Persuasive+texts

=Persuasive texts=

A persuasive text is a text that really wants you to do something.

An advert might want you to buy something. You might write a letter to persuade a friend to go on holiday with you. You could write a letter to try to get let off a parking ticket.

Persuasive texts might use:


 * repeated words
 * text in capital letters
 * exclamation marks
 * rhetorical questions (questions where no answer is needed)
 * an emotional one-sided argument
 * humour

Examples:

- SPECIAL OFFER! Buy today! Would you want to miss this SPECIAL offer? Phone NOW...

- "I really think that you need this holiday. You have been working very hard lately and are so worn out. Just think of how nice it will be to lie on the beach in the sunshine."



Diagram:

= Carlos Molina Gutiérrez =

** The incredible useless machine!! **

Bored of incredible but fantastic machines? Do you want to have in your home a fantastic Useless thing? Well, we have the most useless thing that you can’t imagine. An umbrella with holes? No. An English book wrote in German? No. It is… __A machine that when you press the button, it turn it down!__! Yeah, it exists… and you can have it in your home phoning now to 684.136.666.94, and only for 455₤. And if you call right now… you… will win… A plastic bag full of air!! Yeah, and for free. You must thing that we are crazy, but maybe we are very crazy for selling all for… bah, anything, just a few coins. So, you know what ^ have to do. Call NOW.

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= Jose Luis Tormo Trasverso =

** LET´S GO ON HOLIDAYS **

I I would like to purpose you to come on holidays with me. I have thought about it and it would be very funny. There are in ¡¡¡ **GERMANY !!! A LOT OF YOUTH CAMPS FOR TEENAGERS**, between 13 and 17 years old. Wouldn’t you like it????? We would meet with a lot of young people and we would make a lot of friends. **¡¡LET´S SAY THIS GREAT** NOTICE **TO EVERYBODY!!**, PERHAPS OTHER FRIENDS COME WITH US… We will play a lot of sports: Football, Basket, Tennis, Swimming pool, and we will tour around the cities like: MUNICH, HANNOVER, BERLIN… “Germany is one of the most prosperous countries in the World. “ And ^ also the “BEST HOT DOGS IN THE WORLD”. THAT´S WHAT I LIKE, IT’S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

= Paula Zarco Toledo 3ºG =

I´m going to tell you some characteristics of my new product, a mattress and a bedding for your bed to sleep very well and without cold. The bedding has a thermometer inside so, you can regulate the temperature you want. And also the bed is ^ of latex and it has a machine inside which can give you a massage when you like. If you have problems with your back P you have to buy this, it cure all your problems with it and WO also it has a pillow that is perfect for your neck, it can be higher or lower if you want, you WO have only to press a red button. If you thing that this product is going to be very expensive, you will be wrong. All these things together cost approximately 400€, and WO also it is very well because the bed and all their ons have lot of quality. And you know the health is the first. So buy this magnificent bed.

= Mª victoria Zarco Toledo =


 * Persuasive** test **: THE GLASS CLEANER**

I`m going to show you the greatest way to clean your windows and all the furniture that are made of glass P the name of this product is glass cleaner 2000 ^ is so useful because it sprayer has some position s that you can regulate for example if you want to clean a huge window P you can regulate it in a position that makes that is going to expel more liquid and is going to be more easy for you to clean, this product has a recharge too that P if you buy this glass cleaner now ^ is going to be yours because the first twenty people that want to buy this product it recharge is going to be free and we WO bring you back the money you have pay if you are not conformed with this glass cleaner, this product has a grate characteristic that I´m ^ to tell you now and ^ is going to be very useful if you have young children P it is the composition of the liquid that has a component that come repair the broken glass P if you don’t believe that come to our shop and try it!.

= Lucía Pérez Gómez 3ºG =

**Persuasive text: Stop smoking!**
Hey! Do you want a few reasons for why you are less attractive for the rest of the people? Do you think you are losing concentration in studies? Do you think people avoid you? I know why! Everybody know why. You are smoking, and you should stop. I believe that smoking is bad for you. It is important to give up but it is even better not to have started at all. One reason for my thinking this is that it is unhealthy. Smokers suffer a range of diseases from lung cancer to high blood pressure. Another reason is that it’s very expensive. Regular smokers can spend up to 1,500 $ a year just on buying cigarettes. A final reason is that smoking is very unattractive. Smokers’ clothes smell of smoke and it gives them bad breath, I know ^ because girls don't like ^ smell of cigarettes. There are a number of reasons why smoking is bad for you. It is unhealthy, it is expensive and it makes you unattractive. Don’t even think of starting!

= __ Persuasive texts Rocio Muñoz Tovar 3ºF __ = =  10 March 2011   =

** Hi, Mary. It is so long since I heard from you!** ** I have noticed ** of late ** that you have been more unhappy since ** the ** last year, ** i ** saw your photos and you are always studying and working on the shop , it’s BORING! ** ** I am just writing to say that I have the solution! ** The ** next month Jonh’s travel agency is ** preparing ** for going to Fidji’s island, and It’s wonderful ! ** ** Do you remember ** the ** last year ** in ** Ibiza’s beaches? ** ** When we won in the Casino 18000€ LoL, we have to repeat this experiencie! ** ** I’m sure that we aren’t going to waste time! ** ** So if you want to have some relaxed days come with me and, we will have parties ** every days **, we will ** going ** to the beach , the hotel is amazing too , I promise you! ** ** So you don’t have any excuse for not ** to go ** to the ** travel. My dad offer us his private plane for going to Canberra and the same day the plane of the travel agency will be waiting for us.Would you want to miss this SPECIAL offer? ** Also two boys from Italy are going to go.They are very handsome! ** ** You wont lose any second of the travel, ** i ** hope ** so ** that you ** will ** say YES. ** ** I wonder if you could go with me and ** i ** don’t ** let ** No for answer. ** The ** next week ** i ** will send you the photos and the timetables. ** **I´ll tell you more things in my next letter. ** **Love and kisses **** s ** ** Your Friend ** ** Rocio **