English - personal texts

This blog will talk about PERSONAL TEXT, where the everyday and the transcedente what happens to everyone, as we can identify these characteristics and classification evaluation as well as a small section where you can apply what you learn is told.

Personal texts narrate and describe the everyday and the transcedente of everyone. They talk about the events here and to date; well as the past or projections of the future, from intimate emotions and experiences with use of records or variations of the language conditioned by the communicative situation. These actions to narrate, describe and discuss as emotional, support to confront their own realities and tidy everyday situations. The personal daily texts, memories, autobiographies, travel notebooks, letters, electronic messages, diaries, blogs, and class notes among others. Enable communication whose treatment is more familiar, so the language is more colloquial.

FEATURES
the writings of personal character have external and internal characteristics.
The first refers to the surface, what we notice when sliding an eye on them.
Internal are observable when we get into the text and interact with.

EXTERNAL FEATURES:
VARIABLE STRUCTURE: means that the author of a personal text has the freedom to organize their iseas as he pleases, ie can do it in verse, prose, divided into paragraphs or as Juzge convenient.
FREE EXTENSION: ranging from a simple line to span multiple pages; this depends on the type of text in question, and nesecidad the intention of the user and context in which it occurs.
PRESENTATION AND ORGANIZATION: Refers to how the content is distributed, including the formality or lack thereof. This quality allows us to distinguish at a glance whether it is a message, a letter, a note, etc.
ADDITIONAL IMAGES: they can be drawings, underline, color or other visual stimulus that accompanies or Reinforce the content and add meaning to the writing staff.

INTERNAL FEATURES:
Subjectivity: trait that has to do with the personal, intimate and unique to each individual; reflects their way of thinking, feeling and expression.

DAILY LANGUAGE: usually these texts are written in colloquial language, the presence of connotative expressions, for example: "I ​​was breathing fire eyes" or "going to die of surprise." It can be said that there is freedom in the use of the lexicon to use own words according to their age, condition or context; it is also common to find nicknames, abbreviations and code words.

Use of the first person: In the condition of the subjective, often find expressions in the first person, for example: "I'll call you later," "come tomorrow", etc.
Simple Syntax refers to the way the sentences are structured, usually done simply, without much complexity or affectation. For example: "see you at 5", "do not miss". Needless to say it also depends on the hearer, it reflects your personality.
Using prototypes Support: This last is because there may be narration, description, and even dialogue.

CLASSIFIED

HISTORICAL:
A historical text is a written document that can provide, after interpretation, some knowledge about the human past.

a) Autobiography (auto = self bios = life and graph = writing) is the life of a person written by herself as the person think about how it looks.
b) Journal: stories of us, what happens to us.
d) Travel Notebook: is usually a kind of diary of a Salesman, where he writes everything he sees, striking him or her seems odd and different from your country, the truth is that thanks to them, we can learn about other customs and other countries, although that was true when there was no television, now the best way to learn is with documentaries.
family:
Reflect the life of a family, of a generation. They can be stories, letters, family journal The language used is simple.
a) Trivia: is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. An anecdote is always based on a true story, an incident with characters as real people, in real places.
b) Letter: is a media writing that a transmitter (sender) sends his receiver (recipient) usually enclosed in an envelope.
c) mail Message: Through emails you can send not only text, but all kinds of digital documents. Its efficiency, convenience and low cost are making the move to mail regular mail for many common uses.
school
a) Point Class: Written taken of courses for teachers of any grade or school level, used for the study, understanding and application of knowledge of the subject matter.
b) Agenda: PDA, a device or program that lets you store notes. Agenda (meeting), a list of items to be discussed at a meeting.
c) Log: is used to name a written record of the actions conducted in a certain job or task
d) Workbooks: Notebook or job log is a notebook in which students, designers and artists, among others, develop their sketches, ideas and take note of any information which they believe could be useful to their work.
Personal texts are very useful to us in our everyday life, since it empliamos difirentes scopes on it, they can result from formal to informal depending on the type of text you want to write.
We hope that will be helpful, I share an evaluation.

Indicator: Identifies the function of personal texts, by letter.
Level of Learning: Conceptual
activities:
Why learn to write ?, what good ?, we can express the same manner
oral to written?
• Read the letter from Ernesto Guevara wrote to his children.

Dear Hilda, Aleidita, Camilo, Celia and Ernesto:
If you ever get to read this letter, it is because I am not among uste-
des. Most will not remember me and the little ones will not remember anything. his
father was a man who thinks and acts as has certainly been true to his
convictions.
Grow up as good revolutionaries. Study hard to master
the technique to master nature. Remember that the Revolution
tion is important and that each of us, alone, is worth nothing. about
all, always be capable of feeling most deeply any injustice
committed against anyone anywhere in the world. It is the quality most
Cute revolutionary.
Farewell, little children, I hope to see yet. A big kiss and a big
hug
dad

Consultado el 2 de junio de 2011.

<http://www.radiohc.cu/che/paginas/cartahijos.htm>

• Name the parts of the letter and write them down on the line to the left.
a) Wave
b) Body
c) Development
d) Signature


• Choose the option to answer the question correctly.



1 For what purpose this letter wrote Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
a) Saying goodbye to their children.
b) Justify that is a revolutionary man.
c) Ask them to consider.
d) Do not forget your children.

Support activities

2 What language function predominates?
a) Fact
b) Emotions
c) Appeals
d) Poetics
3 What message their children?
a) They are revolutionaries.
b) study for world domination.
c) They are not revolutionaries.
d) That he ("Che") is a revolutionary and so die.
4 What features does the language used?
a) Literary Language
b) Slang
c) Technical Language
d) coarse language

Evaluation. Reading the letter, identifying the parts of it, reading and reference to the role of language.