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Eapp Lesson 2

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English for Academic and Professional

Purposes
M O D U L E N O. 1 L E S S O N 2

Text
Structures
Objectives:
Explain the specific ideas contained
in various academic texts.
Use knowledge of text structure to
glean the information he/she needs.
Direction: Classify the signal words given below
based on how they are used.

Since because however for instance


Such as although so that important
powerful due to finally later
Based on the activity before, Read
and answer the questions below:
1. Are those signal words
familiar to you? Where do you
usually see or use them?
2. When you are writing
academic texts, do you plan as
to how your text will look like?
3. What writing pattern do you
often use?
How does text
structure help the
readers?
Text structures (WDPI, 2012)
refer to the way authors
organize information in
text. Recognizing the
underlying structure of texts
can help students focus
attention on
key concepts and
relationships, anticipate what
is to come, and monitor their
comprehension as they read.
Common Text
Structures
Why is Text Structure

Important?
The readers can significantly improve
their comprehension and retention of
information
when they can identify and recognize the
text structure of a text.
It can also help them:
• 1. Organize information
and details they are
learning in their minds
while reading.
• 2. Make connections
between the details being
presented in a text
• 3. Summarize the
important details shared in
a text.
Activity:
• Read the passages and
determine what
sentence structure is
used.
• There are two popular sports
played at Milton, basketball, and
volleyball. Both take place inside
of the gym at Milton. Also, each
sport has two teams of people. In
basketball, however, the ball can
be played off of the floor, and in
volleyball, the ball cannot touch
the floor, or it is out of play.
Basketball and volleyball are
popular sports at Milton.
• Lots of students fail classes. Some
students fail because the work is
too hard for them. Other times
they may fail because they are
lazy, and don’t do any work.
Another reason why students
may fail is if they don’t go to
school. If you’re not in class, you
may miss a lot. Many students fail
classes every quarter.
• Dr. Knapp doesn’t want people to sit back
and let the toad vanish. He believes that
everyone is responsible for restoring the
toad species. Dr. Knapp thinks we could help
restore the toad population if we stop
mowing parts of our lawns and let the grass
grow wild to reserve space for the toad. He
also believes we need to stop using
pesticides and fertilizers. The chemicals kill
the insects that toads eat. If we preserve
some spaces in our lawns and stop using
fertilizers, Dr. Knapp believes we can save
• Devers experienced the highlight of any
sprinter’s career, as she stood on the huge
platform in the giant stadium and received an
Olympic gold medal. Eighteen months earlier
she wasn’t thinking about running. She was
hoping that she would be able to walk again.
Just four years earlier, in the summer of 1988,
as Devers was training for the Olympic
Games, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, she
began to feel very tired all the time and failed
to make the Olympic finals.
• The Eiffel Tower is divided into three
sections. I. The lowest section of the
tower contains the entrance, a gift
shop, and a restaurant. II. The
middle section of the tower consists
of stairs and elevators that lead to
the top. III. The top section of the
tower includes an observation deck
with a spectacular view of Paris.
QUESTION:
How does
understanding of
the text structure
help you
comprehend the
text better?
ACTIVITY:
Choose one from the given
writing prompts and make a
300-word essay using a
specific text structure of your
choice. You can submit it
printed or written on a clean
sheet of paper.
Writing Prompts:
1. Mobile phones are both a boon and
a bane for high school students. On
one hand, it puts you in touch with
the real world, on the other, it
discourages real face-to-face
interaction.
Writing Prompts:
2. A lot of medical research
today focuses on developing
medicinal cures to aging.
Presumably, with the right
breakthrough, humankind
would live forever. How do you
feel about this? What can you
say about living a long life?
Writing Prompts:
3. There has been a concentrated
campaign in your school to curb
bullying. While the campaign has
been largely successful within
schools, bullying has now reared its
ugly head in online communities.
How is online bullying different
from real-life bullying? What steps
can be taken to end it?
Writing Prompts:
4. What are the qualities of a
good leader? What can you
learn from the examples of
great leaders in the past?
Writing Prompts:
5. What is your favorite hobby?
Describe how someone could
go about this hobby, and what
benefits he/she can gain from
it?
Optional Writing Prompts:
1. If you could live as any
person for a day, who would
you choose and why?
2. If time travel was possible,
which year would you go
back in time to? Why?
3. Who is your favorite
teacher? How has she/he
affected your education?
Thank you!

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