SYLLABUS | ADVANCED READING & VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT I
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September 19, 2022
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1.Recognition of different style 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.
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•Types of tasks:- matching tasks: e.g. adverbs in column A with an adjective in B- Sentence composition: e.g. put one of the adverbs into each gap in the sentences.
Synonym 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 - 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.
Working with texts to level, vocabulary: Identify/guess meaning from context (10/05 hrs)
•Focus: Using 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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