Starter quiz
- What is perspective?
- someone's point of view ✓
- someone's memories
- someone's vision
- someone's aims
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- Which of the following is the noun?
- he
- laugh
- fun ✓
- am
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- What is a pronoun?
- a word that replaces a noun. ✓
- a word that comes after a verb.
- a word that replaces an adjective.
- a word that comes before a noun.
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- How do you sign off a letter to somebody you don't know by name?
- Yours sincerely
- Yours earnestly
- Yours devotedly
- Yours faithfully ✓
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- Match the rhetorical device to the example.
- flattery⇔dearest friends and esteemed colleagues... ✓
- alliteration⇔the greedy grabbing by greasy little fingers... ✓
- rhetorical question⇔if not you, then who? if not now, then when? ✓
- triple⇔our loyal, devoted and admired public service workers... ✓
- emotive language⇔a life of neglect, abandonment, misery and heartache... ✓
- direct address⇔I now encourage you to look deep within yourselves... ✓
- What is an idiom?
- historic tales that have been passed down e.g Little Red Riding Hood
- superstitious myths e.g. not walking on the cracks in pavements
- figurative sayings that are familiar e.g. 'it's raining cats and dogs' ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following does voice help us to express?
- emotions ✓
- attitudes ✓
- perspectives ✓
- ambitions
- memories
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- When considering perspectives to write from, we have to decide who ______ about the topic.
- 'cares' ✓
- Which tone best describes the following sentence: It is an utter tragedy that thousands of dogs each and every year are cast aside by their owners, thrown out onto the streets to fend for themselves.
- angry tone
- optimistic tone
- neutral tone
- sympathetic tone ✓
- cynical tone
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- Someone who sees the worst in people or situations can be described as ______
- 'cynical' ✓
- Choose of the following options. Inverted commas are used to show...
- direct speech
- someone else's ideas ✓
- approval
- disapproval ✓
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- Which of the following uses inverted commas correctly?
- The bank kindly offered me their 'help' in recovering the money they misplaced. ✓
- I had previously been informed that this was a 'family club'. ✓
- We have been told repeatedly how essential 'school uniform is'.
- The 'artist' of this vandalism must be apprehended as soon as possible. ✓
- Some of my 'colleagues' are fantastic: they're a real credit to the company.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Purpose and audience will help you establish tone of voice
- Students do not need to write from their own perspective
- Inventing a character can help their work stand out from others
- Sarcasm and humour, when used well, can be effective in creating tone of voice
- Deciding a viewpoint and sticking to it is more effective than creating a balanced viewpoint
Common misconception
Pupils often fail to realise that they don't have to write from their own perspective.
Inform pupils that it can be incredibly powerful to write from another, imagined perspective.
Keywords
Condemn - If you condemn something, you criticise it strongly.
Optimistic - Someone with an optimistic view of the world sees it very positively.
Cynical - Someone who is cynical always assumes the worst about people or situations.
Pessimistic - Someone with a pessimistic view of the world sees it very negatively.
Prospect - A prospect is a possibility - the idea that something might happen.
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