8/11/12
Class
- Crime Reading, discussion, Vocabulary & Listening p. 122 - 125
- Overview of Conditionals. How manner conditionals are there? http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442621/Conditionals
- For a discussion of the difference between English and Italian conditional forms see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/42354161/A%20Comparison%20between%20Italian%20and%20English%20Conditional%20Forms
- For a discussion on hpothetical distance and thinking in English see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41658221/English%20Grammar%20and%20Thinking%20in%20English
- The Third Conditional p. 125, p. 156 - 157
- Feedback on Writing Assessments
Letter
You don’t know the reader so you need to be very formal and polite
•No contractions: can’t - can not
•I mean - In other words
Madam not Madame
Information – uncountable – never plural
I would to know – I would like to know
What sort of people attend the course? – Be more specific e.g. Where are the students from? Are they law students or practicing lawyers?
Report
Make conclusions based on the data try not to make up conclusions that rely on information from outside the graph/table provided.
e.g.
It seems from the data that more people are deciding to live alone which will have future implications for housing, infrastructure, taxation policy and pensions.
The graph showed projected growth so FUTURE tenses were needed.
Composed of not composed by
Has an increase - not really the right collocation use increase as a verb or use the verb to be
e.g. There will be an increase in the number of one person households OR The number of single person households will increase.
Two million not two millions
Homework
- Third Conditional - read the notes in the links above and finish the exercises on p. 125 (questions 7 and 8)
- Correct your letter and report.
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