ENGL E101F Wk 2 S1

Accents

How about Hong Kong accent?

• British accent
• American accent
• Australian accent
• Indian accent
• Singaporean accent

What did we do last class?

• Briefly introduce both parts of assignment 1
• Unit 1 Activity 6

Teacher-marked writing

One of the pieces in Assignment 2

• Will mark it and give you comments
• Correction is necessary

Teacher-marked writing

Download the template I put in the folder.

Don't forget to put down your name, your student ID and group number.

Teacher-marked writing

Please send it to my email account at nyluk@hkmu.edu.hk. on or before next Thursday, 22 Sept.

It has to be in word format. Send it as an attachment.

Teacher-marked writing

Just a reminder on email template.

Dear Gladys,

Enclosed please find my teacher-marked writing.

Best wishes,

So and So

Part 1

Part 2

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: Social Purposes

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

Examples

Question:

Do Hong Kong people like travelling?

Examples

Example 2

Example 1

Which one is better? Why?

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.

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.

Implication on university writing assignment

University writing is different from secondary school writing in terms of

• Structure
• Grammar
• Use of academic features

Implication on university writing assignment

Structure:

How did you prepare for your writing in secondary school?

• introduction
• body
• conclusion

Implication on university writing assignment

Grammar

• nominalization
• passive voice

To make it more objective and impersonal, we use

• sentence patterns
• word choice

To make it more objective and impersonal, we pay attention to

Implication on university writing assignment

Use of academic features

• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Citation and referencing

More academic/ professional

Summarising and Paraphrasing

• Skills in tertiary studies
• Means to avoid being accused of plagiarism
• Unit 4, P. 50 - 59

Summarizing (P. 56)

Summarizing

• To state briefly the main points or ideas

Avoid adding your own opinions and evaluation.

How to do it?

Main ideas

Underline

Details and examples

Delete

Main ideas, use shorter or more concise words, synonyms

Rewrite

and rearrange

Words and/or sentences for coherence

Paraphrasing (P. 51)

Paraphrasing

• Transforming information or ideas into your own words
• Not necessarily shortening the text

Again avoid adding your own opinions

Activities

Unit 4, Activity 6 (P.51)

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

the original text.

The first one is

a summary.

The second one is

a paraphrase.

The third one is

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

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.

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

Underline

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.

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

Examples!

Why?

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.)

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.

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

Not rewrite and rearrange

Not yet

Finish?

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.

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

The first half of 2008 has been profitable,

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

Example of summarizing (P. 56)

The first half of 2008 has been profitable, but the rest of the year is not expected to be as good.

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

Main ideas???

• Silver lining to its future

• The problems encountered by the cruise terminal at Kai Tai

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

Leave out all the details not related to these ideas

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

Example:

NO

Any explicit indication of problems?

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

• had to wait two hours for a cab

Yes

Any explicit indication of problems?

• the chaos ... question the management of the terminal and its transport links

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

That is a problem and the problem is related to transport, right?

Government's response to ease the tension!

Any explicit indication of problems?

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

Problems:

TRANSPORT

• had to wait two hours for a cab
• chaos ... question the management of the terminal and its transport links
• far from enough taxis to fulfil demand - an hour wait is ridiculous

Implication on assignment 1 part 1

Therefore, first

• read the passage very very carefully.

• Then underline all the ideas related to the problems and silver lining to its future.

Questions?

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)

6. intelligence

7. passion

8. sense of humour

9. ambition

10. confidence

1. independence

2. looks

3. optimism

4. conversational skills/communicative skills

5. sociability

Result of the Quiz

• 22 responses were received.
• Only the part of speech of 'window' is unanimously agreed upon.
• The answers of these words are quite diversified. They include:
• meander; grin; comatose & ennui

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adjective/noun

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conjunction

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preposition & adverb

under the table vs

go under the bridge

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verb

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adverb

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adjective

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conjunction

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pronoun

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adverb

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noun/verb

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verb/noun

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adjective

Only 19% are correct

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noun

About the result

About the result

About the result

Any implication/ indication

1. How well the words are learned

2. How good your performance in proofreading will be

3. A signal for brushing up your English