unit 9, assignment 1 fully finished. Distinction grade achieved

unit 9, assignment 1 fully finished. Distinction grade achieved
UNIT 9

Theme: Academic Style (Part I)
Objectives: look at some aspects of academic style, including use of reporting verbs, linking
ideas and sentence structure
Methodical instructions: This theme must be worked out during two lessons a week according
to timetable and its result can be achieved through extension the use of academic language in
speech activity: speaking, reading, writing and listening:
- The formation of listening skills can be developed when using a class video;
- The development of writing skills must be exercised through self-work tasks;
- Reading skills should be improved in course of working on training materials the content
of which is intended to be understood in full;
- Speaking skills can be developed through active communication on the Unit’s topics.

Тема: Академический стиль (Часть I)
Задачи: изучить некоторые аспекты академического стиля, включая использование глаголов,
связывающих идеи и структуру предложения.
Методические указания: Эта тема должна быть проработана в течение двух уроков в неделю
согласно расписанию, и ее результат может быть достигнут за счет расширения использования
академического языка в речевой деятельности: говорение, чтение, письмо и аудирование:
- Формирование навыков аудирования можно развивать при использовании классного видео;
- Развитие навыков письма должно осуществляться через самостоятельные задания;
- Навыки чтения следует улучшать в процессе работы над учебными материалами по
содержанию из которых предназначено для полного понимания;
- Разговорные навыки можно развивать путем активного общения по темам, обсуждаемым в
Группе

Listening: Watch a video “What is Academic style” on https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=vfQFjFXRSkk
After watching do the following task: Complete the sentences:
1. The first aspect of Academic style is tone objective arguments.
2. Objective are the things that are based on facts rather than feeling
3. You tend not to use the words that have a lot of slang, or a spoken type of background
4. You also need to stay away from negative forms and contractions
5. The second aspect of academic style is the use of authority
6. You shouldn’t use anecdotal evidence. (It's a story; it's something you've heard. We always
rely on something academic.)
7. Everything what we say must be based on some kind of research
8. The other thing about Academic Style is that we have to look at how we say things; not
too exact but a little bit more tentative
9. The last thing about Academic Style is that it’s carefully structured.
10. The more references and citations that you use, the more strengthened your essay.


Academic style covers a wide range of factors: it relates to your choice of vocabulary, the
sentence structure you use, the way you link your ideas together both within a paragraph,
and through different parts of your essay.

Академический стиль охватывает широкий спектр факторов: он связан с вашим выбором
словарного запаса, используемой структурой предложения, тем, как вы объединяете свои идеи как
в абзаце, так и в разных частях вашего эссе.

, Task 1. Academic style – recognizing the difference
1.1 Read the following two passages A and B, and decide which you think is more
academic in style. Why? Note some specific examples from the two texts by underlining or
highlighting.
1.2 Can you name any of the features you have identified in Text B which are different from
Text A?
Задание 1. Академический стиль - распознавать разницу 1.1 Прочтите следующие два отрывка A и
B и решите, какой, по вашему мнению, более академичен по стилю. Почему? Отметьте некоторые
конкретные примеры из двух текстов, подчеркнув или выделив их. 1.2 Можете ли вы назвать
какие-либо особенности, которые вы определили в тексте B, которые отличаются от текста A?
i)
ii)
iii)

QUESTION: ‘Describe the short and long-term environmental effects of the deforestation of the
Amazon Basin’.

Text A
(1)It’s obvious that if you destroy the trees of the Amazon Basin, you create problems both
now and in the future. (2) In the short term, if people burn and log the forests, they get rid
of a lot of kinds of flowers and animals. (3) And if they remove the forest, this takes away
the food sources of the people who live there and who hunt and gather in them. (4) If you
remove the protective canopy, the delicate soils of the area will be rapidly washed away by
the heavy rainfall. (5) The people who clear the forests to raise animals and grow crops
then find that the soil is useless. (6) Destroying the trees doesn’t just affect the Amazon
Basin. (7) It has effects all over the world. …

Text B
(1) The deforestation of the Amazon Basin leads to the creative of both short-term and
long-term problems. (2) In the short-term, burning and logging forests may eliminate many
species of fauna and flora. (3) The removal of forest also deprives hunting-and-gathering
communities of food sources. (4) After the removal of the protective canopy, the delicate
soils of the area may be rapidly eroded be the heavy rainfall, thus making the land useless
for the pastoral or arable activities which often accompany forest clearance. (5) The effects
of such large-scale deforestation are not simply local, but also global. …


B is more academic in style. In B we see objective arguments, things based on facts
Text B uses formal language, not general language
For example in second sentence they use fauna and flora instead of flowers and animals. or
global instead of all over the world/ destroy the trees – deforestation/ people who live there and
who hunt and gather - hunting-and-gathering communities

Text B use more specific details. for example in sentence 4 in text A we see what would be if we
are remove the protective canopy. The soils will be washed away by the heavy rainfall.
But in text B we see the consequences of soil washing. They are making the land useless for the
pastoral and arable activities