I. Introduction of the text:
• The title of the text is…
• It’s an extract from the book … by …
• The text is presented in the form of :
- a dialogue
- a narration (a 3rd person narration/a 1st person narration)
- a description
- a narration with the elements of description/a narration interlaced (interwoven, intermingled) with a dialogue/a description/the inner monologue of the leading (main) character, etc.
• The text is about = the extract under consideration tells us about = the present story tells the tragedy of…
• The basic theme of the text is traveling/education, etc.
• The main idea (gist, the main line of thought) of the text is …/the main idea can be formulated /stated as follows…
• introduce the main characters, say, where the action takes place, retell the text (if it is a dialogue, retell it in indirect speech).
II. Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of the Text
- read the passage, containing the words under analysis, translate the passage;
- read the sentence, containing the word under analysis, point out this word.
1. Grammatical Characteristics of Words
(define, what part of speech the word belongs to)
• If it is a verb, say whether it is:
- transitive/intransitive
- regular/irregular (enumerate its forms)
- in what tense form it is used in the sentence
• If it is a noun :
- countable/uncountable
- concrete/abstract
- comment on the use of articles and prepositions, if necessary.
• If it is an adjective :
- the structure (monosyllabic/disyllabic/ polysyllabic)
- the way of forming the degrees of comparison (analytically, synthetically, irregularly),
- enumerate the degrees of comparison of the word under analysis
- say in...
No comments