Text work
Jumbled text exercise from Working with texts:
Below you will see a set of sentences taken from three different texts.
1. Can you sort them into texts
2. and identify the text type and its purpose?
3. What helped you?
4. Identify the different features which allowed you to identify the text
type.
5.Were there any features which did NOT help or which put you on the
wrong track?
Allow the fruit to steam in its own juice for a further 15 minutes. So she
hated it when that infuriating Keith Scott seemed to go out of his way to
suggest that her heart wasn’t in the affair. That’s why we created
‘Portfolio’, a brand new concept in saving. Put them in a fireproof dish
with the water, and a tablespoon of the sugar. She knew that he loved her –
in a calm, settled way rather than any grand passion – and that he would
make her a good kind husband. Ensuring that the lid is tightly sealed, put
the dish into a preheated oven, Gas Regulo 6. So that way you can have
your cake and eat it too. Pour over the top and serve with double cream.
Melodie Neil and Jed Martin were old friends. Mix juice with the brandy,
mulled wine and the rest of the sugar. We do too. Wash and core the
apples, taking care to remove all pips. In short, when she became engaged
to him she knew exactly what she was doing. Spoon out the cooked apples
and arrange them attractively in rounds on a serving plate. Do you feel that
you never get a fair slice of the capital cake? Slice finely. Portfolio is a
high interest investment account that makes your money work for you,
while still giving you instant access to your capital. Reduce temperature to
3 after 10 minutes.
COHESION
grammatical and lexical cohesive ties
 Pick up a handful of soil in your garden. Ordinary, unexciting earth. Yet it is one of nature’s
miracles and one of her most complex products. Your success as a gardener will largely
depend on its condition, so take the first step in gardening. Get to know your soil.
Grammatical cohesion personal reference
Grammatical cohesion demonstrative reference
Grammatical cohesion verb forms imperative
Lexical cohesion semantic field (gardening/nature)
A.Romantic narrative
Melodie Neil and Jed Martin were old friends.
She knew that he loved her – in a calm, settled way rather than any grand
passion – and that he would make her a good kind husband. In short, when
she became engaged to him she knew exactly what she was doing.
So she hated it when that infuriating Keith Scott seemed to go out of his
way to suggest that her heart wasn’t in the affair.
Grammatical cohesion personal reference
Grammatical cohesion demonstrative reference
Grammatical cohesion past tense verb forms
Lexical cohesion semantic field (love, emotions, relatioinshipsmale and female names)
B. Advertisement for a financial investment product
Do you feel that you never get a fair slice of the capital cake?
We do too.
That’s why we created ‘Portfolio’, a brand new concept in saving. Portfolio
is a high interest investment account that makes your money work for you,
while still giving you instant access to your capital.
So that way you can have your cake and eat it too.
Grammatical cohesion personal reference
Grammatical cohesion demonstrative reference
Grammatical cohesion direct questions
Lexical cohesion semantic field (finance, investment; problem/solution i.e. negative followed by positive evaluation)
NB. The metaphor of the cake could have led you to assign some sentences
to the wrong text. The use of a proverb such as to have one’s cake and eat
it is quite common in advertising calling on shared knowledge.
C. Recipe for baked apples in mulled wine.
Wash and core the apples, taking care to remove all pips. Slice finely. Put
them in a fireproof dish with the water, and a tablespoon of the sugar.
Ensuring that the lid is tightly sealed, put the dish into a preheated oven,
Gas Regulo 6. Reduce temperature to 3 after 10 minutes. Allow the fruit
to steam in its own juice for a further 15 minutes. Spoon out the cooked
apples and arrange them attractively in rounds on a serving plate. Mix
juice with the brandy, mulled wine and the rest of the sugar. Pour over the
top and serve with double cream.
Grammatical cohesion personal reference
Grammatical cohesion demonstrative reference
Grammatical cohesion use of imperative to give instructions
Lexical cohesion semantic field, ingredients with measurements, food items cooking terms, timing, kitchen
equipment
Try this one:
Senja Island, Norway
There can't be many places where the scenery is quite as dramatic as Senja, where jagged mountains plunge into
fjords. Hire a car and drive round the island – with each tunnel you exit, and each new fjord view, you will think it
can't get any more astounding, but it does. Even better, there are hardly any tourists – most go to the nearby Lofoten
Islands. Get in touch with Bent at Senja Mountain Lodge (senjalodge.com): he'll take you off-piste skiing, climbing
or snowshoeing.
What aspects of cohesion are illustrated by the elements in the different colours? E.g. yellow =
lexical cohesion semantic field of place