The new educational book MODERN GREEK for the 3rd Grade of Lyceum - Unified Examination of Modern Greek Language and Literature is organized into two (2) parts.

The First Part includes:

Topic One - The summary text in the Unified Examination

- Techniques of condensation
- Types of summary texts
- Issues of summary: Rephrasing and communicative context
- Evaluation of the summary

Topic Two

A. Understanding of text information

- Closed and open type questions

B. Intentionality

- Text types and social functions
- Communicative situation and context
- Text organization: Cohesion and Coherence
- Paragraph: Development methods and their function
- Means and methods of persuasion: The rhetoric of the text

- The language of the text: Vocabulary - Language varieties - Functions of language - Punctuation - Syntax - Verb forms - Modality - Sentences

C. Transformations in terms of:

- style, communicative situation, sender's intention, communicative outcome

D. Comparison of texts in terms of:

- content, language, the "manner" of the text

E. Textual types

- Pre-planned speech
- Letter
- Journalistic texts
- Biographical types
- Essay
- Multimodal texts

Topic Three - The interpretive comment

- Textual indicators
- From interpretive dialogue to interpretive comment
- Applications
- Evaluation of interpretive comment

Topic Four - Speech production

- Types of topics in the Unified Examination: Creative use of reference text information - Agreement or disagreement / Personal stance - Commenting/evaluating an opinion - Development of a sub-topic - Extension of reflection

- Pre-work: Steps of text composition

- Evaluation of speech production

The Second Part includes:

- 33 Teaching Units
- 50 Evaluation Criteria according to the new evaluation method