Year 11 - English
Conceptualising travel writing and making predictions based on titles
Non-fiction: explorers
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at non-fiction texts about explorers. They first conceptualise travel writing, before building towards making concise and developed comparisons between texts. They finally create a compelling account about a place.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make predictions about a text based on the title.
Key Notes
- People travel for a range of reasons including enjoyment and health.
- Writers are often keen to record observations from their travels.
- The observations become a way of remembering and recalling the journeys.
- We read travel writing in order to share in the writers' experiences.
- When reading a new text, it is useful to make predictions from the title.
Vocabulary To Learn
- to explore: to search and discover places and things
- novelty: something that is new and unusual
- nuance: a very slight difference in meaning
- inherently: in a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something
- to observe: to watch something or someone carefully in order to learn about them
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students may think that travel writing needs to be about far away places.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
People travel for a range of reasons including enjoyment and health. Writers are often keen to record observations from their travels.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'to explore'
to search and discover places and things.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Students may think that travel writing needs to be about far away places. Correction: Draw their attention to the social messages implied in the titles 'Down and Out in Paris and London' and 'Travels with Charley: In Search of America'.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Comparing Stevenson and Steinbeck's attitudes to their travelling companions Study Guide
- Identifying and using different perspectives Study Guide
- Making inferences from two non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Using compound adjectives and analogies for effect in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Using inverted sentence structures and chiasmus for effect Study Guide
- Writing a compelling account Study Guide
- Writing concise and developed comparisons of non-fiction texts Study Guide
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