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    Week 5: Report

    Writing
    Language of a Report
    3 parts:
    i. Simple Present Tense
    ii. Sequence Connectors
    iii. Passive Voice
    OBJECTIVES
    Simple Present
    Passive Voice
    Tense

    Sequence
    Connectors
    1. Grammar Present Tense
    & Vocabulary When action i) is
    happening
    now and ii) happens
    Sequence Connectors
    regularly.
    Passive A.k.a ‘Linkers’
    Used for: shows
    i. Emphasis order/stages/step
    ii. Verb > Doer s involved.
    iii.is/are + present
    participle + ‘by’ Help readers
    follow flow of
    1.1 Present Tense When?
    i. Generalizations: was true
    before, true now & will be
    How? true in the future
    i. 3rd person singular ii. Reference to now: Action
    verb: is happening
    root verb + -s / iii. Repeated actions: Usual
    -es e.g hobby, habit, etc
    ii. Plural/1st iv. Events in near future:
    person/2nd scheduled events
    person singular
    verb:
    Task 1: Practice 4, p.
    40-41 of
    Communicative
    English 2
    1.2 Sequence
    Connectors
    How?
    i. Sequence stages
    ii. Locate stages:
    First, …/Firstly, …
    Next, … /Then, …
    After that, …
    Subsequently, …
    iii. Describe what
    happens at each
    stage
    (Study & Learning Centre, RMIT, 2005)
    Task 2: Practice 1, p.
    32 of Communicative
    English 2
    1.3 Present Passive Forms
    i. Present Participle:
    a. is/are –en/-ed
    b. e.g is taken, are processed, is put, are cut,
    etc.

    ii. Passivisation:
    a. Sentence construction = [Subj.] [Verb] [Obj.] /
    SVO
    b. Subj. swapped/switched with Obj.

    iii. Addition of ‘by’


    S V O
    Active
    Mary cleans the room.

    S V
    O
    Passive
    The room [is cleaned] by
    Mary.
    Task 3: Practice 1 and
    Practice 3, p.36, 37 and 38 in
    Communicative English 2.
    Written Exercise: Attempt
    the process writing exercise
    given on LMS (under week 5)
    using the language features of
    a report that you’ve learnt so
    far.
    Nor Ainon Zakaria, Aishah Muslim, Mazlin Mohamed
    Mokhtar & Prapagaran Bala Krisnan.
    (2014). Communicative English 3. Polytechnic Series.
    Oxford Fajar Sdn. Bhd.

    Developed by the Study&Learning Centre RMIT. (2005).


    Linking Words. Retrieved on 8th February 2018 from
    https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/4_writingskills/
    writing_tuts/linking_LL/sentence.html

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