Reading assessment - 1

I gave out the first reading assessment today and everyone worked their way through the questions. Not everyone finished - we can take it up from there next week.

Again, the questions will seem very familiar from the listening assessment. Remember the purpose of these tasks is to help develop your summary, analysis and evaluation skills - the development of these skills are important, indeed crucial, for further and higher education students.

The text continues the theme from the Enemies of Reason programme and focuses on the philosopher David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment. If you want to view the BBC programme on Hume which the writer refers to, go to ClickView, then Documentaries and look out for a programme entitled "Age of Genius." You don't need to watch the programme, but you do need to do the reading assessment.