Copies of Orient Express in its final and complete version are distributed to be read for the following meeting. During the second session, the first passage of the story in its seven consecutive versions is introduced to students, who can individually download it from the Web site. Subsequently, students are invited to choose a partner to work with and are provided with copies of the selected passage, together with part I of the questionnaire. This first part is entirely devoted to the linguistic analysis of the seven versions. Each pair of students choose a question and work on it for about fifteen minutes at the end of which, answers are reported and discussed in turn by students, and summarised by tutors on the board.
Students are to complete the linguistic section in a week.
Stylistic analysis Session 3 takes place in a seminar room, while access to the computers continues to be granted in the lab during the week. A brief round of questions and points made on the progression of the work precedes the distribution of part II of the questionnaire. This second part deals with style and narration techniques. Analysis and answers at this stage mantain strong links with the linguistic survey previously carried out. This allows learners to become more aware of the linguistic components of style in the second language.