Laboratorio di Lingua Inglese

Reading & Writing

Semester 1

Lesson 6

6 impossible things before breakfast

Homework week 5

• Complete Units1 & 2 Digibook / Skillful exercises & videos (53 /69 registered)

• Visit (often) http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

• Read and make a mind map of text on page 30 / 31 Unit 3 ( to be used next week in class)

Catch up and keep up!

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Moodle http://e-l.unifi.it2

Visit these sites

regularly!

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/3

Your Summaries

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acknowledge comment explain recommend

admit complain guarantee remark

advise concede imply repeat

agree confess inform request

announce confirm insist reveal

answer continue maintain state

argue declare mention stipulate

ask demand object suggest

assert deny observe tell

assure discuss pledge urge

begin dispute predict vow

claim enquire promise warn

(adapted from Collins Cobuild English Grammar, HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow, 2002)

Reporting verbs

1. used to paraphrase / summarise / quote

2. valid alternatives to ‘say’

3. require careful selection

4. many verbs of Latinate origin

5. semantic force

6. must not alter the meaning of the original

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The text on page 20 of Skillful Reading and Writing Student’s Book 4, published by MACMILLIAN, describes a report which provides information for a city, bidding to host The Olympic Games. In its writing, the cited report draws on a wide range of sources, outlines both positive and negtative effects of holding the Games through illustration of two case studies and ends by making recommendations. The discussion opens with a detailed account of the necessary financial considerations, citing fonts of both possible income and potential costs. The text goes on to state that a contending city, and futhermore a country as a whole, will not only benefit from considerable prestige as a result of hosting the Games, but will also perceive an increase in the investment in the country’s infrastructure, development in international trade and a significant rise in levels of tourism.

The text on page 20 of Skillful Reading and Writing Student’s Book 4, published by MACMILLIAN, describes a report which provides information for a city, bidding to host The Olympic Games. In its writing, the cited report draws on a wide range of sources, outlines both positive and negtative effects of holding the Games through illustration of two case studies and ends by making recommendations. The discussion opens with a detailed account of the necessary financial considerations, citing fonts of both possible income and potential costs. The text goes on to state that a contending city, and futhermore a country as a whole, will not only benefit from considerable prestige as a result of hosting the Games, but will also perceive an increase in the investment in the country’s infrastructure, development in international trade and a significant rise in levels of tourism.

published by describes provides information bidding to cited report draws on outlines ends by making recommendationsdiscussion opens citing goes on to state benefit from perceive

source text

• help understand the text better

• facilitate selection of core lexis

• key in reformulation of language items

• help represent the core ideas effectively

• help keep the author’s original position

• provide a framework giving your text cohesion

target text

The choice you make will be dictated by a skilled interpretation of the meaning the original utterance conveys.

acknowledge comment explain recommend

admit complain guarantee remark

advise concede imply repeat

agree confess inform request

announce confirm insist reveal

answer continue maintain state

argue declare mention stipulate

ask demand object suggest

assert deny observe tell

assure discuss pledge urge

begin dispute predict vow

claim enquire promise warn

(adapted from Collins Cobuild English Grammar, HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow, 2002)

Turn to p32

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• neutral: explain (l.116), say (l.9)• has been proven:

conclude (l.64), demonstrate (l.101), find (l.104), learn (l.23), show (l.121),

state (l.47)• has not been proven:

argue (l.103), assume (l.97), believe (l.75, l.112), claim (l.32), indicate (l.94),

suggest (l.55)

However, this i

s too easy!

Reporting verbs

1. used to paraphrase / summarise / quote

2. valid alternatives to ‘say’

3. require careful selection

4. many verbs of Latinate origin

5. semantic force

6. must not alter the meaning of the original

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HOMEWORK

Homework week 6

• p28 p29 Reading exercises

• p32 p33 Language Practice

• Start unit 3 Digibook exercises

• Video 3 worksheet on Moodle

• Update your Vocabulary Notebook

You aren’t making one? You aren’t making one? START TODAY!START TODAY!

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