Activity 3: Discuss the newspaper article After you have read the newspaper article, discuss the questions in groups
Use the mark allocation to decide how much detail to give in your answers
1. Is the music teacher's comment about the writer's voice deliberately
offensive? Explain your answer. Hint: Deliberately' means 'on purpose
2. Do you think his mother is being deliberately offensive when she says
What a lovely boat, my boy"? Explain your answer
3. How do you know that this is not a news story?
4. This article is a column that appears weekly in a newspaper, Is this
article aimed at school learners or at adults? How do you know this?
5. What is the purpose of the article?
5. The article includes the writer's own experiences. Give an example
this. Hint: Here you will not quote the whole example. Answer like t
In paragraph 1 the writer describes being lapped in the 400 m race
my two examples​