Estate Agency Details

Students read an estate agent's description of 'Crumply Manor': intending to sell the house, they have used inflated language. Students identify misleading words and phrases before writing a more realistic property description.

The task encourages students to examine how language can manipulate the reader by analysing the nuance of written expression. 

To allow students to practise writing persuasively, you could provide them with an image of a different property, boat, car, piece of art etc and ask them to market it appropriately.