Making use of figures
A useful hint to remember when considering how to exploit a new text in class is to consider how you can bring about some transfer of information - from text to text, from visual representation to text, or from text to visual representation. At its simplest, this can be the type of idea mentioned under 'summary for a specific purpose' above, whereby a text is summarized in tabular or diagrammatic form. Alternatively, a text and a visual are provided with some subtle differences or inaccuracies between them and students are asked to correct the text by rewriting it, using the information provided by the diagram or figure.
ACTIVITY 17
| Read Text 1, 'A Walk to Mam Tor', and think how you could exploit the text in class. You might like to click on 'Commentary' to compare your ideas with another teacher's suggested activities. |
Several variations of this are possible. Thus, Text 2, discussing the typical layouts of supermarkets, could be readily adapted for this purpose, as indeed could the description of any location, route, routine, process or procedure.
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