English (Core) · Ch 9 — The Adventure
About the Unit
About the Unit
The Hornbill textbook closes the chapter with a short descriptor of what each exercise section is designed to do:
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Understanding the text
- True/false items to check inferential comprehension.
- Explaining statements from the text.
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Talking about the text
- Discussing the approaches of various disciplines to knowledge inquiry (across the curriculum).
- Cross-text reference.
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Thinking about language
- Inter-community communication through common languages.
- Reference to the languages of different disciplines.
- Political domination and language imposition (discuss).
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Working with words
- Idiomatic expressions.
- Distinction between frequently misused word forms: respectively / respectfully.
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Noticing form …