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BCG / C-LS / gr8e2.3w67-69

Name: _________________________________________
Grade 8
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ENGLISH
Topic: Entertaining: 2.3 Analysing a writer’s use of
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language to entertain
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Read Text A and B on page 52 in the textbook to attempt question 1.

1. Write which words, phrases, sentence structures and features make Text
B more entertaining.

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Read Text C on page 53 in the textbook to attempt question 2.

2. a) Find examples in the text,where the writer using language and techniques
to entertain the reader.

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b) Think about how each example helps the writer to entertain.

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3. The writer presents his friend in an entertaining and amusing way.
However, the column is structured to lead up to a more reflective point
at the end of the extract.
What serious point is the writer making about teachers?

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4. Refer to the highlighted text on page 54 to complete the paragraph

below to answer the following question:
How does the writer use language to present his friend, the teacher?

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Read Text D on page 54 in the textbook to attempt question 5-8.

5. a) What did you find entertaining about this account?

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 BCG / C-LS / gr8e2.3w67-69

Name: _________________________________________
Grade 8
Roll No.: _____ Div.: ____ Date ____ /____ / _______
ENGLISH
Topic: Entertaining: 2.3 Analysing a writer’s use of
2021-22 2022-23
2023-24 2024-25
language to entertain
68
2025-26
Wkst No.

b) What language features can you identify that helped to make it

entertaining?

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In order to make the extract livelier and engaging, the writer has used
repetition a number of times. For example, the text begins and ends with
references to the writer lying in bed - the mystery is established at the
beginning and satisfactorily explained by the end.

6. Analyse the effects of the following two examples of repetition taken

from the same extract.
a) ‘I was blissfully, blissfully unaware’

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 b) ‘Perhaps more importantly, I tripped and fell onto a table. Perhaps even
more importantly, I fell onto the corner of a table.”

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7. The writer has varied sentence structures to make the autobiographical

account more entertaining. For example, surprising details are presented
in shorter sentences to emphasise the shock.
a) ‘With my head.’ How does this minor sentence help to create humour?

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b) ‘I tripped over.’ How does this simple sentence help to entertain? Why has
the writer put this sentence in its own paragraph?

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 BCG / C-LS / gr8e2.3w67-69

Name: _________________________________________
Grade 8
Roll No.: _____ Div.: ____ Date ____ /____ / _______
ENGLISH
Topic: Entertaining: 2.3 Analysing a writer’s use of
2021-22 2022-23
2023-24 2024-25
language to entertain
69
2025-26
Wkst No.

8. Write a paragraph about Text D in response to this question:

How does the writer use language to make the account more entertaining?

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Create a Checklist, tick the criterias covered and edit your work.

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