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Triggering Talk Through Ads. Jung Hyesook. 1. Student’s Proficiency. High school students, the 11th grade Average proficiency : intermediate high. Reading & Listening : intermediate - high Speaking : intermediate - low. 2. Aims. Practice making hypotheses
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Triggering Talk Through Ads Jung Hyesook
1. Student’s Proficiency High school students, the 11th grade Average proficiency : intermediate high. Reading & Listening : intermediate - high Speaking : intermediate - low
2. Aims • Practice making hypotheses (guess what is about, inference) • Analyze the creation of meaning through figures of speech in advertisement
3. Resources • Magazine, Advertisements related to students' fields
4. Main rhetorical effects-1 • Generalization :synecdoche, a part for a whole +> a hand or a head → a whole person bread → food
4. Main rhetorical effects-2 • Displacement : metonymy, applying a word to something that is closely associated to it +> crown → king the cradle → childhood
4. Main rhetorical effects-3 • Symbolism : metaphor, a simile without a term of comparison +> the 1996 Microsoft Internet advertisement
5. Caveats and Options • Select ads with enigmatic pictures that are clearly separated from the text. • Be sure that the text of the ad is not too long • For the success of this activity, students should not look at the other part of ads • If you prefer pair work, have pairs of students do Student C's part (observer)