CREATING OUTLINES_PHASE 2

Module Creating outlines

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Phase 2. Analysing texts

"Phase 2. Analysing texts" aims at providing insight into the most common strategies to work with texts before creating outlines. You will identify the main elements and characteristics of texts: main ideas, supporting points, details and irrelevant information; as well as how to structure these in order to start writing your outline.

Previous information

In "Phase 2" you will be provided with the basic tools for reading and writing a good outline: identifying the main ideas and the supporting ideas and details in a text. The approximate time to complete the phase is 60 minutes.

Task 4

Checklist

Task 3

Differentiating among ideas

Task 3. Differentiating between main ideas, supporting ideas and details.

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Task 3

Differentiating between main ideas, supporting ideas and details.

Please read the following text about CLIL students' writing and classify the ideas of the text. You can use the classification grid. Then click "Next" to compare your text with the model answer provided in the next page.

READ TEXT

CLASSIFICATION GRID

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Task 3

Differentiating between main ideas, supporting ideas and details.

Compare your classification grid with the model provided in the "Model answer".

MODEL ANSWER

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Task 4. Phase 2 checklist.

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PHASE 2

Task 4. Checklist

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Question 1

I have learnt how to identify the main elements of a text.

Yes

No

Question 1

GOOD JOB!

Question 1

Incorrect answer: No

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Question 2

I can distinguish between main and supporting ideas.

Yes

No

Question 2

GOOD JOB!

Question 2

Incorrect answer: No

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Question 3

I can identify the details of a supporting idea.

Yes

No

Question 3

GOOD JOB!

Question 3

Incorrect answer: No

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Phase 2 checklist

CONGRATULATIONS!

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ModuleCreating outlines

Congratulations! You have successfully completed "Phase 2" in the "Creating outlines" module.