This document discusses family holidays and includes two images showing happy families enjoying time together. It provides tips for comparing and contrasting different texts, including exploring how writers use language and presentation of ideas. Analysis of word choice and images is encouraged.

1. Family Holidays

2. In your response to the task, you need to:
 make comparisons between texts
 select appropriate details from texts to
support ideas
 explore how writers use presentation and
language to communicate their ideas and
perspectives in the two texts.

3.  Detailed analysis of the choice of images in
the texts.
 Practise
Point
Evidence
Analysis
Link
 Comparisons / planning chart.

5. Now annotate
this image
yourself.

6.  Happy, adventurous family
 Having fun
 Safe, loving family
 White family
Now annotate this
image yourself.
Water in the background – safe for all ages
 Happy and excited for their day
 Everyone smiling, confident
 Nuclear family – family friendly
 No teenagers – mostly young children
 Bright colours – summer to make it welcoming

7.  Now put your brainstorm of ideas into
sentences.
 Remember
Point
Evidence
Analysis
Link

9. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
One key similarity
between…and… is

10. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…

11. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…
One common theme
between…and… is

12. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…
One common theme
between…and… is
Both…and… deal with the theme
of…

13. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
One main contrast between…and…
is…
Unlike…
Contrast
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…
One common theme
between…and… is
Both…and… deal with the theme
of…
In the same way…

14. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
Unlike…
On the other hand…
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…
One common theme
between…and… is
Both…and… deal with the theme
of…
In the same way…
As with…

15. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as many words of
comparison and contrast as possible. For example:
Comparison
Contrast
One main contrast between…and…
is…
Unlike…
On the other hand…
In contrast to….
One key similarity
between…and… is
Like…
One common theme
between…and… is
Both…and… deal with the theme
of…
In the same way…
As with…
Just as…

17. To learn and practise techniques for
analysing language choices in texts