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Exploiting Literary Texts to Enhance Critical Thinking Использование отрывков из произведений художественной литературы для развития критического мышления.

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1 Exploiting Literary Texts to Enhance Critical Thinking Использование отрывков из произведений художественной литературы для развития критического мышления

2 Why NOT use literature? 'You need to be an expert' 'It must be "proper" literature' 'It's too hard for the students' 'There's not enough time!'

3 HIGH CULTURE no specialist training brief, contemporary and relevant enhance, supplement and complement speaking and reading skills + all revision purposes critical thinking

4 Critical thinking defined considering something carefully and deciding what the good and bad aspects are Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, 2007

5 Critical thinking taxonomies

6 Комплекс навыков и умений Поиск информации Соотнесение с собственным опытом Сравнение полученных знаний с другими работами в данной области и других сферах знания Способность подвергать сомнению достоверность и авторитетность информации, проверять логику доказательств, Умение делать выводы, конструирование новых примеров для использования теоретического знания, Умение принимать решения

7 Why?? Here’s one reason:

8 Over to you:

9 How about a critical look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics

10 How about a critical look at … intonation modal verbs conjunctions I wish

11 Gandalf & intonation […]

12 Gandalf & intonation

13 intonation ??? conjunctions I wish

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15 ‘I Robot’ & modals

16 intonation ??? modal verbs I wish

17 Obama & conjunctions

18 Dr Max Atkinson

19 a list of THREE Puzzle – SOLUTION CONTRAST

20 intonation ??? modal verbs conjunctions

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24 Hemingway & I wish

25 So, we’taken a CT look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics

26 WWW.MACMILLANENGLISH.COM/GLOBAL HIGH CULTURE The power of literature

27 Charles Dickens Mary Shelley Zadie Smith Nick Hornby Toni MorrisonGeorge Orwell J R R Tolkien Guest authors Margaret Atwood

28 …between learner reading and authentic literature A bridge

29 The Macmillan literature collections

30 The collections offer support Linguistic  before reading: lightening the lexical load  during reading: footnotes and glossary  after reading: noticing patterns and features of style Cultural  information about the author  background information  cultural footnotes Literary  before reading: identifying main themes  after reading: guided literary discussion

31 What’s in it for me? author, genre, time audio at onestopenglish stories for films – watch the film, compare the structure and content move on to longer works P.S. maybe even start a book club

32 INTRODUCTION About the author About the story Summary

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34 Pre-reading Key vocabulary* Main themes

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38 Post-reading Understanding the story* Language study Literary analysis

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41 Language study examples Perfect aspect Adverbs of manner in dialogue Omitting the verb be Inversion after so Upper-middle-class speech Ellipsis Fronting in informal speech

42 Literary analysis PLOT CHARACTER NARRATION STYLE

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44 EVEN MORE suggested Essay questions - Language study - Literary analysis a comprehensive Glossary*

45 www.macmillanenglish.com the READERS’ website

46 www.macmillanenglish.com macmillanglobal.com macmillan.ru macmillanreaders.com Even more ideas…@


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