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Inglese (Professoressa Prudente)

English exam: comprehension and essay

Comprehension

• Read the track and underline the key words.
• Read and analyse the text, underlining (with different colours) the answers, the key concepts, and the examples to use in your own production.
• Brainstorming with key words.
• Outline (scaletta) of the topic.
• Write the essay in a draft copy.
• Copy it in the fair copy (only after having read it more times, and after having 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, reader's involvement, persuasion, and judgement.
4. You have to understand if he wants 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

1. Title (must recreate a sort of effect to attract the reader), and subtitle
2. Introduction: with a phrase which has 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

• The use of logical connectors (underline them in the text)
• The use of a formal language (never use the contract form)
• The search of synonymous during the Brainstorming
• Change the line (on which you are writing) every time you finish your phrase and you change context.
• Quotes like that: “Humanity is destroyed!” (Jester Keller, The Guardian, October 10^th 1982)