Rat o' burger!

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Patrick Garrett
Rat o' burger letter of complaint resource
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Writing for purpose and audience: Arguments and persuasive texts
Resource type
Worksheet

'There's a rat in my burger!' Students read and annotate this letter of complaint to identify the persuasive techniques and consider the effect of these from this particularly emotive customer.

Student then plan and write a persuasive placatory response from the restaurant in an appropriate formal style.

An example task from the resource: 

Task 1

Label as many of the following persuasive techniques as possible, like the one that’s been done for you already:

  • list of three
  • use of personal pronoun ‘I’
  • imagery
  • guilt
  • statistics
  • repetition for effect
  • rhetorical question
  • emotive language
  • politeness
  • something that stands out.

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A "complaint letter" full of lazy and offensive stereotypes. This should be removed from Teachit.

Lisa Johnson

13/03/2022

Response from Teachit editor
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment about this resource. We've now updated it.
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27/04/2020

I use for this GCSE writing to argu/persuade. My students love it.

15/09/2019

An extremely useful resource. I used it to set cover.

Michelle Walsh

12/09/2013

1
A "complaint letter" full of lazy and offensive stereotypes. This should be removed from Teachit.

Lisa Johnson

13/03/2022

Response from Teachit editor
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment about this resource. We've now updated it.
5

27/04/2020

I use for this GCSE writing to argu/persuade. My students love it.

15/09/2019

An extremely useful resource. I used it to set cover.

Michelle Walsh

12/09/2013

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