It is an essential part of language learning.
Often students forget to apply the skills they use as native speakers when reading in a foreign language. They stop to look up every word and find reading very difficult compared to listening.
Here are some strategies to improve your reading:
- Previewing: reviewing titles, section headings, and photo captions to get a sense of the structure and content of a reading selection
- Predicting: using knowledge of the subject matter to make predictions about content and vocabulary and check comprehension; using knowledge of the text type and purpose to make predictions about discourse structure; using knowledge about the author to make predictions about writing style, vocabulary, and content
- Skimming and scanning: using a quick survey of the text to get the main idea, identify text structure, confirm or question predictions
- Guessing from context: using prior knowledge of the subject and the ideas in the text as clues to the meanings of unknown words, instead of stopping to look them up
- Paraphrasing: stopping at the end of a section to check comprehension by restating the information and ideas in the text.
Scanning and skimming are essential skills for any serious student
Here is a site to see if you have understood and practise these skills.
Do task number 1 and number 3
Now read the following pdf file about Reading skills
Now we go over to a very interesting book- The shadow of the sun- written by a Polish writer who spent much of his life in Africa.
Choose any chapter and skim through it.
Write down the main ideas that he wants to say..
If there is any time over at the end of the lesson you can use it to write your film review which should be in to me today..
HAVE A GREAT BREAK AND DON'T FORGET TO RECHARGE THE BATTERIES!
Do task number 1 and number 3
Now read the following pdf file about Reading skills
Now we go over to a very interesting book- The shadow of the sun- written by a Polish writer who spent much of his life in Africa.
Choose any chapter and skim through it.
Write down the main ideas that he wants to say..
If there is any time over at the end of the lesson you can use it to write your film review which should be in to me today..
HAVE A GREAT BREAK AND DON'T FORGET TO RECHARGE THE BATTERIES!
