AccuracyandAppropriate:FormalandInformalWordsUnit8

Thescenarioofinstructionprovidedasfollowsisdesignedjustforreference.Theteacherissupposedtocombineillustratingthefocusedpointswithdoingthegivenexercisesintheunit.Unit8

Classroomteachingiscompletelypresupposedonpre-readingthetextoutsideclassroom.I.Lead-inDoyouseethedifferencebetweenTextAandTextBintermsofstyle?Whatmarksaninformalstyle?Whatmarksaformalstyle?Toanswertheabovequestions,atfirst,weshouldunderstandwhatawritingstyleis.Thewritingstyleisthewaythewriterchooseswordstosuitaspecificpurposeofhisorherwriting,ortoachieveacommunicativeeffectthroughwriting.

Lookatthewordsandexpressionstakenfromthetexts–essential,analogous,priorities,party,bloodyawful,thanksto,andanswerthefollowingquestions:Canwetelltheformalwordsorexpressionseasilyfromtheinformalones?Whyorwhynot?Whatmethoddoyouthinkweusuallyusetotelltheformalfromtheinformal?Styleisapatternoflinguisticfeaturesdistinguishingonepieceofwritingfromanother,oronecategoryofwritingfromanother.Itisamatterofdegree.So,thebestwaywecanusetotellonefromanotheristomakecomparisonsbetweendifferentauthors’choicesconcerningmattersofdiction,organization,sentencestructure,punctuation,andsoon.Inthisunit,wewilllearnhowtouseformalandinformalwordsaccuratelyandappropriatelyinwriting.I.Lead-in

Activatingknowledgemeansmakingwordknowledgelyinginthemindsofstudentsstartworking.II.ActivatingKnowledgeEnglishwordscanbeclassifiedbylevelsofformality,butitisamatterofdegreeforwordstobecategorizedasformalandinformal,andwecanonlymakethedistinctionthroughcomparisonandcontrast.Examples?Cf.thelistofexamplesofinformalwords/expressionsandtheirformalequivalentsonpage162,textbook.CommonandplainEng