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Activities of the English lessons course
The activities which characterise an Intermediate 2 English lessons course arise naturally from the rationale.
In order to develop language-handling skills, to broaden and refine linguistic, literary and media awareness, to extend experience and knowledge, to develop appreciation and to gain pleasure, candidates should engage in a programme of activities of the kinds listed below. These will involve all modes of language and could be undertaken at individual, group or class levels.
¨ Exploring, in talk and writing, experiences (both real and imagined), feelings, emotions and ideas.
¨ Expressing these in a variety of prose/dramatic/poetic forms.
¨ Experimenting with different models and styles.
¨ Discussing personal programmes of reading and writing with a teacher or lecturer.
¨ Discussing ideas/themes/texts/approaches with peers/teacher/lecturer.
¨ Taking part in debates.
¨ Undertaking personal reading, independent study and research.
¨ Skimming, scanning, close reading.
¨ Consulting and comparing a number of texts.
¨ Contrasting and collating information from different texts.
¨ Identifying the main concerns, structures and styles of texts and, where appropriate, interrelationships between texts.
¨ Acquiring techniques for analysing key passages in relation to whole texts.
¨ Acquiring awareness of the contexts (literary, historical, ideological, for example) of a text.
¨ Applying a knowledge of literary concepts and critical approaches both to texts and to any ensuing writing tasks.
¨ Reviewing, summarising, making notes.
¨ Forming opinions and taking a stance.
¨ Planning, drafting, editing, redrafting; presenting collated and revised material in appropriate form and style.
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