L1/L2 Reading Prep

Name the 5 purpose of texts?

• Instruct, inform, describe, persuade and explain

• Instruct, enable, describe, provide and explain

• Inform, explain, persuade, communicate and persuade

• Inform, invite, initiative and include

Would Global Warming be?

• Main idea

• Specific idea

• No idea

When you use the reading technique of scanning, you are.

• Reading for detail and carefully

• Find the gist of the text

• Finding the key information from the text

• Tells you what a paragraph is about.

Is the sentence showing to be factual or an opinion: Scientists have proven Earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system.

• Fact

• Opinion

• Idea

What language technique has been used in this sentence: my dog refused to eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• Repitition

• Exaggeration

• Rule of three

• Facts and figures

Name the organisational features used in the recipe.

• Heading

• Bold text

• Subheadings

• Number points

Bias writing tends to lean towards one side of an argument than the other. It will not be balanced.

• True

• False