1. Recognition of different styles of writing: descriptive, expository, narrative, argumentative (10/05 hrs)
- Help students to
- Recognize the writer’s attitude and tone
- Identify figurative language and other elements of narrative style (e.g. plot, character, and setting),
- How the writer tries to persuade or convince the reader and how the writer uses reasons, examples etc. to explain something.
- Activities: Read passages of different styles and answer questions based on them.
2. Creative reading: going beyond the text (10/05 hrs)
- This level of reading will be possible only if the students know the literal meaning of the text and have interpreted and evaluated the information; involves going beyond the text to seek out or express new ideas, to gain additional insights.
- Activities: Reading more on the topic and gathering information, writing responding to what is read.
3. Intensive reading (10/05 hrs)
- Read short sections to understand or study information or language use in detail
- Activities: comprehension questions at different levels. Activities on vocabulary, grammatical and lexical cohesion
4. Integrating activities (10/05 hrs)
Activities: Writing short stories based on news items, Dramatizing a comic strip series
5. Collocation tasks: different combinations connected to verbs (05/02 hrs)
- Adverb + verb – choose carefully, verb + verb - be free to choose , verb + preposition-choose between the things, verb+ adjective- keep something safe, adjective+ preposition- safe from attack
- Types of tasks:
- Matching tasks: e.g. adverbs in column A with an adjective in B
- Sentence completion: e.g. put one of the adverbs into each gap in the sentences.
6. Synonyms and their associations (05 /02 hrs)
- In order to avoid repetition, writers use words which have a similar meaning.
e.g. I could learn by heart - I started to memorize
He asked - He enquired
- Types of tasks:
- Read the text and find the synonyms
- Complete the sentences using a word that has a similar meaning to the word underlined.
7. Working with texts to develop vocabulary: Identify/guess meaning from context (10/05 hrs)
- Focus: Using the natural redundancy of surrounding words, obtaining clues from grammatical structures, pronunciation and punctuation, activating background knowledge from a topic of a text.
e.g. My father is a workaholic; he works so long and so hard that we rarely saw him.
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