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ENG 170.1 Week 2, Session 2, Thursday

1. Introduction to the History of Communication (video: YouTube Cartoon):

http://vimeo.com/2064695 Discuss (a) What type of communication is it? oral or written?

(b) What type of genre (text type) is it? Letter, email, advertisement, airport announcement, soccer match broadcast, the news, the weather report, Skype Telephone converstaion?

2. Read about the definition of the word TEXT

http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/textterm.htm

3. Brainstorm for different gerne - text types.

Speech

Writing

4. Identify different text types

Text type 1

Text type 2

Text type 3

Text type 4

text type 5

Text type 6

Text type 7

Text type 8

Text type 9 Text type 9 b

Text type 10

3. What would you like to visit or do there? Tick your preferences.

1

Federation square

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2

Tram City Tour

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3

Old Jail

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4

Tour of Lanes and Arcades in the City

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5

Harley Davidson Ride/sightseeing

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6

St Kilda beach site suburb

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7

Australian Tennis Open

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8

The Formula Grand Prix

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9

Melbourne Cup

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10

Melbourne Cricket Ground, the MCG

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11

The Yarra river South Bank

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12

The Eureka Tower

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13

Ballooning

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So, would you like to visit ..........................?


5. Describe the conventions (characteristics of the following text types)

(a) writing: email, message, chat, blog,wiki, notes, articles, reports,dissertations, text message, wishing card, memo.

(b) Speech: lectures, public speaking, conversation, debate.

Example 1: letter

Sender name, receiver name, date, greeting letter boday, farewell

Example 2, dialogue:

the names of the two interlocutors or just interlocutor 1, interlocutor 2, and after this (:) and what each one says. For example:

John: Good morning.

Jane: Hi.

OR

Interlocutor 1: How much is it?

Interlocutor 2: Twelve Euros.