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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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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!'
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HIGH CULTURE no specialist training brief, contemporary and relevant enhance, supplement and complement speaking and reading skills + all revision purposes critical thinking
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Critical thinking defined considering something carefully and deciding what the good and bad aspects are Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, 2007
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Critical thinking taxonomies
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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
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Why?? Here’s one reason:
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Over to you:
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How about a critical look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics
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How about a critical look at … intonation modal verbs conjunctions I wish
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Gandalf & intonation […]
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Gandalf & intonation
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intonation ??? conjunctions I wish
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‘I Robot’ & modals
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intonation ??? modal verbs I wish
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Obama & conjunctions
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Dr Max Atkinson
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a list of THREE Puzzle – SOLUTION CONTRAST
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intonation ??? modal verbs conjunctions
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Hemingway & I wish
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So, we’taken a CT look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics
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WWW.MACMILLANENGLISH.COM/GLOBAL HIGH CULTURE The power of literature
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Charles Dickens Mary Shelley Zadie Smith Nick Hornby Toni MorrisonGeorge Orwell J R R Tolkien Guest authors Margaret Atwood
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…between learner reading and authentic literature A bridge
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The Macmillan literature collections
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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
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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
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INTRODUCTION About the author About the story Summary
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Pre-reading Key vocabulary* Main themes
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Post-reading Understanding the story* Language study Literary analysis
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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
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Literary analysis PLOT CHARACTER NARRATION STYLE
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EVEN MORE suggested Essay questions - Language study - Literary analysis a comprehensive Glossary*
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www.macmillanenglish.com the READERS’ website
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www.macmillanenglish.com macmillanglobal.com macmillan.ru macmillanreaders.com Even more ideas…@
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