English for Professional and Acad Purposes
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June 4, 2018
Monday
I. OBJECTIVES
Determines the structure of a specific
academic text. CS_11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-1
II. SUBJECT MATTER
a. Topic: Reading Academic Texts
b. Materials: Slide Deck, laptop, projector,
white board
c. Reference: Critical Reading and Writing
for SHS LM, CG pp. 1,
III. PROCEDURES
A. Preliminary Activities
 Prayer
 Checking of attendance
 Review
B. Motivation
1. Ask the students to observe people
talking to one another. Tell them to pay
attention to the hand movements of these
people in conversation.
2. Let the students communicate to one
another without using oral language. Find
out how long the students can sustain their
“silent conversation”
C. Presentation
1. Activity
1. Ask the students to prepare an
outline of the selection. Let them
identify the main headings of the
article.
2. Make the students list the
evidence that vocal language was
a development later than gesture
or signed language.
3. Prepare the following worksheet
indicating the advantages and
disadvantages of the speech or
vocal language, and of gesture or
signed language.
2. Analysis
GUIDE QUESTIONS :
a. How were you able to
come up with the conclusion that
vocal language was a developed
later than gesture or signed
language?
b.
considered in finding the needed
information to our questions?
c. Do you agree with the
statement “vocal language was a
development later than gesture or
signed language” Why?
3. Abstraction
Show the picture to the class. Let
them analyze the parts of the picture. Let
them share their insight about the possible
things that can happen in case one part
of this structure will be taken out.
Structure - the arrangement of and
relations between the parts or
elements of something complex.
An academic text is a kind of text
that is commonly characterized
with being formal, studied,
researched, objective, exact,
direct, and has the ability to
influence its readers.
Structure of an academic Text:
1. Introduction
2. Body
3. Conclusion
PURPOSE:
1. to inform
2. to argue a specific point
3. to persuade
FEATURES:
1. Complex – written language had longer
words, it is lexically more dense and it has
a more varied vocabulary
Written texts are shorter and the language
has more grammatical complexity,
including more subordinate clauses and
more passives
2. Formal – should avoid, colloquial words
and expression
3. Precise – facts are given accurately and
precisely
4. Objective –
- objective rather than personal
- has fewer words that refer to the
writer or the reader
- main emphasis should be on the
information that you want to give and the
arguments you want to make rather than
you
5. Explicit – it is the responsibility of the
writer in English to make it clear to the
reader how the various parts of the text
are related
6. Accurate
- uses vocabulary accurately
- most subjects have words with
narrow specific meanings
years ago. The Cretaceous Period was
the last period of the dinosaurs. It spanned
a time from 138 million to about 65 million
years ago. In this period the continents
fully separated. However, Australia and
Antarctica were still united.
V. ASSIGNMENT
1. Assign students to do a
research on the origin of
language.
2. Ask them to comment on the
different theories of language
origin.
3. Let the students discuss other
developments in
communication (e.g., written
language, electronic or
computer-mediated
communication).

4. Application
Each group will be given a copy of
passage to read. The group will
identify the text structure by writing
the information in the appropriate
graphic organizer.

IV. EVALUATION
Read the passages and on a sheet of
paper, make an appropriate graphic
organizer. Feel free to make changes if
necessary.

1. The Age of the Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs existed about 250 million years

ago to 65 million years ago. This era is
broken up into three periods known as the
Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
The Triassic Period lasted for 35 million
years from 250-205 million years ago.
Planet Earth was a very different place
back then. All the continents were united
to form one huge land mass known as
Pangaea. The Jurassic Period was the
second phase. The continents began
shifting apart. The time scale for this
famous period is from 205 to 138 million