Year 8 EAL Class PPT

1. FORMAL SPOKEN
LANGUAGE
Your job is to
- Create a one-minute speech on something that you
think should be changed at your school.
- Need to use some of the vocab from last weeks
spelling test.
- Try to incorporate some persuasive language devices
that we will learn today.

2. AN EXAMPLE
Uniforms should be abolished!

3. PAIR UP
You have 4 minutes to come up with a topic

4. 1: EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
Definition: Using specific words to create an emotional
response(happiness, sadness, anger or fear) among listeners
Example 1 (Sadness): Helpless animals are suffering needless
cruel and painful death.
Example 2 (Fear): Smoking injects 250 different harmful, toxic
cancer-causing chemicals into your lungs.

5. YOUR TURN
1) Rewrite this sentence “The children are spending time on the
playground.” with the aim of evoking happy emotions
2) Rewrite this sentence “The murderer killed the family. He should be
punished with life imprisonment” with aim of evoking angry emotions

6. 2: SIMILE
Definition: describing something by comparing
it to something else with the words like or as
Example 1: Drinking Coca Cola on a summer day
is like a swim in the pool.

7. 2: SIMILE

8. YOUR TURN
1) Write a car advertisement using a simile
Ford cars are like ______________________
2) Use a simile to describe the qualities of a robotic
servant
3) Use a simile to encourage people to bike to work

9. 3: ANECDOTE
Definition: A short story about something that
you have experienced or heard about.
Example: 3 years ago my brother was killed in a
car crash. Every month I watch with horror as the
road toll continues to rise.

10. YOUR TURN
1) An anecdote is a personal story. True or false
2) Is this an anecdote?
“My friend used to fail English in schools. One day he died. I
think we all need to get good grades in English.”
3) Use an anecdote to persuade people to adopt a dog
Dogs are the most gentle animal. I remember …

11. 4: HUMOUR
Definition: being amusing or funny
Example 1 (pun): The duck said to the bartender “put it
on my bill”
Example 2 (portmanteau): spork (spoon + fork)

12. 4: HUMOUR (PUN)

13. 4: HUMOUR (PORTMANTEAU)

14. YOUR TURN
1) Think of two products, you wish to combine into one.
For example, Spork
Create a new portmanteau
2) Think of a pun. Use it to persuade people to do or buy
something.

15. TED TALK
Your job is to
- Identify the following in the
video
• Emotive language
• Humour
• Similes
• Anecdote