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ENGL E102F Week 1 Session 1
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ENGL E102F
Week 1 Session 1
Genres
Points to remember
The course
Introduction
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Introduction
Gladys Luk
Email: nyluk@ouhk.edu.hk
Phone: 2768 5830
Office: A0422
The teacher
This Group
A combination of single and double degree students
This Group
Know each other
Find out:
- each other's name,
- hobbies,
- favourite food etc.
The course
- ENGL E102F
- Effective Use of English II
- A 5-credit foundation course
How is it compared to E101F?
Structure
Course Structure
ENGL E101F
- Proficiency course
- Summarizing and paraphrasing
- Referencing
- Academic writing
- Academic grammar
ENGL E102F
- Proficiency course
- In addition to those learnt in E101F
- Genres
- Genres for academic purpose
- Genres for specific purpose
C A
Continuous Assessment (CA)
ENGL E102F
- Assignment 1:
- Reading and Writing
- Essay writing
- Assignment 2:
- Listening and Speaking
- Making a speech
ENGL 101F
- Assignment 1:
- Reading and Writing
- Summary writing + Essay writing
- Assignment 2:
- Listening and Speaking
- Making a speech
- English Learning Portfolio
Exam
Examination
ENGL E101F
- Written examination only
- Listening
- Reading comprehension
- Proofreading
- Referencing
- Writing
ENGL E102F
- Written + Oral examinations
- Written:
- Listening
- Reading comprehension
- Academic communication
- Writing
- Oral:
- Presentation & Interview
Points to remember
- Punctuality
- Don't use the phone and/or laptop when having lessons
- Don't take pictures of my ppt
- Questions
Genres
French
= kind, type, class, variety, etc
so it refers to text types
What is a text?
What is a text?
Read the 4 definitions of text
Then try to summarize what a text is in one sentence
A text is a piece of communication either in a written or spoken form with structure and functions.
Genres
Text types
Genres
Academic purpose
Genres for academic purpose
Examples:
- Discussion
- Exposition
- Argumentation
One genre in the exam
Specific purpose
Genres for specific purpose
Examples:
- Reports
- Application letters, etc
Both in the exam
Conventions
Each genre has its specific purpose, organization or structure and grammar
Conventions
Read text 2 to text 5
Work in groups to identify the text types and features
Text 2
Text 2
Memo
- From husband to wife
- Rather informal
- Use of personal pronouns: 'me', 'you'
Text 2 (contd.)
- Terms like 'icebox'
- Rather conversational with a joking tone
- 'Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold'
Text 3
Text 3
Minutes
- Format
- Attendance/ absent with apologies/ apologies
- Past tense & passive voice
Text 4
Text 4
Persuasive text:
- advertisement
- Multimodal text
- Fonts, capitalization, imperative sentences, pictures
Text 4
- Persuasive language:
- Every family needs one
Text 5
Text 5
News article
Report a news story
Headline
Columns
- Contain a headline
- In columns
- Quotation
- Past tense
Not following the conventions, then???
Read text 1
Letter from a prospective suitor
Prospective =
to describe someone who wants to be the thing mentioned or who is likely to be the thing mentioned
Text 1
Text 1
Dearest Ms Julie Yeh
Yours sincerely
Mr Romy Oh
Modern reply to modern dating
Attn: Mr Romy Oh
Dear sir
Yours perhaps
Julie Yeh
Encls.
Text 1 (condt.)
Format: a letter
- A love letter?
Like letters between employers and employees
Tone: not right
Academic and formal
Text 1 (contd.)
Lexical resources: not right
Discipline specific terms
What is wrong?
Structure, function
The __________ contradicts with the _____________
Conventions
Therefore, when doing assignments
- Pay attention to the functions/ purposes (situation and task)
- Use appropriate format, appropriate vocabulary, appropriate tone, etc
Practice:
Captions
Use present tense to describe the action in the picture
1. Exact description of the picture
2. Description + a sense of humour
3. Give readers information they cannot get from just looking at the picture
Example 1
Example 1
Exact description of the picture
Example 2
Example 2
Description + a sense of humour
Example 3
Example 3
Give readers information they cannot get from just looking at the picture
Practice
Practice
Others & Recap
Others
Others
- Deeper understanding of texts
- Intensive reading
- Look at the detail e.g. read between lines
Recap
Recap & what comes next?
Difference between 101F and 102F
In terms of the content, the assessment & the examination
Genres = text types
Structure and function/ purpose
Assignment 1
Topic 1