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ENGL E102F
Week 1 Session 1
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Copyright by Gladys Luk 2019
ENGL E102F
Week 1 Session
Introduction
The Teacher
Gladys Luk
Email address: nyluk@ouhk.edu.hk
phone: 2768 5830
Office: A0422, 4th Floor, Block A
This group
Group 3
Consist mainly of ECE students
Introduce yourselves please
Introduce yourselves please
Please briefly introduce yourself.
Your name
Why do you take the ECE programme
Your hobbies
The course
ENGL E102F
Effective Use of English II
A 5-credit foundation course
How is it compared to E101F?
The course
Course Structure
Course Structure
ENGL E102F
- Proficiency course
- In addition to those learnt in E101F
- Genres
- Genres for academic purpose
- Genres for specific purpose
ENGL E101F
- Proficiency course
- Summarizing and paraphrasing
- Referencing
- Academic writing
- Academic grammar
Continuous Assessment
Continuous Assessment
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
Examination
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
- 4 Feb
Genres
French
= kind, type, class, variety, etc
Genres
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
Academic purpose
Genres for academic purpose
Examples:
Discussion
Exposition
Argumentation
Specific purpose
Genres for specific purpose
Examples:
Reports
Application letters, etc
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
Persuasive language: Every family needs one
Text 5
Text 5
News article
Report a news story
Headline
Contain a headline
In columns
Quotation
Past tense
Columns
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?
The __________ contradicts with the _____________
Structure, function
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
Practice
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
Others
Deeper understanding of texts
Intensive reading
Look at the detail e.g. read between lines
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