ENGL E101F W1 S1

Who is in the washroom?

What next?

When?

How long?

CA (Continuous Assessment) :OCAS

2 assignments: 40 %

Assignment 1: reading and writing

Assignment 2: reading, writing, listening and speaking

Examination: OES (60%)

2 hours

3 parts:

(I) Listening (II) Reading, proofreading and referencing (III) Writing (Patient Case Report)

Passing the course: Situation 1

OCAS: 40 or above

OES: 40 or above

Passing the course: Situation 2

OCAS: 39 to 31

OES: more than 40

CS (course score): 40 or above

Cap at 40

Passing the course: Fail Resit/ Fail Retake

OCAS pass, OES fail*:

*not lower than a certain score e.g. 26

Passing the course: Fail Resit/ Fail Retake

OCAS: lower than 31, OES: pass

OES lower than a certain score e.g. 25

Resit: fail

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

Nursing Content-based Unit

How is the use of English be regarded as effective?

1

What makes it ineffective?

2

Task 1

3

Effective Use of English I

Task 2

4

What is the problem?

5

How is the use of English be regarded as effective?

Any Suggestions?

What makes it ineffective?

Any suggestions?

Task 1

My English History teacher is the best.

Your teacher teaching English History?

Your History teacher who is English?

Task 2

My friends often visit us in their cars. They are very nice.

How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

What is the problem?

Effective or not? Why?

Ambiguity

Not effective

Created by reference

they, it

Course outcomes

Demonstrate knowledge of the basic functional and structural properties

of the English language

Word choice

Study

Word class

Structure

Function

Social purposes

Sentence patterns

Function: Study

Academic writing

• Summarising

• Paraphrasing

• Citation and referencing

Function: Study

Summarising

• Summarise the key ideas of an essay

• Usually in a much condensed way

Function: Study

Paraphrasing

• Present the ideas from a source in your own words

Function: Study

Citation and referencing

• Acknowledge the sources from which your ideas are taken

Function: Social purposes

• To communicate, to interact, to negotiate, to develop relationship

Structure: Word Choice

Structure: grammar

• General or discipline specific

• Appropriate contexts e.g. experts in the field or laymen

Structure: Word Choice

Specific

General

Examples:

Heart disease

vs

Cardiovascular disease

Doctors/ nurses to patients

Doctors to doctors/ doctors to nurses

Experts to laymen

Experts in the field

Structure: Word Class

i.e. Part of speech

• Nouns, Pronouns, Articles, Adjectives
• Verbs, Adverbs
• Prepositions & conjunctions

Structure: Sentence patterns

• Simple sentences
• Compound sentences
• Complex sentences
• Compound, complex sentences
• Cleft sentences

A simple grammar quiz: part of speech

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Examples

Question:

Do Hong Kong people like travelling?

Examples

Example 2

Which one is better? Why?

Example 1

Yes, they do. Hong Kong people like travelling. According to UNWTO, 87.6 million Hong Kong people travelled abroad in the first half of 2015 and they spent about USD23.6 billion on travelling, making Hong Kong the 4th largest outbound market in Asia and the 14th in the world.

In terms of what?

Yes, they do. Many people in Hong Kong spend their holidays overseas. They like going to Taiwan, Japan, Korea and European countries such as the UK, France and Italy. Sometimes they go with their families. Sometimes they travel alone.

Any suggestions?

Comments

Simple sentence pattern

Not clear/ precise enough

Example 1

Many people in Hong Kong spend their holidays overseas.

Many people in Hong Kong spend their holidays overseas.

They like going to Taiwan, Japan, Korea and European countries such as the UK, France and Italy.

How many is 'many'?

Yes, they do. Many people in Hong Kong spend their holidays overseas. They like going to Taiwan, Japan, Korea and European countries such as the UK, France and Italy. Sometimes they go with their families. Sometimes they travel alone.

Sometimes they go with their families. Sometimes they travel alone.

Any suggestions?

Comments

More complex sentences

Supported by facts and statistics

Clearer and more precise

Example 2

Compound sentence e.g.

87.6 million Hong Kong people travelled abroad in the first half of 2015 and they spent about USD23.6 billion on travelling ...

87.6 million Hong Kong people travelled abroad in the first half of 2015 and

they spent about USD23.6 billion on travelling...

87.6 million Hong Kong people travelled abroad in the first half of 2015 and

they spent about USD23.6 billion on travelling,

making Hong Kong the 4th largest outbound market in Asia and the 14th in the world.

Yes, they do. Hong Kong people like travelling. According to UNWTO, 87.6 million Hong Kong people travelled abroad in the first half of 2015 and they spent about USD23.6 billion on travelling, making Hong Kong the 4th largest outbound market in Asia and the 14th in the world.