Text patterns

Text patterns

Poll

How many text patterns have we learnt in the previous lesson?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• More than 5

Multiple Choice

Today nearly any American adult-rich or poor, man or woman, black or white- who is determined to vote can legally and actually do so. Nearly all Americans embrace the symbolism of vote, saying that they have a duty to vote in elections. Nevertheless, many Americans shirk their duty. Millions choose not to vote regularly.

What is the text pattern of this paragraph?

• Listing

• Sequence

• Cause and effect

• Comparison and contrast

Open Ended

America's lower turnout is largely the result of registration requirements and the frequency of elections. Individual Americans are responsible for registering to vote, whereas in most other democracies, voters are registered automatically by government officials. In addition, unlike some other democracies, the United States does not encourage voting by holding elections on the weekend or by imposing penalties, such as fines, on those who do not participate. Another factor is the absence of a major labor or socialist party, which would serve to bring lower-income citizens to the polls. America's individualists culture and its electoral system have inhibited the establishment of a major labor or socialist party. In democracies where such party exist, the turnout difference between upper and lower income groups is relatively small. IN the United States, the gap in the turnout levels of lower and upper-income persons is substantial.

What is the text pattern?

Open Ended

Women did not secure the vote until 1920, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendement. Decades earlier, Susan B. Anthony had tried to vote in her hometown of Rochester, New York, asserting that it was her right as a US citizen. She was arrested for "illegal voting" and told that her proper place was in the home. By 1920, men had run out of excuses for denying the vote to women. As Senetor Wendell Phillips observed, "One of two things is true: either woman is like man-and if she is, then a ballot based on brains belongs to her as well as to him. Or she is different, and then man does not know how to vote for her as she herself does.

What is the text pattern of this paragraph?

Additional paragraph patterns

Additional text pattern

• Definition and example pattern

• Generalization and example pattern

• Location and spatial order pattern

• Summary pattern

• Classification pattern

• Addition pattern

• Statement and clarification pattern

Multiple Choice

The rule for planning weekly study time is to allot two hours of studying for every one hour you spend in class. To illustrate, if you take four three-hour courses, you spend 12 hours a week in class. That means you should allow twice that many hours- 24 hours of study time in your weekly schedule.

What's the text pattern?

• spatial pattern

• addition pattern

• general statment and clarification

• generalization and example pattern

^{Food labels provide important information. For example, the label on Rich Harvest Sweet Dark Whole Grain bread states that one slice has 120 calories.}

^{Food labels provide important information. For example, the label on Rich Harvest Sweet Dark Whole Grain bread states that one slice has 120 calories.}

Generalization and example

Repression is the mind’s power to block fearful thoughts, impulses, and memories. For example, a person may repress or forget painful childhood memories.”

Is this also " generalization and example" text pattern?

Repression is the mind’s power to block fearful thoughts, impulses, and memories. For example, a person may repress or forget painful childhood memories.”

Definition and example pattern^

Multiple Choice

Spot reducing, trying to lose body fat in specific parts of the body by dong exercises for that part, is not effective. As a matter of fact, spot-reducing exercises aid fat loss only to the extent they burn calories. In other words, reducing fat in any specific area can be accomplished only by burning up more calories through metabolism and exercise than are consumed through food.

What is the thought pattern?

• statement and clarification

• definition and example

• generalization and example

• addition pattern

Multiple Choice

Busling New York city is located at the mouth of the Hudson River on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States. It's also the nation's largest city, with the 2000 census showing more than eight million inhabitants. In addition, it boasts the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central park, Brooklyn Bridge, and Times Square, Known as " The Big Apple, " the city is comprised of the five boroughs: Brookyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx.

What's the text pattern?

• Spatial statement

• satement and clarification

• generalization and example

• addition

Further practice

Multiple Choice

There are a number of ways to prevent the spread of colds including: Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

What is the text pattern?

• Addition

• Listing

• Classification

• Sequence

Open Ended

Antibiotics are not effective against viral illnesses. Antiviral drugs typically work by interfering with some part of the viral life cycle. For example, they may prevent a virus from entering body cells or from successfully reproducing within cells. Antivirals are currently available to fight infections caused by HIV, influenza, herpes simplex, varicella-zoster, HBV and HCV. Most other viral diseases must simple run their course.

What is the text pattern?

The end!

Open Ended

Antibiotics are not effective against viral illnesses. Antiviral drugs typically work by interfering with some part of the viral life cycle. For example, they may prevent a virus from entering body cells or from successfully reproducing within cells. Antivirals are currently available to fight infections caused by HIV, influenza, herpes simplex, varicella-zoster, HBV and HCV. Most other viral diseases must simple run their course.

What is the text pattern?