As some of you will remember, we began our discussion of academic writing by writing reports on the environment. Today we will continue our exploration of report writing. An outline for today's class can be found below:
Report Writing
Objectives: Students will be able to...
- Identify the basic features of a CAE-style report
- Understand and be able to use various formulaic expressions as lexical signposts in their CAE-style report writing
- Use this knowledge to produce their own CAE-style report based on a class activity on personality styles
How was your weekend? How are things in general? Is everything going well in your other classes? Do you have any questions about this class? If people are feeling a little tired (like I was last week) than we can start class with a few more tongue twisters!
II. Vocabulary Quiz
"Time to pay the piper!" I hope you studied ;)
III. Personality Testing
For homework, you will be asked to write a report on the results an experiment we will be conducting in class today. We will conduct the experiment, discuss the results and then review the structural conventions of a CAE-style report.
Step One: Brainstorming personality adjectives (both positive and negative). If you need help, check out this list:
Step Two: Personality Testing: Which Color Are You?
This process has three steps, which are outlined below. Remember: 4 is the Most Like You (3 is kind of like you, 2 isn't really like and 1 is not like you at all). You need to put a number for each option!
- Complete the COLOR QUESTIONNAIRE
- Review and rank (1-4) the "Color DESCRIPTIONS"
- Review and rank (1-4) the "Color IMAGES"
Once you finish these three tasks, you need to calculate your high score. You score will indicate which COLOR your personality is :) Once you have this information, we can proceed to Step Three...
Step Three: Preparing Personality Presentations (to be explained in class)
Step Four: Delivering Personality Presentations (self-explanatory :) )
Step Five: Reviewing the Results (in-class discussion... I will link the materials after we've talked about them together).
--------> Materials from the COLOR TEST
IV. CAE Report Structure
To begin, discuss these questions with a partner. Then, we'll discuss them as a class. Finally, we will review a basic outline of the structure of a CAE-style report (as well as a few useful phrases).
Homework
1). Prepare for a vocabulary quiz on these words
2). Write a report based on our in-class activity. Use these guidelines. I will send each one of you a Google Doc to write your response in. Your response is due by Friday, December 5th at 11:55pm.
3). Prepare a discuss post response to this prompt by Friday, December 5th at 11:55pm.
4). Start thinking about what you'll bring to our "End of the Semester Holiday Potluck Extravaganza" on the last day of class (Monday, December 22nd, 2014).
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