The last Discourse Approach in Reading class

This morning, I had the last Discourse Approach in Reading class. I got lots of new knowledge such as recount, narrative, description, procedure, classification and definition etc. My teacher taught and gave me to do the practice by myself. In my mind, it was good because it made me understand about the lesson more than teach only. When I read English book, I always used knowledge of this subject to help in my reading. And it was very good. I understood that I read more.

Problem and Solution

This morning, I knew many words such as propose, solution, approach, answer, issue, problem, remedy and solve. Because I learned about Problem and Solution.  My teacher gave the practice sheets for us. In the practice sheet, we found the main idea of the text, the title of the passage and create a diagram of the text.

Exemplification

Yesterday was Sunday. The day, I had a special class. I learned about Exemplification: to give an example in order or to make something clearer. Words and phrases about Exemplification are for example, for instance, such as, like, in particular, in fact etc. I thought this lesson was easier more than other lessons because it was almost clearly, easy to find and easy to understand. I did the practice correctly.

Definition and Classification

Yesterday, I knew about Definition, it refers to an explanation of the meaning of the word or phrase. And Classification refers to the act or process of putting people or things into group or class. I learned them in Discourse Approach in Reading class. In our practice sheets, we read the text and wrote the general definition, the focus, divisions and subdivisions in the text. I thought this lesson was very useful for me.

Cause and Effect

This morning, I had a sore throat and had a fever, so I couldn’t come to a Discourse Approach in Reading class. My friend kept the cause and effect sheet for me.

Cause and Effect are used to show how the facts result due to other facts. Words that signal the type of text structure are because, since, if…then and thus etc. Because I wasn’t come to class, I didn’t understand about the lesson. I felt bad.

Comparison and Contrast

Yesterday, I learned about comparison and contrast in a Discourse Approach in Reading class. Comparison and contrast told to similarities and difference between two or more things. We use it when we want to explain or describe how two or more things were alike or different. The words refer to show comparisons are both, same, like, common, in the same way and similar etc. The words refer to show contrasts are while, however, although, unlike, difference and yet etc.

From the text ‘Men and Women: Do they speak the same language?’, I agreed with Tannen’ s view. Because men and women spoke different and cross -cultural communication. The important thing, men and women had very different about thinking. Men spoke and do everything for win and business. But women spoke for communication.

Descriptive

Yesterday morning, I learned about descriptive. The descriptive adjectives help us visualize the topic. In the class, when we read the text finished, we wrote the mind map to descriptive the text. The mind map had tell of the text. For example, mind map of Komodo dragon tell about what is it, where to find if, size, sense, diet, appearance and habitat. It made me easy to read and understand the text. After this class, I read the text, I usually wrote mind map to descrip about the text.