide and the final reference to nobody laughing.
Evaluate whether this style is suitable for a formal school report:
"Loads of students reckon the canteen food is pretty awful, and honestly, something needs to be done ASAP!"
Identify three unsuitable features and rewrite the sentence appropriately.
Unsuitable features:
Possible rewrite: "A significant number of students reported dissatisfaction with the quality of the canteen food and recommended that improvements be made promptly."