Text Purpose

1. What is the purpose of this text?

• a. To persuade you to buy something

• b. To describe how a scene might look in a novel.

• c. To provide clear facts about something

• d. To tell you how to do something

2. Is this text an informative text?

True or false?

• a. True

• b. False

How do you know it is an informative text? Can you identify any features?

3. What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Describe

• Advise

• Persuade

What is it persuading you to do?

• Buy more plastic bags

• Buy fewer plastic bags

• To not pay for plastic bags

• To pay for plastic bags

How do you know it is a persuasive text? Can you name some features?

What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Instruct

• Persuade

• Entertain

How do you know it is an instructive text? Name some features.

Instructive texts always use images to show what is to be done.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not an example of informative text?

• a) A school newsletter

• b) An obituary in a local newspaper

• c) A recipe book

• d) Doctors’ surgery leaflet about services provided