Give us 15 Minutes a Day By Class 6

1. Give us 15 Minutes a Day By Class 6

2. Procedures • The core part: Discourse analysis (5Cs model) • Optional discourse activities

3. Discourse Analysisbased on the Five Cs Model • Lexical Cohesion • Repetition • Synonyms • Hyponyms • Meronyms • Collocations 1.Cohesion • Grammatical Cohesion • Ellipsis • Reference • Conjunction 2.Coherence 3.Culture 4.Context 5.Critique

4. Ellipsis • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

5. Reference • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without wordsyou could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Yourwords are your keys for your thoughts. And the more wordsyou have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Yourwords are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

6. Conjunction • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, butif he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

7. Repetition • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without wordsyou could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Yourwords are your keys for yourthoughts. And the morewordsyou have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be yourthinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process ofyourmind. It will give youassurance; build yourself-confidence; lend color to yourpersonality; increase your popularity. Yourwords are yourpersonality. Your vocabulary is you.

8. Synonyms • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not onlyimprove the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

9. Hyponyms • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

10. Meronyms • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

11. Collocations • The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You can’t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go downtown this afternoon you will find… • Without words you could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. • Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. • A command of English will not only improve the process of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

12. Coherence • Macro-structure: Opening: Words are tools of thought. →Reason 1: Without words you could make no decision and form no judgments whatsoever. →Reason 2: Your words are your keys for your thought. →Reason 3: Your words are your personality. Generalization: Your vocabulary is you.

13. Micro-structure: • Condition: Without words. • Consequence: You could make no decisions and form no judgments whatsoever. • If-will; without- no.

14. Signaling • Quiz: To tell the Ss to find out signaling words as following examples. • Your words are yourkeysfor your thoughts. • Deeper, clearer and more accurate. • A command of English will not onlyimprove the processof your mind. • Assurance; self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity.

15. Culture Culture specific: Neutral; Persuasive essay to motivate. Western oriented belief: Utility-oriented; in practical use; crash culture (i.e. fast food culture): attain a goal in a much shorter time than usual.

16. Context Source: Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary The introduction of the importance of vocabulary is to promote the book to the potential customers.

17. Critique In the early 1940s, because of the World War Two, people may be lack of the interest in academic study, and the authors maybe feel necessary to enlarge their vocabulary effectively and efficiently. But it seems a little bit exaggerated, and people may doubt that vocabulary can be really so easily enlarged in such a haste.

18. Optional discourse activities • Role play A is a bookseller and B is a potential buyer. Create a dialogue between A and B using what you have learned from the passage. Then act it out. • Creative writing Design an ad. for anything you like. Pay attention to your word choice to make it attractive.

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