Section E Reading Skills Referents Bg

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Section E Reading Skills- Referents B(g)

• It is a BAD style to write
• Mary shouted. Vivian heard Mary
• Why is it BAD?
• ? Clumsy
• ?unnecessarily repetitive

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Referents

• Referent-is applied to all words that act as
  substitute.
• Referents refer (backward or forward) to things
  or people mentioned elsewhere in the text.

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Forms of referents

• A. Pronouns
• B. Paraphrase (rewrite)
• e.g. The public in America is concerned about
  Americas crime rate
• ? The public in America is concerned about the
  countrys crime rate.
• C. Pro-verbs
• e.g. I told him to jump and he jumped.? I told
  him to jump, and he did so.

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• D. Inclusive relatives
• e.g. He turned right. Turning right was wrong.
• He turned right, which was wrong.
• E. Indicators
• e.g. the following as before
• the above rule the diagram below

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WHY should we learn this skill?

• It is the mark of a good reader that he/she
  recognizes, very quickly, what each referent in a
  text refers to. Good readers are also quick to
  recognize ambiguous referents, and have a
  techniques for dealing with them. When they meet
  them, they pause and re-read the sentence, then
  make a quick decision about the referents
  correct meaning.? understand the text !!!

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Exercise A - Pronouns

• 1 a. it the situation of having so many children
• 1 b. it could be understood as referring to the
  
• child
• 2 a It was a local resident ( who saw the
  monster)
• 2 b it could be understood as referring to the
• monster
• 3 a. Can you tell me why ( I cannot get sick
  pay/)
• 3 b Could be understood as Can you tell me why
• I have six children?

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Exercise B - Paraphrase

• The problem
• 2. The area
• 3. The style
• 4. The vehicles
• 5. The project
• 6. The theory
• 7. The custom

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Exercise C

• They Bloomingdales
• their Bloomingdales
• their the clothes of HK designers
• the country the USA
• This the seven-week promotion
• a top fashion designer Michael Arcenaux
• His a top fashion designer
• it looks - impersonal expression
• this promoting HK designers
• him Michael Arcenaux

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Reading texts Exercise A 3

• One of the biggest fashion events after
• One of the first event before
• It before
• Of which before
• Which before
• A Japanese director after
• Which before
• Which before
• One NIL
• He or she before
• When - before
• The following themes after
• The category - before

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Reading Texts Exercise C

• Dates of Fashion Week January 18-21
• Covers an area of 9,000 square meters
• Chairman of organizing committee
• 
  Kenneth Fang
• Premiere shoe Title EGO
• Time 35 mins.
• It will show fashions for autumn / winter

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• No. of womens garments 155
• No. for mens 30
• Divided into 5 categories
• Date of exhibitors from
• the USA 6 Japan 5 China 20
• Britain 1 Taiwan 5 Italy 2
• Total No. of exhibitors 181 Text A
• 262 Text B
• Fashions included ALL