Lesson 13 – What’s The Big Issue?

By the end of the lesson...

ALL of you will be able to select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2MOST of you will be able to identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2SOME of you will be able to identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.

Read pages 61 – 69. Using quotations where relevant, answer the following questions...

1. Why is Link worried about Ginger? (p.85)2. Link asks a Big Issue vendor about Ginger. What information does

he give him? (p.86)3. Who does Link meet in an 'all - night joint,' and what does she

suggest might have happened to Ginger? (p.88)4. Why do you think that Link decides 'Don't let anybody close?'

(p.88)5. Describe the unusual appearance of the 'dosser' that walks into

the café . (p.89)6. What excuse does Link give for wanting to leave? What is the real

reason that he wants to leave? (p.91)7. Give two reasons why Link decides to stay (p.91)

Now create your own...

• Who reads The Big Issue? (Be specific)• What types of stories would you expect in the Big

Issue?• How would you convince someone to buy The Big

Issue?• Who would you put on the front cover?

Once you have thought through the questions above, begin planning your front cover.

Are you able to...

...select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2...identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2...identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.

If you were selling The Big Issue,

what would you say to convince

someone to buy a copy?

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