Good afternoon. Hello. How are you? Sorry? Great. Thank of course my no problem. Take your time. Okay, good. I saw you sent me on messages the poem. Yeah, it was really good. I really liked it. Did a really good job. So well done. Okay, now this week we're going to look at some nonfiction writing and how you're going to be able to write a neine travel brochure and advertisement. So nonfiction is obviously you study died that before. It's something that is real life. So we're trying to write real life advertisements for travel brochures so that you can understand the style and writing for how you're supposed to engage an audience and sell a particular type of destination or event or holiday. In our first lesson, we looked at writing your own comprehension and you wrote your own article. And we're going to see how writing a brochure might be slightly different to writing an article. So as a starter activity, can you I'm going to give you five or six minutes to create a one minute pitch on a chosen destination of your choice. Again, so can you spend five minutes creating your own pitch, which is like a speech? Have you ever heard the word pitch before? Sorry, have you ever heard what a pitch is before? The pitches and like the football pitch were like, no, that there's two meanings. Football pitches like Melody pitch. It's more like it's like a speech to persuade people to do something. So for example, some business people might do a pitch to investors so that they invest in their company. Have you ever watched dragons down? No, it or sharks tank. Shark tank. I don't know if you watch that, maybe you're a bit Young, but what people do is it's a tv show and there's there's five judges who have a lot of money and random people who want to start a business come and they pitch their business ideas so that they can persuade them to invest in it and make more money. So that's an example. Or you might even pitch a speech to your teacher to persuade her to let you, I don't know, leave school early or something. So that's what a pita pitis, a persuasive speech. So can you write a one minute pitch persuading people to travel to a particular country or destination of your choice? Okay. I start however you want, however you think, how do you think a persuasive speech is going to start? I want to give you your own. I want to see how you would do it yourself. Try and figure it out. But if, for example, if you're trying to persuade your friends or someone or you're selling a product, how would you persuade them? Are you English? Yes, I am. I mean, I'm originally from Pakistan, but I grew up here, so I'm British. Yeah, I go to University in London. Would you mind if I say that? Would you spend your whole summer in a miserable, wet city? Yeah, of course not. Yeah, christbecause, it's. Because it was so pretty. Hello, can you hear me, Serena? Oh, no, I can. Now I can. Okay, good. Okay, great. In. A random place. Reina, I'm going to give you two more minutes to finish off, okay? Finish. Okay. Could you read out the speech to me as if you're suading me to go on holiday here? Here I know, like wherever you choose, would you like to spend your whole summer in a random country that you don't even want to go? Well, if you don't want to check out Shanghai, there are more than enough destination for you to visit in two months. If you are a big fan of Disney, then Shanghai Disneyland is the best place for you to visit. There are tons of high rated hotels nearby to stay in. If you really enjoy luxury and fashion shopping or anything, you can go to sintiandi. This is a shopping mall for everyone. There are lots of, there are a lot of sports brands like Nike, Adidas and puma, also a great place for a big box. There is more food there than you can ever think of. You might like to try some bbty. There are at least four different bt shops. Maybe you would fancy your traditional meal, then you can choose one out of 20 restaurants to go. Four, if you get hurt or injured, don't worry, there are even hospitals or dentists in the shopping mall. That's really, really good, Serena. That's really, really good. I really like it. What can you notice about the difference in language from the article that you wrote a couple few days ago and this type of language? Like what kind of key things do you notice about it? The article is kind of out like me, me, me like in first person. Yeah. It's kind of like you. Yeah and it's definitely a lot more persuasive, right? You're trying to convince someone that this place is really good and you're tapping into their emotions. Whereas an article can be anything. You know an article can be persuasive, but it also can just be your opinion. It can just be an evaluation of different types of topics. So a brochure is always something quite persuasive. Perfect. Okay, so today's learning objective is to use non fiction writing skills to create a travel brochure. The success criteria includes understanding the form, which is the structure, the audience and the purpose of a travel brochure, to use research skills effectively, and to recognize and use five key language features for nonfiction, informational and persuasive writing. Is that okay? Okay. Right. Okay. So your first task is to decide which of your destinations you should write about in your travel brochure. I know we've done a lot of travel themed