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Reading skills

Reading skills. Storm Chen. contents. Reading purposes Causes of reading problems Reading skills. Reading purposes. Reading for tests Reading for information Reading for pleasure. less. Causes of reading problems --- misconceptions about reading. Concentrating on each words

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Reading skills

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  1. Reading skills Storm Chen

  2. contents • Reading purposes • Causes of reading problems • Reading skills

  3. Reading purposes • Reading for tests • Reading for information • Reading for pleasure less

  4. Causes of reading problems--- misconceptions about reading • Concentrating on each words • Reading word by word • Feel terrible when see the new words • Reading so quickly or slowly

  5. Reading skills • Word guessing skills • Paragraph reading skills • Reading skills at professional level

  6. Word guessing skills • Guessing words from context clues • Guessing words from word formation • Efficient use of a dictionary

  7. Guessing words fromcontext clues • What is context? • The sentence and paragraph in which this word can be discovered. • How to decide the word from context? • Use your knowledge of grammar • Use your understanding of the author’s ideas

  8. Guessing words fromcontext clues • Information provided by the context: • Definition • Example • Restatement • Synonym • Antonym

  9. Eg. Mark got on the motorbike. I sat behind him on the pillion[‘piljən] , and we roared off into the night.

  10. Eg. Condiments, for example, pepper, salt, and mustard make food taste better.

  11. Eg. He had a wan[wɔn] look. He was so pale and weak that we thought he was ill.

  12. Eg. Father is an expert[‘ekspə:t] in piano, and mother is a violinist.

  13. Eg. Unlike his brother, who is such a handsome man, Tom is quite plain.

  14. Efficient Use of a Dictionary • Dictionary is the best language teacher. Therefore, a good language learner ought to be good at using a dictionary. • A good dictionary provides lots of information.

  15. Efficient Use of a Dictionary • Example: Let’s hang up some paintings on these ______ walls. A. bare B. empty C. blank D. vacant

  16. Efficient Use of a Dictionary • bare: empty, not covered by anything, or not having any decorations • empty: an empty room, building etc. does not have any people in it • blank: showing no expression, understanding or interest; without any writing, print, or recorded sound • vacant: a vacant seat, room etc. is empty and available for someone to use; a vacant job or position in an organization is available for someone to start doing

  17. Efficient Use of a Dictionary • Example sentences: • This room looks very bare --- you need some pictures on the walls. • The house had been empty for six months before we moved in. • Leave the last page blank. • Only a few apartments were still vacant.

  18. Word Formation • English words usually contain three parts: • Prefix [pri:’fiks]: change the meaning of a word • Stem[stem] : determine the meaning of a word • Suffix[‘sʌfiks] : change the part of speech of a word

  19. Word formation • Note: • Some words are created by combining parts of the other words.

  20. botel chunnel workfare medicare Amerindian psywar sitcom boat hotel 水上旅馆 channel tunnel 水底铁路隧道 work welfare 工作福利 medical care医疗处理 American Indian美国印地安人 psychological warfare 心理战 situational comedy 情景喜剧 For example:

  21. Other examples: • waste-to-energy plant 垃圾发电站 • materials-recovery facility 物资回收设施 • a dead-end job 没有前途的工作 • start-up costs 开创所付出的代价 • a go-with-the-stream person 一个随波逐流的人

  22. a forget-me-not 一朵勿忘我 • on-site service 现场服务 • under-the-counter deals 台面下的交易 • turned-out audience 激动的观众 • a seeing-is-believing attitude 眼见为实的态度 • a just-the-two-of-us dinner • once-poor farmers

  23. Paragraph reading skills • Finding the main idea

  24. Finding the main idea • Topic sentence the sentence that contains the main idea of the paragraph • Location[ləu’keiʃən] of a topic sentence • In the beginning • In the middle • At the end

  25. Reading skills at discourse level • Skimming • Scanning • Prediction • Know more about reading skills

  26. Scanning • To scan is to read quickly in order to locate specific information. • Steps involved in scanning: • Decide exactly what information you are looking for, and think about the form it may take. • Decide where you need to look to find the information you want. • Move your eyes as quickly as possible down the page until you find the information you need. Read it carefully. • When you find what you need, do not read further.

  27. Skimming • To skim is to read quickly in order to get a general idea of a passage. • When you skim, it is necessary to read only selected sentences in order to get the main idea. Do not read every word. • Once you get a general idea about an article, you may decide to read the entire selection carefully, or only to scan for specific pieces of information.

  28. Prediction • Reading is an active process. Meaning does not exist[iɡ’zist] only on the page or in the mind of the reader. It is created by an active interaction[,ɪntər’ækʃən] between reader and text. • Good readers develop predictions about what they will read next, and then they read to see if their prediction will become true or not. If not, good readers will have a new prediction.

  29. end Thanks for your listening, and I hope that Mr. Lu can help me do the following job.

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