There seem to be lots of great ideas floating around for how to use the Level 2 Eigo B textbook, Totally True 3. I would like to try and document and share these ideas for all of our benefit. Here is the beginnings of a list. To add to the list, please go to the relevant file on Shared Files (2007 Eigo 1A & 1B>Level 2>Eigo 1B Reading and Writing>07 Eigo 1B Reading>Ideas for Using TT3). To just see the list, as well as being on the Shared Files, it can also be found in the back of the Level 2 Eigo B binder.
Entries from June 2007 ↓
Ideas for using Totally True 3 (10-07-07)
June 26th, 2007 — Public Files
Correcting Paragraphs Rubric
June 13th, 2007 — Public Files
This is a rubric that gives students feedback on three important areas of topic shift
paragraph writing; Content Presentation Grammar/Vocabulary.
EAP-Supporting Opinions
June 13th, 2007 — Public Files
Goals of the Activity
This is a consciousness raising activity to raise students awareness of how to support paragraphs. It has four parts.
Part one, Reading- here students read examples from authentic texts of the four common ways to support opinions in paragraphs; 1) an example 2) an explanation 3) an expert opinion 4) a statistic.
Part Two Reading and Labeling – here students read four more examples from authentic texts and try to label them under the four supports 1) an example 2) an explanation 3) an expert opinion 4) a statistic.
Part Three Reading and Analyzing- here students read an example paragraph and discourse analyze it for the four supports 1) an example 2) an explanation 3) an expert opinion 4) a statistic.
Part Four Read and Compare – here students compare the paragraphs they have written, based around the same topic, with the example paragraph in three. How can they improve their paragraphs based around the four supports and the patterns offered in the example paragraphs?
Potential Problems with the Activity
It is important to point out to students that the distinction between the different types of supports can be blurred, (e.g. statistic can easily be used to give an example). The activity is just designed to raise awareness of the need to support opinions and offer some tools for doing so.
Academic Writing EAP