Task Completion
Introduction : Idea 1? Idea 2?
Idea 1: Welcome to the Hong Kong International Conference on Gender Discrimination
Idea 2: I'm Alice Wong, the conference coordinator
What are the key features of a semi-formal text?
1) Contractions
2) ? ! -
3) Imperatives
How many tasks are there in Task 9? How many paragraphs do we have to write?
2 Tasks + 4 Paragraphs (Introduction, Body Paragraphs 1-2, Conclusion)
What is the text type of Task 9 and what are the text type features?
A speech. To make it more like a speech, we need to include a greeting and a self-introduction in the introduction and thank the audience before ending the speech.
Body Paragraph 1: Idea 3? Idea 4?
Idea 3: 1893 - women in New Zealand were first in the world to win the right to vote
Idea 4: 1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female head of state
When a text is informative, we employ sentence patterns to connect the ideas in a better way. What sentence patterns can we use to express sequencing (i.e. ongoing actions happening at the same time/ actions happened one after another)?
1) Participle phrases (Listening to the teacher, I jotted down some notes.)
2) Inversions (Not only...but also...; No sooner had he read the book than he left a review on the website.)
What is the basic structure of a body paragraph?
4 (Introduction, Body Paragraphs 1-2, Conclusion)
What is the tone of this text type?
Semi-formal + Informative
Body Paragraph 1: Idea 5? Idea 6?
Idea 5: 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space
Idea 6: 2010 - Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to be awarded an Academy Award for Best Director
What sentence patterns can we use to express a cause-effect relationship?
1) Participle Phrase (Having read the book, I gained insights into the dire situation of gender inequality)
2) Prepositional Phrases (In view of/ In light of/ As such)
3) Conditionals (If)
Idea 7 - Who is Dr Lee?
Idea 8 - What are her research interests?
Idea 7 - Dr Jennifer Lee, Sociology Department, Singapore University
Idea 8 - research interests include social structures in China and gender politics in international relations
What sentence patterns can we use to express a purpose?
Prepositional Phrases (In hopes of/ With a view to/ In a bid to)
Body Paragraph 2:
Idea 9: Topic of her talk
Idea 10: Title of her talk
Idea 9: Women's rights in China
Idea 10: Tiger Girls and Superwomen
What sentence patterns can we use to describe people/ things?
Relative Clauses (Dr Lee is a professor whose research interests include...)