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Traction Purple will help you improve your English in a number of ways, and it also provides the materials you need to meet the requirements for and succeed in the English 6 course.
The digital material includes everything that you see in this book – and more. With Traction Purple you can work with book, pen and paper, or completely digitally. You can listen to all of the recorded texts (both reading and listening) on your computer, tablet or mobile phone, and you can also practise your English with all the digital exercises, and get instant feedback. Whenever you see a icon, that means there is a digital link that you can follow.
The seven units in Traction Purple all follow the same structure, and cover a wide range of topics and text genres. In every unit there are both longer and shorter texts, ranging from newspaper articles and factual texts to poems, song lyrics and excerpts from novels. There is at least one listening exercise in every unit. Some of these are very long, and you can choose to listen to them in parts if you prefer.
In the English Handbook you will find a guide to working on the productive language skills of writing and speaking, and on the receptive skills of reading and listening. The Handbook is an extra resource to help you when you need support. In it you can learn about the writing process, strategies for reading and listening, a literary timeline and useful literary terms.
In short, Traction Purple covers much of what you need to develop your language skills and complete the English 6 course successfully. We hope that you will find it fun and inspiring to work with.
Best of luck with your studies!
The Traction Purple team
1 RE-DISCOVERY 5
10 Ways Our World is Like the Renaissance 6
To Colonize Space or Not To Colonize 11
Listening: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 16
Sonnet 15 When I consider everything that grows 21
2 REASON 27
Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment 28
A Modest Proposal 33
Cancel Me This, Cancel Me That 38
Listening: Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus 42
The Declaration of Independence 46
3 PASSION 51
Introduction to the Romantic Era 52
My Heart Leaps Up 53
Four Reasons We Listen to Sad Music When We’re Sad 55
Nothing Compares 2 U 58
Emily Brontë hits the heights in poll to find greatest love story 61
Listening: Jane Eyre 64
She Walks in Beauty 69
4 EMPIRE 75
Eminent Victorians 76
Oliver Twist 80
Gender roles in the 19th century 85
Listening: The French Lieutenant’s Woman 88
The Steampunk Revolution – For Real! 91
Listening: Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr Moreau 92
5 MODERNISTAS 97
What Is Modernist Literature? 98
Introduction to To the Lighthouse 100
Listening: To the Lighthouse 102
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed 106
A Brief History of Dada 108
6 MY RIGHTS 115
Progress 116
Stonewall Inn: Through the Years 117
Listening: Freedom or Death 120
Civil Rights Activism: From Martin Luther King to Black Lives Matter 125
South African Voices 129
Born a Crime 130
Listening: What is Your Life’s Blueprint? 132
7 ONWARDS 139
Listening: Want to Start Reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy? 140
Abaddon’s Gate 144
Listening: The Fifth Season 149
The 14 Main Literary Genres 152
ENGLISH HANDBOOK 156
WORD LISTS 180
