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Task 2
Answer the questions below to check your comprehension about the social function, text
structures, and the lexico-grammatical features of analytical exposition texts.
Questions:
1) Where can you probably
find the first text to read?
2) Where can you probably
find the second text to read?
3) Who might be interested in
reading the first text?
4) In text 2, which sentence is
stating the writer’s position
to introduce his ideas?
5) How does the writer of text
2 arrange his ideas in the
text?
6) Does the writer of text 1
use ‘the present tenses’ to
write his ideas in the text?
7) Can you identify the internal
conjunction and causal
conjuntion in both texts?
Write them in your answers.
Answers:
1. Newspaper article, magazine, academic lecturer
2. Academic lecturer, magazine
3. Politician, State official, academic people
4. As our society is striving to make adjustments to the
decline in literacy skills, new ways of learning and
teaching are being explored, educators are
becoming interested in exploring the educational
potential of television.
5. The writer presents arguments or opinions that
support the main idea of the text.
6. Yes, it does
7. Text 1 : First, Similarly, Finally, otherwise, Thus,
Text 2. : First, Second, because, moreover,
because of, Finally,