Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Goal: Be aware of how sentence construction reveals the authors opinion in academic and non-academic
texts.
Warm Up: Ice Breaker and 1. Introduce myself, and have students T-Ss 5 mins
Lesson Objectives introduce themselves.
Materials:
- Lesson PowerPoint
- Long Text Activities handouts
Key Vocab:
- Stance: The opinion put forward by the author. Aka position, point of view.
- Audience: The people who the text was written for. Pay attention to language
- Purpose: The reason the author chose to write the text. Why was the text written? Ex: to inform,
persuade, warn, entertain, advertise.
- Academic: The purpose of an academic text is to make a contribution to its respective field. Texts
written for the academic community will use technical or specialized vocabulary.
- Non-Academic: The purpose of non-academic texts can vary greatly. They can report on new
information, attempt to persuade the reader, warn, give advice, or simply entertain. Non-academic
texts are written in simple language accessible to a general audience.
- OMG! You won’t believe this! I was basically forced to do my community service hours at this
hospital all weekend! We learned CPR but we did it on dummies, not even real people. And
some kid sneezed on me and got me sick! I was so bored and sniffling all weekend; I hope I
don’t have to go back next week. I definitely do not want to miss the basketball tournament!
Imagine that you went to a World Cup game, and after the game you receive two emails, one from your
parents and one from your best friend. Take some time to write 3 or 4 sentences about your experience,
keeping in mind your audience.
Non-Academic:
- A college student, Jose Ramon Diaz has made some sacrifices to finance his first trip to
Russia, starting with leaving Mexico, where he lives with his father, to go to Los Angeles
(Diaz was born in the United States) and sleep in a homeless shelter for a month while
working two jobs to stockpile cash. In Russia, Diaz has been eating as infrequently as
possible. When he does, he aims to spend no more than 300 rubles, or about $4.75, per
meal. This has left him subsisting mostly on Subway sandwiches (“Give me the
cheapest,” was the first Russian phrase he learned) and baby food (“It’s cheap and
nutritious,” said Diaz, a 23-year-old adult man).