Reading practice

What are today's goals?
  • Practicing with different reading strategies
  • Practice reading on C1 level.
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This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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What are today's goals?
  • Practicing with different reading strategies
  • Practice reading on C1 level.

Slide 1 - Slide

Reading strategies
- Previewing.
- Contextualizing.
- Summarizing.
- Skimming.
- Scanning.

Slide 2 - Slide

Reading strategies
- Previewing.
- Contextualizing.
- Summarizing.
- Skimming.
- Scanning.

Slide 3 - Slide

Read quickly. Try to explain, in your own words, what happened.

Slide 4 - Slide

Jail job applicant not hired, arrested instead in theft case.

Slide 5 - Open question

Previewing
Looking for things that can tell you a bit more before reading the entire article.
Things like:
- Headlines and pictures
- Starting phrases of paragraphs

Slide 6 - Slide

Slide 7 - Slide

What do you think happened?

Slide 8 - Open question

Contextualizing
Putting a text into context.
This makes it easier to make sense of new information.
You're looking for reference points. Is it a story about the entire world or just a certain place. Is it about history, current events or the future?

Slide 9 - Slide

Slide 10 - Slide

In what kind of context would you put this article?

Slide 11 - Open question

What's the difference between
skimming and scanning?

Slide 12 - Mind map

Slide 13 - Link