ENGL E102F Wk 3 Sess 2_L01

Mind your language

A UK TV series released in 1977

It was set in an adult education college.

The teacher was a man named Mr Jeremy Brown.

Mind your language

Mr Jeremy Brown taught a group of foreigners to speak English.

They included German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and so on.

Many funny things happened because of their ways of speaking English.

Mind your language

Can you jot down some of the funny things that happened?

• syllabus vs silly bus
• hoping vs hopping
• enroll vs unroll
• sheep vs ship
• work vs walk

Mind your language

• right and left
• adding 'o' to almost every word by the Japanese student
• moving backwards
• underground

Recap

• Assignment 1
• Module 1
• Introduction
• Activity 1.2.3
• Predicting

Recap

Oral presentations:

• Smarties and Nancy

Reading strategies: Predicting

What is predicting?

Speculating about the content of an article by looking at its title carefully

Reading strategies: Predicting

Activity

Write two sentences, one as the introduction and the other as the conclusion, what would you do?

Reading strategies: Predicting

The title:

Best of both worlds? International school graduates face language and cultural barriers.

Reading strategies: Predicting

• International schools & local schools

• International school graduates face language and cultural barriers.

Reading strategies: Predicting

• International schools: western culture
• Local schools: Eastern and Chinese culture

• The two worlds:
• local world vs western world

Reading strategies: Predicting

Now read the first and the last paragraphs

After finishing class, a young man sits down for an interview. He laughs and lets out a sigh of relief on discovering the interview will be conducted in English. Harry Mou Kat-yan is a second-year sociology student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and was born and raised in Hong Kong. But when it came to fitting in during his freshman year, he may as well have been a foreign student.

was born

and raised in Hong Kong. But when it came to fitting in during his

freshman year, he may as well have been a foreign student.

Reading strategies: Predicting

Some families make sacrifices to send their children to international schools because they believe it will give them an edge. But it seems that, these days, the international advantage can be a double-edged sword.

an edge:

an advantage that makes someone or something stronger or more likely to be successful than another thing or person

Reading strategies: Predicting

Written practice:

• Write a short paragraph in about 50 words on the following topic in 8 minutes.

If you had a choice, would you choose to study and graduate from an international school or a local secondary school? Why?

Reading strategies: Skimming

Skimming:

• reading through a text quickly to get a general overview, not reading every single word.
• helps
• to decide whether it is useful
• to identify sections to read intensively

Reading strategies: Skimming

Activity 1.4

1. Which parts you will skim for general information?

Every part except the middle part of each paragraph

Reading strategies: Skimming

2. Read the article quickly and choose suitable subheadings for sections A - E. One subheading is not needed.

Reading strategies: Skimming

Subheading A

Involvement in local community

Paragraph 6

This echoes ... equipping them with local knowledge.

Paragraph 7

He says the project is designed for students 'to understand the local community'.

Reading strategies: Skimming

Advantages of international schools

Subheading B

Paragraph 15

Over 3,300 tertiary institutions in nearly 90 countries currently recognize the IB programme whereas 250 tertiary institutions recognize the HKDSE programme.

Reading strategies: Skimming

Subheading C

All-round development

Paragraph 17

they offer more all-round development ...

Reading strategies: Skimming

Integration

Subheading D

Paragraph 24

Cohen decided that in order for them to truly integrate into Hong Kong society, ...

Reading strategies: Skimming

Subheading E

Career prospects

Paragraph 27

When it comes to competitiveness in the job market, ...

So better to going over the subheadings before reading the paragraphs