The document discusses the history and spread of plague. It was widespread in Europe in the 1300s, killing 25 million people. Once it was understood that plague was spread by rats on ships, rodent extermination ended the major outbreaks. In 1900, plague occurred in an epidemic in San Francisco and required destroying infected squirrels in addition to rat control measures. Rodents in western and southwestern US continue carrying the infection and transmitting it to other rodents like prairie dogs. The plague remains endemic to sparsely populated areas of the US, with scattered cases since 1900 but no serious outbreaks. The predominant theme-rheme pattern is constant.
The document discusses the history and spread of plague. It was widespread in Europe in the 1300s, killing 25 million people. Once it was understood that plague was spread by rats on ships, rodent extermination ended the major outbreaks. In 1900, plague occurred in an epidemic in San Francisco and required destroying infected squirrels in addition to rat control measures. Rodents in western and southwestern US continue carrying the infection and transmitting it to other rodents like prairie dogs. The plague remains endemic to sparsely populated areas of the US, with scattered cases since 1900 but no serious outbreaks. The predominant theme-rheme pattern is constant.
The document discusses the history and spread of plague. It was widespread in Europe in the 1300s, killing 25 million people. Once it was understood that plague was spread by rats on ships, rodent extermination ended the major outbreaks. In 1900, plague occurred in an epidemic in San Francisco and required destroying infected squirrels in addition to rat control measures. Rodents in western and southwestern US continue carrying the infection and transmitting it to other rodents like prairie dogs. The plague remains endemic to sparsely populated areas of the US, with scattered cases since 1900 but no serious outbreaks. The predominant theme-rheme pattern is constant.
The document discusses the history and spread of plague. It was widespread in Europe in the 1300s, killing 25 million people. Once it was understood that plague was spread by rats on ships, rodent extermination ended the major outbreaks. In 1900, plague occurred in an epidemic in San Francisco and required destroying infected squirrels in addition to rat control measures. Rodents in western and southwestern US continue carrying the infection and transmitting it to other rodents like prairie dogs. The plague remains endemic to sparsely populated areas of the US, with scattered cases since 1900 but no serious outbreaks. The predominant theme-rheme pattern is constant.
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Assignment
Identify theme and rheme in this text (Circle the theme and underline the rheme in each sentence). Which pattern of theme and rheme sequencing is predominant in this extract?
1. Plague is a disease carried by animals, primarily by rodents, and by people.
2. It was widespread in Europe, where in the 1300s, 25 million people died and raging
epidemics spread as late as the latter part of the seventeenth century.
3. Once people became aware of the fact that plague was spread by rats that carried the
epidemic on ships from one port to another, rodent extermination put an end to the
devastating plagues in the world.
4. In the United States, plague occurred in epidemic strength in San Francisco in 1900.
5. Intensive rat control measures were employed immediately, but squirrels in the area had
been infected and had to be destroyed too.
6. Descendants of these rodents continue the infection and have transmitted it to other
rodents such as prairie dogs in the western and southwestern parts of the United States.
7. The plague is endemic to those areas that are sparsely populated.
8. There have been scattered cases of plague since 1900, but no serious outbreaks.
1. theme: plague 2. theme: it 3. theme: Once people....extermination 4. theme: in the United States,
plague 5. 2 themes: intensive rat control measures + squirrels in the area 6. theme: descendant of
these rodents 7. theme: the plague 8. theme: there / there have been → predominant pattern: constant
