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Skillswise lesson plan
   
   
Many thanks to tutor Sue Nicholson from Ipswich who sent this plan in to us.

Emotive words and alternatives
Session:  Week No: 
Date:  Time: 3 hours
Curriculum reference/s: Rw/L1.1, Rw/L1.2, Rw/L1.3
Aim: introduce emotive language, revise file managment (ICT)
Objectives: discuss emotive language, work through exercises on disk and use thesaurus to find different words, analyse a piece of emotive writing. Write emotively
Outcomes:  By the end of the session learners will be able to load text from floppy disk and transfer to hard disk/ other floppy disk; use the thesaurus in Word to select words of the same meaning; recognise emotive language and write in an emotive way.

Time
Topic
Teacher activity
Learner activity
Materials
0:00-0:05
 		 Intro
 		 Meet and Greet Introduce topic
 
 
 
0:05-0:30
 		 Discussion
 		 Lead group discussion of what is meant by emotive language
 		 Contribute words and ideas, take notes
 		 Flipchart, notebooks
 
0:30-1:30
 		 Wordprocessing
 		 Explain tasks. Revise File management
 		 Copy exercises to own floppy disk Complete emotive exercises inc analyse text
 		 Floppy disks, worksheets, projector
 
1:30-1:45
 		 Tea break
 
 
 
 
1:45-2:45
 		 Wordprocessing
 		 Individual support as needed.
Demonstrate new topics - working on tables.
Format table.
 		 Work on tasks.
Use thesaurus to complete table with emotive words.
Format table.
 		 Floppy disks, worksheets, projector
 
2:45-3:00
 		 Close
 		 Review
Evaluation
Close
 		 Complete & file tasks
Pack away
 
 

Lesson Notes: 
Open the worksheet associated with this lesson plan. Open the Word table then use the thesaurus in Word (Shift F7) to look up the main word to find a slightly less emotive and then a neutral one that can be used instead. Save and print the table and format if formatting skills are needed. Can also be sorted alphabetically.
Extension activities
Take one news feature from today's paper and compare the way it is reported in different papers.
Analyse for emotive writing.
Do this by looking up articles on-line.
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