Censorship

Level:C1 (Advanced)
Topic:Social Issues — Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Skills Practised:

• Understanding implied meaning and tone

• Identifying author’s viewpoint and irony

• Recognizing historical vs. modern parallels

• Discerning cause–effect and opinion–fact relations

C1 Language Focus:

• Complex noun and relative clauses

• Lexical sophistication:implausible, contradictory, heresy, audacity, hyperconnected

• Passive and nominal structures (was banned, had been achieved)

• Stylistic devices: irony, understatement, evaluative language