Part One: Warm Up
In Writing Task 1-3, you learned the basics of note-taking. With your partner(s), discuss what you should and shouldn’t do when taking notes. Try to think of at least three examples for each.
Teacher's Note
Possible answers: you should...focus on the most important points and essential details, write concisely, organize your notes, connect ideas together, review and edit your notes afterward; you shouldn't...try to write everything down, write too little down, write in sentences. Note that this list is not exhaustive.
If students do not come up with "write concisely" or similar, try to elicit to help lead into lesson.
Part Two: Getting Ready to Write
Look at and compare two participant’s notes from the beginning of the campaigning workshop from Listening 7-2. Listen to the extract and then discuss with your partner(s) whose notes you think are better and why.
Teacher's Note
Answers: Fatimah's notes are better. They are more concise yet still cover all of the main points and essential details. She also uses symbols and abbreviations. Both of these things reduced the amount that she needed to write and allowed her to pay more attention to the workshop. Daichi's notes are not very concise. Although he tried to reduce the amount he needed to write by missing out some words (e.g. articles), he tried to write down everything he heard and got lost/missed information in the process.
Fatimah’s notes:
Definition
Lobbying = persuade decision-maker >> take action
e.g. MP — vote y/n on new law
strong base of support—imp. ∵ d-ms respond better to grps >> maintain power
Process
- identify d-m
- political = public info. >> easy
- local — advocacy grps / library / local govt
- provincial / federal — committee + how works >> talk to exp. organizers
- non-political = harder
- ask around to identify d-m — depends on issue e.g. university — start w/ SU
- political = public info. >> easy
Daichi’s notes:
Definition
Lobbying is persuading decision-makers to take action you support—examples: persuade ? to vote a certain way on a…?, push university admin to change a…?, or convince mom…?
Strong base of support important when campaigning because decision-makers respond better to groups. Their support is connected to…?
Process
- Find out who decision-maker is
- political issues relatively easy because information is public
- for local issues can find out this information from ???, local libraries, or government itself
- provincial or federal issues are trickier because handled by a committee. Need to know all current members of committee and how it works. Helps to talk to….
- if non-political, harder. Need to ask around and try to find out who makes those decisions. At university, students’ union may be able to ????.
- political issues relatively easy because information is public
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