Revision:
Reading strategies (ways of understanding a text):
1. Read the title
2. Scan the text to find the subtitles
3. Scan the text for details: (a) number of details; (b) transitional expressions
4. Infer / guess meaning of words
1. Quest, Chapter 1, Part 4: The Mechanics of writing
1. Revision: Adjective Clauses (pages 28-29; Transitional Expresssions, pages 29-30
4.PRACTICE 1Quest, Chapter 1,Part 2: International Culture Practise for Mid Term Examination
Reading, page 11-12
1. Write the title of the text and the main idea in the introduction
2. Find the main idea in the conclusion
3. Give the meaning of:
Line 2: adapt
Line 4: misconception
Line 5: ethnocentrism
4. Give the number of examples of ethnocentrism
5. Give the number and name of the elements of culture
Lines 15-21:
6. Give the number of ways a knowledge of the local language can help international businesspeople
7. Give the transitional expressions that introduce these ways
Lines 22-17
8. Give the expressions of place (space) and the names of the different Ethic
Lines 37-46
9. Give the transitional expression which introduces an example
Lines 37-46
10. Give the transitional expressions which introduce examples and the number of examples
lines 37-46
11. Give the definition (meaning) of material culture
Line 48
12. Give the meaning of the expression 'how people make things"
Line 50
13. Give examples of economic infrastructure
14. Give the transitional expression that introduces its examples
Line 51
15. Give the defintion of social infrastructure.
16. Give the transitional expression that introduces its examples
17. Give the defintion of financial infrastructure.
18. Give the transitional expression that introduces its example THURSDAY 5. CORRECT HOMEWORK 6.PRACTICE 2 Understanding a text
Week 5: 3-7 October
MONDAY
Revision:Reading strategies (ways of understanding a text):
1. Read the title
2. Scan the text to find the subtitles
3. Scan the text for details: (a) number of details; (b) transitional expressions
4. Infer / guess meaning of words
1. Quest, Chapter 1,
Part 4: The Mechanics of writing
1. Revision: Adjective Clauses (pages 28-29; Transitional Expresssions, pages 29-30
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adj.htm
2. Transitional expressions: Adverbial Conjunctions, pages 56-68
Adverbial conjunctions exercises
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/ell-conjunctive-adverbs-test1.html
More information
Adverbial Conjunctions
http://www.tameri.com/edit/conjunctions.html
3. Topic Sentence, pages 60-62
Topic sentence
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Choosing a topic sentence
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4. PRACTICE 1 Quest, Chapter 1, Part 2: International Culture
Practise for Mid Term Examination
Reading, page 11-12
1. Write the title of the text and the main idea in the introduction
2. Find the main idea in the conclusion
3. Give the meaning of:
Line 2: adapt
Line 4: misconception
Line 5: ethnocentrism
4. Give the number of examples of ethnocentrism
5. Give the number and name of the elements of culture
Lines 15-21:
6. Give the number of ways a knowledge of the local language can help international businesspeople
7. Give the transitional expressions that introduce these ways
Lines 22-17
8. Give the expressions of place (space) and the names of the different Ethic
Lines 37-46
9. Give the transitional expression which introduces an example
Lines 37-46
10. Give the transitional expressions which introduce examples and the number of examples
lines 37-46
11. Give the definition (meaning) of material culture
Line 48
12. Give the meaning of the expression 'how people make things"
Line 50
13. Give examples of economic infrastructure
14. Give the transitional expression that introduces its examples
Line 51
15. Give the defintion of social infrastructure.
16. Give the transitional expression that introduces its examples
17. Give the defintion of financial infrastructure.
18. Give the transitional expression that introduces its example
THURSDAY
5. CORRECT HOMEWORK
6. PRACTICE 2 Understanding a text
7. Writing Strategy, Writing an Expository Paragraph, page 32
8. Writing Assignment, page 32-34
Grammar Topics