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ENGL E101F

Week 4 Session 2

Nursing

Warm up exercise

Punctuation

Punctuation

An English professor wrote some words on the whiteboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.

The words: woman without her man is nothing

Punctuation

If you were one of the students, what would you do? How would you punctuate this sentence?

Two ways to punctuate the sentence

Punctuation

Woman! Without her, man is nothing.

From a woman's perspective

Woman, without her man, is nothing.

From a man's perspective

Recap

Recap

  • Unit 2: Act. 4 & 6
  • Patient's background

What did we do last class?

Presentation

Presentation

Presentation

What are you going to do?

  • Explain what the part of speech is.
  • Talk about its usage.
  • Are there rules and regulations governing the use of that part of speech?
  • Illustrate with examples

Duration: around 10 minutes

Unit 2

A matter of life and death

Unit 2

Highlights:

Foxconn/ Golden Gate Bridge

Samaritans

Polysemy

Collocation

Activity 5 Part III

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

Polysemy: words may have more than one meaning

One form (written or spoken) with multiple meanings which are all related by extension

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

Examples:

Head: part of our body

Head: of the family

Foot: part of our body

Foot: of a mountain

Fork: instrument for eating

Fork: in a road

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

1. The latest casualty fell to his death from a dormitory building in a Shenzhen plant at around 11:20 pm Wednesday.

c. a factory or a place where power is generated

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

2. It was the 10th such death and 12th such fall at the plant in Shenzhen this year ...

a. a quick downward movement onto or towards the ground, by accident or because of a natural force

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

3. Foxconn Technology Group chairman Terry Gou flew to Shenzhen and led a rare damage-control media tour to the factory complex in Shenzhen ...

a. not common or does not occur very often

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

4. He told about 300 Chinese and foreign journalists that nets had been put on buildings ...

a. connected with a country which is not your own

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

5. Foxconn is part of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and makes computers, game consoles and mobile phones ...

b. the control unit of a mechanical, electrical, electronic system or computer

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

6. They work shifts and live inside the massive factory complex.

b. a person's scheduled period of work, esp. the portion of the day scheduled as a day's work ...

Activity 5 Part III (P. 23)

7. They work shifts and live inside the massive factory complex.

b. a group of buildings designed for a particular purpose, or one large building divided into several smaller areas

Activity 9

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

Background information:

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

1. In what way has the bridge romanticised as the good place to commit suicide?

The fall from that frees you from all your worries and grief, and

The waters below will cleanse your soul.

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

2. How did jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge kill somebody?

After a free fall of 4 to 5 seconds, the body strikes the water at about 75 miles an hour. That impacts shatters bones, some of which then puncture vital organs. Some will flail in the water and drown.

move and swing in an uncontrolled way

make a hole

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

3. There is a story Jason told to Kevin Briggs before committing suicide. What is the name of it?

Pandora's box

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

4. Do you think Jason was clear-minded when he committed suicide? Why/ Why not?

up to you

I think Jason was clear-minded as he could still tell the story of the Pandora's box and ask Kevin the question of what if there was no hope.

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

5. Fill in the blanks on the advice on handling suicidal cases according to Kevin Briggs.

Dos

  • Listen to understand
  • Ask appropriate confronting questions

Don'ts

  • Argue
  • Blame
  • Tell the person you know how they feel

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

6. Kevin Briggs received an email from a lady who lost her son earlier in the year. Is she supportive of Kevin's work? How do you know?

Yes. She said, 'Thanks so much for standing up for those who may be only temporarily too weak to stand for themselves.

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

7. Kevin Berthia, the one who committed suicide, later told Kevin, the TED talk speaker, the reason he stayed on. What is the reason?

He said, 'You listened. You let me speak, and you just listened.

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

8. Did Kevin Berthia live on well later on?

Yes, he has become a loving father and contributing member of society. He speaks openly about the events that day and his depression in the hopes that his story will inspire others.

Activity 9 (P. 26) The Golden Gate Bridge

9. For those who jumped off the bridge and miraculously survived, what did they think afterwards?

Most have said that the second that they let go of that rail, they knew that they had made a mistake and they wanted to live.

Patient Case Report

Patient Case Report

Please refer to another ppt presentation

Academic writing

Academic Writing

What is it?

What is Academic Writing?

Academic writing = Formal writing

What is special about Academic writing?

  • clearer and more precise
  • facts and statistics
  • complex sentence structures

What is Academic Writing?

What is more?

Please read the text entitled 'What is Academic Writing?'

What is Academic Writing?

  • No slang or colloquial language
  • No contracted (short) forms
  • Different in terms of choice of words and grammar
  • The way of organizing the ideas
  • Most importantly, with citation and referencing

What is Academic Writing?

Formality

academics

family and friends

serious thought

conversational

complex sentences showing considerable variety in construction

mostly simple and compound sentences joined by conjunctions such as and or but

clear and well planned

less likely to be clear and as organised

likely to be error free

may not always use complete sentences

Technical and academic language used accurately

use of short forms, idioms and slang

Activity

Activity

Task 2

Put the following texts in order by giving 1 to the most academic and 4 to the least academic

Activity

Answer:

B D C A

Activity

B: the most academic

  • From a research book on academic writing
  • Complete sentence structure
  • High-level vocabulary e.g. reciprocal, empirical, literacy, etc
  • Serious thought
  • Nomination e.g. development, application

D: the second most academic

Activity

  • Being taken from a profile report
  • Complex sentences
  • Academic vocabulary
  • Passives
  • In-text citation

Activity

C: a mixture of formal and informal modes

  • From an instruction manual
  • Passives
  • Complex sentences
  • Personal pronouns like 'you'

Activity

A: part of a speech or an informal letter or email

  • Question-and-answer sequence
  • 'Anyway'
  • Short forms e.g. it's, I'll

Summarizing practice

Summarising practice

The task

Summarizing practice

Summarize in about 180 words the text 'Spare the rod, save the child'.

Your summary should outline the situation briefly, and then focus on the causes of the prevalence of corporal punishment in Kenya. You must write in paragraphs with full sentences and you must not copy indiscriminately from the passage.

Summarizing practice

Points to remember:

  • Word limit: 180
  • Outline the situation, focusing on the causes

Key ideas

Key ideas

Situation:

  • Omanga's case not isolated
  • 6 deaths in the last four years
  • Some suffered serious injuries
  • often punished for petty offences:
  • coming late to school
  • wearing a torn uniform

Key ideas

Causes:

  • Teachers' attitudes/ beliefs:
  • In favour of corporal punishment
  • Would descend into chaos
  • Children would become even more unruly
  • Less rather than more violence

Key ideas

  • Large class sizes:
  • One of the few disciplinary tools available given large class sizes
  • Teacher-pupil ratio: 1:31
  • Class of 50-60 students are common
  • Burden heaviest in rural areas with teachers' posts left vacant

Key ideas

  • Not banned as difficulties in prosecution:
  • Attempt to ban
  • Fail because of teachers' oppositions
  • No teacher has been convicted

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

Try to present the key ideas in your own words.

Time allowed: 15 minutes

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