Text Structure

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Today's Programme

AFTER CLASS:

-  Bookwidget as homework for next week. 

Lesson Objective:

- You can recognise different text structures in example texts.

- Text Structure explanation

Text Structure and Purpose Questions

Text Structure and Purpose questions ask you to analyse the ways authors put texts together and for what reasons. You may be asked to describe the overall structure or purpose of a passage or to determine the impact on a passage of a particular element (e.g., a detail) in it.

1. To explain what motivated Algarín to found the Nuvorican Poets Cafe
2. To situate the Nuyorican Poets Cafe within the cultural life of New York as a whole
3. To discuss why the Nuyorican Poets Cafe expanded its scope to include art and music
4. To provide na overview of the founding and mission fo the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Which text structures do you know?

Please jot all of these down on a piece of paper

Which signal words indicate sequence in a text?

Which signal words indicate description in a text?

Which signal words indicate cause and effect in a text?

Which signal words indicate Problem and solution in a text?

Which signal words indicate compare and contrast in a text?

Which text structure was used in text 1?

1. sequence
2. description
3. cause and effect
4. compare and contrast

Which text structure was used in text 2?

1. cause and effect
2. compare and contrast
3. problem and solution
4. description

Which text structure was used in text 3?

1. sequence
2. compare and contrast
3. problem and solution
4. description

Which text structure was used in text 4?

1. cause and effect
2. compare and contrast
3. problem and solution
4. sequence

Which text structure was used in text 5?

1. sequence
2. problem and solution
3. cause and effect
4. compare and contrast

Which text structure was used in text 6?

1. sequence
2. problem and solution
3. cause and effect
4. compare and contrast

Which text structure was used in text 7?

1. cause and effect
2. problem and solution
3. description
4. sequence

Which text structure was used in text 8?

1. cause and effect
2. problem and solution
3. compare and contract
4. sequence

Which text structure was used in text 7?

1. cause and effect
2. problem and solution
3. compare and contrast
4. sequence

1. The text discusses several notable individuals, then explains commonly overlooked differences between those individuals.
2. The text describes a general situation, then illustrates that situation with specific examples.
3. The text identifies a complex problem, then presents examples of unsuccessful attempts to solve that problem.
4. The text summarises a debate among researchers, then gives reasons for supporting one side in that debate.

1. it details the shortcomings of certain historical sources, then argues that research should avoid those sources altogether.
2. it describes a problem that arises in research on a particular topic, then sketches a historian's approach to addressing that problem.
3. It lists the advantages of a particular research method, then acknowledges a historian's criticism of that method.
4. it characterises a particular topic sa especially challenging to research, then suggests related topic for historians to pursue instead.

1. It cautions readers that the text's directions for how to achieve self-knowledge are hard to follow.
2. tI concedes that the definition of self-knowledge advanced ni the text si unpopular.
3. tI reinforces the text's skepticism about the possibility of truly achieving self-knowledge.
4. tI speculates that some readers wil share the doubts expressed ni the text about the value of self-knowledge.