A. Study the following text and its schematic structure. The Public Trustee is a Sound Investment - Media 3 _GBW.pdf

  Session Analytical Exposition

4 A. Study the follow ing text and its schematic structure.

  The Public Trustee is a Sound I nvestment

  Schematic Structure

  I t is a well-known fact that it is a dilemma for many people to make a will, without the added problems of deciding who should draw up this

  Thesis: Position document.

  This task is made simple with the availability of service from the Public Trust Officer. Firstly the Office has a large efficient staff which includes barristers, solicitors, accountants, valuers, and qualified property inspector. Knowledge of the legal aspect is very well covered. Also the charges need consideration. Here at this

  Arguments Office there are no charges for making or the holding of a will.

  Furthermore, the Public Trustee is guaranteed by the State of Queensland and has special powers to solve problems or simplify procedures which, in the long term, save expense.

  Reiteration/ Therefore, it can be clearly seen that there is only one sound choice in making your will – the Public

  Summing Up Trustee – as it is permanent, efficient, and secure.

  You should consider this!

B. Study the follow ing text and its linguistic features.

  Linguistic Features

  I t is a well-known fact that it is a

  Words that dilemma for many people to make a will, indicate writ er’s

  without the added problems of deciding at titude who should draw up this document.

  This task is made simple with the availability of service from the Public Trust

  Verbs of Officer. thinking and

  Firstly the Office has a large efficient

  feeling

  staff which includes barristers, solicitors, accountants, valuers, and qualified property inspector. Knowledge of the legal aspect is very w ell covered.

  Verbs of Also the charges need consideration. having and

  Here at this Office there are no charges for being making or the holding of a will.

  Furthermore, the Public Trustee is guaranteed by the State of Queensland and has special pow ers to solve problems or simplify procedures which, in the long

  Modalities term, save expense.

  Therefore, it can be clearly seen that there is only one sound choice in making your will – the Public Trustee – as it is permanent, efficient, and secure. You

  should consider this! Taken from English for Special Purposes, 1992.

  Session News Item

5 A. Study the follow ing text and its schematic structure.

  Schematic Structure Russian Nuclear Catastrophe Headline

  Moscow—A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet

  

New sw orthy nuclear catastrophe, w hich killed 10

Event

  sailors and contaminated an entire town.

  Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of Shkotovo-22 near Vladivostock.

  The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base

  Background

  and nearby town, but was covered up

  Events by officials of the then Soviet Union.

  Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean-up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated materials were sw orn to secrecy.

  A board of investigators was later

  Sources to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

B. Study the follow ing text and its Linguistic features.

  Linguistic Features

  Action verb/ Mental Moscow—A Russian journalist has

  Process uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, w hich killed 10

  Action verb sailors and contaminated an entire town.

  Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who Action verb witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of

  Circumstance of Shkotovo-22 near Vladivostock. place The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster,

  Circumstance of spread radioactive fall-out over the base time and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the then Soviet Union.

  Circumstance of Residents were told the explosion in the place reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those

  Saying verb involved in the clean-up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated materials were sw orn to secrecy.

  Saying verb A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

  Taken from Making Sense of Functional Grammar, 1995. Session Anecdote

6 A. Study the follow ing text and its schematic structure.

  Schematic Structure Snake in the Bath

  How would you like to find a snake in Abstract your bath? A nasty one too!

  We had just moved into a new house, which had been empty for so long that everything was in a terrible mess. Anna and I

  Orientation decided we would clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned on the tap.

  Suddenly to my horror, a snake’s head appeared in the plug-hole. Then out slithered Crisis the rest of his long thin body. He twisted and turned on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting and hissing at us.

  For an instant I stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily came running and killed the snake with the handle of a broom. Anna, who was only

  I ncident three at the time, was quite interested in the whole business. I ndeed I had to pull her out of the way or she’d probably have leant over the bath to get a better look!

  We found out later that it was a black mamba, a poisonous kind of snake. I t had obviously been fast asleep, curled up at the bottom of the nice warm water-pipe. I t must have had an awful shock when the cold water

  Coda/ Evaluation came trickling down! But nothing to the shock I got! Ever since then I ’ve always put the plug in firmly before running the bath water.

B. Study the follow ing text and its linguistic features.

  Linguistic Features Snake in the Bath

  How w ould you like to find a snake Rhetorical in your bath? A nasty one too! Question We had just moved into a new house, w hich had been empty for so long that everything w as in a terrible mess. Exclamation Anna and I decided w e w ould clean the bath first, so w e set to, and turned on the

  Temporal tap. Conjunction

  Suddenly to my horror, a snake’s head appeared in the plug-hole. Then out Action Verb slithered the rest of his long thin body. He tw isted and turned on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting and hissing Action Verb at us. For an instant I stood there quite I ntensifier paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, w ho luckily came running and killed the snake w ith the handle of a broom. Anna, Action Verb w ho w as only three at the time, w as quite interested in the w hole business. I ndeed I had to pull her out of the w ay or she’d probably have leant over the bath Action Verb to get a better look! We found out later that it w as a black mamba, a poisonous kind of snake. I t had obviously been fast asleep, curled Exclamation up at the bottom of the nice w arm w ater- pipe. I t must have had an aw ful shock w hen the cold w ater came trickling dow n! But nothing to the shock I got! Ever since then I ’ve alw ays put the plug Action Verb in firmly before running the bath w ater.

  Taken from Making Sense of Functional Grammar, 1995.

  

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