{"id":10908,"date":"2017-04-13T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:23","slug":"positive-and-negative-connotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/04\/positive-and-negative-connotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive and Negative Connotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my Tuesday\u00a0grammar and writing classes, we have\u00a0recently been focused on how our word choices affect our tone. In this lesson, we were particularly looking at the different connotations that different words carry, and how we can use these to convey positive or negative tones.\u00a0The final task was to write about a car accident from two perspectives: one more positive, one more negative. The events had to be the same,\u00a0so the only way to create a different tone was through vocabulary choice. This student has shown an excellent grasp of this skill and has produced two very effective pieces of work. Well done!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0001-e1492075404963-424x600.jpg\" alt=\"20170413181843530_0001\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0001-e1492075404963-424x600.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0001-e1492075404963-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0001-e1492075404963-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0001-e1492075404963.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0002-e1492075416329-424x600.jpg\" alt=\"20170413181843530_0002\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0002-e1492075416329-424x600.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0002-e1492075416329-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0002-e1492075416329-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170413181843530_0002-e1492075416329.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Tuesday\u00a0grammar and writing classes, we have\u00a0recently been focused on how our word choices affect our tone. In this lesson, we were particularly looking at the different connotations that different words carry, and how we can use these to convey positive or negative tones.\u00a0The final task was to write about a car accident from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12350,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions\/12350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}