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We had our first presential class March 09, Prod Textos Inglês
YOUR TASK FOR MARCH 23 (TASK 2 - to be given to me in class): write a small report of your visit to the following site:
http://www.srjcwritingcenter.com/paragraphs/unity/unity_video.html
(do not email this task to me. Just visit the site and write one paragraph about your impressions and give that to me March 23 or put it in my escaninho sala dos profs till Thursday evening in the same week))
This is a review of what we did in class:
1)We started by looking at the distinction Receptive/Productive Vocabulary:
It is received wisdom that a learner's Receptive or Passive vocabulary is larger than the Productive or Active vocabulary
The lack of clear definitions of what constitutes an active or passive vocabulary has led to large variations in interpretation of what these terms mean within assessment. RPV have been defined in relation to the language skills of reading and listening and speaking and writing. One of the earliest descriptions of active and passive vocabulary was that of Morgan and Oberdeck who said that
an individual's active vocabulary includes words of such familiarity as would allow an understanding of them as would permit their use in speech and writing; his passive vocabulary includes those of only such familiarity as would allow an understanding of them as they occurred in reading material or hearing in a lecture (1930: 213).
http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/papers/phd/ch1.html
2) WE examined sentences in Portuguese which show problems of logical coherence, with special attention to non-sequitur, which is:
1. An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
2. A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.
[Latin nōn sequitur, it does not follow : nōn, not + sequitur, third person sing. present tense of sequī, to follow.]
3) We examined the following :How Einstein can help you write better essays
http://www.higherscore.ca/downloads/Higher%20Score%20Free%20Advice%201%20-%20Einstein%20and%20Essays.pdf
4) We examined examples and description in the following two subtitles from the website http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/paragraphsTOC.html
• Unity
• The Topic Sentence
5) We started writing a profile (model to be followed given in class), which is planned as TASK 1) (some are giving it to me in class, some have emailed their first draft.
