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INGLESE (PROFESSORESSA PRUDENTE)

English exam : comprehension and Essay

1) Read the track and underline the key words

2) Read and analyse the text, underlying (with different colours) the answers / the key

concepts and the examples to use in your own production

3) Brainstorming with key words

4) Outline (scaletta) of the topic

5) Write the essay in a draft copy

6) Copy it in the fair copy (only after have red it more times, and after have controlled the

translation of words)

The body of the analyses :

1) You have to analyse the title

2) The MACRO LEVEL : you have to underline the medium, genre, context, purpose

3) The MICRO LEVEL : you have to underline and understand the stance “posizione”, reader’s

involvement, persuasion and judgement

4) You have to understand if he want to form the reader or to inform him

5) You have to analyse the article :

Words

form of verbs

contrast between MONOGLOSSIC and HETEROGLOSSIC

contrast between SUBJECTIVE or OBJECTIVE, IMPLICIT or EXPLICIT

contrast between “me” and “the other”

point of view of the author

The body of the essay :

4 (/5) principal parts :

1) Title (must recreate a sort of effect to attract the reader), and subtitle

2) Introduction : with a phrase which have to attract the public, with a general presentation

of the topic and a presentation of what we are going to write about (introducing also a

clear phrase, where you described the stance of the writer; you also have to put there

the section from where the article has been taken)

3) Development : 2/3 concepts with obligatory examples

4) Conclusion : final concept (not to be repetitive)

TO REMEMBER :

1) The use of logical connectors (underline them in the text)

2) The use of a formal language (never use the contract form)

3) The search of synonymous during the Brainstorming

4) Change the line (on which you are writing) every time you finish your phrase and you

change context. th

5) Quotes like that : [“Humanity in destroyed!” (Jester Keller, The Guardian, October 10

1982]