Unit 3 - Unit 3 - Science and Science and TechnologTechnologyy

Unit 3 - Unit 3 - Science and Science and TechnologTechnologyy

Reading: Reading: Avoiding the repetition of wordsAvoiding the repetition of words

Writing: Writing: Discussion essays\Avoiding the repetition of wordsDiscussion essays\Avoiding the repetition of words

Grammar:Grammar:Cohesion through discourse markers: contrast, Cohesion through discourse markers: contrast, deduction, example, addition and summationdeduction, example, addition and summation

HW HW Writing a discussion essayWriting a discussion essay

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Prepared by HANDE ÇALIKPrepared by HANDE ÇALIK

SOFL 101SOFL 101

Repeated words

• Why do they cause problem?

• How can we avoid them?

Repeated words

There are couples who dislike one another furiously for several hours at a time; there are couples who dislike one another permanently; and there are couples who never dislike one another; but these last are people who are incapable of disliking anybody.

Use of synonyms

• Lexical cohesion: synonyms help you to connect ideas in a text

Discussion essay

• It includes different points of view around an opinion. There could be advantages and disadvantages of a choice of action, or evidence for and against a particular opinion.

Argument vs Discussion essay

Noun groups vs clauses

• Noun Groups: groups of words that can be treated as a single noun

(ex: your friend’s car, a big car with a broken window, the car that my father bought last year)

• Clauses: has a subject and a verb

Addition

Contrast

Summary

Reason/ result/ cause-effect

Example