POWERPOINT PRESENTATION IN COHESIVE DEVICES- GRADE 8 LESSON FOR SECOND QUARTER

1. COHESIVE DEVICES
Using Appropriate Cohesive Devices

2. COMMUNICATION
• LANGUAGE IS USED TO COMMUNICATE
WITH EACH OTHER AND TO REPRESENT
THEIR IDEAS OR THOUGHTS
• CAN BE IN FORM OF WRITTEN AS WELL
AS SPOKEN DISCOURSE
• REASON WHY WE USE ONE OR MORE
WORD OR/AND MORE THAN ONE
SENTENCE
• SENTENCES CAN BE USED AS A UNIFIED
WHOLE OR SEPARATE UNRELATED
SENTENCES
• SO, WE PRODUCED LONG TEXTS

3. COHESIVE DEVICES
•IS A DEVICE THAT HOLDS
DIFFERENT PARTS OF A
THING TOGETHER
•SINGLE WORDS OR
PHRASES THAT HOLDS AND
HANG DIFFERENT PARTS OF
A TEXTS
•BASICALLY, TOOLS FOR
COHESION

4. FUNCTION
• MAJOR FUNCTION OF COHESION IS
TEXT FORMATION
• HELPS ACHIEVING UNITY OF THE
TEXT AS A SEMANTIC WHOLE
• A TEXT MUST BE MEANINGFUL – A
TEXT THAT IS NOT COHESIVE IS
NOT MEANINGFUL
• SHOWS THE LOGICAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS
• EXTEND CONTENT
• IMPROVES READING SKILLS AND
COMPREHENSION SKILLS

5. IMPORTANCE
•SEMANTIC SYSTEM CANNOT BE EFFECTIVELY ACTIVATED AT ALL
•LINKS TOGETHER STRUCTURALLY UNRELATED ELEMENTS
MEANING OF A WORD, PHRASE,
SENTENCE OR A TEXT

6. EXAMPLES

9. TYPES OF
COHESIVE
DEVICES
REFERENCE
SUBSTITUTION
ELLIPSIS
CONJUNCTIONS
LEXICAL ITEMS

10. REFERENCE

11. EXAMPLE

14. SUBSTITUTION

16. ELIPSIS

18. CONJUNCTION

19. LEXICAL COHESION