Unit 1 Reading

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Unit 1 Reading

• What impressions....

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Types of Questions

• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (Search and find)
• List reasons or details/Make a list of.
• According to this text or writer, how or what or
  why
• Explain how and/or why
• What evidence does the writer use?
• IMPRESSIONS/IMAGES
• What impression do you get of the writer or an
  organisation or
  people?
• What image does this text create of the writer or
  an organisation or
  people?
• VIEWPOINT/ATTITUDE
• What are the writers attitudes to
• What are the writers opinions of
• What are the writers thoughts and feelings about

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Types of Questions

• INTENDED AUDIENCE
• Who is this text aimed at?
• ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE
• How does the writer try to encourage or interest
  or argue?
• How does this text try to persuade or sell or
  influence?
• COMPARISON OF TEXTS
• Compare and contrast these texts
• Using information from both texts,
  explain why

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Types of Questions

• ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE
• How does the writer try to encourage or interest
  or argue?
• How does this text try to persuade or sell or
  influence?

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Learning Objectives

• To understand how a writer creates a certain
  impression by his or her choice of vocabulary

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Starter

• Write the opening lines of a description of a
  party that you have been to that gives a positive
  impression of it.

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Swap with your partner

• Read your partners account
• Using the same account, change the necessary
  words so that you are now creating a negative
  impression of the same birthday party.

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What are impressions?

• When you are answering questions about
  impressions, you need to read through a text
  while thinking about the impression you are given
  about a person, place, organisation of event at
  any given time.

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• If a question asks you to look for impressions in
  a text, what might you focus on?

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Whats the right order?

• Write your answer, making sure you track the text
  chronologically
• Read the question, highlighting the key words
• If it will help you, annotate the highlighted
  sections in the passage to clarify your
  impressions
• Read the passage, highlighting the areas where
  you are given an impression

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Did you get it right?

• Read the question, highlighting the key words
• Read the passage, highlighting the areas where
  you are given an impression
• If it will help you, annotate the highlighted
  sections in the passage to clarify your
  impressions
• Write your answer, making sure you track the text
  chronologically

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Handy Hint

• If you are looking at language and words, it is
  important to quote a short word or phrase and
  then make clear what impression the word or
  phrase creates. Never use long quotations in your
  answer.
• If you are given a text with a picture, consider
  what impressions the picture creates as well as
  the text (not instead of).

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What impression do you get of the people in the
picture?
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Now complete the activity

• What impression do you think he wanted the
  reader to have of the town? (10 marks)

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The Sunshine Isle
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Tearaways!

• Is the article simply reporting the facts?
• Do you have a view about these children?
• What did you think of the help and support they
  had been given?
• Is this article trying to influence the reader?
• Is it trying to create a particular impression of
  the teenagers?

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The question

• What impression does this newspaper article
  create of the seven teenagers on the Divert Trust
  Scheme?
• How does it create these impressions? (10 marks)

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What would win?
Back To Starters

• A fence and a tree
• A dolphin and a snake

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Todays LO

• Finish tearaways question (properly)
• Complete a 12 minute question on Alnwick Castle
• Handwriting practice!

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How fast is your handwriting?

• Write for 1 minute about yourself

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• The average Yr 11 handwriting speed is 16.9 words
  per minute.
• This speed only improves with practice.
• Make a note of your speed and we will re-test
  each week.

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Alnwick Castle

• What impressions of the Duchess of Northumberland
  do you get from Rachel Cookes article? (10)
• Remember offer at least 5 or 6 impressions and
  support each one with facts and words/phrases
  from the text. Embed them through your response.

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• Reading Practice

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• HOW?

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Before you attempt the question

• What impressions do we get of the teenagers?

• What details from the passage give us this
  impression?

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• Volunteer reading

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