Topic/Objective

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Activities/Remarks

1. Comprehension

1. Identify new words and expressions from any given test
2. Read and answer questions on a given literary material.

1. 1.1  Suitable passages from selected literary texts to be read at a given speed of 100 words per minutes.
2. 1.2  Selected suitable literary materials of appropriate level with new words.
3. 1.3  Carefully design questions relating to selected text.

Literary materials should be taken from prose, poetry and drama texts.

2. Literary Appreciation

i. Appreciate figurative

expressions, imagery and style in literary texts.

ii. Identify qualities of a good text.

2.1 Qualities of a good text (a) Language
(b) Theme
(c) Plot

(d) Characterisation

(e) Setting
2.2 Selected unseen

passages of appropriate level of complexity in which many figurative expressions are appreciated.

3. 2.3  Questions designed to lead students to discover characters and incidents in literary text.
4. 2.4  Qualities of suiitable material(i) language (ii) print
   (iii) illustration (iv) styles

Figures of Speech should be discussed extensively

3. Literature

1. To identify different types of literary genres.
2. To identify elements of prose literature.
3. To identify elements of drama
4. Identify figures of

3.1 Literary Genres: (a) prose

(b) Poetry (c) drama

1.2
1.3 Style: e.g. flashback,

(i) Incident (ii) characters (iii) plots
(iv) theme

Literary styles common to the different literary genres should be highlighted.

speech and literary styles in any given literary piece.

play-within-play, plot, setting, mode of narration, aside etc.

1.4 Figures of speech (i) simile

(ii) metaphor
(iii) climax
(iv) personification etc.

4. Appreciation
Write own simple literary pieces

1. 1.1  Beauty of a text: such as atmosphere i.e. the feeling, figurative expressions etc.
2. 1.2  Short explanation on the text. Complex interpretation and relation with real-life situations.

Trainees should be encouraged to write poems, short stories and short drama pieces to be put on stage.