Butterflies

By Patrica Grace

What type of language is used in this text?

i think shes form  a foreign country because her English is  not very good. 

What is this text about, how do you know?

Its about butterflies and the grandparents think that the butterflies are bad because they eat all their veges in the garden, and the teacher thinks that they are good because the look pretty. The Grand parents told the little girl that the teacher must buy here veges because otherwise she would know how bad the butterflies are.

What does the author want us to know?

How are the characters constructed in the text?

What kinds of social realities does the text portray? 

These are some new words we have learnt in English.

Agenda list of items or a given perspective.

Authority someone who is an authority on something
Knows a lot about it.

Bias someone who favours one person or thing unfairly.

Credible is someone or something is credible you can believe it.

Manipulate to influence or control people or events.

Perspective a particular way of looking at something.

Reliable a person or thing that can be trusted to do what  you want.

Source the person place or thing that something comes from.

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