T3.C1.6 | Academic Text Structure | Introduction

​Reflect on the following essential questions then type your answers to each.

Open Ended

Essential Question 1: What is a text?

Open Ended

Essential Question 2: What are the distinguishing characteristics of an academic text?

​At the end of this lesson, revisit your answers then see if you should change or retain them.

Reorder

Rearrange the following sentences in the order that you believe makes sense. (from PTE Academic Exam, 2017)

• So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.

• Ambassadors have to choose their words.

• They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.

• As officials, their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.

• To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know. 

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