Thursday, 17 March 2011

Sample Reading Task : Booklet (Mao) PAGES 91-96

Each group has been allocated a text and a question. As a group, read through your allocated text and then work through the question together. Then, as a group post your response as a comment below. I'll post the answer for the first question.

Text One: Will I be my daddy?

a) What is the purpose of this passage?

Text Two: Jolly Swagman

b) Select TWO language techniques that the writer uses. Discuss how he uses these to communicate his ideas.

Text Three: Immigrants at Central Station

c) Choose TWO descriptions of the immigrants' experience and explain what they communicate to you about the journey.

Texts One, Two and Three

d) From the texts that have been provided choose two that, in your opinion, communicate ideas about the journey most effectively. You must refer to TWO texts in detail.

1 comment:

  1. a) The purpose of Text One WILL I BE MY DADDY? is to discuss time travel as a theme in film and literature, both past and present.

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