Satura rādītājs:
Teorija
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Plot, Events and Outcomes | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for discussing plots, story events, their causes and consequences, and how a story develops. |
| 2. | Inside a Character | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for describing character qualities, attitudes, beliefs, intentions, reactions, influences, and changes throughout a story. |
| 3. | Story Worlds and Atmosphere | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for describing story settings, sensory details, mood and atmosphere, and the effect a setting can have on the reader and the events of a story. |
| 4. | The Writer’s Touch | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for discussing how stories are told, analysing writers’ choices and their effects on the reader, evaluating stories, and expressing and supporting opinions and recommendations. |
Uzdevumi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | From Novel to Screen | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 3 p. | Reinforces recognition and understanding of vocabulary for story structure, events, and characters in a motivating production context. Task description: students read brief notes from a fictional novel-to-screen project and match each note with the vocabulary word that best fits its meaning. |
| 2. | The Missing Manuscript | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 3 p. | Develops recognition and recall of vocabulary for setting, story worlds, purpose, and evaluation in short contextualised sentences. Task description: students complete missing vocabulary words in brief editorial notes using the first letter, sentence context, and Latvian translation as support. |
| 3. | The Plot Doctor | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Strengthens understanding and application of vocabulary for describing story events, causes, outcomes, and plot development. Task description: students read short editorial notes about a novel and choose the phrase that best completes each situation according to its meaning and context. |
| 4. | Characters Between the Lines | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Builds understanding and application of vocabulary for analysing characters, their attitudes, intentions, reactions, influences, and development through examples from British literature. Task description: students read short character snapshots from well-known British literary works and choose the sentence that best describes the character’s behaviour, relationship, experience, or change. |
| 5. | Words Across Borders | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Consolidates understanding and application of vocabulary for describing setting, atmosphere, reader response, and the role of setting in a story. Task description: students read short Latvian sentences from an English-language reading guide and choose the most accurate and natural English translation. |
| 6. | Pages in Pieces | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops understanding and application of vocabulary for storytelling techniques, narrative perspective, and reader response through sentence construction. Task description: students arrange jumbled sentence parts in the correct order to form complete sentences. |
| 7. | The Midnight Manuscript | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops understanding and application of vocabulary for describing story events, developments, and narrative elements through short listening situations. Task description: students listen to audio fragments and choose the sentence that best describes what happens or what the information represents in the story. |
| 8. | The Origins of Sherlock Holmes | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops detailed listening comprehension by requiring students to distinguish between information that is confirmed, contradicted or not provided. Task description: students listen to one adapted account based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s own writing about the creation of Sherlock Holmes and classify statements as True, False or Not Mentioned. |
| 9. | The Language of Story Worlds | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops listening comprehension and consolidates vocabulary for discussing setting, atmosphere and place in literature. Task description: students listen to short independent descriptions and match each one with the word or phrase it explains. |
| 10. | Preposition Precision | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops accurate use of common prepositional phrases for discussing stories, characters, setting and reader response. Task description: students choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence. |
| 11. | Phonetic Puzzle | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops recognition of phonetic transcription and accurate spelling of vocabulary for discussing stories and literature. Task description: students read the phonetic transcription and write the corresponding word or phrase correctly. |
| 12. | Under the Surface | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops reading comprehension and the ability to interpret textual evidence about characters. Task description: students identify the lines that best reveal attitudes, intentions, reactions, influences, personal qualities and changes in a character’s behaviour. |
| 13. | A Place With a Past | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops understanding and application of vocabulary for describing place, time, historical context, atmosphere, and physical features of a setting. Task description: students read one continuous magazine-style text about a coastal town and choose the most appropriate vocabulary item to complete each gap. |
| 14. | One More Chapter | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops reading comprehension and the ability to analyse how stories are told, evaluate a literary work, and understand a reader’s response to it. Task description: students read a book review and answer multiple-choice questions. |
| 15. | Sentence Makeover | 3. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Develops accurate use of vocabulary for discussing stories, storytelling, reader response and recommendations. Task description: students replace the highlighted part of each sentence with the given target word or phrase while preserving the original meaning. |
| 16. | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | 3. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Develops detailed reading comprehension, inference, and the ability to locate precise information in an authentic literary text. Task description: students interpret paraphrased information about characters, events, feelings, and relationships and complete gapped sentences with 2–3 words taken directly from the extract. |
Papildu uzdevumi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | One Shelf, Many Worlds | Citi | vidēja | 3 p. | Develops reading comprehension and consolidates vocabulary. Task description: students read short paragraphs describing different fictional stories and match each paragraph with the title that best represents its story type. |
| 2. | Inside Their Minds | Citi | augsta | 3 p. | Develops understanding and application of vocabulary for analysing characters, their qualities, attitudes, intentions, reactions, influences, and development. Task description: students listen to short extracts about fictional characters, interpret what their words or behaviour reveal, and complete notes with the correct word or expression, using the word in brackets as support. |
Testi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Individual in Literature and Stories I | 00:20:00 | vidēja | 18 p. | The training test includes tasks that assess recognition of key vocabulary through definition–word matching and interpretation of short narrative audio extracts. Students also work with phonetic transcription, identifying and spelling target vocabulary accurately. Reading tasks focus on understanding characters’ attitudes, intentions, reactions, influences and development. Other tasks assess the ability to reformulate sentences while preserving their original meaning and to interpret characters’ words, behaviour and personal qualities in listening texts. |
Mājasdarbu testi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Individual in Literature and Stories II | 00:40:00 | vidēja | 27 p. | The test includes vocabulary, reading, writing and listening tasks based on the language of stories and literature. Students complete vocabulary in context, choose appropriate expressions and translations, reconstruct sentences, and interpret character descriptions from literary texts. Reading tasks assess understanding of setting, character development, narrative perspective, purpose and reader response, including the ability to retrieve precise information from a text and match story descriptions with suitable titles. The listening task assesses detailed comprehension of an adapted account about the creation of Sherlock Holmes by distinguishing between true, false and unmentioned information. |