Week 2 Session 1

Activity 6 (P.8)

Watch the news clip regarding speed dating produced by CBS and answer the questions that follow.

1. How does 8-minute dating work?

8-minute dating allows people to sign up and meet at least eight people, each for eight minutes in their towns for romance, friendship or business.

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2. How much does 8-minute dating cost? What does it include?

It normally costs $30-40 for a night and it sometimes includes food, drinks and special things at the venue.

3. According to Dave, what are the advantages of 8-minute dating?

8-minute dating allows participants to actually meet people and get the chemistry feel for them. Also, the anonymous nature reduces the rejection factor.

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4. What happens after the first date is over?

Participants then go to the 8-minute dating website and enter the code numbers of the people they want to see again. The computer would email contact information if matches are found.

5. What does Lisa like about Mark? (Part i)

Lisa thinks that Mark has a great personality. He is very bubbly, very outgoing and great to talk to.

Cheerful and lively

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5. What does she mean when she says 'the sparkle in his eye when he looked at me'? (Part ii)

When Lisa says, 'the sparkle in his eye when he looked at me', she's referring to how Mark was attracted by her.

6. How did Mark break the ice to start a conversation with Lisa? Did it work?

Mark broke the ice by telling Lisa how beautiful she looked. It worked.

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7. What are Lisa's comments about 8-minute dating?

Lisa is positive about 8-minute dating and thinks that it is something that she would try again. She finds it great to meet the person and see if there's chemistry first before going further.

Activity 3

How did Lisa describe Mark?

Bubbly and outgoing

Being bubbly and outgoing: two qualities of Mark

Do you know any other qualities?

Activity 3 (P.6)

Activity 3 Answers

1. independence

2. looks

3. optimism

4. conversational skills/communicative skills

5. sociability

6. intelligence

7. passion

8. sense of humour

9. ambition

10. confidence

Assignment 2 English Learning Portfolio

Teacher-marked short writing task 1 (P. 18)

Choose two qualities you have discussed in Activity 3 and explain why men/women would look for these two qualities in a woman/man. (about 300 words)

Template

Header: name, group & student no.

Main body: Short writing task 1: draft + the question

Footer: page no.

Font and size: Times New Roman and 12

Spacing: 1.5

Assignment 2 English Learning Portfolio

Submit the soft copy (nyluk@ouhk.edu.hk) by Monday, 17 September or the latest Wednesday, 19 September

Will prepare hard copies for proofreading practice

Quiz 1: Result and Implications

• Meander, blue, grin
• Meander from noun to verb
• Blue from adjective to noun
• Grin from verb to noun

• Under
• Under the table (preposition)
• Go under the fence (adverb)

Quiz 1: result and implications

1. How well the words are learned.

2. How good your performance in proofreading will be.

3. A signal for brushing up your English.

Proofreading practice

Activity 7 (P. 9) Part I

There is one grammatical mistake on every line. Identify and correct the mistakes.

Proofreading practice

Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system its purpose is to ...

There are two verbs. That means there must be two clauses.

But no conjunction is found.

Does it mean that we insert 'and' between 'system' and 'its'?

How about putting a full stop (.) after 'system'?

Proofreading

What are they?

Art. Part of Sp. Pron.

Plural N. S/V Ag. Verb Const.

Aux. Verb Prep. Wh-word

Proofreading

Therefore, both options are not possible.

Remember:

Correct the mistakes without changing the punctuation.

Do not make unnecessary changes.

Example: replacing a lexical item with another

Almost all of them are related to part of speech.

Proofreading

Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system its purpose is to ...

Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to ...

Pronoun

Part of speech/ word class

The part a word plays in a sentence

John will come to see us soon.

What is the part of speech of each word?

John will come to see us soon.

Pronoun

Adverb

Noun

Verb: finite

Verb:

non-finite

Part of speech/ word class

Eight parts

Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Articles

Verbs Adverbs

Conjunctions

Prepositions

May also include:

interjection or exclamation

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Nouns

Common nouns e.g. book

Proper nouns e.g. Hong Kong

Abstract nouns e.g. love

Collective nouns e.g. a herd

Pronouns

Subject pronouns e.g. They

Object pronouns e.g. them

Possessive adjectives e.g. their

Possessive pronouns e.g. theirs

Reflexive/ emphatic pronouns e.g. themselves

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Articles

Indefinite articles e.g. a, an

Definite articles e.g. the

Adjectives

tall, beautiful

comparatives e.g. taller, more beautiful

superlatives e.g. the tallest, the most beautiful

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Verbs

Finite verbs e.g. They have gone swimming.

Tense and aspect, Voice

Non-finite verbs e.g. Gerund, Infinitives, Participles

Gerund (verbal noun) e.g.

