Photocopiable tasks Photocopiabie casks Reference using articles 1 Read the text and explain why the definite article (the) is used. Why do we know what is being referred to? 1 the youth - s young man (tine 1). A certain girl was given by her parents to a young man in marriage. She did not care for the' youth, so she refused and said that she would choose a husband for herself. Shortly after there came to the2 village a fine young man of great strength and beauty. The3 girl fell in love with him at first sight and told her parents that she had found the4 man she wished to marry, and as the.5 latter was not unwillingihe6 marriage soon took place. Now it happened that£hg7 young man was not a mars at ail, but a hyena Jot although as a rule women change into hyenas and men into hawks, the.8 hyena can change itself into either man or woman as it may please. [.., | Reference using pronouns 2 Read the text and identify the underlined words. Find the following. • a subject personal pronoun she • an object personal pronoun • a relative pronoun ■ an indefinite pronoun • a reflexive pronoun • a demonstrative pronoun This1 is whata woman did, She2 was then living in the bush, never showing herself3 to anyone". £hfi5 had living with he/ just one daughter, Mo.7 used to pass the day in the fork of a tree making baskets. One day there appeared a man just when the mother had gone to kill game. {jg8 found the girl making baskets as usual. 'jiere now!' jig9 said. There are people here in the bush! And that girl, what a beauty! Yet ibsy.10 leave hei! 1 alone. If the king were to marry hsi'2. would not all theother queens leave the place?; |... | 3 Now identify the referent (the person or thing being referred to) of each of the underlined pronouns. From Carter, A. (Ed.) 1990,1991. The Virago Book ofFairyTales. London: Virago, p. 64. Task 4: Cohe&im Read the text and identify the ways that it is Joined together (or made cohesive). Find examples of the following. 1 lexical cohesion: • direct repetition bad breath (lines 1, 2,5, 7) • synonyms • antonyms • words from the same semantic field; lists 2 grammatical cohesion • reference: pronouns • reference: articles ■ ellipsis of clause elements • conjuncts (also called linkers) • tense 3 rhetorical cohesion • question-answer Bad Breath: Why you're always the last to know. A simple question: when someone you know or work with has bad breath, do you tell them? • If you're like most people, the answer is probably "No." Which means thatnobody is going to tell you when you have bad breath. So to be sure you don't, use RetarDEX® products. • They're guaranteed to banted breath, because they actually get, rid of something dentists call Volatile Sulphur Compounds, orVSCs. « These are the end products of bacteria feeding off dead cell tissue and debris in the mouth that, hardly surprising, smell terrible. a Ordinary mouthwashes, toothpastes and sprays only mask the odour with a nicer smell which soon wears off. But the clinically proven RetarDEX range of 24-hour oral care products has a patented active ingredient called CloSYS II® which eliminates these VCSs and rapidly restores fresh breath. • So don't wait for someone to tel I you. Because they won't. © Scott Thombury and Macrnillan Publishers Limited, 2005. This page may be photocopied for use in dass. © Scott Thornbury and Macmiltan Publishers Limited, 200S. This page may be photocopied for use in class.