activities, but try and choose a different country or destination every time we do something so that you can use different skills. Do you want to decide where where you want to go, where you want to? Sorry, where you want to write it about? I cicly, okay, that works. I've never been to cicly. I really want to go. Have you ever been? Yeah. Yeah. Was it nice? Okay, great. Do, then perfect. Okay, so now you're going to have to convince. Okay, now we've done this already. That's fine. Okay, so these the these are the features of persuasive writing that are really important to use when you're writing. So remember these for when you're actually writing your brochure. And it's okay if you don't remember all of them immediately or I'll keep reminding you, but this is just some key techniques and structures and and features you want to put into the brochure. Yeah. So first of all, you have rule of three. When you're describing something, repeat something three times to make the reader pay attention. So for example, you might use three adjectives. It's an exciting, thrilling and a roller coaster of a trip because psychologists and scientists have actually done studies that if you describe something using three adjectives, it makes it the reader or the person listening pay more attention. And it just flows very nicely. It's very different to saying it's an exciting trip. If you say three adjectives, it makes it sound, Oh my gosh, wow. Like there's so many different you know characteristics about this. Second is a motive language, which are powerful words that stir emotion in the reader, such as helpless, heartless, barbaric. Do you know what barbaric means? Barbaric means something crazy or chaotic. Okay. So emotive language is really tapping into people's obviously their emotions. That's why it's emotive language and you're trying to get them to relate to what you're trying to say. So you use that really well actually, when you said, like, do you want to spend your whole summer or somewhere where you don't know you're really relating to them and you're understanding their emotions? Like they don't want na feel sad. They want to feel happy. Yeah. The third thing is rhetorical questions. Do you know what a rhetorical question is? Yeah, it's like, do you want to like it's like a question, but you don't want them to answer it. Yeah, it's just a question to make them think. It doesn't necessarily need an answer or anyone to answer it. It's just something to get them to think about what you're saying. And you actually used one in the beginning already. Do you wanna spend your whole summer somewhere you don't know? That's a really good example because then you're not gonna then you're not gonna to say, like you're not gonna be waiting for the answer. You're just going to continue writing and statistics. Even if you make it up for this exercise, you can make it up or you can actually, when we do some research, when I give you some time to research, you can find some statistics providing evidence to show to the reader that what you're saying is statistic. A statistic is like a number which shows, which describes something. For example, if half of the, if half of your classmates at school like chocolate, then you say 50% of the people in my class like chocolate. That's a statistic. Yeah. Or you say one third of the animals were cats. Or you say 20% of people go on holiday to Italy every year. Or you might even want to say it for the weather. You can say six days out of seven of the week in Italy are Sunny to convince people to go. So it's using numbers to show people that what you're saying is because you can use words to say like, Oh, it's amazing, Oh, it's great, but they're not gonna to believe you unless you have proper evidence to show that what you're saying is. Yeah, does that make sense or no? Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I was I was just a bit like, Oh Yeah, I got it. No, that's okay. No problem. And also, if you ever need me to explain something again, just say it to me. You can ask as many questions as you want and then professional pronouns using you and we to get the reader involved. Because if you say in a very indirect way and you say, Oh, this place is great and this and that, and you're not actually involving them and saying, you know, you and I and us and we, it doesn't make them feel very involved in the conversation or in the advertisement. So they want to feel like you're really understanding and seeing them. And then imagery, this is really important, but we did this in the creative writing lesson last time, but imagery is really good to describe the place, you know, describe and really sell the place to them and pitch it to them as we, as I've just explained it to you, you want na convince them that this place is beautiful, has a lot of history, has a lot of culture, the food is good, the art is nice, the weather is nice. There's so many different ways you can describe the setting using adjectives. Okay, so make sure you remember these key things. It's okay if you don't. I know it's a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of things to remember but I can I when I when you write the brochure, I can have this checklist up for you just to remind you. But also a lot of them you actually already included. It's just a reminder. So certain words and phrases