Lead-in: Answer the following questions and create an association map of the concept.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 403.

LISTENING

Choose one or two paragraphs from the text above and identify the theme and the rheme of each sentence, then define the pattern of organizing information in them.

Study the following information.

Identifying the theme and the rheme

LANGUAGE FOCUS

· In order for a paragraph to be easy to read, the information in it must flow easily from one sentence to the next. To do this it is important to structure your information clearly and signal exactly what you want to say by the use of signalling words.

· Most sentences in English have two parts a theme (or topic) and a rheme (or comment). The theme is what you are writing about - it is shared information and it has been introduced to your reader. The rheme is what you are saying about the theme - it is new information, what you want to tell your reader.

e.g. 1. The M1 (the theme) goes from London to Leeds (the rheme).

2. The motorway from London to Leeds (the theme) is called the M1 (the rheme).

· There are two basic choices in organising information texts:

1. The rheme of one sentence becomes the theme of the next sentence.

2. The theme of one sentence is the same as the theme of the next sentence.

A mixture of the two is also possible. http://www.uefap.com/writing/parag/par_flow.htm

1. What is information society?

2. What characteristic features of information society can you name?