get ready for your accent and dialect practice paper on Friday by revising and researching and learning quotes and quantified findings and by reading (and noting down the techniques from) opinion pieces (starting with the one below).
I've found an opinion piece that includes some quite heavy concepts and research - the exam board would love it if it were about language, except it doesn't do enough of breaking down opposing ideas (although it does so quite successfully in the caption which is a pull-quote) and it assumes you know who figures like Keynes are (I do and so would anyone in the target audience but they won't know gender theorists for example).
Read through the article and evaluate the effectiveness of techniques (so that you can see how to use them yourself) such as:
- headline
- strapline
- caption
- facts/research/quotes
- discourse markers like "in fact", "just", "take climate change", "obviously", "nevertheless", "particularly" etc.
- short sentences/paragraphs for effect
- metaphors and similes
- hyperlinks
- emotive language
- opinion mixed with fact
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