English · Feelings and Emotions

Production — book/film review article

Summary first, then your judgment with a reason

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Review article (book/film) of 80-120 words: brief summary + critical judgment

The method

  1. Summary in 1-2 sentences, then judgment with justification, never the reverse proportion

The common mistakes

  • All-summary review with no critical judgment

The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC

  • Book/film review medium

    notes on a book/film → review article (80-120 words)

From the lesson

Read this short review of a novel. Notice that it does two different things.

The vocabulary

  • review (نقد/مراجعة)

Builds on