L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.

Exploring different text types

Write and underline the date and title.

List as many different text types (fiction and non-fiction) as you can
think of. For example, leaflet, letter…

Pick one text type from your list, what are the typical features of it?
E.g. a leaflet us
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.

You will be asked to write different types of texts in your GCSE English
Language exams – 50%.

Paper 1 – describe or narrate

Paper 2 – argue, persuade or explain

L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.

As Judge Taylor banged his gavel, Mr.

Ewell was sitting smugly in the witness
chair, surveying his handiwork. With one
phrase he had turned happy picknickers
into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd,
being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps
lessening in intensity until the only
sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-
pink-pink: the judge might have been
rapping the bench with a pencil.
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.
L/O: Understand the conventions of different text types.