English (Core) · Ch 3 — We're Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together
About the Unit
About the Unit
This is a first-person account of an adventurous ordeal that a family experiences. The end-of-chapter tasks are designed to work on different reading, thinking and language skills:
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Understanding the text
This section deals with factual and global comprehension. Practice is given in describing and noticing text organisation.
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Talking about the text
Peer interaction about subjective responses to the text; empathy with and comment on universal experiences; and human behaviour related to risk-taking and adventure.
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Thinking about language
- Variety of terms for a particular item in different languages
- English words derived from Indian languages
- Linking language to music (boatmen's songs)
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Working with words
- 'Ship' terms as homonyms
- Compound words with '-ship' with different connotations
- Phrasal verbs …