Unit 1 Reading

What impressions....

Types of Questions…• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (Search and find)• List reasons or details/Make a list of….• According to this text or writer, how or what or why• Explain how and/or why• What evidence does the writer use…?• IMPRESSIONS/IMAGES• What impression do you get of the writer or an

organisation or people?• What image does this text create of the writer or an

organisation or people?• VIEWPOINT/ATTITUDE• What are the writer’s attitudes to…• What are the writer’s opinions of…• What are the writer’s thoughts and feelings about…

Types of Questions…• INTENDED AUDIENCE• Who is this text aimed at?• ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE• How does the writer try to encourage or interest or

argue?• How does this text try to persuade or sell or

influence?• COMPARISON OF TEXTS• Compare and contrast these texts• Using information from both texts,

explain why…

Types of Questions…

• ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE• How does the writer try to encourage or

interest or argue?• How does this text try to persuade or sell or

influence?

Learning Objectives

To understand how a writer creates a certain impression

by his or her choice of vocabulary

Starter

Write the opening lines of a description of a party that you have been to that gives a positive impression of it.

Swap with your partner

• Read your partner’s account• Using the same account,

change the necessary words so that you are now creating a negative impression of the same birthday party.

What are ‘impressions’?

When you are answering questions about impressions, you need to read through a text while thinking about the impression you are given about a person, place, organisation of event at any given time.

• If a question asks you to look for impressions in a text, what might you focus on?

What’s the right order?

• Write your answer, making sure you track the text chronologically

• Read the question, highlighting the key words• If it will help you, annotate the highlighted

sections in the passage to clarify your impressions

• Read the passage, highlighting the areas where you are given an impression

Did you get it right?

• Read the question, highlighting the key words• Read the passage, highlighting the areas

where you are given an impression• If it will help you, annotate the highlighted

sections in the passage to clarify your impressions

• Write your answer, making sure you track the text chronologically

Handy Hint

• If you are looking at language and words, it is important to quote a short word or phrase and then make clear what impression the word or phrase creates. Never use long quotations in your answer.

• If you are given a text with a picture, consider what impressions the picture creates as well as the text (not instead of).

What impression do you get of the people in the picture?

Now complete the activity

What impression do you think he wanted the reader to have of the town? (10 marks)

The Sunshine Isle

Tearaways!

• Is the article simply reporting the facts?• Do you have a view about these children?• What did you think of the help and support

they had been given?• Is this article trying to influence the reader?• Is it trying to create a particular impression of

the teenagers?

The question

• What impression does this newspaper article create of the seven teenagers on the Divert Trust Scheme?

• How does it create these impressions? (10 marks)

What would win?

A fence and a tree

A dolphin and a snake

Back To Starters

Today’s LO:

• Finish ‘tearaways’ question (properly)

• Complete a 12 minute question on Alnwick Castle

• Handwriting practice!

How fast is your handwriting?

Write for 1 minute about yourself

• The average Yr 11 handwriting speed is 16.9 words per minute.

• This speed only improves with practice.

• Make a note of your speed and we will re-test each week.

Alnwick Castle

• What impressions of the Duchess of Northumberland do you get from Rachel Cooke’s article? (10)

• Remember: offer at least 5 or 6 impressions and support each one with facts and words/phrases from the text. Embed them through your response.

Reading Practice

HOW?

Before you attempt the question

What impressions do we get of the teenagers?

What details from the passage give us this impression?

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