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V ocabulary

V ocabulary. IDENTIFYING LANGUAGE FEATURES. 1213-S1-G10-EN-PPT-W12-EFS-291012- IDENTIFYING LANGUGE FEATURES_VOCABULARY. V ocabulary is carefully chosen by the writer to demonstrate or reinforce the genre the writing, its purpose, and the tone which the writer has chosen to adopt.

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V ocabulary

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  1. Vocabulary IDENTIFYING LANGUAGE FEATURES 1213-S1-G10-EN-PPT-W12-EFS-291012- IDENTIFYING LANGUGE FEATURES_VOCABULARY

  2. Vocabulary is carefully chosen by the writer to demonstrate or reinforce the genre the writing, its purpose, and the tone which the writer has chosen to adopt.

  3. SAMPLE TEXT 1 In 1914 Europe blundered into the First World War. From 1870 to 1914 the Germans had built up a military machine of alarming efficiency.

  4. SAMPLE TEXT 1 In 1914 Europe blundered into the First World War. From 1870 to 1914 the Germans had built up a military machine of alarming efficiency. • Blundered creates the effect of disapproval. • It suggests mismanagement that the war was a mistake rather than a thought-out position. • The writer expects the reader to get shocked to find that something as huge as war on a world-wide scale could be started, as it were, by accident.

  5. SAMPLE TEXT 1 In 1914 Europe blundered into the First World War. From 1870 to 1914 the Germans had built up a military machine of alarming efficiency. • Alarmingin ‘alarming efficiency’ is interesting as it is apparently contradictory; normally we would be pleased, not alarmed, by efficiency. • It suggests that it would have been less harmful if the Germans had turned the virtue of efficiency in other directions.

  6. SAMPLE TEXT 1 In 1914 Europe blundered into the First World War. From 1870 to 1914 the Germans had built up a military machine of alarming efficiency. • Intended purpose • To inform about the First World War • To imply his disapproval about of the war and how it was fought

  7. INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT • Read the following text thoroughly paying attention to the words that probably chosen by the writer to demonstrate the genre, purpose, and the tone of the text.

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