understanding – context & summary learning intentions to explore the recommended approach to...
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Understanding – Context & Summary
Learning Intentions
To explore the recommended approach to
these question-types and attempt some
examples.
Success Criteria
To emerge with a better understanding of
Context and Summary questions.
Understanding – Context & Summary
Context Questions
The key thing to remember about this type of
question is that you must remember to state
the actual meaning of the word/phrase itself,
as well as looking for clues/markers which
help you to arrive at the meaning, .
Understanding – Context & Summary
Context QuestionsWe all need role models, someone to look up to. Doctors,
lawyers, and teachers - these were once the members of
society that were revered. How sad it is then that now young
people idolise pop singers, models and reality TV ‘stars’,
people with little talent who contribute nothing to society.
Give the meaning of the word, ‘revered’ and explain how
the context helps you arrive at this meaning.
AnswerDefinition – Someone who is respected and seen as a
pillar of society.
Quotation – “role models, someone to look up to” OR “Doctors, lawyers, and teachers”.
Explanation – This helps me work out the meaning of “revered” because respectable and important occupations are referred to. Also, a person who is a role model is someone who is seen to be responsible, respected and admired.
Understanding – Context & Summary
Context Questions
For two days the General vacillated. Should he give the order to advance, or should he allow his men to cling to their line of defence? This hesitation was to prove fatal.
Show how the context helps you arrive at the meaning of ‘vacillated’.
Answer
• Definition - to be indecisive or irresolute, changing between one opinion and another.
• Quote – “Should he give the order to advance, or should he allow his men to cling to their line of defence?”
• Explanation – This helps me to work out the meaning of “vacillated” because it highlights the hesitation shown by the General and his inability to make a decision.
Stand and Deliver
Stand and deliver the Understanding formulae. Each of you MUST explain the formula for every type of question. There are FIVE!
Which questions do you find difficult to remember/apply?
Understanding – Context & Summary
Summary Questions
If you are asked to 'summarise' or to 'identify
the main points' or to give the 'key reasons',
your answer should be fairly brief. You
should focus on each main idea the writer is
putting across.
Understanding – Context & SummarySummary QuestionsPerhaps parents who would, given a choice, prefer theirchildren to be minimally hurt when they fall off a climbingframe or into a pond are not being paranoid – just beingcareful. Maybe the real paranoiacs are not those who worryabout their children being squashed by sociopaths in cars, butthose who insist on adding the consequences ofmollycoddling to the already overlong catalogue of parentalanxieties.
Explain in your own words the main points the writer makesin this paragraph. (2 marks)
Surely the most sensible way to ‘crack down’ on illegal workers is to permit legal alternatives. Not just because of woolly liberalism – though that’s a perfectly decent instinct – but because of enlightened self-interest. Recently, I was reading an analysis of what was happening to the economy in the Highlands & Islands. The writer welcomes the fact that the population of that area has gone up 20% in one generation. But he goes on to say that ‘labour shortages of every kind are becoming the single biggest constraint in the way of additional economic expansion’. He adds: ‘In principle the solution to this problem is readily available in the shape of the so-called asylum seekers or economic migrants that our country, like most countries, seems determined to turn away.’While, for the most part, immigrants to the Highlands & Islands have recently come from England, the future lies in casting the net much wider. That would be, after all, yet another Scottish solution to a Scottish problem, given that this nation regularly suffers from population loss, exporting tranches of economic migrants all over the world every year. It’s been something of a national hobby, which is why there is almost no corner of the globe where you won’t stumble over a Caledonian society enthusiastically peopled by folks who will do anything for the old country bar live in it.
Understanding – Context & Summary
Summary Questions
For the extract on the previous slide:
Using your own words as far as possible, outline
three important points which are made about
immigration.