LEARNING TO READ AND TO WRITE GENRES IN ENGLISH

EMI EMILIAINDONESIA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

A PRESENTATION ATKONAN UNIVERSITY, JAPAN17 MAY, 2013

What we are going to learn

• Text

• How to read and to write text types (genres)

Text is a unit of meaning

Text can be spoken or written

(a telephone conversation, a speech, a letter, a diary an assignment, a report)

Text can be short (one like “Entry”)

and can be long (like a novel or a book).

• One page of a novel cannot be called a text because it does not give the reader a complete meaning.

Please discuss if the followings are a text or not • A book• A novel• A short story• One page of a novel• One paragraph of a story• an “ENTRY” sign

In Your Groups…

• Reading is synonymous with understanding (compherending a print) (Hertsberg, 2012:79).

NAMA SAYA: EMI EMILIASAYA DARI INDONESIA

• Reading is different from decoding.

• Reading involves predicting

How to make a kite

What do you think the text will be about?

Last year I had a holiday in Bali

A long time ago, in a village lived a man with three daughters … .

• I have a friend. Her name is Ikuko Takei …

• I have an interesting book …

• Tokyo is capital city of Japan…

Whales are mammals …

I think smoking should be banned for three reasons related to health, economy and environment.

… In this essay I will discuss arguments for and against smoking ….

• Do you know the life cycle of fish?

• Reading is asking questions and getting the questions answered.

Tips for locating main idea

• Identify the topic.• Find the most general sentence.• Study the rest of the paragraph.

Generic Structure of a Hortatory Exposition Text

• Is writing the same as spoken language written down?

• Writing is a social process: a means of connecting with others in order to share ideas and information (Hertsberg, 2012:108).

The process of writing

1.Think about the topic2.Think about the purpose: Identify the best text type and its elements3. Write a plan 4. Write drafts (revise, edit)5. Show it to others to get feedback6. Write a final, neat draft

TITLE: Why smoking should be banned?

Introduction of Text 1Smoking should be banned for three reasons related to health, economy and environment …

Introduction of Text 2Once upon a time there was a man who smoked … One day he suddenly could not breath and then he was in hospital …

Structure of Organisation

Text

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Materials needed

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Look at the following questions or instructions for writing

1. Write a recipe (some tips) to cook noodle.

2. Describe about your school to your class

3. Tell the class what you did in your last holiday

4. Describe about whales

6. State your opinion about why smoking should be forbidden?

7. Explain about life cycle of butterfly.

8. Discuss the issue about school uniform.