as well are using a persuasive brochure text to make the information more appealing to the audience. Remember, you need to make the destination sound inviting to the person reading. Look at the following year of words used to describe a place or experience which are the most positive and which are the most negative. But them in order are positive to negative words, which mic you use in your text to make your destination seem interesting or exciting. So I'm going to give you five minutes to do this yourself. You have to rank these words from which is the most positive word and which is the most negative word, if that makes sense. Does that make sense? Okay. I'll give you five minutes to do that. It's tediest worse or is dirty worlike worse, not worse worse. I want to see what you think first and then we'll discuss it. But whatever you think, Yeah. And they mean horrendous. Do they mean like funny? Or do they mean like funny in a bad way? Horrendous means something bad. I've finished. Okay. So what do you think? What is tell me the order from most negative to positive. Oh, most negative. Okay. The test of all deadeffying horrendous, tedious, dirty, agreeable, lush, pleasant, diverting, luxurious, amusing, magnificent. Yeah, I would agree with that. That's good. I think also it depends on what you feel as well. I didn't think there's a right or wrong, but you got it generally right on what's more negative and what's more positive. Okay, so these are some good words that you've written down that you might want to use in your brochure. I don't know if you want to use death defying this in the brochure. Okay. So why, if you're saying that might, if you say if you want to, if you want to, if you don't want to be like if you don't want to be death fying in your voacation and go to Yeah, you could Yeah. Okay. Now I'm going to give you a few minutes to do some research on your country. So you did a similar task last in the first lesson, but I want you to find some information there and maybe some statistics, the numbers to help you write your brochure. You can decide six key aspects, for example, things to do, how you're going to get there, special information like what currency are you going to need, what hotels are available. Maybe you can also like you don't have to research everything. You can also make some bits up for creative purposes. Maybe the food, maybe what you can buy there, how expensive it is, the weather, that kind of thing. So just choose six different topics that you're going to kind of research and maybe look up online, maybe to support your answers. But then also you can make some stuff up or use some stuff on your own experience too. So just have six topics and list them and like put some headings and then under them write a little bit of information. Does that make sense? Yeah, really? Not really. Okay. So what you're going to do is you're going to write the title Sicily Sicily brochure research. Then you're going to have six different topics. You're going to choose six different topics. For example, I might choose food, the hotel and where you're going to stay, how we're going to get there, the weather and what there is to do there, and maybe something else. So those are my six different topics. Then what I'm gonna to do is I'm gonna to go on Google and I'm gonna to do some research, maybe to help me find out more about those things. Maybe I don't know enough about Italian food, so I'm gonna to research what kind of food is there in Sicily and I'm gonna na write a few different facts about it and I might move on to the hotels and see what hotels are available. Yeah, so I'm going to do some research about those different topics and then that's going to help you write your brochure. Does that make sense? Okay. You might also want to find some statistics as well, like the numbers like 20% of people do this or something like that, but you can make it up of six, six what? Oh, okay. Like for example, food, then weather than. Yeah, like that. I'll give you a few more minutes. Let me know when you're done. I'm not quite done, but like I'm like done enough. Yeah. Do you want a couple more minutes? Maybe Yeah, okay, sure. I'll give you two more. You can make some stuff up as well. Just things that would might help you write your brochure. Oh no, what's right as like wake it up because I have no idea what to talk about either food. But like if it was for food, you could just make up like this is the most people eat this, the most things like that or you could just describe different types of food. No, no, I like like you know how it's like six aspects. Yeah, I want another. So maybe going on the Internet and having a look with help. Then I also did one as well, so we can both compare for Sicily. I think that's all I do. Okay, no problem. And then I'll also give you some ideas too, because I've written down some too. Okay. So can you tell me what you've written so far? Okay. Do you want to stay in a death defined country that is boring and weif? You don't. Sicily in Italy is a magnificent place for you. Most evenings you get up and see the sea is right and and the sea is right in front of you with the sun like a scoop of pea laso ice cream spread across the sky. Here is a fact for you. Sicily is 79% stunny in the winter and 94% Sunny in the summer. If you are looking for a natural tan