New Oxford English, Volume 2

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Oxford University Press, 1996 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 160 pages
New Oxford English Students' Book 2 has been designed to cover the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. The Students' Book provides: · A flexible resource for teaching the National curriculum, structured around the four modules · An integrated approach to language study at all stages · A rich and varied range of authors, poets, and playwrights from different centuries and cultures · Language Study Units at the end of every module providing extensive language work from source texts, which can be used alongside the featured texts or separately · IT opportunities built into the books throughout · Varied activities in each module which help to develop individual and group study skills
 

Contents

MODULE
6
Writing
7
2b Displaying knowledge
17
The Scene of the Crime
18
Horror
24
2c Increasing spelling
28
The Publishing Business
36
Direct and Reported Speech
42
Making News 2
88
What Makes a Magazine?
90
Making Judgements
99
Media Texts
102
Travelwriting
110
A New Magazine
116
Using Adjectives
117
The Murder of Agamemnon
122

Poem as Story
44
Ballads
48
Poem as Picture
52
Personification
59
Verse Pictures
66
Alliteration
74
Verbs of Doing and Being
76
Limericks Shaping Poems
82
Judas and the Great Betrayal
126
Judas and the Mystery Plays
128
Writing about a Real Setting
134
The Tempest Middle English
141
Changing the Audience
148
Oedipus and the Circle of Fate
154
Index of Authors and Extracts
159
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