ENGL E102F_9 Mar 2020

Warm up exercise

SIXTH

Serve

1. SIT (Ordinal number)

2. SEE (Shop assistants do it)

3. WAY (Very tired)

4. LAY (Tall and very thin)

5. CART (A vegetable)

Weary

Lanky

Carrot

Warm up exercise

Orange

Water

6. RAGE (A fruit)

7. WAR (It's good for the garden)

8. DAY (A short holdup)

9. EAT (It comes to everyone)

10. OR (Part of an apple)

Delay

Death

Core

Warm up exercise

11. RIPE (Helps you cook)

Recipe

Recap

After the Chinese New Year holiday,

Reports:

Format of a report

4 sections: Introduction, Method, Findings & Conclusion

Activity 2.3

Method:

collecting data through questionnaire

describing method

Recap

Writing your own report:

Prepare a plan

design a questionnaire

Recap

Academic essay

Scholarly references

Citation and referencing

Examination:

Oral exam:

Section A: presentation

Recap

Activities:

Reading comprehension (2)

Proofreading practice (1)

Assignment 2

• Due date: 3 April 2020, Week 11
• Weighting: 20% of the total course score
• Submission via OLE

Assignment 2

Topic: Robots

What type of robot?

Benefits

What benefits?

potential problems

What problems?

Assignment 2

What is your role?

Who are your audiences?

What are you expected to talk about?

Assignment 2

Have you watched the two video clips?

1. China restaurant introduces robot waiters

• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-30460737/china-restaurant-introduces-robot-waiters

2. The robot that paints your nails

• https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-30576909/the-robot-that-paints-your-nails

What are they about?

Assignment 2

Have you read the article entitled "The year in robots: 10 home robots to lighten your domestic chores"?

Does this article talk about the benefits or problems or both?

Assignment 2

• What does it mean by tone and style?

Let us sum the important ideas up to see how we are going to prepare the speech which will last for 5 minutes.

Assignment 2

You are going to

• talk about Robots, those who help in our daily life e.g. being waitresses or painting our finger nails.

• discuss the benefits and potential problems.

• present your views with support.

Assignment 2

Your role: a first year graduate

Your audiences: your classmates who are with the same level as you

What is the implication?

Assignment 2

Tone and style:

• joking tone, formal tone (academic tone), informal tone, etc

What should the tone and style be?

5 minutes:

• 4 minutes 30 seconds to 5 minutes 30 seconds
• definitely no more than 6 minutes

Assignment 2

Any questions

Next time I will talk about how to make a speech.

Have you ever heard of a movie called 'iRobot'?

Assignment 2

'iRobot'

It was a 2004 American science fiction action film.

The plot:

In 2035 Chicago, human-like robots serve the community but Del Spooner, a police detective, hated and distrusted them.

Assignment 2

Spooner had an accident and was repaired by Dr Alfred Lanning, a co-founder of USR (U.S. Robotics).

When Lanning fell to his death one day, the CEO and other co-founder of USR,

declared it a suicide. But Spooner was skeptical. Later he was attacked by an NS-5 robot, USR's latest model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6RRIOZyCM

Writing your own report

Method:

Quantitative approach

Data collected through questionnaire

Describing method

Typical phrases introduced in the ppt for week 7 session 2

Method

66,200 valid questionnaires were returned.

Examples in Activity 2.2

• A questionnaire was designed and piloted with a test group.
• The questionnaire was revised and distributed to 78,666 randomly selected respondents, and 66,200 questionnaires were returned correctly completed.

a targeted group

Method

Examples (illegally copied CD)

Between 1 May and 30 June 1998, a questionnaire was designed, piloted on a test group and then distributed by mail to 2,000 randomly selected members of the public. The return rate was 74%, with 1,475 questionnaires returned.

The returned questionnaires were then analysed by computer to categorize responses and to obtain graphical displays of data.

Method

This study adopted a quantitative approach.

The subjects/informants/respondents were members of Group 2 taking the Effective Use of English II.

