Sun vampires: Magazine article about the dangers of sunbeds
This popular magazine article about the dangers of sunbeds, from The Big Issue, is accompanied by a detailed set of reading comprehension questions and suggested answers, which you can find here: Sun vampires: Possible questions and commentary style answers.
It's a useful way to explore audience, purpose and style to develop students' understanding for GCSE English Language, and anticipates some of the analysis and close reading skills students need in the exam.
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I used this as a set of questions to enable readers to see which facets they are looking for in a media text. It is good for highlighting bias.
24/02/2014
Excellent resource for use with middle to more able GCSE groups. Rich in terms of exploring fact and opinion, bias, style and tone, use of language
18/05/2013