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Page 1: Persuasion. Aims To look at key techniques that help to persuade people to do something. Listen to persuasive…

Persuasion

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Aims• To look at key techniques that help to persuade

people to do something.• Listen to persuasive speakers.• Prepare at least five sentences using key

techniques that will persuade your class mates to either: – support your football/ruby team, or– like your favourite singer, or– realise that the new school will be the best in Newport.

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How is it done?• Statements• Repetition• Rhetorical Questions• Hyperbole• Superlatives

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Identify the followingI have a dream.

The new school will bring change.

It will be great. It will be brilliant.

It is a time for hope. It is a time to dream.

Are we hoping for the best?

Is the pope Catholic?

The whole universe is watching!

He can run faster than the speed of light!

It was the best of times.

It will be the greatest school in Newport.

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A fact that is stated simply. Often a simple sentence.

A word or phrase is repeated more than onceThere is only

one possible answer to what is asked so there is often no need for a reply

A lot of exaggeration is used.Something is

described using words that mostly end in ‘est’: like ‘best’, ‘greatest’, ‘fastest’

Statement

Repetition

Rhetorical Question

Hyperbole

Superlatives

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Terminology DefinitionStatement A fact that is stated

simply. Often it is a simple sentence.

Repetition A word or phrase is repeated more than once.

Rhetorical Question There is only one possible answer to the question asked and so there is often no need for a reply.

Hyperbole A lot of exaggeration is used.

Superlatives Something is described using words that mostly end in ‘est’: ‘best’, ‘greatest’, ‘fastest’, ‘meanest’.

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Think of a superlative….

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Think of a statement

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The use of a rhetorical question…

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How do the politicians do it?

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Task in Pairs• Write a short speech persuading your

classmates to either:– support your football/rugby team; or– believe your favourite singer is the best; or– that the new school will be the best in

Newport.

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Help…Write at least five sentences.•Start with a statement.•Write a sentence with at least two superlatives in it.•Repeat a phrase.•End with a rhetorical question.

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