writing prep LASK

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• Studiejaar 2

Language Skills 

Vocab 4 & Listening

• Het tentamen Vocab4 (hoofdstuk 50 t/m 100) wordt op de HAN afgenomen. Het betreft dus geen online tentamen, maar een echt fysiek tentamen.
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• roostering volgt (goed in de gaten houden) in jullie lessen
  

Today

Wriring a review

Review

Subject: Could be a book, magazine, film, play, concert, festival, language course, holiday, restaurant etc.

Where will it be published? English-language magazine, newspaper or website.

Register & style: who is your target reader? Adapt ideas and language accordingly.

Give a general description and evaluation of its suitability for a particular purpose or audience.

Language: describing, explaining, expressing opinions (positive or negative), making a recommendation.

Planning

• Is the impression you want to give positive, negative or mixed?
  
• Use your experience (you can make it up if necessary)
  
• What will your readers be interested in being told? Should you include the ending of the film/book?
  
• What do they need to know? Read the question carefully.
  
• Make a short plan.
  

Layout

• Catchy title
  
• 4 or 5 short paragraphs/sections (can use sub-headings)
  
• Exciting introduction
  
• Punchy ending
  
• 280-320 words
  

Register / Tone

• Personal (I/you allowed here)
  
• Not too formal
  
• Can use humour
  
• Evocative adjectives (absolutely spectacular; a stunning performance; glowing reviews)
  
• Range of tenses
  
• Linking expressions (having said that; admittedly)
  
• Personal style: address your reader directly (If you enjoy science fiction, you will absolutely love this book)
  

Preparation

Preparation outside the classroom: read as wide a range of reviews as possible, such as those for holidays, books, television programmes and consumer goods.

http://idreambooks.com/?date=2017-05-07&tab=fiction

https://www.theguardian.com/film+tone/reviews

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/restaurants/

Useful language

• http://practiseenglish.blogspot.nl/2009/03/useful-language-for-fcecaecpe-writing.html
   
• http://uki.vdu.lt/wp-content/uploads/sinergija/EN/geografija/geografija2/useful-phrases-film-analysis-kv-cornelsen.pdf
  
• http://olmo.pntic.mec.es/sgoa0001/book%20review%20language.pdf
  
• https://freeenglishlessonplans.com/2014/11/18/cpe-review/
  

What do you think?

A surgical-stocking-filler from the author of record-breaking
million copy bestseller This Is Going To Hurt

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

What did you think?

Which book would you most like seen made into a film?

Write a personal anecdote to grab attention. Introduce the name of the book.

Write a sentence about the book using an inversion (not only/no sooner/seldom)

Write a sentence using a cleft sentence (What is most crucial is…)

Write a sentence using a participle clause (Being…/Having gone…)

Homework 

Write a review: Writing folder 2 pg. 39 for  Monday 8 June 12:OO

Include and underline:
• An inversion (not only/no sooner/seldom)

• An inverted conditional (Were we to…)

• A participle clause (Being…/Having gone…)

• A double comparative (The more we… the more)

• A cleft sentence (What is most crucial is…)

• Idioms

• Phrasal verbs