Advertising, Leb Island

Over the past few weeks of school our theme in the English class has been Advertising, one of the more exciting topics that we deal with in english. Over the past 2 weeks we have been watching videos on advertising, discussing certain advertising techniques, analysing how some companies advertise, and comparing American and English humour. For the most of the class, watching the humorous advertising clips was the most enjoyable. We delved more into satire and sarcasm/irony than we ever did last year. We also had our speeches last week. These were quite enjoyable as each group found very humorous adverts and gave entertaining and insightful talks about what techniques were used in the ad, who/what was being advertised etc. More recently we started analysing short stories that contained either sensationalism, emotive language, or was written from a biast point of view.

The past 2 weeks of the english class has been a success in our eyes. We are sure that once the advertising theme has been complete there will be other enjoyable topics that we are going to delve into throughout the remainder of the year.

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