Section A: Reading
Reading Non-Fiction and Media Texts
3 Looking at language
Student Book Page 29
Activity
3
Read the EveryChild text on page 29 closely. Complete the chart
below to show how the writer uses words to try and make the reader
feel certain things.
Examples of emotive
use of language
What the words suggest
What the writer wants
the reader to feel
Children in Malawi
face famine
that children are
going to starve
because there is no
food
concern
food reserves are empty
anxiety that things
should be so bad
Over 3 million people
face starvation
vulnerable children
and families
emergency food and
other vital support
we must act now in
order to save lives