Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Visual Stimulus

WELCOME TO THE SESSION 

ON VISUAL STIMULUS


Look at the poster and the accompanying text. Answer the questions that follow. 



With organisational leadership, you help strategise operational plans, while building up your capabilities in the 3rd Generation Air Force. Attracting the best of every cohort, you will experience a fast-paced career while enjoying a wide range of career opportunities.

As an Officer, your military progression will be dynamic and challenging as you take on a range of command, staff and instructional appointments from junior leadership to top management.

As a Warrant Officer, you are the Subject Matter Expert in tactical war-fighting competencies. You are part of a leadership echelon, responsible for maintaining the optimum war-fighting capability, through training, morale and discipline. Promotion to a Warrant Officer can be as early as your 6th year and is dependent on your level of progress and success through assignments, training and military education. In addition, we groom you for higher leadership role and provide an environment for you to upgrade to better opportunities, greater job responsibilities and under the Warrant Officers Scheme, you can upgrade your academic qualifications as well.



Enter your answers here

1. What do you think the boy in the picture is feeling?

2. Who is the intended audience?

3. With reference to the text below the picture, what are two qualities that the Air Force is looking for in prospective Officers and Warrant Officers?


4. Look at the caption, "Dare to dream of the skies. And we'll take you there". Apart from telling the audience that they can literally fly if they joined the Air Force, what is the figurative meaning behind this caption? Support your answer with two pieces of evidence from the text. 


5. Which phrase tells you that the Air Force gives provision for its Officers to further their studies?





10 comments:

  1. 1.The boy is feeling of flying.He want to go higher,further and faster.
    2.The intended audience are the readers of the poster who have a dream of going higher further and higher.
    3.responsibility and dynamic individual
    4.(i dont know how do :P)
    5.this is the sentence nah'You are part of a leadership echelon, responsible for maintaining the optimum war-fighting capability, through training, morale and discipline'

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  2. 1. The boy is feeling happy,seeing the aircraft in his hands hovering in the sky as he aspires to be the pilot of an aircraft,controlling it.

    2.The intended audience are people who aspire to be a pilot.

    3.The two qualities that the Air Force is looking for in prospective Officers is dynamical and someone who will take up challenges,taking it seriously. The two qualities that the Air Force is looking for in Warrant Officers are responsibility and tactical.

    4.The figurative meaning is that the Air Force can train the people who aspire to be a pilot to become one as long as they dare to dream of being a pilot,controlling an aircraft in the sky. The Air Force training provides a wide range of career opportunities and lets them build up their capabilities.

    5.The phrase is "a wide range of career opportunities".


    En Ying.

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  3. 1.he is feeling the excitement of pursuing his dreams which is to be a pilot
    2.the intended audience is for people who wants to join the air force
    3. as an officer ,you must be dynamic and challenging as you take ona range of commands.as a warrant officer you have to be responsible for maintaining the optium war-fighting capability
    4. if you have a will ,there would be a way.' as a warrant officer ,you are the subject matter expert intactical war-fighting competencies'and 'greater responsibilities and under the warrant officer scheme'
    5.the phrase is'upgrade your academic qualification as well'
    -Zann Ong

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  4. 1. What do you think the boy in the picture is feeling?
    Ans: He is feeling inspired.

    2. Who is the intended audience?
    Ans: Those who are interested in joining the airforce.

    2. With reference to the text below the picture, what are two qualities that the Air Force is looking for in prospective Officers and Warrant Officers?
    Ans: Leadership skills and a sense of responsibility.

    3. Look at the caption, "Dare to dream of the skies. And we'll take you there". Apart from telling the audience that they can literally fly if they joined the Air Force, what is the figurative meaning behind this caption? Support your answer with two pieces of evidence from the text.
    Ans: It means they will give you a wide range of opportunities to excel as long as you dare to dream big. The two pieces of evidence is " Attracting the best of every cohort, you will experience a fast-paced career while enjoying a wide range of career opportunities" and "As an Officer, your military progression will be dynamic and challenging as you take on a range of command, staff and instructional appointments from junior leadership to top management".

    4. Which phrase tells you that the Air Force gives provision for its Officers to further their studies?
    Ans: The phrase is "upgrade your academic qualifications".

    Zen&Nicholas :D </3

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  6. Sathini (20) and Qiao Ning (4)
    Q1)The boy is having a desire to fly.

    Q2)The intended audience is adults who are looking for jobs.

    Q3)THe air force is looking for people who are
    responsible and disciplined.

    Q4)They want to experience military training again."level of progress and success through assignments, training and military education" and " your military progression will be dynamic and challenging ".

    Q5)The phrase is" upgrade your academic qualifications "

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  7. 1.He is feeling excited
    2.It is those who wants to join the air force
    3.Responsible and Dynamic
    4.if you have a will ,there would be a way.' as a warrant officer ,you are the subject matter expert intactical war-fighting competencies'and 'greater responsibilities and under the warrant officer scheme'
    5.the phrase is'upgrade your academic qualification as well'
    -Rachel Tok

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  9. 1)He is feeling the emotion of yearning.
    2)Any potential prospective and warrant officers.
    3)Discipline and responsibility.
    4)Make you soar to achieve your goals and allow you to obtain better leadership skills. This can be inferred from the phrases"groom you for higher leadership role" and "upgrade for better opportunities"
    5)The phrase is"groom you for higher leadership role and provide an environment for you to upgrade to better opportunities"

    ~Farah and Megan

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