Tuesday 21st April Literacy Tasks
TASK 1 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.
WORD OF THE DAY – EXQUISITE
In your jotters, you can set it out like this:
WORD: Exquisite
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
Uplevelled Paragraph:
TASK 2: LEARNING HOW TO WRITE A SPEECH
Over the last 2 terms we have been working hard in cooperative groups to improve confidence in talking to different people and learning various ways to respond. Following on from this we were going to be learning about the techniques for writing a short speech that will grab your audience’s attention. Although we are not in school, we can still continue with our learning and BBC Bitesize have produced some lessons that we are going to use.
Learning how to write a speech will be beneficial for you as you may be asked to do this when you are at high school. Writing a speech uses similar techniques to those we learned about when studying persuasive writing – do you remember what AFOREST means?
Today I would like you to use the following link to access the lesson. Watch the video, read the information and then complete the quiz to test your knowledge (Activity 1).
Then complete Activity 2:
Write a short speech of about 150 words on one of the following topics (remember to use the techniques):
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Persuade your parents that social media is essential in helping you socialise.
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Persuade your friends that exercise is important.
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Persuade your neighbours to take part in a scheme to help your local community (You could link this to the Stay Home advice we are following at the moment)
EXTRA – ACTIVITY 3 on Bitesize link.
