Analysing persuasive text

Lesson Resources

7 Resources included

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  • Pdf & Word DOC: Student Worksheets - Analysing persuasive texts

    Student Worksheets that invite students to analyse the persuasive techniques used in World War propaganda posters.

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  • Slides: Analysing persuasive texts

    Slides that help students to revise persuasive writing techniques and also provide information and images about propaganda that was used during the World Wars.

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  • Video: Hitler assumes command (3mins)

    Cleverly edited montage footage taken from German propaganda films, including Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph Des Willens, which shows Hitler and his marching Soldiers of the Reich, synchronised to the tune of 'The Lambeth Walk'.

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  • Video: Special Invasion (7mins)

    This includes commentary over actual footage of aerial attacks on Hitler's West Wall coastal defences before and after D-Day. Dramatic scenes include the shooting down of a Luftwaffe plane, the destruction of coastal defences, carpet-bombing and allied weapons and other supplies being brought ashore by tanks and trucks. The end sequence features shots of Admiral Ramsey (in charge Naval Operations) on deck, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, General Montgomery, General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill.

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  • Video: Salvage with a smile (7mins)

    A serious appeal in light form to housewives to save paper, bones and metal which can provide the raw material for tanks, battleships and guns etc.

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  • Video: London can take it - Part a

    In this film an American journalist, Quentin Reynolds, pays tribute to London and conveys the spirit and atmosphere of the 1940 blitz on the capital. Its impact at the time, especially in U.S.A., makes it historically one of the most important of the war films. It was used to boost morale and to promote a common purpose and sense of survival.

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  • Video: London can take it - Part b

    In this film an American journalist, Quentin Reynolds, pays tribute to London and conveys the spirit and atmosphere of the 1940 blitz on the capital. Its impact at the time, especially in U.S.A., makes it historically one of the most important of the war films. It was used to boost morale and to promote a common purpose and sense of survival.

    Windows Media / Quicktime Preview