新时代交互英语视听说3Unit2.ppt

NEIE Book 3--Unit 2 The Road Ahead Identify a writers audience and purpose Identify a writer’s audience and purpose so that you can better understand why a writer includes certain information and presents it in a certain way. Good writers consider their audience (the people they are writing to) and their purpose (the reason or the reasons for writing). A writer’s audience is evident by the language or content that the writer uses. Writers have different purposes. They may want to inform their readers (objective) or persuade them to change their minds or take certain actions (subjective), or produce a certain emotional response (subjective). Apply the Strategy 1. According to paragraph 1 of “Site-seeing on the Internet”, who is (are) the writer’s audience? Make a possible list of possible audiences. 2.According to paragraph 1, what is the writer’s purpose? 3.Does the sentence “ ‘Site-seeing on the Internet’ is a US government publication” help you identify the audience and purpose of the publication? Example 1 : How to learn English well? I think , at first, reading is a must, as we all know, English is a communication tool, so reading to English is what water to a fish. Secondly, writing shouldn’t be forgotten , as long as you write something even everything interesting or meaningful around you , then your English will become better and better. Thirdly Can you imagine the audience and purpose of such a passage? Have a try. The writer tries to persuade English learners to learn it as said in the passage. Thus the language used there is quite subjective. And the topic there is focused on English learning. Use figurative language Figures of speech (修辞): when we use words in other than their ordinary or literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heighten effect, or to create suggestive imagery, we are said to be speaking or writing figuratively. Observing how figurative language is used will help you identify the writer’s meaning. There are severa