Unit 5.3 grammar + strategy
5.1
1 | Strategy
Writing an opinion paragraph
An opinion paragraph is a piece of writing in which a writer express their thoughts and feelings about a topic. It has a topic sentence, a body and a concluding sentence.
Topic sentence = tells the reader whether you agree or disagree with a topic.
In another charmed creative year for BBH, the agency's greatest work was literally a fairy tale.
Body = state your opinion, provide reasons and evidence to support it.
Concluding sentence = summarises the main reasons or restates the topic sentence in different words.
With a huff and a puff, BBH delivered the year's greatest mix of craft and storytelling - a rousing triumph in an industry that needed it.
2 | Grammar
Adverb or adjective?
Adjectives
describe nouns, not verbs
they can come before or after the noun
Adverbs
describe verbs
can also modify adjectives or other adverbs
Adverbs
Adverb | Meaning & Example | Similar Word | Meaning & Example |
|---|---|---|---|
hard | = intenselyWe all worked extremely hard. | hardly | = barelySome countries can hardly feed their own people. |
easily | = with easeManchester won the match easily. | easy | = slowRelax, take it easy! |
late | = not on timeI hate it when people are late. | lately | = recentlyWhat have you been doing lately? |
sure | = of courseCan you lend me some money? Sure. | surely | = obviouslySurely you can see that your plan just wouldn't work? |
wrongly | = falselyHe was wrongly accused of being a spy. | wrong | = badAt first, everything was great, but then it all went wrong. |
freely | = without restrictionsHe talked freely about his criminal past. | free | = at libertyThe prisoner walked free after 20 years in jail. |
most | = bestWhat do you like most about me? | mostly | = mainlyShe worked wherever she could, mostly in restaurants. |
widely | = a lotShe has travelled widely in Europe and Asia. | wide | = all the wayWhen I got home, the door was wide open. |
5.3: flashcards
extreme flight:
5.1. Dunglish/Denglish
Dunglish (or some prefer the term 'Denglish') is a term used for English mixed with a bit of Dutch.
Often people try to translate literally and then fail horribly.
Ready player One:
Nowadays, selling stuff online seems like the way to go. Almost all shops have an online webshop. Who wants to go out shopping when it can simply be delivered to your doorstep? But what if ... you never have to leave your house? What if the outside world is off limits and the online world is the only world that matters?
Isn't that the dream? You can even let people buy 'upgrades' that they never get in person, but only online. That might be the ultimate form of marketing. That is what happens in Ready Player One.
Vocabulary:
famine = to be hungry
to jack into = to connect to something
to scatter = to be spread
fruitlessly = unsuccessful
sprawling= uitgestrekt
pitted against = opgezet, uitgespeeld tegen
questions
- Why do you think the book is called Ready Player One?
- Have you ever felt the need to escape online?
- Do you recognise some parallels between this story and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Ready player one as a quest
A popular type of video game is a quest, where you pretend to be a character and you have to look for something with a whole lot of side quests. A quest is actually something that has existed since the Medieval Times. Of course in those times, people couldn't play a videogame so they listened to stories. Stories about the brave King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. You may have studied one of those stories in Dutch.
Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One, makes a lot of references to King Arthur in his novel. The reference is deliberate. Wade must go on a quest, like so many knights of king Arthur did, to become the 'king' of OASIS.
