Persuasive Writing
Today we're looking at something that we see every day, we’re looking at advertisements to help us understand persuasive writing.
Persuasive writing is when you use your English writing skills to persuade someone to think a certain way. Apart from advertisements, think about other times when we see persuasive writing.
Think about the situations below and how you would use persuasive language...
1. When it’s bedtime but you want to finish the level in your favourite video game.
2 When your brother or sister gets a cool new toy and you want to convince them to let you borrow it.
3 When you want to go to the park but your Dad is reading the newspaper.
What are you doing in each situation? You’re trying to persuade somebody to think a certain way.
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Persuasive Debate
Read the topics below.
Decide if you agree or disagree with the topics.
Make a list of three points that could convince someone else that you are correct.
This is persuasive writing. Pick one of the topics and try and persuade someone in your family that you are right! To help you, use the examples that Múinteoir John taught us like:
Instead Surely
However For that reason
Everybody knows There is no doubt
Clearly The fact is
As a result To end with
In conclusion To sum up
Choose one topic below and write out three points to persuade someone of your opinion.
Topics:
- Children should be able to choose their own bedtime.
- All green foods are delicious.
- All school children should have to wear a school uniform.
- Children should be given pocket money without having to do any chores.
- Dogs are the best pets!
Why not come up with your own ideas and topics and see if you can use your words wisely to convince friends & family to agree with you. It can be fun to debate the statement with someone at home.
Try to debate each statement and the person with the best persuasive language wins!
Lights, Camera, Action.
We want you to send us in a video about your favourite thing in the world.
It could be your dog, it could be a toy, it could be your favourite person or even your favourite biscuit. Send us in a video, using all the persuasive language that we have learned so you can try to convince Múinteoir John that the thing you have is really the best thing in the whole wide world!
Don't forget to upload your video HERE!
Try to colour in this image below. We'd love to see lots of colours to brighten up the dark days!
