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Assessment Task 1 - Analysis of Different Text Types

The document analyzes five different text types: narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, and argumentative. It provides examples of each type of text and questions to analyze the key features of the text types. Learners are asked to select four of the five texts and answer questions about the grammatical features and characteristics that identify which text type each belongs to.

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Assessment Task 1 - Analysis of Different Text Types

The document analyzes five different text types: narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, and argumentative. It provides examples of each type of text and questions to analyze the key features of the text types. Learners are asked to select four of the five texts and answer questions about the grammatical features and characteristics that identify which text type each belongs to.

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ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT TEXT TYPES (NARRATIVE, EXPOSITORY, DESCRIPTIVE,

PERSUASIVE AND ARGUMENTATIVE)


Select FOUR out of five text types from the following and analyse the texts. Answer the
questions that follows based on the selected texts.
You are required to provide EXAMPLES from the text for Question 2 and Question 3 of each
text. NO MARKS will be awarded if examples are not provided.

TEXT 1
Read the following text and answer the questions.

Remember the scepticism last year when the United States banned most aerosol sprays

containing chlorofluorocarbons? People found it hard to believe that squirting deodorant

out of a can was jeopardizing the stratospheric ozone layer, which protects the earth from

excessive ultraviolet radiation. It was like finding out that eating candy causes earthquakes.

But now almost all experts agree that ozone-eating aerosol gases do indeed rise slowly

into the stratosphere, where sunlight breaks them down and releases chlorine that does in

fact erode the ozone layer. Even worse, the ozone seems to be eroding much faster than

originally believed. The threat has not been eliminated, only postponed, by the American
ban.

Adapted from “The Ozone” (Maccoun 1983)

Source: https://www.slideshare.net/KarRamoso/text-types

1. Which of the 5 text types does this text belong to?


_________________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)
2. Name TWO grammatical features that are in the text that allow you to say it belongs to a
particular text type?
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
3. Name TWO characteristic features of this text type.
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
TEXT 2
Read the following text and answer the questions.

There was once an old farmer who owned a very stubborn donkey. One evening, the
farmer was trying to put his donkey into its shed. The farmer pushed the donkey, but the
donkey would not move. Then the farmer pulled the donkey, but the donkey still would not
move ... as soon as the cat scratched the dog; the dog began to bark. The barking dog
frightened the donkey who jumped immediately into its shed.
Source: https://www.slideshare.net/KarRamoso/text-types

1. Which of the 5 text types does this text belong to?


_________________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)
2. Name TWO grammatical features that are in the text that allow you to say it belongs to a
particular text type?
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
3. Name TWO characteristic features of this text type.
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
TEXT 3
Read the following text and answer the questions.

“Our society needs to be informed about these crimes, but when the images of the young

killers are broadcast on television, they become role models. The average child in America

watches 27 hours of television a week. The average child gets more one-on-one

communication from TV than from all her parents and teachers combined. The ultimate

achievement for our children is to get their picture on TV. The solution is simple, and it

comes straight out of the sociology literature: The media have every right and responsibility

to tell the story, but they must be persuaded not to glorify the killers by presenting their

images on TV.”

Source: https://literarydevices.net/persuasive-essay/

1. Which of the 5 text types does this text belong to?


_________________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)
2. Name TWO grammatical features that are in the text that allow you to say it belongs to a
particular text type?
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
3. Name TWO characteristic features of this text type.
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
TEXT 4
Read the following text and answer the questions.

The gardens of Lowfield Hall are overgrown now and weeds push their way up through the

gravel of the drive. One of the drawing-room windows, broken by a village boy, has been

boarded up, and wisteria, killed by summer drought, hangs above the front door like an old

dried net. There are six bedrooms in Lowfield Hall, a drawing room, a dining room, a

morning room, three bathrooms, a kitchen, and what are known as usual offices. In this

case, the usual offices were the back kitchen and the gun room. On that April morning the

house wasn’t exactly dirty, but it wasn’t clean either. There was a bluish film on all the

thirty-three windows, and the film was decorated with fingerprints.


Adapted from Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone.

Source: https://www.slideshare.net/KarRamoso/text-types

1. Which of the 5 text types does this text belong to?


_________________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)
2. Name TWO grammatical features that are in the text that allow you to say it belongs to a
particular text type?
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
3. Name TWO characteristic features of this text type.
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
TEXT 5
Read the following text and answer the questions.

Speech production is made possible by the specialised movements of our vocal organs

that generate speech sounds waves.

Like all sound production, speech production requires a source of energy. The source of

energy for speech production is the steady stream of air that comes from the lungs as we

exhale. When we breathe normally, the air stream is inaudible. To become audible, the air

stream must vibrate rapidly. The vocal cords cause the air stream to vibrate.

As we talk, the vocal cords open and close rapidly, chopping up the steady air stream into

a series of puffs. These puffs are heard as a buzz. But this buzz is still not speech. To

produce speech sounds, the vocal tract must change shape. During speech we continually

alter the shape of the vocal tract by moving the tongue and lips, etc. These movements

change the acoustic properties of the vocal tract, which in turn produce the different sounds

of speech.
Adapted by Gerot & Wignell 1994 from Denes & Pinson 1963

Source: https://www.slideshare.net/KarRamoso/text-types

1. Which of the 5 text types does this text belong to?


_________________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)
2. Name TWO grammatical features that are in the text that allow you to say it belongs to a
particular text type?
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)
3. Name TWO characteristic features of this text type.
_________________________________________________________________________
(4 marks)

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