Task sheet 4 - Synthesizing - Tài liệu tham khảo môn Tiếng Anh ( TA8 ISW) | Đại học Hoa Sen
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TASK SHEET #4 – SYNTHESIZING
EXERCISE #1 – COMBINING 2 SOURCES
TASK 1: LISTENING & NOTE-TAKING
First copy the solutions to water scarcity from TASK SHEET #3 and put them under ‘Hidden Water’.
Now, watch the clip and take notes under ‘Overcoming water scarcity – Learning from Israel’s experience’. Hidden Water
Overcoming water scarcity - Learning
from Israel's experience Solutions to … … water scarcity
TASK 2: COMPARING INFORMATION
Compare the information from the two texts. Highlight similar ideas green, and different ideas yellow.
TASK 3: ORGANIZING THE INFORMATION – MAKING AN OUTLINE
In a paragraph of about 100 words, use the information from task 2 to answer the questions:
What are the solutions to water scarcity?
TASK 4a : SENTENCE WRITING - COMPARISON
From the table in task 2, write
One or two sentences that express similarities between 2 texts. You may begin the sentence this way:
Both Pearce (2008) and Siegel (2016) agree/point out/reveal that ….
One or two sentences expressing differences,
Pearce (2008) reveals that …. However, Robeco Asset Management (2014) states that …
While Pearce (2008) suggested solutions, Siegel (2016) described the successful
innovations in Israel. Write one or two sentences showing how the two texts support each other.
Pearce (2008) suggested that ….., which has been proven …. 1. .. 2. … 3. … 4. … 5. … 6. …
TASK 4b : PARGRAPH WRITING
What are the solutions to water scarcity? …
EXERCISE #2 - COMBINING 3 SOURCES
(Textbook, pp. 73 – 75) HOMEWORK
Read the extracts below and, in a paragraph of no more than 120 words, answer the question:
How many languages are there in the world?
Note: Refer to the first paragraph as Crystal (1987) Fromk and the second one as in and Rodman (1993)
There is no agreed total for the number of languages spoken in the world today. Most
reference books give a figure of 4,000 to 5,000, but estimates have varied from 3,000
to 10,000. To see why there is such uncertainty, we need to consider the many
problems facing those who wish to obtain accurate information, and also the reasons
(linguistic, historical and cultural) which preclude a simple answer to the question "What counts as a language?"
(Written by David Crystal, on page 284 of The Cambridge encyclopaedia of language.
It was published by Cambridge University Press, in Cambridge, UK, in 1987)
All speakers of English can talk to each other and pretty much understand each other.
Yet no two speakers speak exactly alike. Some differences are due to age, sex, state
of health, size, personality, emotional state and personal idiosyncrasies. That each
person speaks somewhat differently from all others is shown by our ability to
recognise acquaintances by hearing them talk. The unique characteristics of the
language of an individual speaker are referred to as the speaker's idiolect. English
may then be said to consist of 400,000,000 idiolects, or the number equal to the number of native speakers.
Beyond these individual differences, the language of a group of people may show
regular variations from that used by other groups of speakers of that language. When
the English spoken by speakers in different geographical regions and from different
social groups shows systematic differences, the groups are said to speak different
dialects of the same language. The dialects of a single language may thus be defined
as mutually intelligible forms of that language which differ in systematic ways from each other.
(From: An introduction to language, by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. The
book was written in 1983 and was published by Holt-Saunders in New York. The extract comes from page 245.)