9. This task requires you to empathise with the thoughts, feelings and opinions expressed by one or more people in the text and then DEMONSTRATE that understanding
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11. Imagine and expand beyond the text while maintaining faith with the original text
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13. What type (genre) of writing might you be asked to convert the source text into?
22. So you might read a magazine article about homelessness and then have to write a journal entry from the perspective of a homeless person
23. Or you could be asked to read a transcript of interviews with a survivor of a house fire and a local domestic safety advisor. Then you’ll need to convert the information into a newspaper report on the incident.
31. What empathetic genre conversion tasks might be suitable to set for this source text?
32. Write a newspaper account reporting on the demolition of the bridge (you may adopt a sympathetic or antagonist stance)
33. Assume that General Khan survived the demolition. Write his journal entry from that evening.
34. Write the transcription for a debate with an extended comment from each of the following participants:Sergeant Mukherjeea surviving relative of a victimSardor Khan
35. Write a letter from Sardor Khan to the surviving widow of General Singh expressing your respects and thoughts about her late husband.