Purpose and Audience
Fact or Opinion?
Reading Skills
Organising Writing
My Life Story
100
The reason a text is written, such as to inform, persuade or entertain.
What is purpose?
100
The people a text is written for.
What is the audience?
100
The main purpose of an encyclopedia entry.
What is to inform?
100
A text written to make you buy something or change your mind.
What is a persuasive text?
100
Bullet points listing features, like '3 bedrooms' and 'large garden', are typical of this kind of advert.
What is a property advertisement?
200
A statement that can be proved true.
What is a fact?
200
A statement of what someone thinks or feels, which cannot be proved.
What is an opinion?
200
'Strokkur is the most exciting sight in Iceland.' Fact or opinion?
What is an opinion?
200
A text that shows only one side of an argument.
What is biased?
200
A text that fairly shows both sides of an argument.
What is balanced?
300
Reading quickly to get the general idea of a text.
What is skimming?
300
Searching a text quickly for one specific fact.
What is scanning?
300
Information that is stated clearly in the text.
What is explicit information?
300
Information that is suggested or hinted at, so you have to work it out.
What is implicit information?
300
Writing the main points of a text briefly, in your own words.
What is summarising?
400
The first sentence of a paragraph that tells you what it is about.
What is a topic sentence?
400
Words like 'however', 'as a result' and 'firstly' that link ideas.
What are connectives?
400
The connective 'as a result' shows this.
What is cause and effect / a consequence?
400
Headings, pictures and bullet points help organise this kind of folded information text.
What is a leaflet?
400
How formal or informal a piece of writing is.
What is register?
500
A life story written by the person themselves.
What is an autobiography?
500
A life story written by someone else.
What is a biography?
500
Autobiographies are usually written in this person, using 'I'.
What is first person?
500
In 'Hello,' she said gently, this word is an adverb showing how something was said.
What is 'gently'?
500
'We was going home' is an example of this kind of English.
What is non-standard English?
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