White board sciences po april 1 2020

1. Quick review of the subjunctive:
When do we use it?
It’s important / urgent + Call for action
How?
Infinitive without TO
Passive examples
It is crucial that he be punished otherwise he will
start again and again...
Continuous examples
i try: it is important that he be standing there the
whole time because otherwise he might not catch Mr
Smith
Negative examples
The monk insisted that all tourists not eat in the room
NHS report:
1. it is called the abstract and the idea is to give
away part of the conclusions to encourage
people to read further
2. Up: on the increase (in the text) to increase / an
increase / to rise / to sky-rocket / to grow…
Down: declined steadily (in the text) to go down
/ to drop / to decrease / to fall / to plummet / to
dive / to plunge / to hit a low point…
Stay the same: to stall (especially used when
something stops making progress) / to
stagnate / to stay constant / to remain stable /
to reach a plateau / to plateau…

2. https://es.slideshare.net/jeanphilippeguy/graph-
description-language
Prepositions:
Describing a position → AT
Voting intentions for the Partido Popular peaked at
25% on February 2nd and have dropped by 7
percentage points since
Describing the evolution (degree) --> BY
The share of women on corporate boards
increased from a dismal 3% in 2003 to a
remarkable 42% in 2018
les prévisions de croissance ont baissé de 7 points en
dix jours.
The growth forecasts dropped by 7 points in 10 days
3. Adverb / adjective collocations in the text:
Strikingly poor - stubbornly high
Other adjectives and adverbs: Far worse/ worst -
Awful - striking → frappant - Appalling → navrant /
appallingly
Linkers in the text: despite, so,
They need to get a grip on it (prendre la situation
en main)
Paragraph writing:
How many ideas are there in a given paragraph →
ONLY ONE
Topic sentence to introduce your idea
Submit your controlling idea
Give examples

3. Say how these examples are relevant to the topic
→ Initiate State Illustrate