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7.2.1 Intensive Reading: Visuals

English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Types of visuals: pictures, graphs, illustrations, charts, videos, optical illusions
  • Connecting visuals to written text; inferred meaning
  • Summarising a visual on human-wildlife conflict; presenting information as a visual

What you will be able to do

  • identify different visuals in given contexts correctly
  • make a connection between visuals and the written text
  • interpret visuals correctly for meaning
  • appreciate the role of visuals in simplifying representation

Key questions

“What information do we obtain from visuals?”

“How can one interpret a visual correctly?”

Lessons

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  1. Name the visual and start interpreting
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Identify pictures, graphs, charts, illustrations and video stills, then practise a five-step reading of one wildlife image.
  2. Connect, summarise, and make a visual
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Match a wildlife paragraph to a visual, summarise a human-wildlife-conflict image, then turn a short text into your own visual.