Purposes of Text
What is the purpose of a text?
a) The reason it was written.
b) Things like headings, pictures, paragraphs.
c) The grammar and vocabulary in the text.
a) The reason it was written.
Which is correct?
a) Enviroment.
b) Environment.
c) Envioronment
b) Environment.
What is repetition?
Repeating something.
Which organisational features do you use in a letter? Give at least 3.
Your address, the address of who you are writing to, date, greeting, paragraphs, sign-off.
What goes at the end of a verb when we use the 'continuous' form?
-ing
"To instruct" means:
a) To give information.
b) To tell you how to do something.
c) To advertise something.
b) To tell you how to do something.
Which is correct?
a) Faccilities.
b) Facillities.
c) Facilities.
c) Facilities.
What is emotive language?
Things that make the reader feel some kind of emotion.
Which organisational features do you use in an article or blog post? Give at least 2.
Heading, subheading, paragraphs.
YOU MUST NOT USE GREETINGS OR SIGN-OFFS.
What does "context" mean (like 'in the context of the text').
The other information around it.
"To inform" means:
a) To describe something using adjectives.
b) To encourage you to do something.
c) To give you facts and details about something.
c) To give you facts and details about something.
Which is correct?
a) Oportunities.
b) Opportunities.
c) Opportunites.
b) Opportunities.
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration, making somethings sound much better or worse than it is.
Which organisational features do you use in an email? Give at least 3.
Email address, subject, greeting, sign-off, paragraphs.
Sustainable energy and renewable energy are the same thing. What do they mean?
Energy from sources that will not run out - e.g. wind, sun.
"To describe" means:
a) To say what something is like.
b) To tell you how to do something.
c) To persuade you to do something.
a) To say what something is like.
Which is correct?
a) Comittment.
b) Committment.
c) Commitment.
c) Commitment.
What is direct address?
Speaking directly to the reader by saying "you".
Which organisational features could you use in a poster? Give at least three.
Heading, sub-heading, pictures/photos, bulleted list, numbered list, text in boxes, paragraphs, different size text, different coloured text
What are subtitles?
Words shown at the bottom of a film or video screen that translate or transcribe what is being said.
"To persuade" means:
a) To encourage you to do something or believe something.
b) To give you information and details.
c) To tell you how to do something.
a) To encourage you to do something or believe something.
Which is correct?
a) Grateful.
b) Greatful.
c) Gratefull.
a) Grateful.
Repeating the same sounds at the beginning of words that are close together.
What do you call the words that are under a picture, which tell you what is in the picture?
Caption.
Take a lot of information and make it smaller.