Learning activity 3
Evidence: Getting the hidden message Look at the following advertisements and answer the questions:
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Questions
Answers
What is being advertised?
A cleaning product called PONDS
Why is a different color used in the product’s name?
Cause it's easier to notice the name and to remember it
What hidden messages does the ad seem to have?
These kind of activities are just for women of the third age.
Does the advertisement use emotional appeal? If yes, how? If no, how could it?
Yes, it does. This product tries to convince me that
if I buy the product I will have less problems in my life, It was improving and vere mas youth
Is product’s description honest? Why or why not?
I don't think so, because this description doesn't show me how the product works, neither some proofs about its accomplishment
What do you think or conclude about the ad?
The target of this ad is, mainly, housewifes and it doesn't encourage me to buy that product.
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Questions What is being advertised? Why is a different color used in the product’s
Answers the mineral cream called Ponds shines
name?
What hidden messages does the ad seem to have?
Does the advertisement use emotional appeal? If yes, how? If no, how could it?
'Cause it's easier to notice its name and remember it if you apply your cream you will have a healthier skin
Yes, I do. This ad makes me think I’m not going to have a healthy life while I apply "Ponds"
Is product’s description honest? Why or why not?
No, it’s not. Studies show that mineral cream is just... biotin.
What do you think or conclude about the ad?
This ad truly touches people's selfsteem, talking about Samanta life.
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