Assignment 2 Rubric: Language related tasks On the next page is a typical text that you might get students to read in class. It contains some useful language. Look at the items from the text in the box below. Choose two of the grammar structures and two of the items of lexis and for each of them do the following: analyse the meaning‚ describing how you would check students’ understanding. Use concept checking questions and some other clarification techniques if necessary‚ e.g. timelines‚ personalisation
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A discourse community is a group of people who speak and share the same interests in certain topics‚ knowledge‚ and vocabulary; they also use similar jargons specific to that community. I belong to several discourse communities ranging from family‚ friends‚ and church to my ethnic group‚ weight watchers‚ and my classmates. The discourse community that I am going to discuss in this paper is the one that gets me motivated and eager to take part every Tuesday; it is the women’s bible club at my church
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University of Phoenix Material Define each of the 11 terms listed below. These definitions must be in your own words; if you use any outside sources‚ it must be paraphrased‚ not quoted‚ and all such sources must be cited using APA citation practices. Additionally‚ each definition must also identify and explain an example of the term found in one or more of the reading assignments for Week One. LITERARY TERMS AND CONCEPTS TO DEFINE – Week One Allusion- An allusion is a reference contained
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Lesson Two The Use of Words Part I‚ L. 2 How do we use words? Words are signs of our concepts. But it is not always the case that we use one word to mean one concept. Because of our creativity‚ and because we arbitrarily decide to attach meaning to certain sounds‚ we are not completely limited in the way we use words to signify meanings. Sometimes we use more than one word to mean the same thing. An example is “little” and “small”‚ which both mean the same
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The Development the Language of Cinema * Bazin states “of course cinema is a language” * Language – communicates * Bee dancing is a form of communication‚ very effective as a means of communicating information‚ but would not call it a language. * Language has a capacity to make meaning which is not transmittable to other languages. * Each language makes meaning in a manner special to itself. * For Bazin‚ film makes meaning by showing us the world * The photographic
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Caroline Panoff Maya Ahmad Mrs.Webb 10 Honors English 27 November 2012 The Pit and the Pendulum Style Essay Introduction 1st Body Paragraph (Diction): Edgar Allen Poe uses diverse styles of diction to impact the reader’s mood in different ways. The connotations of negative words affect the reader’s attitude in a pessimistic manner. “Sick unto death with that long agony” (Poe 4). When Poe begins the narrative‚ the narrator is in a negative mindset. This aids the audience in getting a feel for
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Material possession has been traditionally accepted as the measurement of one’s success or social status. When we initially refer to someone‚ we routinely mention how much money he owns and thereby believe this individual to be quite successful if he is wealthy. In addition to this perpetuated concept‚ owning a lot of money is typically related to one’s work ability and thus some people may simply consider money as a prime measurement of one’s success. However‚ this view has changed recently since
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Field sketching Field sketching is note taking of a landscape in pictorial form. It helps you to identify important features in a landscape and leave out things that are less important. It also allows you to observe a landscape carefully and interpret what you see. You need not worry about your ability to draw. A good field sketch should show how well you understand a landscape‚ rather how artistic you are. In field sketching‚ a sketching frame is useful too (refer to Figure 2.10). A sketching
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How does Hughes present a sesne of fear and menace in this story? The rain horse by ted hughes is a short story text. Ted hughes was a prolific poet and was more celebrated for his poetry than his prose. This narravtive reflects his poetry through the very vivid imagery created by the description of the blinding rain and mysterios horse. Hughes presents a sense of menace and fear through the description of the horse and the horse following him. Hughes presents menace ad fear through the limited
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In the passage‚ composer Igor Stravinsky describes orchestra conductors by using rhetorical devices and detailed language to convey his feelings on the subject. He is obviously unimpressed with the "skill" that conductors are praised for and cynical of their talent in general. The author uses bitter metaphors and pessimistic language to perceptibly make his opinion known. The author frequently compares conductors to politicians in the first paragraph. In the first sentence he makes his first strike
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