Your Guide To Beach Safety

Question 1

What type of text is this?

Answer 1

An information text

Question 2

Describe the font

Answer 2

It is distressed font so it looks like sand

Question 3

What does the logo do?

Answer 3

-Proves that the leaflet is from a real company which is called the RNLI

Question 4

What does the national beach safety council stamp do?

Answer 4

• Shows that the information contained in the leaflet is reliable as it has been approved by the Notional Beach Safety Council company
• Appeal to expertise

Question 5

What effect does “Your guide to a safe and fun time at the seaside” give?

Answer 5

As it is in the second person, it directly addresses the readers

Question 6

What is the purpose of having an RNLI coastguard in the back of the photo on the front cover?

Answer 6

It is to show that the coast guards are operating both literally and metaphorically - always there to keep people safe

Question 7

What is the purpose of the yellow box on the back cover of the leaflet?

Answer 7

To provide key information

Question 8

Why are there details at the bottom of the back page of the leaflet, such as the RNLI’s email?

Answer 8

To provide contact details for situations which are not an emergency

Question 9

What is “RNLI lifeboats, lifeguards, life first.”?

Answer 9

The company’s slogan

Question 10

What does the red background symbolise?

Answer 10

Danger and it suggests that the connection between red and danger has already been culturally decided.

Question 11

“Caroline Yard will never forget”

Answer 11

Definite future tense

Question 12

“Relaxing on the beach with my daughter…”

Answer 12

Personal anecdote/account in the first person

Question 13

What does the first paragraph of the true story do?

Answer 13

Foreground the danger

Question 14

“Swept towards some rocks”

Answer 14

Conventional metaphor

Question 15

“The water was like a whirlpool”

Answer 15

Simile

Question 16

“Mark and a surfer called Mike…boys are going to drown”

Answer 16

Modelling good practise to the reader and showing how important lifeguards are.

Question 17

“It seems to take a lifetime”

Answer 17

Hyperbole

Question 18

“Bernadette”

Answer 18

Personalisation

Question 19

“When you think your boys are going to drown”

Answer 19

In second person to address and involved reader

Question 20

“Shaking with shock”

Answer 20

Sibilance

Question 21

“I’ll certainly always go to a lifeguard-patrolled beach in future, and I know the boys will too”

Answer 21

Definite future tense

Question 22

What is the “Rips” yellow box?

Answer 22

An instruction text

Question 23

What does the warning sign so?

Answer 23

Represents action

Question 24

“Don’t panic”

Answer 24

Contractions are informal language to narrow gap between reader and writer

Question 25

“Keep”“Raise”“Never”“Swim”

Answer 25

Imperatives

Question 26

“999”“112”

Answer 26

Key numbers are in bold font

Question 27

What is the purpose of the bullet points?

Answer 27

To make the text easier to read at a glance

Question 28

Why are the diagrams and the captions in an informal style (e.g tape on corner of diagrams)

Answer 28

To make it easier to relate to them, but the diagrams are there to instruct.

Question 29

The headings

Answer 29

These are in distressed font

Question 30

The flag diagrams

Answer 30

Make sure readers know what to look out for and are colourful so they attract the eye of readers

Question 31

Descriptions about flags

Answer 31

Short, simple sentences there to inform readers about the meaning of each flag

Question 32

“Danger!”

Answer 32

Imperative

Question 33

Key information blue box

Answer 33

Repeated at the bottom of most pages throughout the leaflet

Question 34

“One of the best all-round activities you can do”

Answer 34

An opinion with a second person tone which is not too scary

Question 35

“Most fantastic”“great start”

Answer 35

Opinions

Question 36

“You’re”

Answer 36

Contractions are informal

Question 37

“Follow”“check” etc

Answer 37

Imperatives that get to theorist and display rules and guidelines boarders should follow

Question 38

Bullet points

Answer 38

The use of bullet points creates an easy to understand list full of information but in a small space

Question 39

Blue box

Answer 39

Gives key information and tips

Question 40

What style of writing is the leaflet

Answer 40

Starts of informing but ends with persuasive writing

Question 41

Use of statistics

Answer 41

“230 lifeboats” etc - makes the RNLI seem good at what they do

Question 42

“Funded by you”“lifesaving advice and information”“ordinary peripheral, extraordinary acts” sections

Answer 42

Makes people feel inclined to help and text is more formal, but is opinionated.

Question 43

“Seamless rescue service”

Answer 43

Fully in control

Question 44

“When someone is drowning”

Answer 44

Emotive

Question 45

“They look out for potential problems before they develop into something worse”

Answer 45

Reverse slippery slope is used

Question 46

“Will you help us meet that need?”

Answer 46

Rhetorical question

Question 47

“Phone…”

Answer 47

Imperative

Question 48

Bottom of red box has a bigger version of the RNLI slogan.

Answer 48

• Stresses that what they do is not eye-catching as they rescue people in danger first
• Emotive language of slogan is a persuasive technique along with slippery slop