Communication: Higher

Part 3 :

Reading complex texts

What is a complex text?

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This Study Section is all about reading. As you work through this pack, you’ll be asked to read several pieces of work – articles from newspapers, magazines, books and so on (for convenience, we’ll refer to all of these as ‘texts’).

In Communication (Intermediate 2) you were asked to read accessible texts, and now for Higher you’re going to be asked to read complex texts. So, what is a complex text?

A text can be complex for a number of reasons:

It discusses complex issues in some detail
It uses complicated vocabulary, sentence structure, sentences or phrases
It is detailed, and discusses several sets of information
It has several purposes.

Complex texts may have several of these features.