This document discusses tone and how to identify an author's tone. It defines tone as the author's attitude toward the subject or audience. Tone is conveyed through word choice and details. The document provides examples of words that indicate positive, negative, and neutral tones. It explains that understanding tone helps comprehend the author's intentions. To identify tone, readers must infer it from the descriptive words an author uses and how their language reveals their perspective. The document includes examples of passages with annotations of the implied tones for practice identifying tone.

1. Warm-up activity
Identifying author’s tone (attitude)
Group 11: Bui Bich Phuong
Ha Thi Nga

2. Part 1. Theory
• What is tone?
• Why do students need to
understand the author’s tone?
• How to identify tone?
Part 2. Practice

3. 1. What is tone?
Tone is:
 The attitude that an author takes toward
the audience, the subject, or the character
 Conveyed through the author’s words and
detail

4. Words that describe tone
POSITIVE NEGATIVE NEUTRAL
- Optimistic - Pessimistic - Detached,
- Formal - Informal objective : khách
-Humorous , witty - Sarcastic, Ironic quan
:mỉa mai - Authoritative: có
- Amused, Cheerful
- Critical căn cứ chính xác
- Joyful, jubilant,
- Threatening, Horror - straightforward:
jocular , vui đùa,
tưng bừng, hân trung trực, thẳng thắn
-
hoan, - matter-of-fact:
Foreboding,Ominous
- Complimentary không e ngại sự thật
(báo điềm xấu)
- Compassionate: - Nonchalant, - Candid, imparcial :
thương hại, động Indifferent: lãnh đạm, ngay thẳng, không
thiên vị
lòng thờ ơ
- Disinterested: vô tư,
- Reverent; - disgrunlted: bất bình
không quan tâm
respectful

5. Example 1.
“This is one of the best essays I've ever seen. It's clear,
concise, and convincing”
 The writer specifies three things that make the
reader's essay exceptional: It's "clear, concise
and convincing." The use of more specific
adjectives makes this writer's praise seem sincere.
=> Complimentary

6. Example 2
“Did you see what he just did? My goodness!”
The exclamation mark (!) that follows the question
is a clue revealing that the observer is surprised
=> surprised
Exclamation points are often used to denote surprise

7. 2. The purpose of understanding tone
Fully understand the writer’s intention
Have an objective view on the reading

8. 3. How to identify the TONE?
 Tone must be inferred through the use of
descriptive words
 You can recognize the tone/ attitude by the
language/ word choices the author uses
 His language will reveal his perspective/
opinion

9. Practice
-5’ individual
-2’ in group

10. GAME RULES
- Class is divided into 2 teams: A& B
- Look into the screen: there are 2 clues
which relating to one subject
- Say “ Bingo” if you can guess the name of
subject.
- The group that wins the quiz first will have
right to answer our question.
- 1 correct answer = 100 $
- Special gift is waiting for the winner ;)

11. WHICH ISLAND IS THIS ???
A FAMOUS FILM …
PEARL HARBOR
AN EXECTING DANCE
USA
HAWAII
ISLAND

12. 1.A teacher talks to her student: “Mr. Jones, since you obviously
appear to know everything, would you like to come up here and teach
this class for me?”
 sarcastic

13. WHO IS HE ???
BE FAMOUS FOR ….
HEAL THE WORLD
BLACK AND WHITE
THE KING OF POP

14. 1.The girls were playing in the pond, splashing each other and
trying to catch fish with their hands. They were having fun, but
kept looking over their shoulders at the looming forest. The
long grass of the field kept moving and they sort of felt like
they were being watched… About a half hour passed and still
the girls kept checking the field for movements. It seemed like
a pair of dark eyes was on them. They even considered going
back inside, but that would mean homework time. So they
continued splashing, but with caution now. Their eyes hardly
left the field.
 Ominous

15. WHAT IS THIS ???
A FAMOUS ARTCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK
SYMBOL OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY
THE STATUE OF
LIBERTY

16. 3. Donovan and Larry were early for baseball practice. They
decided to run up and down the bleachers to exercise before the
rest of the team arrived. Larry was first to the top. He
whispered to Donovan, “Look over there.” He pointed to a man
sleeping on the highest, narrow bench of the bleachers. His
pants and shirt were faded, worn, and too large for his thin
frame. One big toe stuck out of a huge hole in his sock. His
scraped-up shoes sat a few feet away. Donovan whispered, “We
should help him out. Let’s hide something good in his shoes.
Then, when he wakes up, he will have a nice surprise.”
 Sympathetic

17. WHO IS SHE???
- A FAMOUS ACTRESS IN VIETNAM
- HER HUSBAND IS…
MRS TANG THANH HA

18. 4. About three million people have to look for a place to sleep at
night. Some homeless people have jobs but do not earn
nearly enough money for both food and shelter. Some
become homeless because they have an unfortunate accident
or lose their job. They do not have any back-up resources to
make it through the hard times.
The homeless face terrible problems. Many become victims
of violence. Serious health problems may begin because they
are exposed to bad weather and unclean conditions.
Homeless children may miss the chance to go to school.
Worst of all, some cities pass laws that make it even harder
on the homeless.
 Disgruntled

19. Which flower is this?
- NATIONAL FLOWER OF ENGLAND
- THE SYMBOL OF LOVE
ROSE

20. 5. Bill had stayed up all night preparing for this
presentation. He had everything ready: charts, graphs,
lists, statistics. This was the biggest meeting of his
career. He was ready. He smiled as the cab pulled up
to 505 Park Avenue, and he gave the taxi driver an extra
large tip. He entered the building confidently and
pushed #11 on the elevator. Suddenly, as the doors of
the elevator closed, he realized that he had left his
briefcase in the cab.
 ironic

21. Summary
An ability to determine tone is an essential
component of reading comprehension. Often,
writers will let their tone convey their meaning,
so you need to look carefully for clues in their
language and style to determine how writers
want their words to sound .

22. Source:
http://www.slideshare.net/duongvandai03/tone-1783615