How would you convince

someone to give you money?

Lesson 9 – Spare any change?

We are now going to read pages 38-45.

By the end of the lesson...

ALL of you will be able to select and retrieve relevant information using quotations RAF 2MOST of you will be able to explain and comment on the writers' use of language RAF 5SOME of you will be able to effectively identify and comment on the writer’s purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect on the reader RAF 6

Activity 1

In pages 41-44, Link is talking about sleeping rough. Try to find examples of the following devices used in this passage and explain why they are effective in persuading the reader. Copy the table on the following slide. Two boxes have been left empty for you to put in any other ways in which you think Swindells is writing to persuade.

Device/technique Example Why it is effective

Direct address to the reader “you”

Use of “you” to try to make the reader think that this is happening to them.

Use of questions.

Very short sentences used for effect.

Lists to emphasise what a bad experience this is.

Devices that imitate speech (think back to the starter)

Activity 2

Now try to write a short summary of what Swindells wants his reader to think at the end of this passage. What is he trying to persuade you to think or to do? (Look, in particular at the last sentence of this passage)

Are you able to...

...select and retrieve relevant information using quotations RAF 2...explain and comment on the writers' use of language RAF 5...effectively identify and comment on the writer‘s purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect on the reader RAF 6

Why are some people so unsympathetic towards the homeless? How are

they usually portrayed in the media?