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Language and Linguistics Unit 2 Physical Aspects
of Language

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Lesson Plan for Activity 1,Unit 2
1. Introduction and warm-up (10 min)
2 Key terms explanation (15 min)
3. Concepts elaboration (20 min)
4. Review (5 min)
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1. Introduction and warm-up
How many media do you often use to contact people?
Telephone E-mail Face to face conversation
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Have you thought what mode of communication they
belong to?
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Steps Involved in a Speech Act
Step 1 Idea. Plan what you will say.
Step 2 Articulate. Vocalize the phonetic sounds.
Which step will we focus on in this unit?
Step 3 Travel. Sounds travel through the air
acoustically.
Step 4 Receive. Eardrums convert signal and
message is processed.
A1 T1 P48-49
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Steps Involved in Writing
Step 1 Idea. Plan what you will write.
Step 2 Compose. Develop your writing into
coherent discourse.
What differences do you see between speaking and
writing?
Step 3 Send. Printed form is delivered to reader.
Step 4 Read. Eyes transmit sensory information
for processing.
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2. Key terms explanation

• Articulate, Vocalize make a speech sound
• Phonetics study of speech sounds
• Acoustically through sound

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3. Concepts elaboration

• When animals use mating calls, there is only one
  meaning.
• Aiyo!, Ha! and Ouch! are simple
  expressions.
• Speech (including sign language) and writing
  (including Braille) are more complex mediums.

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What we hear and what we read are physical
aspects of language they are physical
representations of language.
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4. Review

• We often talk about language skills, such as
  speaking, listening, writing and reading, as if
  they were simple concepts. Do you still think
  that they are simply concepts or actually very
  complicated processes?