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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

1

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

2

TASKS

- Identify reporting verbs

- Find expressions

DISCUSS

- Differences between French, American, and British quotation styles.

Resource: 'Reporting what others say'

GIST template

3

- 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.

EVENTS

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