1. Types of Text
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L1 Functional English and Adult Literacy.

2. Types of text
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3. Lesson objective By the end of this session you will be able to:
Correctly identify the 4 types of text
List at least 2 features of each of the 4 different texts
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4. What is a text?
Task:
Think of the types of text that you read as part of your course and also in your spare time. How many can you list?
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5. Types of text
Each text that you have mentioned has a purpose (has a reason for being written)
They can be:
Instructive
Informative
Persuasive
Descriptive
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6. Instructive texts (a text that instructs you or tells you how to do something)
Examples include:
Recipe
Training plan
Manual
Possible features of instructive texts:
Use ‘must’ or ‘must not’
Short sentences
Use bullet points or numbers
Use pictures to help your understanding
Run to the end of the road. Turn left. Run to the corner, then stop.
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7. Informative texts ( a text that wants to advise or tell you something)
Examples include:
A newspaper article about a post match report
A website giving information about a band/team/event
Features of informative texts are:
Avoid repetition
Give facts
Provide information in a clear way
In today’s lesson you will learn about 4 different types of text
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8. Persuasive texts (created to make you do something)
Examples include:
Advert
Charity event
Joining a gym
Features of persuasive texts are:
Text in capital letters
Exclamation marks
Repeated words
SPECIAL OFFER! Buy today! MISS IT OR MISS OUT!
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9. Descriptive texts (a text that want you to picture or imagine something)
Examples include:
Novels such as Harry Potter
Song lyrics
Features of descriptive texts are:
Using comparisons to help picture the scene (something is ‘like’ something else)
Employ the reader’s five senses
He ran so fast, as fast as lightening strikes.
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10. Texts - Activity
Refer back to the list of documents you made at the start.
What types of text are they?
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11. Texts - Activity Look at the texts provided
In your groups decide what type of texts they are and put them under the correct heading.
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12. Objectives recapped What are the 4 types of texts?
Provide 2 examples of each type of text
Name 2 features of a persuasive text
Name 2 features of an instructive text
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13. Skimming Used to identify main points and ideas from a text
You skim a text to obtain the gist - the overall sense - of a piece of writing. This can help you decide whether to read it more slowly and in more detail.
How do you skim read?
Read the title, subtitles and subheadings to find out what the text is about.
Look at the illustrations to give you more information about the topic.
Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
Don’t read every word or every sentence. Let your eyes skim over the text and look out for key words.
Continue to think about the meaning of the text.
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14. Scanning
You scan a text to obtain specific information. For example, to find a particular number in a telephone directory.
For these tasks you don’t need to read or understand every word.
Use clues on the page, such as headings and titles, to help you.
In a dictionary or phone book, use the header words to help you scan. You can find these in bold type at the top of each page.
Many texts list things in alphabetical order from A to Z. These include everyday materials, such as the phone book or indexes to books and catalogues.
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