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Syllabus | EN 2101: Advanced Reading Skills & Vocabulary Development I

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Recognition of different styles of writing: descriptive, expository, narrative, argumentative (10/05 hrs)

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.

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.

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

Integrating activities (10/05 hrs)

Activities: Writing short stories based on news items, Dramatizing a comic strip series

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

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.

Synonyms and their associations (05 /02 hrs)

e.g. I could learn by heart - I started to memorize

He asked - He enquired

Read the text and find the synonyms

Complete the sentences using a word that has a similar meaning to the word underlined.

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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