English FAL Level 3 Module 6

English: First Additional Language NQF 3 Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading and responding to visual texts Module 6 Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Overview • Reading visual material • Infographics • Flyers • Cartoons and comic strips • Reading internet texts • Modal verbs • Summary writing • Memo • Email • Telephone conversations Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material The reading process During reading • Skimming, scanning, • Examining the • Answering questions predicting and meaning and usage of on the text and activating background words, language analysing the text for knowledge structures and meaning conventions, and the purpose of the texts Pre-reading Post-reading Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.1 Module 6 Refer to Module 3 for revision on conducting discussions. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.1 on page 95 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.2 Module 6 Refer to Module 1 for revision notes on the summary. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.2 on page 96 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.3 Module 6 Refer to Module 5 for revision notes on telephone conversations. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.3 on page 96 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.4 Module 6 Refer to Module 1 and 2 for revision notes on answering questions. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.4 on page 96 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading infographics Definition An infographic is a visual image such as a chart or diagram that is used to represent information or data. Infographics have become more popular with the development of social media and the internet. Formatting is the way text is organised on the page. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Formatting Fonts, font sizes, bold, italics Headings Size of text and titles Formatting Type of Symbols font Columns Bullets Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Formatting Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.5 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.5 on page 98 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.6 Module 6 Refer to Module 5 for revision notes on memos. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.6 on page 99 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.7 Module 6 Refer to Module 5 for revision notes on memos. Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.7 on page 99 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading creative visual texts When you look at visual material, study it in any way that occurs to you. There is no order to follow for this process, but make sure that you examine all areas of the text. Writers often use formatting to give clues about the content of the text. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material Mathematics NQF Level 2 Bullets Summarises important points or they capture the essential bits of information. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material WAR IS PEACE Mathematics NQF Level 2 Figures of speech Writers may use clever figures of speech to capture the reader’s attention in the headings and titles. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material I AM A NORMAL I AM A BOLD HEADING HEADING Mathematics NQF Level 2 Bold text Bold text helps the reader focus on those words. Bold text should be used sparingly because it loses its effect if too much of the text is in bold. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material Mathematics NQF Level 2 Visuals We receive information in many forms, including pictures, diagrams, word webs, graphs, sketches, illustrations, charts, timelines, photographs, tables, flow charts, maps and mind maps. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material Mathematics NQF Level 2 Formatting Writers may use many methods to catch and keep the reader’s attention. These include using different fonts, sizes of fonts, bolding text, and italicising words. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading visual material No Parking Mathematics NQF Level 2 Symbols Symbols are quickly understood by the reader. A symbol contains significant amounts of information that the reader can decode. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Cartoons and comic strips A A cartoon comic strip is usually one picture containing a few words or a caption, and the is a series of pictures drawn inside effect often comes from the boxes (called frames) that tell a drawing or picture. story. A cartoon shows the opinion or point The story is told mainly in pictures of view of the person who drew the with some words. cartoon. The words are usually those spoken Cartoons often make fun of people in by the characters. government or important people in Comic strips can be printed in colour the news, or they draw attention to or in black and white. something that has happened recently. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Cartoon analysis When you read and view cartoons and comic strips, you must be able to comment on the following: • The position and size of the characters. • The characters’ gestures and facial expressions, such as sneers and smiles. • The characters’ body language, such as clenched fists or sloping shoulders. • The spoken words: look at the font that is used in the spoken words, as well as the content of the words. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.8 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.8 on page 100 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Reading internet texts Photograph Analysis Begin reading a Consider whether Consider whether photograph by there are any there are any looking at the activities activities There’s nothing things in the captured. If so, captured. If so, fixed about how how do the how do the 1 2 3 4 to read photograph. What people, places, people or people or photographs. and things are activities use the activities use the included in the objects in the objects in the photograph? photograph? photograph? Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.9 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.9 on page 105 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.10 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.10 on page 105 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Modal verbs You know that verbs are action words or they express a state of being. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Modal verbs Modal verbs are like auxiliary verbs as they cannot stand on their own – they have to be used with another verb. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

More on modal verbs Modal verbs include: can, could may, might, must will shall, should ought to Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Still more on modal verbs Modal verbs can be used for: • making requests • giving advice • expressing necessity or a requirement • making a suggestion • showing probability • showing ability and possibility • showing desire • offering • showing preference Class Activity Can you give an example of each, using modal verbs? Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.11 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.11 on page 108 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Learning activity 6.12 Module 6 Test your knowledge of this section by completing Learning activity 6.12 on page 110 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Summary of Module 6 Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

Formative assessment Module 6 Test your knowledge of Module 6 by completing the Formative assessment on page 111 of your Student’s Book. Downloaded from hlayiso.com English FAL NQF Level 3

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