Questionnaires to be completed

Questionnaires to be completed

Questionnaires to be completed

Method: Analysing Data and presenting findings

After designing the questionnaire, you

• may try it on a test group.
• can distribute it to a targeted group or randomly.

After all the questionnaires have been returned,

• the easiest way: input the answers into an excel file or other analysing software such as SPSS

Method: Presenting findings

Obtain graphical displays e.g. pie charts, bar charts, etc

Example

Method: Presenting findings

When we present findings, we need to pay attention to:

The use of language of approximation

Appropriate tense and voice

Method: Presenting findings

Example:

Method: Presenting findings

Example:

91% of the respondents thought that the government should not set up laws to restrict people from using their phones when crossing the road.

Only 9% of the informants agreed that the government should do so.

Overall result

The majority of the respondents believed that ... / The majority (91%) of the respondents said that ...

Method: Presenting findings

Comparison between the two genders

Statistics showed that male respondents (12%) tended to favour law enforcement more than their female counterparts (0%)

Method: Presenting findings

Points to bear in mind

Tense:

The 'findings' section reports on the specific research results. These results became known at a particular time in the past, so the simple past tense is used.

Method: Presenting findings

However, the simple present tense is used for the discussion of these findings.

Compare and contrast

Compare: similarity

Contrast: difference

While, whereas, whilst, the same as, as (not as) ... as, likewise, on the contrary, etc

Practice: Presenting findings

Practice: Presenting findings

Try to describe the above findings related to whether advertisement will help to improve the situation of people using mobile phones when crossing the road.

You will have 5 minutes to complete the tasks. Then upload the practice to the OLE under the topic 'Findings'.

Grammar activities

Tense:

• How are you going to do it? What are the essential clues?
• Draw a time line to help yourself.
• Or use the following table to help you.

Grammar activities

Grammar activities

In other words, the correct order should be:

• Before an action in the past
• The past
• Between the past and the present
• The present
• Between the present and the future
• The future
• After the future

Grammar activities

Try to allocate each of the seven statements (a-g) to each of the blocks on the diagram.

Grammar activities

The answers

• We lived in Manchester for a while before we moved to Bradford.
• We lived in Bradford for 5 years.
• We were going to move to London in 1983 but my job there fell through.
• We live in Wigan.

Grammar activities

• By the time we move to Liverpool, we'll have spent 3 years in Wigan.
• We're going to live in Liverpool.
• After we've lived in Liverpool for a few years, we'll move back to Wigan.

• g d e c f a b

Confusing words

First of all, let's look at these groups of confusing words.

• specially vs especially
• possibility vs opportunity
• room vs space
• shadow vs shade
• eventually vs possibly

Confusing words

We will look at the meanings of these words

Then the answer of each of them will be provided.

Confusing words

specially vs especially

• If something has been done specially for a particular person or purpose, it has been done only for that person or purpose.

• You use especially to emphasize that what you are saying applies more to one person, thing, or area than to any others.

specially

Did you know that Peter had arranged the party _____________ for you?

Confusing words

possibility vs opportunity

• If you say there is a possibility that something is the case or that something will happen, you mean that it might be the case or it might happen.

• An opportunity is a situation in which it is possible for you to do something that you want to do.

possibility

There is a very strong ______________ that man will land on the planet Mars before the year 2000.

Confusing words

room vs space

• If there is room somewhere, there is enough empty space there for people or things to be fitted in, or for people to move freely or do what they want to.

• You use space to refer to an area that is empty or available. The area can be any size. For example, you can refer to a large area outside as a large open space or to a small area between two objects as a small space.

room

I'm afraid the boot is full. There is no __________ for any more suitcases.

Confusing words

shadow vs shade

• A shadow is a dark shape on a surface that is made when something stands between a light and the surface.

• Shade is an area of darkness under or next to an object such as a tree, where sunlight does not reach.

shade

It's much too hot. Let's go and sit in the ____________ for a while.

Confusing words

eventually vs possibly

• Eventually means in the end, especially after a lot of delays, problems, or arguments.

• You use possibly to indicate that you are not sure whether something is true or might happen.

possibly

I'll see you next week - ___________ on Friday.