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Core English
SDG Week

12/29/2022
Nisai Learning
Starter
Lesson Objectives
• Identify linguistic techniques in a text.

• Create a non-fiction article on saving the environment.

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Today’s lesson will cover the following goals:
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all. While substantial progress
has been made in increasing access to clean drinking water and
sanitation, billions of people—mostly in rural areas—still lack these basic
services.

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.

The world is making progress towards Goal 7, with encouraging signs
that energy is becoming more sustainable and widely available.
What devices are seen in non-fiction text?
DAFOREST
Especially good for…

Technique Impact

Describe
Persuad

Entertai
Advise
Argue

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e
Using words like ‘I’, ‘us’, ‘our’ and ‘you’ to draw the audience in as if they
Direct Address are being spoken to in a one-to-one conversation.   

Alliteration Repeating the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning 
of words. 

Providing facts, such as background information or quotes from experts, to

Fact back up your opinion.  

Strong
Opinion Sentences that begin with ‘I believe’, ‘I want’, ‘We think’, ‘My view is’…  

Rhetorical Devices used to persuade the reader. For example: repetition and rhetorical

devices questions.

Emotional Words or phrases designed to provoke strong feelings.  

Language
Using numbers to add weight to an argument. Sometimes exaggerated for
Statistics extra power.  

Listing a minimum of three things at a time. This makes the argument seem
Three (rule of) wide-ranging and well thought through.  
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When analysing non-fiction remember to PAT the
text:
Purpose Audience Techniques
What type of text am I How should the text be
creating? Who are they? presented?
Letter? News article? How old? What background? Use of headers, underlining,
Advert? What status? layout etc.
What is it for? What DAFOREST PLUS
To provide information? Who am I? techniques do I need to
To persuade? What position am I writing include to get / keep their
To entertain? from? attention?

What are the most What tone shall I take? Should I write in a distinct
important bits of Do I need to write formally or style? i.e. humorous, sarcastic, angry
information to include? informally? etc.
Rhetorical Devices
Match the definition to the language device.

Repeating a word or phrase several times to

Alliteration create a bigger impact on the reader.

Repetition Using the same letter at the start of a series of

words.
Rhetorical
Question Refers to people to create a relationship
between the reader and the writer.

Personal
Pronouns To repeat and idea or image three times,
usually in a slightly different way.

Power of A question designed to make you think. It does

Three not need an answer.
Extended Language Devices
Can you think of any more examples?

‘st’ words showing the extreme end of

Superlative something, e.g. best, worst, smallest.

A phrase where contradictory words are placed

Oxymoron together, e.g. A deafening silence.
Find the Language Devices
Watch the following advert. Identify the language devices.

If you do just one thing today, please watch this appeal. In the next
three minutes, 10 children will die from dirty water. They'll die from
deadly diseases like cholera and dysentery. They'll die because
they've simply nothing else to drink.

How is it that today a child dies every 17 seconds just for lack of clean
safe water and sanitation? It's not fair. It's not right. And it's so
simple to stop. Give water. Give life. Give £2 a month .

You can give a child safe water for life now by calling ... and giving £2 a
month to Water Aid. Isn't it amazing that so little money can save so
many lives? If you do just one thing today, do this. Don't let time run
out for another child.
 Personal
Alliteration
Pronoun

Repetition If you do just one thing today, please watch this appeal. In
the next three minutes, ten children will die from dirty
water. They'll die from deadly diseases like cholera and
dysentery. They'll die because they've simply nothing else
to drink.

Rhetorical
Question How is it that today a child dies every seventeen seconds
just for lack of clean, safe water and sanitation? It's not
fair. It's not right. And it's so simple to stop. Give water.
Give life. Give £2 a month .

You can give a child safe water for life now by calling ...
and giving £2 a month to Water Aid. Isn't it amazing that
Power of
Three
so little money can save so many lives? If you do just one
thing today, do this. Don't let time run out for another
child.
 Emotive Language
What do you think the word ‘emotive’ means?
What words does it sound like?

Words used deliberately to Language which is charged

create an emotional impact or with emotion e.g. love, hate,
response. fear etc.

She looked uncertain. She looked afraid. She looked petrified.

Read the extract below again. What emotive language can you spot?

If you do just one thing today, please watch this appeal. In the next
three minutes, 10 children will die from dirty water. They'll die from
deadly diseases like cholera and dysentery. They'll die because they've
simply nothing else to drink.

How is it that today a child dies every 17 seconds just for lack of clean
safe water and sanitation? It's not fair. It's not right. And it's so simple
to stop. Give water. Give life. Give £2 a month .

You can give a child safe water for life now by calling ... and giving £2 a
month to Water Aid. Isn't it amazing that so little money can save so
many lives? If you do just one thing today, do this. Don't let time run
out for another child.
Persuade
What reasons can you think of as to why you would
want to change someone’s mind?
Persuade
• Lots of writing out there tries to affect how you think about things.

• Advertisements try to convince you that something is worth buying.

• Opinion pieces like editorials try to make you side with the writer.

• Flyers and leaflets try to convince you that the subject is worth
caring about.

• Many more …
Persuade
Main reasons to use persuasive language:

1) To change someone’s mind …

2) To make something take an action …

Changing Minds
Newspapers, Debates, Speeches, etc

Persuasive language can be used to get someone to

agree with you, or to make someone believe the
subject is important.
Take An Action
Adverts, Speeches, Posters, etc

Persuasive language can be used to get someone to

do something (buy a product, donate to charity,
attend an event, etc).
Over the next few slides, we are going to take a
look at several environmental advertisements.

Discuss the effect of the language and imagery

used for each one.

PRIVATE CHAT
Writing Task
Based on what we have looked at today, write
an article about saving the environment.

Consider
- Emotive language.
- Facts
- Statistics
Lesson Objectives
• Identify linguistic techniques in a text.

• Create a non-fiction article on saving the environment.

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Not Confident Very Confident

How confident are you?