2011_12
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Grau d'Anglès (2009)
 Assignatures
  DESTRESES COMUNICATIVES: READING AND WRITING I
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
-BASIC READING AND WRITING TECHNIQUES -Preliminary work on three key areas of writing skills: style and register (construction of sentences & paragraphs), cohesion, and punctuation.
- Creative writing as applied to text type writing, to journal writing, etc.
-DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS I:
Making descriptions interesting.
Describing pictures, objects, products, people, places.

- TEXT TYPES

-NARRATIVE TEXTS I
Narrative and connecting words.
Biographical narratives.
Newspaper stories.
Eye-witness and narrative reports.


-LETTERS I
Informal letters: technical matters (layout), diplomacy and tact.
Formal letters.


-LITERARY TEXTS: sketches, dialogues and plays. A personal journal.

-TEXT COMMENTARIES: at the different levels of language if there is time.


- Reading techniques for all the texts: How to read a text.

Understanding the text as a whole.
Skimming for main ideas.
Scanning and retrieving specific information.
Identifying information to perform a task.
Dealing with difficult vocabulary.
Understanding complicated sentences.
Writer's intention; use of language.
Interpreting.
Understanding the principles of grammar.
-Recognizing and producing the conventions of each text type in a creative way. Learning about text types through imitation.
-Writing techniques /
Produce paragraphs
Produce descriptive and narrative texts, letters, summaries, journal writing etc.
Apply the principles of grammar: tenses, question formation, reported speeach, modal verbs.
Correct errors and make improvements.