Text Purpose

1. What is the purpose of an informative text?

• a. To persuade you to buy something

• b. To describe how a scene might look in a novel.

• c. To provide clear facts about something

• d. To tell you how to do something

2. Is this text an informative text?

True or false?

• a. True

• b. False

How do you know it is an informative text? Can you identify any features?

3. What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Describe

• Advise

• Persuade

What is it persuading you to do?

• Buy more plastic bags

• Buy fewer plastic bags

• To not pay for plastic bags

• To pay for plastic bags

How do you know it is a persuasive text? Can you name some features?

What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Persuade

• Describe

• Explain

How do you know it is a descriptive text? Can you list some features?

What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Instruct

• Persuade

• Entertain

How do you know it is an instructive text? Name some features.