This comprehensive teaching material on persuasive texts provides students with a solid foundation in persuasive writing, including essential strategies and techniques. It covers rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos, along with effective argumentation structures, counterarguments, and conclusions. Students explore emotive language, logical reasoning, tone, and audience targeting, learning to analyze and produce texts with clear persuasive intent. Key concepts include rhetorical questions, evidence-based claims, emotional triggers, language choice, anecdotes, style, and voice. The material features four structured information pages focusing on persuasive purpose, language use, and strategic writing. A detailed summary page recaps key skills. Students work through a challenging comprehension task, sentence completions, a gap-fill grammar task, definition of a technical term, and a creative writing prompt. Additional activities include a 330-word cloze text on persuasive writing, word pair matching, and true/false statements. Designed for grades 8–10, this material strengthens skills in text analysis, critical reading, argumentative writing, evidence use, tone recognition, and persuasive strategies. It builds media literacy, reading comprehension, and writing fluency, and is ideal for use in both native speaker and EFL/ESL classrooms. Suitable for exam preparation, essay writing, and real-world persuasive tasks. Includes solutions to all tasks.
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