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Language Power Analysis

Read the original persuasive text below. Then investigate how its language choices may influence an audience. Use evidence from the text in your answers.

The orchard needs your help

Evie and Cooper help at a family fruit orchard. They have written this speech to persuade local families to buy fruit from the orchard’s weekend stall.

Our orchard is more than a place to grow apples; it is a place where care, patience and community come together. Each morning, we check the trees, pick fruit at its ripest and pack every box by hand. Why choose fruit that has travelled a long way when fresh, local apples are waiting here? When you buy from our stall, you support local growers and enjoy fruit picked just days ago. Every apple matters. Every visit matters. Join us this Saturday, bring a friend and taste the difference for yourself. Together, we can keep this little orchard thriving.

Investigate the language

Answer using details from the speech. For questions asking you to explain an effect, describe how the language might influence the intended audience.

1.Which audience is the speech mainly trying to persuade?

Local families who might visit the weekend stall
People applying for orchard jobs
Fruit growers in another country
Students choosing a school subject

2.In “we check the trees” and “Join us this Saturday”, which language feature helps the speakers sound connected to the audience?

3.“Why choose fruit that has travelled a long way when fresh, local apples are waiting here?” Identify the persuasive technique and explain its likely effect.

4.The words “care, patience and community” are positive values. What impression do they create of the orchard?

5.True or false? The repeated sentence openings “Every apple matters. Every visit matters.” use repetition to emphasise that each purchase and visit is important.

TrueFalse

6.In the sentence “When you buy from our stall, you support local growers and enjoy fruit picked just days ago”, copy the subordinate clause.

7.What is the main clause in that sentence, and how does the subordinate clause help the meaning?

8.Identify one call to action in the speech. What does it ask the audience to do?

9.Write a short persuasive paragraph inviting local families to visit the orchard stall. Use at least three techniques, such as inclusive pronouns, emotive language, repetition, a rhetorical question or a call to action.