Reading · C1
Foreground & Background
Memoir, journalism, biography and perspective
Read three C1 narratives and analyse how tense, distance and ordering shape the reader’s viewpoint.
- ✓ identify what a writer foregrounds and backgrounds
- ✓ interpret historical-present shifts
- ✓ recognize narrative distance and attribution
How it works
3 texts · 18 questions
Read the text
A short text about one person. First read it for the main idea.
Answer 6 questions
Who, where, what, true or false… You can open the text again at any time.
See what you understood
Then the next text. After all 3, you get your reading result.