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Functional Texts... So what are they and how do I know if I am reading one? Well, let's check out this site that will breakdown for us the different types of texts and what their purposes are.

This Power Point Presentation will tell us even more information about functional texts. Look and listen for the definintion, examples, and real life day to day uses!



Advertisements are a public announcement. Through mass communication, it's message can be delivered in many different ways such as through the radio, television, Internet, or in newspapers or magazines. The advertisement provides information and is promoting something which is being sold. Products, services, and ideas are all things that can be promoted and advertised.

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E-mail, also known as electronic mail is a way of exchanging messages to one or more people. It is similar to a letter, however, it is delivered digitally through the Internet. E-mail servers can deliver, accept, forward, and store messages. Text, photos, music, and even video clips can all be sent through e-mail.

A website is a collection of webpages that can contain text, images, video, and audio. The webpages can be accessed by the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or web address. The webpages are are hyper linked (or linked) together so that the reader can easily navigate and "turn the pages" within that one website. Links can also take the browsers to other related websites as well. Some examples of different websites are...
 * 1) Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
 * 2) Informational Websites (Wikipedia, weather, other news related sites)
 * 3) Personal Sites (Blogs, Wikis)
 * 4) Company Websites (To promote their goods and/or services)
 * 5) Online Shopping (Ebay, Amazon)
 * 6) Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter)

A recipe is a set of instructions that describe how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish. (Wikipedia)

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<span style="color: #0029ff; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 24px;">Yellow pages refers to a telephone directory of businesses, organized by category, rather than alphabetically by business name and in which advertising is sold. (Wikipedia)

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