National Learning Camp Grade 7 ENGLISH 7-LESSON 7.pptx

grade 7 english

1. English Enhancement 7 Lesson 7: Features of Expository Texts

2. Component 1: Short Review Q1.Look at these headings taken from textbooks and decide whether they are Expository or Explanation text types – write your answers on the Worksheet: 1. How Does Rain Happen? 2. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes 3. Japan 4. Why the Dinosaurs Became Extinct

3. Component 1: Short Review Q2: .With a partner, work out 3 types of information you would expect to find in a text called ‘Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes’ and write them on your worksheet.

4. Component 2: Purpose of the lesson This lesson we look at a short Expository text and we are going to see how it works so that when you get a text to read that you have not seen before you know: whether it is an Expository text such as an Information Report how it works – its parts or structure – how it starts and then how the rest of it is organized where its most important information is located. Expository texts like Information Reports usually have 2 major components: A definition of the topic or thing, sometimes called a classification. Paragraphs for the each of the various aspects of the topic or thing.

5. Component 3: Lesson Language Practice multimedia Integrated animation interactivity hypermedia infographics webinar

6. Component 3: Lesson Language Practice multimedia- is a form of communication that combines different content forms integrated together. Integrated- a number of different things combined together in such a way that they form a whole Animation- cartoons Interactivity- “the ability of a computer, program or other content to respond to the actions of the person who is using it. Hypermedia- another term for multimedia, usually involving links between sites and functions on the internet Infographics- a visual rather than a verbal presentation of information Webinar- an event on the internet where people can join in using their computer.

7. Component 4: Lesson Activity

8. Component 4B Questions Q1.What goes in the opening paragraph of an Information Report? Q2.Give each paragraph a heading that indicates which aspect of multimedia they are about. Match each heading to the components of Expository texts/Information Reports that we talked about at the start of the lesson. Q3.How does the author show that multimedia ‘enables us to keep up with the times’?

9. Component 4C Questions Q4. Define multimedia in your own words. Q5. List the things in the first 2 paragraphs that are examples of multimedia when used together. Q6. Imagine that your job was to design an advertisement for multimedia that would show its benefits to society. You have to write the script for a webpage or TV advertisement. a. How would you change the heading? b. How would you change the first paragraph? c. How would you change the last sentence? d. What visuals would you add?