1. Tutorial on English for Studying Unit 3
Tutor: Wang Wei
BWOL Tutorial Centre

2. Unit 3 Getting Ideas Sorted Out
An English paragraph
Coherence
The main idea & supporting ideas
Writing a topic sentence
Writing notes
Writing summaries

3. Pairwork (5 minutes) Exchange notes on the following: a paragraph
coherence
cohesion
topic sentence

4. An English paragraph

5. Coherence (3-1) One of the most important organizational principles …
Each sentence in a paragraph leads naturally and logically to the next in explaining the central idea.
[ES p. 101]

6. Coherence (3-2)
if a piece of writing, set of ideas etc is coherent, it is easy to understand because the information is presented in an orderly and reasonable way
[LDCE]

7. Coherence (3-3)
As a rule, we do not write just one sentence or even a number of unrelated sentences. We produce a sequence of sentences arranged in a particular order and linked together in certain ways. … They form what we may call a “text”. Byrne (1988: 1)

8. Improve the sentences: [10min]
She began to speak very fast at the meeting at ten o’clock.
I read the novel on the train, which did not interest me at all.
On entering the room, no one was seen.
Fred is energetic, capable, and a man you can rely on.
[From Ding 1994: 75]

9. Write 1 paragraph: [10 min]
Choose any one of the topics below:
Friendship
Memory
Life
Happiness

10. Paragraph Reading Excerpt One: topic sentence
Excerpt Two: coherence & cohesion

11. Writing notes Excerpt Three:
write down the key ideas in the key phrases

12. Writing summaries
Excerpt Four
A summary of the main ideas

13. Tutorial on English for Studying Unit 4
Tutor: Wang Wei
BWOL Tutorial Centre

14. Unit 4 Describing What You See
Countries, towns, & landscape
Travel guide
Scenes
Weather
What people are doing
What people look like
Character
Custom and habits
Processes and procedures
Instructions

15. Countries, towns, & landscape
location expressions
“Ireland”
“Australia”

16. Travel guides A good guide is general and impersonal
leads the “tour” of the place
describes places of interest and the landscape
“A Guide to …” -- essay reading

17. Scenes A room with a view “a vantage point” in describing a view
Show your Picasso dictations to your classmates. Have brief discussions on the tasks.
“My own PD” – essay reading

18. Weather weather expressions weather changes weather and people
“What’s the weather like today?”
-- Write your friend an and complete it with a comment on weather. [10 min.]

19. What people look like Words, words, and words … people’s dress
offensive descriptions

20. Custom and habits frequency expressions “Those were the days” –
essay reading
Tell an Eskimo family about the Chinese Moon festival.
[15 minutes]

21. Processes and procedures
baking bread
“The bread is baked.”
“You can bake the bread.”
making jiaozi
How is it done?

22. Instructions Homework: How to … ? send a letter; send an email
go shopping in a department store; go shopping in a supermarket
Choose a pair and compare.

23. The final reading for today
Excerpt Five
The “ separate worlds” on campus