Tag Archives: Summarising skills
Summarising skills break-down
Slowing it down to break it down: how my IGCSE class improved their summarising skills. My Y11 IGCSE* group recently did their mock exams. They did pretty well in all the tasks except one. All bar one had completely forgotten how to write a summary. One had not even attempted it, one had written a letter, […]
Text summary and analysis
This is a great way to get Proficiency students (although it could be adapted for Advanced or FCE students) reading, finding useful vocabulary in the text and sharing it with each other. I got it from the inspiring Elspeth Pollock who gave a talk on teaching CPE students in Seville in February. She reminded us that […]
A Hive of Activities 