ACTIVITY FOR THE REAL EXAM

CREATE a Google Drive using your school account and share it with your teacher. Name it SAMPLES OF TEXT TYPES.

USING your booklet AND this blog as a guide, identify the different text types (blog, email, letters, letter to the Editor, speech, article, leaflet, guidelines, debate speech, report, essays) and analyse their STRUCTURE AND STYLE.

Make a summary that is useful for you (of the things YOU need to remember) and look for a SAMPLE of each text type on the Internet. This is very important because you read and select an example of each text type that you can remember when you do your own piece of writing in the exam.

You can use all the web bearing in mind RELIABILITY of sources. For eg: the New York Times, the BBC, e-books, speeches by sources of authority, Greenpeace, www.nomadicmatt.com ("Everyone says I'm running away" and "Why travel makes you awesome" entries), letters, guidelines etc.

Do your best! This is the last leg of the race before the real exam.

For speeches, remember you must use RHETORICAL DEVICES. This is what we mean by style (whether it is formal or informal, whether it is colloquial, you need passive voice, complete or incomplete sentences, etc.)

REMEMBER to consider TAPAR before you write:

T    TEXT TYPE
A    AUTHOR
P    PURPOSE
A   AUDIENCE
R   REGISTER (FORMAL/INFORMAL,SEMIFORMAL)