English 1.6

Persuasive Language

Multiple Choice

What is a language feature that you can use to persuade someone?

• Saying please

• Talking lots

• Powerful words

• Yelling

• In my opinion, people spend too much time on technology.

• I think money would be better spent going on a holiday.

Personal Language- Is used to tell us what the writer thinks or feels.

• Firstly, I strongly believe that technology is making people less friendly.

• Secondly, technology is damaging our health.

• Lastly, technology is very expensive.

Sequence words -

Are used to put things in order.

Multiple Choice

What are sequence words?

• Words that make your writing sound smarter

• Words used to put an argument in order

• Words not in an order

• Tells us what the writer is feeling

Multiple Choice

Personal language is used to tell us what the writer is thinking or feeling?

• True

• False

Adjectives - describing words

• Technology is terrible because it's impossible to know what someone means without hearing their voice or seeing their face.

• Technology is damaging our health

Powerful Words -

Are used to add emphasis

Is used to strengthen an argument.

• New phones, laptops and gaming consoles cost millions of dollars. Everyone knows these break all the time

Exaggeration -

Makes things sound better or worse than they really are.

Multiple Choice

Exaggeration is:

• Telling the truth

• Using words to make something sound better or worse

• Making someone believe anything that you say by using big words

• Technology is bad for you

Multiple Choice

Which word is the most powerful?

• Good

• Fine

• Not bad

• Amazing

Present tense

Persuasive writing is always written in the present tense. As if you were speaking to someone in real life or something is happening right now.

• I strongly believe technology is making people less friendly.

Multiple Choice

Present tense is:

• is used for things that are happening right now.

• Is used for things happening in the future.

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence that uses powerful words

• This is a good paper plane design

• This is an amazing paper plane design

• This is an okay paper plane design

• This is a fine paper plane design

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence that uses personal language

• I believe everyone can start saving water today

• All living things need water to survive

• People say that saving water is important

• Fixing your dripping tap helps to save water

Multiple Choice

Select the sentence that uses exaggeration

• I caught a fish that was bigger than yours

• I caught a fish that was a hundred times bigger than yours

• I caught a fish that was twice the size of yours

• I caught a fish that was 10cm long