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ENGL E101F

Week 3 Session 2

Warm up exercise

Meet Micro Mayor James

Meet Micro Mayor James

What is a mayor?

A person elected to run a city in a fixed period of time

Meet Micro Mayor James

  • How old is James?
  • He is a mayor. What is his duty?
  • What should a mayor do according to Robert, James's brother?
  • Steve Harvey, the host made fun with a person. Who is that?

Recap

Recap

What did we do last class?

  • Unit 1: Act. 4, & part

of 7

  • Comment on the Paraphrases
  • More about structure of an essay

Unit 1

Love and Relationship

Unit 1

Speed dating

Personality traits

Proofreading

Part of speech

Activity 4

Unit 1

Activity 4

terminer: to decide (Old French)

Determined

easy + going

easygoing

ego: the self

egotistical

ir: not resolute: solve

irresolute

Activity 7

Unit 1

Activity 7

Proofread the rest of the activity

Unit 2

A matter of life and death

Unit 2

Highlights:

Foxconn/ Golden Gate Bridge

Samaritans

Polysemy

Collocation

Activity 4

Activity 4 (P. 21)

Why do people commit suicide?

Important suicide risk factors

1. Age

2. unemployment

3. previous suicide attempts

4. alcohol dependence

5. organized plan

Activity 4 (P. 21)

6. illnesses

7. lack of social support

8. family history

9. financial difficulties

10. coexisting personality disorders

11. impulsiveness, aggression or violent behaviour

Based on sudden desires rather than careful thought

Activity 6

Activity 6 (P. 24)

Foxconn: Foxconn Technology Group

A contract manufacturer producing

  • electronic components, computer chips, etc

Activity 6 (P. 24)

Its clients include:

American, Japanese and Canadian electronics and information technology companies e.g.

  • Apple Inc., Dell, HP, Nokia, Sony, etc

Activity 6 (P. 24)

In 2010, 18 workers attempted suicide in the Shenzhen campus.

14 died

Why?

Activity 6

Watch and answer the questions

Activity 6 (P. 24)

1. What comparison is used to describe the way Foxconn is run? Do you think the analogy is appropriate?

similarity between 2 things, on which comparison can be based e.g. the heart and a pump; the royal family and the crown

A military operation

Like a soldier. Do the same thing all day long. Do not talk, socialize but work, sleep and work, sleep.

Activity 6 (P. 24)

2. What is the major problem identified with the Foxconn operation?

separated from others

The major problem is the feeling of isolation and alienation among the workers.

Being an outsider or feeling isolated

Activity 6 (P. 24)

3. The report mentions that there is a lot of resentment among the workers. What does this mean? Where do you think the resentment comes from?

'Resentment' here refers to the feeling of displeasure or even anger towards Foxconn and towards the society at large.

Activity 6 (P. 24)

3. The report mentions that there is a lot of resentment among the workers. What does this mean? Where do you think the resentment comes from? (Contd.)

The resentment may come from widening gap between the poor and the rich and therefore the feeling of helplessness and uselessness despite the rapid economic growth.

Activity 6 (P. 24)

4. The report names two measures the company has taken to prevent more suicides. What are they? What do analysts say about these measures?

a. bringing in mental health professionals

b. the setting up of a safety net.

Analysts called these 'window dressing', suggesting that they are merely decorative and do not address the root of the problem.

Activity 6 (P. 24)

5. What have the big name clients of Foxconn done in response to the suicides?

They said they are deeply concerned about the suicides and have issued statements expressing sorrow for the victims.

Summarizing practice

Summarising practice

The task

Summarizing practice

Summarize in about 180 words the text 'Spare the rod, save the child'.

Your summary should outline the situation briefly, and then focus on the causes of the prevalence of corporal punishment in Kenya. You must write in paragraphs with full sentences and you must not copy indiscriminately from the passage.

Summarizing practice

Points to remember:

  • Word limit: 180
  • Outline the situation, focusing on the causes

Key ideas

Key ideas

Situation:

  • Omanga's case not isolated
  • 6 deaths in the last four years
  • Some suffered serious injuries
  • often punished for petty offences:
  • coming late to school
  • wearing a torn uniform

Key ideas

Causes:

  • Teachers' attitudes/ beliefs:
  • In favour of corporal punishment
  • Would descend into chaos
  • Children would become even more unruly
  • Less rather than more violence

Key ideas

  • Large class sizes:
  • One of the few disciplinary tools available given large class sizes
  • Teacher-pupil ratio: 1:31
  • Class of 50-60 students are common
  • Burden heaviest in rural areas with teachers' posts left vacant

Key ideas

  • Not banned as difficulties in prosecution:
  • Attempt to ban
  • Fail because of teachers' oppositions
  • No teacher has been convicted

Part of speech

Part of speech

What is it?

What is it?

The part a word plays in a sentence

Example: John will come to see us soon.

What is the part of speech of each word?

John will come to see us soon.

Pronoun

Verb: finite

Noun

Verb:

non-finite

Adverb

8 parts of speech

8 parts of speech

Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Articles

Verbs Adverbs

Conjunctions

Prepositions

May also include:

interjection or exclamation

8 parts 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

8 parts of speech

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

8 parts 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

8 parts 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.

8 parts 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

8 parts of speech

Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions e.g. and, but

Subordinating conjunctions e.g. when, because

8 parts of speech

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

8 parts of speech

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.

8 parts 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

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

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

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

Presentation

Here are some reference books that may help.

Online dictionaries:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

http://www.freecollocation.com/

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