WEEK 8 - 9 Revision Practice
High Blood Pressure - Encyclopaedia Extract
- Predicting
- Skimming
- Reading for detail
- Summarising
Field Tenor Mode
Field
– subject matter of the text
Tenor
– relationship between the author and the audience
Mode
– how the text is constructed (written-like or
spoken-like)
Formal vs Informal Expressions
Information in an encyclopaedia is usually presented using clear, professional and often academic language. The language used in information texts, as we have seen, is:
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formal
·
objective
·
impersonal
Gap-fill Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary should be comprehended in context
Fill the gaps of the text
Subordinate and Coordinate Conjunctions
Coordination and subordination join two sentences with related ideas. Coordination joins sentences with related and equal ideas, whereas subordination joins sentences with related but unequal ideas. Sentences can be coordinated using either a coordinating conjunction and a comma or a conjunctive adverb and a semicolon.
Relative Clauses
A relative clause is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can't stand alone as a sentence. It is sometimes called an “adjective clause” because it functions like an adjective—it gives more information about a noun.
