Activity: Effective and Ineffective Ads

Effective:

  • This ad has a smiling young woman.
  • In Bold and Capital white letters, “GO FURTHER WITH ENGLISH”, sub headed by “KAPLAN OPEN DOOR DAY” in a smaller clear font.
  • Letters are in white contrasting the blue background. Good transition between use of a picture and rest of the color.
  • It gives an informative date and time and location of the event.
  • attractive
  • Intended for English language learning students
  • Clear message
  • Good quality production

Ineffective ad:

  • Picture of advertisement is taking up the majority of space in regular size copy paper.
  • Image positioned toward the upper left siade corner.
  • Not enough info
  • Not direct  message. Icons don’t match worded “message”
  • Obvious fallacies

 

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