- •In close-up
- •In close-up
- •II d II
- •1. Analyzing a Song
- •2. Interview Practice
- •3. Writing a Resume
- •4. Comprehension Check
- •7. Essay Writing
- •8. Debate
- •1. Previewing and Anticipation
- •2. Scanning
- •3. Comprehension
- •6. Comprehension Survey
- •8. Cloze Summary
- •9. Summary
- •10. Discussion
- •7. Comprehension questions
- •11. Structural Analysis
- •12. Style
- •13. Comment and Discussion
- •1. Text Analysis
- •4. Discussion
- •6. Comprehension
- •7. Comprehension
- •8. Discussion
- •3.Continued
- •9 The Forgotten
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Anticipation
- •3. Organization of the Text
- •4. Style
- •5. Producing a Filmscript
- •6. Structuring an Article
- •7. Discussion
- •8. Comprehension
- •9. Text Production
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Text Reproduction
- •3.Discussion
- •4. Text Analysis
- •5. Comprehension Check
- •6. Cloze Comprehension Test
- •7. Guided Letter Writing
- •8. Interpretation of Photos
- •1987 License Laws for Passenger Cars
- •1. Text Analysis
- •2. Global Comprehension
- •3. Discussion
- •1975 1980 1981 1983 1986
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- •I 4/86-1
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Debate
- •6. Modified Cloze Test
- •7. Preparing an Interview
- •I Am The Redman
- •United States
- •1. Interpreting Poems
- •2. Previewing
- •3. Text Analysis
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Dialogue Practice
- •7. Comprehension
- •8. Discussion
- •9. Interpreting a Cartoon
- •1985 86.8 Million Households:
- •1970 63.4 Million
- •1. Scanning
- •2. Comprehension
- •3. Comprehension
- •I л li II
- •7. Comprehension
- •Independent
- •1. Continued
- •2. Continued
- •9 "If Conservatives Cannot Do It Now..."
- •Inflation
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Analysis of a Speech
- •3. Questionnaire
- •4. Scanning
- •5. Simulation of a Debate
- •6. Writing Newspaper Articles
- •7. Global Comprehension
- •8. Text Analysis
- •9. Writing a Newspaper Article
- •10. Comprehension
- •11. Comparative Study
- •1981:128 1987:139
- •In the nuclear age, power politics, the struggle
- •9 American Policy in Vietnam:
- •2. Continued
- •It actually played to an American strength. American popular culture,
- •In fact, may be an emissary as important as Ambassador Burt himself—
- •Itself—and its major competitor, Pepsi.
- •1. Text Analysis
- •2. Text Analysis
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Visual Comprehension
- •6. Interviewing
- •5. Discussion
- •Innovations at Glenbrook South make classes stimulating.
- •0: What are the subjects required in your four years of high school?
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- •0: Is there a strict code of conduct at your school? 0:
- •1. Global Comprehension
- •2. Text Analysis
- •3. Discussion and Comment
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Interpretation and Discussion
- •6. Dialogue Writing and Interview Practice
- •7. Text Production
- •8. Discussion and Comment
- •9. Comprehension
- •10. Comment and Discussion
- •11. Text Production
- •12. Comprehension
- •13. Text Analysis
- •14. Discussion
- •Religious Information
- •Religious preference
- •Based on national surveys and approximately 29,000 interviews
- •Impoverished within American society. Halfway through his speech, he was
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Discussion
- •3. Analysis of a Speech
- •4. Note Taking
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Scanning
- •7. Text Analysis
- •8. Letter Writing
- •It's been said that you gave yourself 10 years to become a star. Is that true?
- •1. Structural Outline
- •2. Scanning
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Interview Practice
- •5. Comparative Study
- •5. Continued
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Text Analysis and Comment
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Letter Writing
- •6.Preparing an Interview
- •Television
- •3. Global Comprehension
- •4. Choosing a tv Program
- •5. Comparative Study
- •6. Text Analysis
- •7. Letter Writing
- •8. Analysis and Discussion
- •9. Comment
1. Interpreting Poems
"I Am The Redman"/"My Lodge"
Whom does the Indian poet address in his poem "I Am The Redman" and what is the message he wants to convey?
How does the structure of the poem "I Am The Redman" contribute to the poet's aim?
Which characteristics of Indian culture can be found in the poems?
What tense is the poem "My Lodge" written in and how do you account for the choice of this tense?
What do you think the American Indian can teach the white man?
2. Previewing
Brothers
According to the introduction to the "Special Report" of Newsweek, March 23, 1987, what aim did Sylvester Monroe have in mind when writing the report?
What do you think is the difference between this report and other reports Sylvester Monroe has written during his career as a journalist?
Why did Sylvester Monroe return to the Chicago housing projects with a feeling of ambivalence?
What is the exact socioeconomic data which he quotes about the situation of blacks today? He obviously would not have cited those statistics in the introduction if they had not been relevant. What kind of problems do you expect him to talk about in the following report?
What other problems do you know that black Americans have to deal with?
3. Text Analysis
Characterize this sort of text. How do the last four paragraphs differ from the rest?
Subdivide the text into different sections and find a headline for each section.
Sylvester Monroe is one of the relatively few blacks who managed to get out of the black urban ghetto. Explain how this was facilitated by certain conditions and persons.
Why do you think he recalls the fact that he got new clothes at St. George's School? What importance was attached to those new clothes by his former faculty advisor and the other students?
Can you account for Mrs Monroe's reaction when her son wanted to leave St. George's School? How must Vest Monroe have felt after his mother's remark?
What did he find disquieting and frustrating about the way the whites treated him at St. George's School? What were his objections?
What kind of racial discrimination does Sylvester Monroe mention?
Have you heard of any examples of racial discrimination in the U.S. that confirm Sylvester Monroe's views?
4. Comprehension
Jessie de la Cruz
1. It is one of the characteristics of oral history that events are not always reported in chronological order. Scan through the text to find the basic autobiographical data concerning Jessie's
family name, maiden name
present place of residence
age
education
period of time spent as a migrant worker
year of marriage
children
affiliation to a union.
Jessie de la Cruz describes different stages in the living conditions of migrant workers. What stages does she mention and how does she characterize each of them? Describe Jessie de la Cruz's attitude towards America and the American government.
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