line, then then you know where to go for why not also try the fresh fish, that fish that the fishermen caught on the day, as you are just by the sea. If you want to go for a ride on the sea as well, check out siciciles ferries sislehas the best ferries in Italy. There are also land lots of landmarks for you to visit. For example the temple of Concordia is a historical temple and know right. Okay, that's really good. I really like how you done that. That's really, really good. I can give you some more ideas as well. So I wrote for food that people in Sicily love pasta. They like eating it with tomato sauce, aubergine, gine and cheese. The island is famous for Aron chi, which are crispy rice balls and canoli sweet pastry. You can get the best gelato. You spoke about gelato in Italy here, and there are over 300 flavors. Fresh fruit like oranges and lemons grow everywhere. And a fun fact at Sicily grows around 60% of Italy's lemons. For hotels, most hotels have sea views, pools and family rooms. In summer, you can find beach resorts with kids clubs and pizza nights. Some hotels are built inside old castles or farm farm houses. The average cost is around 80 to 150 pounds a night. Travel flights from London take about three hours. You can explore by car, bus or train. Art Sicily has some of the oldest mosaics in Europe, which are tiny, colorful tiles that tell stories. You can visit the valley of the temples to see giant Greek statues. Cities like Palermo and taonwina have theatres, which you can watch puppet shows. And did you know the Greek theatre of theomena is over 2000 years old? Culture Sicilians celebrate lots of festivals with fireworks, parades and music. Family is very important, and the main language is Italian, but many people speak English too. Finally, things to bring, sunglasses and suncream it can reach 35 degrees in summer, swimsuit and flip flops for the beach, hat and light clothes for daytime, jumpup for cool evenings, and a camera or phone for photos, snacks for road trips and plane rides. So that's kind of just the ideas that I had. Yeah does that make sense? That's the kind of thing you wanna write. You wanna just have some fun facts to give them some information and describe what the holiday would be like, because you're not also just describing what the place is like. You're also telling them what exactly they might need to consider if they're going on holiday. They need to consider, okay, how do I get there? How much is it gonna to cost? Where am I gonna to stay? What am I gonna to bring? Okay, so now we have about five minutes left to the end of the lesson. You have your research now what I want you to do is I want you do you have a piece of paper with you? A piece of paper? Okay, so for homework, what I want, what I'm going to get you to do is can you see this picture here of the square? Yeah, this thing. Yeah this is usually what a brochure looks like. What you do, you've probably seen one before they split it into three. Yeah, it's like a piece of paper split into three. And then you have different sections. You might have a picture, then you might have some information. So like this section could be the food, this section could be the hotel, that kind of thing. Then you have some more pictures. And I want you for homework to try and create your own ones. So you can use colors, you can make it really fun. You can use both sides of the paper too, and then kind of like fold it in half or fold it into three to make it into a little like booklet. And then you can make your own brochure about Sicily. That's what I want you to do and I want you to really importantly remember, okay, the layout, the layout, how you're gonna to fold it, how it's gonna to look so it's gonna to look nice and neat. You're gonna to write in four sentences, but also I want you to remember these key techniques such as using the three objectives, the emotive language, the rhetorical questions, the statistics, the numbers, using personal pronouns saying do you want to go on holiday? Let's go on holiday. Imagery describing the place but also drawing pictures will be really helpful for that too. Okay, so hopefully also the ideas that I gave you from what I said are really helpful too. I can send that on the messages if you want to, gives you a nice reminder. But also, I want you to come up with your own ideas too, so that help you write persuasive writing. Okay, Yeah, okay, great. So today's lesson, what we've learned is the importance of specific types of words and things we can do to persuade and convince people. And this is a really, really important skill to have because you're going na throughout your whole life, you're gonna to be persuading people to do things for you, whether that's your teachers, whether that's your classmates, or when you go to University, when you get a job, you're always convincing people to understand you and agree with you, right? So it's a really important skill to have. Okay, great. So I'll see you tomorrow for the lesson. And wait, do I see you tomorrow? I don't think I see you tomorrow. I think I see you on Sunday. See me on Friday as you know. Wait, am I seeing you tomorrow? Let me see. I think I am. I'm not sure I'll double check, but Yeah, I'll see you next lesson and know if you can do the brochure before that. Thatbe good. Okay, thank you, Serena pabye, thank you.