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Critical Reading & Writing - Passage Based Reading
This video serves as an introduction to the Passage Based Reading section of the SAT. This is part 5 from the series 'Critical Reading & Writing'.
Gresham College
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic - Professor Belinda Jack
Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Can an understanding of the tools of writing enrich the reading experience?tp://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/reading-as-a-reader-and-reading-as-a-critic' target='_blank'...
Curated Video
4 IELTS Reading Tips for Summary Completion
Today you’ll learn 4 IELTS Reading tips for summary completion, a daunting but common
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There are certain question types which are infamously scary for many IELTS candidates,...
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There are certain question types which are infamously scary for many IELTS candidates,...
Let's Tute
IELTS Reading: Mastering Summary Completion Questions
In this video, the teacher discusses the type of question called summary completion in the IELTS reading test. They explain the purpose of a summary and how to approach these questions, including understanding word forms, predicting...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 2
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 1
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
Curated Video
Identifying Conclusions 1
"Identifying Conclusions" demonstrates how to examine concluding statements by reading passages and identifying the conclusions.
Epic Reads
For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig | Epic Reads Explains | Book Trailer
Caught between a merciless army and the terrifying tyrant they face, Jetta and her family will be forced to face what her abilities mean for a world that’s been locked away. Welcome to For a Muse of Fire. Learn more about For a Muse of...
Curated Video
Reading an extract from Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’
Pupil outcome: I can undertake close-textual analysis on a short passage from ‘Jane Eyre’. Key learning points: - Jane is characterised as a polite, calm and helpful character. - Brontë creates a Gothic setting using classic Gothic...
Curated Video
How Small Words are Key to T/F/NG Answers
Today you’ll learn why small words are the key to T/F/NG answers.
As an IELTS student, you’ve probably experienced frustration at T/F/NG a
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They are some of...
As an IELTS student, you’ve probably experienced frustration at T/F/NG a
nd Y/N/NG questions.
They are some of...
Curated Video
Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
Pupil outcome: I can make precise inferences about characters and explain quotations in detail. Key learning points: - Magical-realist texts have a real world setting in which magic happens. - Use the first read of an unseen extract to...
Curated Video
The era of fake writing is upon us
Computers just got a lot better at mimicking our language. Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network='http://www.vox.com/opensourcednetwork' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Network Something big happened in the past year: Researchers...
Curated Video
Pynchon Fatigue? - Gravity's Rainbow #3
Curated Video
GR as Postmodern - Gravity's Rainbow #4
The passage I read in the video is on page 427 in the Vintage 2013 edition of GR (previous editions will likely find it a few pages sooner): He will spend twelve hours then, face-up on the desert, a prehistoric city greater than Babylon...
Curated Video
Pynchon & Germany - Gravity's Rainbow #6
The essay I mention early in the video is Steven Weisenburger's chapter "Gravity's Rainbow" from the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon. My discussion of German culture in Pynchon references and is informed by David Cowart's Thomas...
Extra Credits
Gracchus the Elder - Prequel: In His Footsteps - Extra History
Special thanks to Mike Duncan for writing this episode! Check out his History of Rome podcast='http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>podcast Before Tiberius and Gracchus got famous, their father led...
SciShow
Warp Drives!
Warp drive is promising in science fiction but seemingly impossible in reality. This video explains what a warp drive is, its limitations, and examines new advances and discoveries that mean the development of warp drive is becoming...
PBS
The Pilgrims: William Bradford
As a young boy, William Bradford was drawn to the Separatist idea that Christ could be with a person through prayer and worship. But soon after the Separatists arrived to Plymouth, the experiment in the New England had failed. Watch a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Louisa May Alcott: The Civil War
Best known for her novel Little Women, learn about the impact of the abolitionist movement on Louisa May Alcott's life and writing and her experience working as a nurse during the Civil War in this video (4:34)from the American Masters...