English Exercises: Discourse

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Persuasive Writing Language Map
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
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Cohesion: noticing linkers, transiotions, conjunctions or discourse markers
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
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Guide to summary writing
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
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Discourse Markers
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
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3rd year exam
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-17
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Discourse markers
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
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1.Language in action: D_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. C_ _ _ _ _ _ _ : The grammatical and/or lexical relationships between the different elements of a text which hold across sentences or clauses.

3.R_ _ _ _ _ _ _ : The way to classify discourse according to its level of formality.

4. It is the area of language analysis that describes how meaning is encoded in the language and is therefore concerned with the meaning of lexical items. S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

5. G_ _ _ _ : Different types of texts like narrative, exposition, procedural discourse.

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1. B_ _ _ _ _�� _ _: Interpreting the lowest-level unit first, then proceeding to an interpretation of the rank above, ans soon upward.

2.C _ _ _ _ _ _: Pragmatics is concerned with ____________, situations and settings with which such language uses occurs.

3.P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ : The study of the use of language in communication, particularly the reltionship between linguistic forms and the� context and situation in which they are used.

4.T _ _�� _ _ _ _: Interpreting discourse by reference to the high-level units first, then proceeding downward through the ranks below.

5. C_ _�_ _ _ _ _ _ : The unity of a piece of discourse such that the individual sentences are connected to each other and form a meaningful whole with respect to the context of a situation, even when the connectors are not explicitely made. ��

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1-�� Information consisting of facts, concepts, rules, and images that are consciously known and thus can be described explicitly.� �(declarative knowledge)

2-�� Knowledge of the mental processes that are involved in different kinds of learning.(metacogn ition)

3-�� Level of formality or informality of an instance of discourse or its degree of technical specificity versus general usage. (register)

4-�� The unity of a piece of discourse such that the individual sentences or utterances are connected to each other and form a meaningful whole with respect� to the context of a situation, even when the connections are not explicitly made. (coherence)

5-�� Prior and subsequent textual forms and information that may� have a bearing on interpreting some �tem in or portion of a text. (co-text)

6-�� The communicative force of an utterance, the intended meaning. (illocutionary force)

7-�� A recognizable communicative event that uses verbal conventions in predictable ways to achieve communicative purposes agreed upon by the members of� the speech community in which it regularly occurs. (genre)

8-�� Procedures used in learning, thinking, communicating, and so forth that serve as a means of reaching a goal. (strategies)

9-�� The social, psychological, and physical setting in which language use takes place. (context)

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