Smoking

Smoking

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This task is about understand how written and visual language features are used to create a poster.

What's Your Poison? poster
 
 
Look at the words and the images on the poster to help you answer the following questions.
 
a)
Explain the connection between the two lists of poisons.

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b)
How is the visual image of the hand linked to the heading?

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c) Write down two examples of repetition that add to the advertisement's impact.
 
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ii)

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d)
What part of the poster makes it clearly a New Zealand advertisement?

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e) What is the overall message of the poster?

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Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Viewing
Keywords: 
poster, comprehension, repetition
Description of task: 
This assessment is based on an anti-cigarette poster from the Cancer Society. Students answer five short answer response questions on repetition, the message, and the major visual images.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (07/99)
a) The left hand column is a common example/household usage, the right hand side is the name of the main poison in the substance on the left. difficult
b) Any 1 of:

  • They are linked (visually) by the smoke.
  • The idea of poison and the skeleton are connected.
  • Smoking kills. [Do not accept "will make you sick."]
 moderate
c) Any 2 of:

  • poison
  • sick
  • you
  • the use of lists
 very difficult
d) Any 1 of:

  • The smoke/the way the smoke looks.
  • The map of NZ shape in the smoke.
 difficult
e) Any 1 of:

  • Cigarettes are poison(ous).
  • Smoking kills.
  • Don't smoke/stop smoking.
 easy