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These texts are a mixture of established classics and more contemporary work. A comparative approach -- using two or more selections on the same theme -- helps students understand the qualities of the story or poem.
-- Each selection is illustrated with film stills or other material to set the scene and stimulate discussion.
-- Exercises focus on personal response; on discussing literary qualities such as style, character, imagery, and ideas; and on developing language awareness in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and different styles of writing.
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Modern Short Stories
by Martin, Alex; Hill, RobertFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-12-01
Publisher(s): Pearson College Div
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Summary
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Short Stories and Tall Tales | |
| The Open Window | |
| Under the Banyan Tree | |
| Close Reading: Analysing the Plot | |
| Language Practice: Using Different Tenses in Narrative | |
| Vocabulary: Describing Types of Stories | |
| Beyond the Text: From Iris Murdoch | |
| The Nice and the Good | |
| Love in Vain | |
| A Dill Pickle | |
| Close Reading: Interpreting Characters' Feelings | |
| Language Practice: Describing Past Habits and Changes | |
| Vocabulary: Similes and Metaphors | |
| Beyond the Text: George and Ira Gershwin | |
| They Can't Take That Away from Me | |
| Childhood Memories | |
| First Confession | |
| Close Reading: Point of View and Irony | |
| Language Practice: Direct and Indirect Speech | |
| Vocabulary: Adverbial Phrases | |
| Beyond the Text: From Charles Dickens | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
| Romance | |
| The First Seven Years | |
| Close Reading: Examining Characterization | |
| Language Practice: Speculating About Future Developments (conditional sentences type 2) | |
| Vocabulary: Describing People | |
| Beyond the Text: Barry Cole | |
| Fairy Tales | |
| The Nightingale and the Rose | |
| Close Reading: Sequencing the Events of a Story | |
| Language Practice: Linking Devices in Narrative (conjunctions, relative pronouns and adverbs) | |
| Vocabulary: Describing Personal Qualities | |
| Outside the Cabinet-Makers | |
| Close Reading: Interpreting Characters' Motivation | |
| Language Practice: Speculating About Past Events (conditional sentence type 3) | |
| Vocabulary: Reporting Verbs; Adverbs with Direct Speech | |
| Beyond the Text | |
| The Little Girl and the Wolf | |
| Whodunnit? Lamb to the Slaughter | |
| Close Reading: Interpreting Characters' Actions | |
| Language Practice: Explaining Motivation | |
| Vocabulary: Feelings and Reactions; Parts of Speech | |
| Beyond the Text: From Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| The Sign of Four | |
| The Sporting Life | |
| Ace in the Hole | |
| Close Reading: Judging Characters | |
| Language Practice: Criticizing and Complaining | |
| Vocabulary: General and Specific Words | |
| Beyond the Text: From Bernard Malamud | |
| The Natural | |
| Glossary | |
| Key | |
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