Unit 1 Reading Explain questions Types of Questions

Unit 1 Reading ‘Explain’ questions

Types of Questions… • • • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (Search and find) List reasons or details/Make a list of…. According to this text or writer, how or what or why Explain how and/or why What evidence does the writer use…? IMPRESSIONS/IMAGES What impression do you get of the writer or an organisation or people? What image does this text create of the writer or an organisation or people? VIEWPOINT/ATTITUDE What are the writer’s attitudes to… What are the writer’s opinions of… What are the writer’s thoughts and feelings about…

Types of Questions… • • INTENDED AUDIENCE Who is this text aimed at? ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE How does the writer try to encourage or interest or argue? How does this text try to persuade or sell or influence? COMPARISON OF TEXTS Compare and contrast these texts Using information from both texts, explain why…

Types of Questions… • ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE • How does the writer try to encourage or interest or argue? • How does this text try to persuade or sell or influence?

Learning Objectives To understand how to approach ‘explain how’ questions

Inference Skills What I already know + The evidence in the text = inference

Using your inference skills…. • Explain what you think the film ‘No Country for Old Men’ is going to be about • What clues did you note down that helped you to see the deeper ideas implied by words and actions?

Inferring to explain • To detect inference you have to follow an argument • You must stay in sequence to see the direction the writer is taking • You need to use your vocabulary precisely to show that you have understood what you have read and then provide as much evidence as you can in the time available

Heart-throbs of the High Seas • Explain how women react to Fogle and Cracknell, according to this extract.

Evidence Inferences 1. A woman calls them ‘lovely boys’ Women are attracted to them 2. Her eyes are ‘riveted’ to them 3. A woman is disappointed and ‘grumpy’ when she doesn’t get a kiss

Fogle and Cracknell • Explain why Fogle and Cracknell took part in this race (10 marks)