Text purpose, skimming and structure

Why the article was written, what the title and the chapeau promise, and a forty-second skim that saves you a second reading.

By the end of this lesson

Name what a text is trying to do: tell a story, inform, convince or advise.
Answer the question family that opens with the phrase cet article a pour but de, by judging the whole text.
Read the title, the chapeau, the intertitres and the source line for what each one promises.
Run a forty-second skim, write a one-line hypothesis, then correct it as you read.

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