ESOL Rt/E3.2a Distinguish between different purposes of texts at this level

Understand and distinguish the different purposes of texts at this level (i) Identify the purpose of the writer, e.g. to inform, to sell something, to request action, to tell a story, to instruct, to persuade, to make contact (ii) Realise that different texts will have different features of register, depending on genre, purpose, audience, and intended outcome, e.g. use of third person and formulaic language in formal letters; use of colloquial expressions in posters and advertisements (iii) Increase awareness of how lexis varies according to register (iv) Understand that information or purpose may not always be stated overtly and that the reader may need to infer meaning (v) Begin to notice how the connotation of different words and phrases can add to implied meaning, e.g. ‘a gang of teenagers' as opposed to ‘a group' (vi) Know that the organisation and ordering of information may vary in different cultures, and that this may affect understanding of purpose, e.g. in some cultures it would be considered rude to state the purpose of writing at the beginning of a formal letter