Understanding different types of text

Understanding different types of textA text can come in any form and be any kind of writing: Letters, adverts, user-guides, emails, postcards, notes and magazine articles are all different types of text.

It is a text that wants you to picture what is being described:A novel might want you to imagine the characters and see them in your mind.A travel book will want you to see the country being described.1. Descriptive TextsDescriptive texts usually:Make use of adjectives and adverbs.Use comparisons to help picture the scene.Employ the readers five senses.1. Descriptive TextsExamplesThe morning air was crisp and sharp as Sean walked down the road.He was a big man with short curly hair, brown teeth and a flat nose. A scar crossed his right cheek from ear to chin.1. Descriptive TextsAn informative text gives information or news in a clear, step-by-step way:A newspaper article may give you information about a health issue.A website may give you information about a movie youre interested in.2. Informative TextsInformative texts usually:Avoid repetition.Contain facts.Give information in a clear way, introducing the subject and then developing it.2. Informative TextsExamples:Make a plan to help you try and give up smoking. Plan the date youll give up, how youll try to deal with temptations and a list of the reasons why you are giving up to keep motivated. 2. Informative TextsIt is a text that tells you how to do something. It will often use commands and pictures. For example:A recipe tells you how to cook something.A leaflet that comes with a piece of furniture tells you how to take care of it.3. Instructive TextsUse verbs, placed at the beginning of the sentence, that tell you to do something.Use 'must' and 'must not'.Use diagrams or pictures to help understanding. Use numbered or bulleted points.3. Instructive TextsGo to the end of the road and turn left past the pub on the corner. Keep walking until you come to a park ... Cut the bread into small squares. Arrange in layers and sprinkle with sugar and raisins.3. Instructive TextsIt is a text constructed to make you do something. For example:An advert may want you to buy something.You may write a letter to persuade a friend to go on holiday with you.4. Persuasive TextsPersuasive texts may use:Repeated words.Text in capital letters.Exclamation marks.Rhetorical questions.An emotional argument.4. Persuasive TextsSPECIAL OFFER! Would you want to miss this SPECIAL offer? Phone NOWI really think you need this holiday. Youve been working very hard lately and are so worn out.Just think how nice it will be to lie on the beach in the sunshine.

4. Persuasive TextsTHANKS