They have gone swimming.

Infinitives e.g.

I want to go swimming too. Please let me go with them.

Participles e.g. the running water, the broken chair.

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Adverbs

slowly, fast

Comparatives e.g. more slowly, faster

Superlatives e.g. the most slowly, the fastest

Prepositions

Place e.g. in a room

Time e.g. at six

Location e.g. under the water

Phrasal verbs (verbs + prepositions) e.g. look into

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions e.g. and, but

Subordinating conjunctions e.g. when, because

Related patterns

Phrases

Noun phrases e.g. the head of the family

Adjective phrases e.g. with brown hair

Adverbial phrases e.g. the day after tomorrow

Prepositional phrases e.g. in the morning, by the river

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Related patterns

Clauses

Noun clauses

He told me that you won the writing competition.

Adjective clauses

The girl who is standing there is a cousin of mine.

Donald Trump, who is a billionaire, has become the President of the USA.

Compare:

The news that he will move to New York is rather shocking.

The news that arrived this morning is rather shocking.

Brief introduction on each part of speech

Adverb clauses

People like to go hiking when it is cool. (time)

Although he is fat, he runs very fast. (concession)

He stood up so that he could see more clearly. (purpose)

Reason, condition, place, results, etc

Word formation

Process

Borrowing e.g. ballet

Coinage e.g. sandwich

shortening e.g. JUPAS, flu, brunch, edit

Compounding e.g. pickpocket, fire-engine

Conversion e.g. attack (v) to attack (n)

Derivation e.g. dishonest (dis + honest), treatment (treat + ment)

Word formation

Conversion and derivation

Conversion: from one part of speech to another part of speech without changing the form and pronunciation e.g. fax, love

Derivation: add prefix e.g. unhappy or suffix e.g. careful, distribution

Therefore, endings often tell us which part of speech the word belongs to.

Word formation

Some examples

Adverbs

careful(ly), quick(ly), happ(ily)

Except: silly, friendly, etc

Nouns

relat(ion), dictat(ion)

complete(ness), happi(ness)

local(ity), real(ity)

friend(ship), hard(ship)

child(hood), brother(hood)

develop(ment), govern(ment)

Others: confiden(ce), proficien(cy)

Word formation

Some examples

Verbs

(en)joy, fast(en), loos(en), (en)sure, (en)danger

beauti(fy), satis(fy)

Adjectives

help(ful), use(ful)

help(less), use(less)

chingl(ish), fool(ish)

angr(y), hungr(y)

danger(ous), conscienti(ous)

comfort(able), un(able)

Presentation

• Work in groups
• Do some reading and research and present what you have found in class
• Duration: not more than 10 minutes
• Present with ppt
• Worksheets can be distributed
• Week 9

Practice

In about 60 words, write a summary on 'What is Academic Writing?'.

What are they?

Summarising

To state briefly the main points or ideas

Paraphrasing

To present the ideas in your own words

Points to remember

Paraphrasing

The text may not be shortened

Summarising

Avoid adding your own opinions

How to do it?

Main ideas

Underline

Delete

Details and examples

Main ideas, use shorter or more concise words, synonyms

Rewrite and

rearrange

Words and/or sentences for coherence

Activities

Unit 4 Activity 6 (P.47)

Which one is a summary, which one is a paraphrase and which one is the original text?

The second one

The first one

The third one

the paraphrase

the original text

the summary

Activities

Activity 7 (P.49) Paraphrasing

Environmentally friendly

The surging demand for fossil fuels

More quickly used up

Lessen the reliance

Activities

Summarising Example (P.52)

Overall, the first two quarters of 2008 have been profitable to the company. Nineteen of twenty departments report cutting costs at least twenty percent, and sales from fifteen departments have risen five percent, or about $5 million. Despite these positive developments, most department heads believe that they will not be able to maintain these levels for the remainder of the year.

Activities

Unit 4 Summarising

Underline

Overall, the first two quarters of 2008 have been profitable to the company.

Despite these positive developments, most department heads believe that they will not be able to maintain these levels for the remainder of the year.

Delete

Nineteen of twenty departments report cutting costs at least twenty percent, and sales from fifteen departments have risen five percent, or about $5 million.

Activities

attempt to rearrange the words and sentences

use of 'is not expected' to replace 'believe'

Unit 4 Summarising

Overall, the first two quarters of 2008 have been profitable to the company.

The first two quarters of 2008 have been profitable.

Despite these positive developments, most department heads believe that they will not be able to maintain these levels for the remainder of the year.

the rest

but the rest of the year is not expected to be as good.

Activities

Unit 4 Summarising

The final product

The first two quarters of 2008 have been profitable, but the rest of the year is not expected to be as good.