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Happy birthday consumer
This task is about identifying how vocabulary, tone, and repetition are used to convey a message.
Read
Happy Birthday
by Alan Bagnall (
School Journal part 4, no. 2,
1999
)
and complete the following tasks.
Question
1
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a)
This text gives reasons why eleven- and twelve-year-olds are the target group for advertising companies like "Manipulative Marketing Inc."
Write down
two
of these reasons.
a)
This text gives reasons why eleven- and twelve-year-olds are the target group for advertising companies like "Manipulative Marketing Inc."
Write down
two
of these reasons.
1.
2.
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b) Name
two
types of purchasing mentioned in the text.
b) Name
two
types of purchasing mentioned in the text.
1.
2.
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c) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the text.
c) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the text.
Vulnerable
Manipulate
Receptive
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d) In this text some words and phrases are repeated for effect.
d) In this text some words and phrases are repeated for effect.
i) Write down an
example
of this repetition.
ii) What is the
effect
of the repetition?
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e) What is the tone of this text?
e) What is the tone of this text?
