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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)

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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

4. 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 completion: e.g. put one of the adverbs into each gap in the sentences.

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.

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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