Worksheet 6

Intermediate / Upper intermediate

The Language Expert:

Book Corner Club Meeting Date:
Title of Reader:
You are The Language Expert. You have to look at the language and tenses the writer uses, and find
interesting or memorable pieces of text. You have three jobs:
1 While you are reading, look for interesting and more complex grammar structures you may have
studied (modal verbs, passives, conditionals etc.) and comment on why you think the writer uses
them, e.g. Simon and Joe use should have done near the end of Touching the Void because they
are considering some of the events on the mountain and wondering about different outcomes to
what happened on the mountain. Find out if your Club members agree with you.
2 Choose three interesting or memorable pieces of text, copy them out and read them to your Club
members at the meeting. Explain your choices. Find out your Club members opinions of the same
passages. Choose pieces which stand out in some way and make you think. They can be clear,
descriptive pieces, ones that have interesting grammar or that you find exciting or poetic, shocking
or complex, for example.
3 Find your favourite passage (piece of text) in the Reader, and read it out to your Club members.
Explain why you like it and find out their opinion.
Use of language
I want to comment on

because

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Worksheet 6

Intermediate / Upper intermediate

My chosen pieces of text are:

Text

Chosen because

My favourite passage is on page __ and its this:

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