Activity 19

a) What do you think the function is?
The purpose of this extract is to persuade. This extract implies that people all around the world spend so much money on little things. This also shows how people feel about something they really want.
B) When you read to the end of the text, what do you think the function is?
I think the function is still to persuade but it's also informing (Liberia). The extract describes the teenage girls as 'country's bloody civil war' to make the teenage girls sound desperate for a pair of fashionable shoes. The phrase 'explore the world' could suggest that people all around the world want their hands on these fashionable shoes.
C) Do you think it is effective? How would it achieve its purpose and for whom?
I think this extract is effective because it shows how teenage girls feel about certain things. The extract would achieve its purpose because it makes people think before they buy expensive stuff.

2). 
The purpose of this text is to inform. The use of short sentences suggests how important this extract is and how it gets straight to the point "stilettos...save up?...kill for them?...explore the world". The audience is educated, middle- class people who have money. You can see this from credit cards and expensive shoes from a high-class shop. The use of interrogative sentence structures makes the audience re-read the whole extract again. The use of the structure in this extract is effective because it's short and snappy and makes the audience carry on reading.