L.O. To identify and understand emotive language, and its effect on readers.

Which headline is most likely to excite the reader?

SCHOOL

BLAZE

FIRE AT

SCHOOL

Which headline is most likely to excite the reader?

CHILD BITTEN

BY DOG

TODDLER MAULED

BY ROTTWEIL

ER

Which headline is most likely to excite the reader?

UK HIT BY UP TO SIX INCHES LEAVING

HUNDEREDS STUCK ON

M40

SNOW FALLS ON BRITAIN

Which headline is most likely to excite the reader?

TEACHER HITS PUPIL

INNOCENT TEACHER DEFENDS HERSELF

FROM AGGRESSIVE

YOUTH

Read the headlines below. Re-write them, replacing the words in bold with more emotive words.

Man hit by robbers. A hundred slaves

killed by soldiers.

Read the headlines below. Re-write them, replacing the words in bold with more emotive words.

Man hit by robbers. PENSIONER HIT BY MUGGERS

A hundred slaves killed by soldiers. A HUNDRED PEASANTS

SLAUGHTERED BY SOLDIERS

L.O. To identify and understand emotive language, and its effect on readers.How does the writer’s choice of emotive language make us (the readers) feel?