An Introduction to Persuasive Writing

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An Introduction to Persuasive Writing
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Aims

• Be able to use information from a piece of
  writing
• Understand techniques used in persuasive writing

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What do these TV programmes have in common?

• A Place In The Sun
• To Buy Or Not To Buy?
• Escape To The Country
• Cribs
• Through The Keyhole

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Which words might be used to describe this home?
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What words would you use to describe this house?
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Estate Agent worksheet
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• Theres no smoke in the chimney,
• And the rain beats on the floor
• Theres no glass in the window,
• Theres no wood in the door
• The heather grows behind the house,
• and the sand lies before.
• No hand hath trained the ivy,
• The walls are grey and bare
• The boats upon the sea sail by,
• Nor ever tarry there
• No beast of the field comes nigh,
• Nor any bird of the air.

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Activity

• You are an estate agent and you have been asked
  to sell the house in the poem.
• Your task is to exaggerate the truth to try and
  persuade people to buy the deserted house.

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Areas to cover

• Features of the house
• Garden area

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Activity Power Of Persuasion!

• In pairs, you are going to try to persuade me to
  buy a product which is of little or no value
  whatsoever.
• The pair who produces the most convincing
  argument will win a small prize!

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• Try to sell me
• a chocolate teapot!