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THEN 18 English

THEN 18 English. Mikael Svensson. Intro meeting. General course information Roll call Exercise: Correct or incorrect language Exercise: Text types. Aims. Communicate effectively in English Academically Professionally Improve your communicative skills Written Spoken. Aims.

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THEN 18 English

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  1. THEN 18English Mikael Svensson

  2. Intro meeting • General course information • Roll call • Exercise: Correct or incorrect language • Exercise: Text types

  3. Aims Communicate effectively in English • Academically • Professionally Improve your communicative skills • Written • Spoken

  4. Aims Improve your language awareness • Vocabulary • Sentence structure • Style • Text types and text structure • Communicative function • Recognizing your strengths and weaknesses

  5. Methods • Reading and preparing texts • Practical exercises in class • Feedback on written and spoken assignments • Peer response • Self assessment

  6. Course work Active participation Oral assignments • Prepare and give presentations • Prepare, present and argue a case in a debate • Evaluate your own and others performance

  7. Course work Written assignments • Argumentative essay • Group report • Summary of an English article in English • Summary of a Swedish article in English • Formal letter • Review of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

  8. Written exam • Summary • Reading comprehension • Vocabulary • Proofreading • Formal letter

  9. Grades • Course work 3/4/5 • Written exam 3/4/5 Combined into a course grade 3/4/5

  10. Literature • Bryson, Bill. 2004. A short history of nearly everything. • English Compendium THEN18, to be sold in the A-building entrance 19C. All texts and exercises will also be available through the home page

  11. Complaints about technical writing (MacIntosh 1967) • Generally foggy language • Inadequate general vocabulary • Failure to connect information to point at issue • Wordiness • Lack of stressing important points • Too much “engineering gobbledygook” • Poor overall organization • No continuity • Poor grammar • Poor punctuation • No sense of tone for circumstances • Poor adaption of form to purpose • Almost meaningless introduction

  12. Correct or incorrect language • Today pneumatic tyres are fitted to practically all road vehicles, originally they were developed for use on bicycles. • The recent development of breeder reactors are completely changing the economics of ore extraction and are boosting the known reserves of nuclear energy very considerably. • The minister agreed in principle to a new urban public transport system development plan. • There were yellow lines down all the streets and the car parks were full, so I couldn’t find nowhere to park. • The cause of the delay in laying the foundations was due to exceptionally heavy rain that was flooding the area.

  13. Sentence 1 Today pneumatic tyres are fitted to practically all road vehicles, originally they were developed for use on bicycles. Today pneumatic tyres are fitted to practically all road vehicles. Originally they were developed for use on bicycles. Today pneumatic tyres are fitted to practically all road vehicles; originally they were developed for use on bicycles. Today pneumatic tyres are fitted to practically all road vehicles, but originally they were developed for use on bicycles.

  14. Sentence 2 The recent development of breeder reactors are completely changing the economics of ore extraction and are boosting the known reserves of nuclear energy very considerably. The recent development of breeder reactors iscompletely changing the economics of ore extraction and isboosting the known reserves of nuclear energy very considerably.

  15. Sentence 3 The minister agreed in principle to a new urban public transport system development plan. The minister agreed in principle to a new development plan for a public transport system in the city.

  16. Sentence 4 There were yellow lines down all the streets and the car parks were full, so I couldn’t find nowhere to park. There were yellow lines down all the streets and the car parks were full, so I could not find anywhere to park. There were yellow lines down all the streets and the car parks were full, so I found nowhere to park.

  17. Sentence 5 The cause of the delay in laying the foundations was due to exceptionally heavy rain that was flooding the area. The delay in laying the foundations was due to exceptionally heavy rain flooding the area. The cause of the delay in laying the foundations was the exceptionally heavy rain flooding the area.

  18. Model of communication

  19. Text types and styles • What is the communicative purpose? • Who is the audience? • What is the medium? • What is the context/situation? • How do the answers to the above questions affect the language that is used to communicate?

  20. Text 1 ?4U. Who 8 my pizza? CYAL8R. <3

  21. Text 2 Ruth Milkman, Chief Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20544 Re: AT&T Response to Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Letter, DA 09-1737 (July 31, 2009); RM-11361; RM-11497 Dear Ms. Milkman: On behalf of AT&T, I am writing in response to the Bureau’s July 31, 2009 letter, which asks a series of questions about Google Voice and the Apple iPhone in order to inform Commission policymaking in certain pending proceedings. As discussed below, AT&T had no role in any decision by Apple to not accept the Google Voice application for inclusion in the Apple App Store. AT&T was not asked about the matter by Apple at any time, nor did it offer any view one way or the other.

  22. Text 3 In these rotten economic times, putting in long hours has become a popular strategy for boosting job security. And that's really too bad. If you rabidly focus on work, in the long run, you'll be unhappy. Ran Kivetz, a professor of business at Columbia University, recently conducted a series of experiments that identified a paradox in our behavior: Doing the "right" thing—putting our responsibilities ahead of momentary pleasures—often leaves us unhappy down the road. When we skip a vacation to work overtime or pass up that awesome vintage Porsche for a used minivan—sure, we pat ourselves on the back for a week or two. But as the years go by, we invariably regret our monkishness and wish we'd enjoyed ourselves more. The word for this is hyperopia: an excess of farsightedness[...]

  23. Text 4 Many purchase and consumption decisions involve an intrapersonal struggle between consumers’ righteous, prudent side and their indulgent, pleasure-seeking side. Whereas purchasing and consuming utilitarian necessities and virtues (e.g., a practical car, a healthful food item) is considered responsible and farsighted, yielding to hedonic temptations (e.g., buying a luxurious car, eating a chocolate cake) is viewed as impulsive and wasteful. The perceived precedence of virtue and necessity over vice and luxury is at least as old as ancient Greek civilization (Plato and Aristotle argue that reason should rule appetitive and passionate elements). [...] Recent research challenges this approach and suggests that consumers often suffer from a reverse self-control problem—namely, excessive farsightedness and overcontrol, or “hyperopia.” Hyperopic consumers overemphasize virtue and necessity at the expense of indulgence and luxury[...]

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