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__**Resource 1** __ **YouTube clip - "Don't Stop It, Swap It!"** media type="youtube" key="FG8IAxHqtFo" height="346" width="616" align="center"

**Explanation of resource**

This resource is a campaign advertisement released by the Australian Government. It is simple and easy to watch without it touching on issues of sensitivity. The advertisement provides tips, guidelines and suggestions for swapping bad healthy choices into good in our lives. It aims to guide and encourage people to foster and lead a healthy lifestyle.

**Relevance to the PDHPE outcome**

This advertisement could be used in providing students with a //general// idea of what is expected of them at the end of the unit. It could be a good starting point at the beginning and also near the end of the unit to scaffold students into making a multimodal text; in this case, a video advertisement to promote wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle.

The resource covers the PDHPE Stage 2 outcomes for Personal Healthy Choices to an extent: //PHS2.12// //Discusses the factors influencing personal health choices// (Board of Studies, 2006, p.32). It provides information on making the right decisions, having a balanced eating habits and the prevention of diseases that might occur due to a person’s unhealthy lifestyle.

**Aspect of literacy to be explored** This campaign advertisement has used a wide range of strategies to persuade and engage with its audience members. Using this resource, students can start to learn and explore key visual literacy features of the advertisement, as well as language such as a catchy slogan and repetition to reinforce the message. Visual literacy can be explored by studying the salience, vector lines and colour saturation of a particular part of the video (Callow, 2006). Moreover, it is intended that this resource equips students with ideas about how to write an exposition using persuasive language; how they translate the confident and convincing tone of voice in the video to a silent written voice in an exposition.