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SIAL Week 2
Introduction
Warm-up activity: 1 minute debates
- Aims: This lesson is designed to help with analysing your 5 relevant English language articles/resources (moodle assignment)
-Aims: Presentation for end of term
Lesson objectives: Writing a concise and objective summary as well as using relevant vocabulary in English.
SUMMARIES
TOPICS TO DISCUSS FOR 1 MINUTE
Animal rights
Brexit
Vegetarianism
Gilets Jaunes
Climate Change
Activity 1: Summary worksheets
Context:
- You work for a student newspaper and are in charge of the
science/research/technology section.
Tasks
- You have received the following six submissions but can only choose two.
- Create titles for your two chosen articles
- Promote the articles using a tweet (no more than 140 characters)
The Published Titles
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1) Pokémon Go’s short life span
2) Tweets get quality control
3) Lucy’s fatal fall
4) Centuries-old sharks
5) Bookworms live longer
6) How your dog understands you
Texts 3 and 4
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TASKS
- Identify reporting verbs
- Find expressions
DISCUSS
- Differences between French, American, and British quotation styles.
Resource: 'Reporting what others say'
GIST template
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- A strategy for summarising an article
- Create a 20 word summary
- Deleting trivial information and selecting key ideas
- What questions should you ask to get the gist of a story?
TASK: 'The science of a successful first date': Complete GIST template
Harvard Referencing
In text reference Example: (Mitchell and Thomson, 2017, p.12)
Bibliography Example:
Mitchell, J.A. and Thomson, M. (2017) A guide to citation.3rd edn. London: London Publishing.
NEWS
Online Activities
Moodle Key: GrHC1AN%05
Due Date: 9am 27th October
- Read the resources
- Practice exercises
1. TED talk summary
2. Summary of an article from MOODLE
3. Prepare 5 minute pitch for class (on chosen research topic)
Students will present/pitch their topic during in our next class on 27th October.