Situation: First sentence presents us with a situation.

Problem: Second sentence presents us with some sort of complication or

problem.

Response: Third sentence describes a response to the problem and the

final sentence gives a posture evaluation of the response.

 Most people like to take a career with them they travel abroad.
 But all airports have x-ray security screening and x-rays can damage the film.
 One solution to this problem is to purchase a specially designed lead-lined pouch.

These large patterns which may be found in texts (and indeed which may constitute the whole text) are
the objects of interpretation by the reader.
The sequence situation – problem – response – evaluation, may be varied.
The sequence is varied in a well-formed text.

It will form the background to a reassessment

Discourse analysis is a vast subject area of the basic language teaching as they are
Halliday’s model of language as conventionally understood: the levels of
within linguistics, encompassing as it does
sodal action, looking at types of language description (grammar, texts and
the analysis of spoken and written
meaning in discourse and their phonology) and the skills of language used
language over and above concerns such as
relation – the sodal context in (reading, writing, listening and speaking).
the structure of the clause or sentence.
which it is produced.