TAILIEUCHUNG - Reading upper intermediate part 4

Interesting — both for their cognitive and affective content, and for the activities required of the learners. fluency-focused bringing in accuracy work only in so far as it is necessary to the completion of an activity. | Unit 3 2 Skills training Making inferences about characters Task 1 Read this account of how writers help their readers to form a picture of their characters. One way in which novelists and playwrights can provide information about their characters is by directly describing them. They can say fry instance something like this Edward is middle-aged and middle-class. He is successful and has a comfortable income. He tends to become irritable very easily and is something of a perfectionist. He can easily be very authoritarian Often however writers prefer to be more indirect. They choose to suggest rather than to state leaving the reader to infer what their characters are like - their personal background their situation at the moment their personalities. They do this by providing certain dues which the reader nas to pick up. These clues might be the choice of particular words the way a sentence is phrased or the inclusion of information which implies other information. For example. Pinter m A Slight Ache does not describe his characters Edward and Flora to us but rather hints at their personalities and the relationship between them. When Edward says i tel you I thought it was convolvulus in the opening lines of the play we detect from the way this sentence is constructed that Edward is irritated by Flora telling him that he should know the f ower is honeysuckle and so wants to insist that he really did think it was convolvulus. and from this reading of the line we can infer that Edward may be an irritable person who does not like to be contradicted. It would be wrong to make instant judgements about character based on one or two clues but we should form initial impressions and then see whether these are justified by further clues. Task 2 With a partner. End each of rhe following italicized lines in the text in order to study them in their context. What inferences can you make about the characters in el Slight Ache from these lines 1 Edward Bite final do you mean bite 2 .

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