Unidad 1Reading & Global Issues
- Reading for Main Ideas & Details: advanced Skimming and Scanning strategies applied to news articles and opinion columns on global issues (climate change, migration, AI ethics)
- Fact vs. Opinion in English: identifying bias and author's purpose in current news texts — distinguishing objective reporting from persuasive writing
- Literature in Context: reading extracts from contemporary literature and essays (e.g. dystopian fiction, modern poetry) and analysing their social and ethical themes
- Vocabulary in Context: deducing the meaning of complex academic words without a dictionary, using prefixes, suffixes, roots and contextual clues
- Critical Discourse Analysis: reading editorials from different media outlets to analyse how word choice (adjectives, framing) manipulates the reader's perception
- Reading Academic Papers: introduction to reading real Abstracts from scientific or humanities research papers in English — identifying purpose, method and findings