Friday, October 23, 2009

Arrangement of chapters according to component

COMPONENT 1 READING

Chapter 1 Predicting
Chapter 2 Scanning
Chapter 3 Finding meaning from context
Chapter 4 Inference
Chapter 5 Recognising an issue in an argument
Chapter 6 Recognising views “for” and “against”
Chapter 7 Topic sentences
Chapter 8 Identifying main ideas
Chapter 9 Supporting details
Chapter 10 Critical reading
Chapter 11 Recognizing definitions
Chapter 12 Distinguishing facts and opinions
Chapter 13 Identifying bias and intention

COMPONENT 2 WRITING

Chapter 1 Developing a paragraph from topic sentence
Chapter 2 Writing an expository/explanation essay
Chapter 3 Thesis statement
Chapter 4 Topic sentence
Chapter 5 Preparing an outline
Chapter 6 Writing an argumentative essay
Chapter 7 Summarising
Chapter 8 Paraphrasing
Chapter 9 Writing a discussive essay
Chapter 10 Synthesising
Chapter 11 Documenting
Chapter 12 Editing skills
Chapter 13 In-text citation/References

COMPONENT 3 GRAMMAR

Chapter 1 Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs,
Articles, Determiners, Conjunctions, Prepositions)
Chapter 2 Simple Tenses (Present, Past, Future)
Chapter 3 Continuous Tenses (Present, Past, Future)
Chapter 4 Perfect Tenses (Present, Past, Future)
Chapter 5 Conditionals
Chapter 6 Gerunds
Chapter 7 Infinitives
Chapter 8 Modality
Chapter 9 Passive Voice
Chapter 10 Reported Speech
Chapter 11 Adjectival relative clauses