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Highlights: Wk 3 Sess 2_L02
ENGL E102F
Week 3 Session 2_L02
Warm up exercise & Recap
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Warm up exercise & Recap
Warm up exercise
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
Recap
- Assignment 1
- Module 1
- Introduction
- Activity 1.2.3
- Predicting
Recap
Oral presentations:
- Carey and Slink
Module 1
Predicting
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
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.
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
Skimming
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
Grammar Quiz
Grammar quiz
Concrete nouns: countable [singular / plural]
Abstract nouns: cannot be counted [singular]
Proper nouns: usually not counted [seldom plural]
Grammar quiz
Answer 'yes' or 'no'
'WH' questions
Oral presentation
Oral presentation
Carey:
- Housing Problems
Oral presentation
Slink:
- Levy on waste
Oral presentation
7 February:
Mark: Waste problems and solutions
Chamlok:
Inadequate beds in hospital