Cameroon GCE O Level English Language syllabus 2021-2022

2. READING COMPREHENSION

Candidates will be expected to:

• answer different types of questions on the passage (s).
• answer questions related to the grammar, vocabulary and literary aspects of the passages.
• recognize the main idea and supporting details in textual material.
• select essential information from a paragraph.
• identify the writer’s purpose, point of view and intended meaning; also make inferences using logical reasoning.
• identify the meaning of words and expressions (including unfamiliar ones) in context; interpret figures of speech.
• identify the writer’s attitude to his/her subject.
• provide solutions to a problems.
• read to identify chronological order in a series of events in a passage.
• differentiate between facts and opinion, and make out other people’s views on a subject.
• summarize; synthesis information from more than one source; recognize 
• similarities between ideas in texts.
• identify text type: speech, lecture, story, etc.
• identify parts of speech.
• recognize discourse markers: enumeration, addition, contrast, cause and effect, illustration, etc. Recognize markers for exemplification and explanations, and sequence indicators
• recognize redundancies: restatements, repetitions, oppositions, explanations, examples.
• understand relations between parts of a text through lexical cohesive devices as well as grammatical cohesive devices, e.g. pronoun references (e.g. it, she, etc.).
• use critical reasoning to evaluate textual material.