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Newspaper article on Prometheus stealing fire from The Gods and giving it to humankind. Uses formal language and writing features expected in a news article as well as including a shift to informality where appropriate in interviews.
Article is accompanied by a 14 question (19 mark) reading comprehension comprising of:
retrieval
inference
true/false
fact/opinion
synonyms
language
level of formality
Available as Word and PDF with answers for ease of marking.
I was disappointed that, as a paid resource, there were grammatical errors that I needed to correct and the formatting was incorrect, meaning the text went outside the borders on the page.
alexvtye
2 years ago
I'm sorry the resource wasn't to your satisfaction. Could you possibly point out the grammar errors that you found?
alexvtye
a year ago
To clarify: passages written as witness interviews in this resource are purposefully incorrect in terms of grammar. This is to demonstrate use of informal language as directed by the National Curriculum.
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