Unit 3
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Reading: Unexpected journey
Aim of this section:
u how to get an overview of a text before reading it intensively.
u to increase students reading speed by practising strategies for dealing
with unknown words in a text.
Predicting content
Predicting a text content:
u gives an idea what the text is about.
u helps comprehension.
How to predict a text content?
u Look at the title.
u Look at any pictures.
u Ask some questions (Who? Where? Why? When? What?) to predict
content & focus on the information you need.
Meaning from context
u Texts often contain words we don’t know.
u Looking up every word takes time and slows down your reading.
To guess the meaning from the context;
u look at the words & sentences around the unknown word.
u identify the part of speech.
u use your knowledge of the world (what you already know about the
situation).
u think about whether the word has a generally negative or positive
meaning.
u replace the unknown word with another word with a similar meaning and
check that it makes sense in the sentence.
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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