Reading to analyse, evaluate and discuss

Dear all,

That was another wonderful session this morning and I enjoyed the buzz of the classroom. I was listening to your conversations and I found them fascinating. The five articles were specifically different: 106 year old virgin, snakes slithering on our streets, salmonella in Tunisia, graveyard yobs and school dinners. All though, from the headlines, was not all that it seemed.

So, we had a sneaky delve into summarising, readership, words, language, photographs, purpose(s) and evaluation. These are the key principles for our first assessment, but that's not for a while.

Next Tuesday we will watch 'The Flyer' and again we will work in groups and feed back to the collective. I feel this is working very well and there (in my opinion, but correct me if I'm mistaken) is a real sense of community within the Access to Languages group.

Very well done to those who submitted their reflective pieces to me yesterday. I really enjoyed reading them and I hope you appreciated my comments / asides, call them what you will.

It's all good as the McCain chips advert told us, and I look forward to seeing you all next week.

Cheers, Mark