Text types

Question 1

Travel guide

Answer 1

Factual
Instructions (spatial deixis)
High tellability

Question 2

Tour guide

Answer 2

Engaging storyteller
Knowledge of tour area
Video/ written/ spoken mode
Spatial deixis
Graphological
Concrete nouns

Question 3

Memoir

Answer 3

First person narrative
Steps out of narrative
High level of tellability
storytelling instead of chronology

Question 4

News text

Answer 4

Factual/ Formal
Un-opinionated
Past tense

Question 5

Historical text

Answer 5

Temporal deixis

Past tense

Question 6

Blogs

Answer 6

text producer- traveller, blogger
Implied audience- people interested in the topic being discussed
Informal, colloquial, pictures/ iconic signs/ graphological, spatial deixis, first person pronouns

Question 7

Web forums

Answer 7

text producer- people on the internet, people who want to find out information about the topic
Implied audience- people who hold information about the topic, people interested in the topic
Informal colloquial language, interrogatives (?), imperatives

Question 8

Opinion piece

Answer 8

informal- persuasive language techniques